Technical Support Engineer Jobs in the South West

Technical Support Engineer
England > South West

The median Technical Support Engineer salary in the South West is £35,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 224 243 288
Rank change year-on-year +19 +45 -27
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Support Engineer 61 36 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.68% 0.50% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 0.56% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 43 16 19
10th Percentile £28,200 £30,625 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £31,813 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,500 £36,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.74% +4.29% +35.14%
75th Percentile £40,000 £45,625 £38,125
90th Percentile £48,100 £58,750 £40,050
England median annual salary £35,000 £35,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year -1.41% +9.23% +6.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South West with a recognized job title 8,673 6,404 7,626
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.11% 89.37% 96.43%
Number of salaries quoted 6,398 3,970 5,138
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.74% +0.83% +9.09%

Technical Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured Technical Support Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Support Engineer in the South West

Technical Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Support Engineer in the South West.

Salary trend for Technical Support Engineer in the South West

Technical Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Support Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Support Engineer in the South West

Technical Support Engineer
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Support Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Gloucestershire +17 37 £35,500 -1.39% 2
Bristol +11 8 £42,000 +24.44% 2
Wiltshire -11 7 £35,500 -21.11% 1
Dorset -16 5 £33,500 +3.08%
Devon -6 4 - -
Technical Support Engineer
England

Technical Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Technical Support Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South West region featuring Technical Support Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (27.87%) Telecoms
1 17 (27.87%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (26.23%) Military
3 15 (24.59%) Social Skills
3 15 (24.59%) Customer Service
4 13 (21.31%) Microsoft
5 10 (16.39%) SQL
5 10 (16.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (14.75%) Coaching
6 9 (14.75%) Customer Experience
6 9 (14.75%) Commercial Awareness
6 9 (14.75%) Java
6 9 (14.75%) Finance
6 9 (14.75%) Manufacturing
6 9 (14.75%) Security Cleared
7 8 (13.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (13.11%) Degree
7 8 (13.11%) HNC
7 8 (13.11%) Python
7 8 (13.11%) Microsoft Excel
7 8 (13.11%) SDH
8 7 (11.48%) C#
8 7 (11.48%) Fibre Optics
8 7 (11.48%) Hyper-V
8 7 (11.48%) Virtual Environments
8 7 (11.48%) Creative Problem-Solving
9 6 (9.84%) Time Management
9 6 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (9.84%) SQL Server
9 6 (9.84%) WAN

Technical Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (3.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (13.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (13.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.20%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (6.56%) Azure
3 2 (3.28%) OneDrive
4 1 (1.64%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.64%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.64%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.11%) SDH
2 6 (9.84%) LAN
2 6 (9.84%) SAN
2 6 (9.84%) WAN
2 6 (9.84%) Wireless
3 4 (6.56%) Remote Desktop
4 3 (4.92%) DWDM
4 3 (4.92%) Ethernet
4 3 (4.92%) GPON
4 3 (4.92%) MPLS
5 2 (3.28%) Firewall
5 2 (3.28%) LTE
5 2 (3.28%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.84%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.28%) Crystal Reports
2 2 (3.28%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (9.84%) JIRA
General
1 17 (27.87%) Telecoms
2 16 (26.23%) Military
3 15 (24.59%) Social Skills
4 9 (14.75%) Finance
4 9 (14.75%) Manufacturing
5 6 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (6.56%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (4.92%) Electronics
8 1 (1.64%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.48%) Fibre Optics
2 6 (9.84%) CCTV
3 3 (4.92%) Driving Licence
4 2 (3.28%) Augmented Reality
4 2 (3.28%) Virtual Reality
5 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.84%) Linux
2 5 (8.20%) Windows
3 4 (6.56%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.28%) Apple iOS
4 2 (3.28%) Solaris
4 2 (3.28%) Unix
4 2 (3.28%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.64%) Android
5 1 (1.64%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (27.87%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (24.59%) Customer Service
3 10 (16.39%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (14.75%) Coaching
4 9 (14.75%) Commercial Awareness
4 9 (14.75%) Customer Experience
5 7 (11.48%) Creative Problem-Solving
5 7 (11.48%) Virtual Environments
6 6 (9.84%) Time Management
7 5 (8.20%) B2B
8 4 (6.56%) CRM
8 4 (6.56%) Scenario Testing
9 3 (4.92%) Change Management
9 3 (4.92%) Roadmaps
10 2 (3.28%) Business Continuity
10 2 (3.28%) Disaster Recovery
10 2 (3.28%) Fintech
10 2 (3.28%) Incident Management
10 2 (3.28%) Major Incident Management
10 2 (3.28%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.39%) SQL
2 9 (14.75%) Java
3 8 (13.11%) Python
4 7 (11.48%) C#
5 1 (1.64%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (14.75%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.11%) Degree
2 8 (13.11%) HNC
3 4 (6.56%) HND
4 2 (3.28%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.64%) CCNA
5 1 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.64%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.64%) GCSC
5 1 (1.64%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.28%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (11.48%) Hyper-V
2 6 (9.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.28%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.64%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (1.64%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (21.31%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.84%) VMware
3 4 (6.56%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.28%) AppDynamics
4 2 (3.28%) Oracle
5 1 (1.64%) Apple