Senior Support Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Support Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Support Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 643 691 792
Rank change year-on-year +48 +101 -201
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Support Engineer 117 60 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.100% 0.083%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.11% 0.087%
Number of salaries quoted 101 42 54
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,825 £26,730
25th Percentile £35,250 £36,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £43,750 £36,943
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +18.43% -1.49%
75th Percentile £65,000 £53,250 £47,500
90th Percentile £72,433 £53,923 £50,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% - +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,268 53,729 68,078
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.81% 89.16% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,545 30,499 42,724
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,750 £81,251 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Senior Support Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Support Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Support Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Support Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Support Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
Midlands +17 29 £45,000 - 10
North of England +66 27 £45,000 -2.70% 12
South East +20 23 £60,000 +56.86% 9
East Midlands -1 17 £35,000 -33.68% 5
South West -17 16 £50,000 +11.11% 4
Yorkshire +94 15 £70,576 +48.58% 2
West Midlands +13 12 £45,000 +5.88% 5
North West - 12 £39,500 - 10
Scotland - 7 £70,576 -
Isle of Man - 6 £52,500 -
East of England +13 5 £38,500 - 5
Wales +11 3 £70,576 +80.96%
Northern Ireland +19 1 £32,500 -
Senior Support Engineer
UK

Senior Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Senior 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Support Engineer in the job title.

1 87 (74.36%) Windows
2 61 (52.14%) Azure
3 47 (40.17%) ITIL
4 43 (36.75%) Microsoft
5 42 (35.90%) Microsoft 365
6 39 (33.33%) Windows Server
7 38 (32.48%) Linux
8 33 (28.21%) Mentoring
9 32 (27.35%) Social Skills
10 31 (26.50%) Active Directory
11 28 (23.93%) Entra ID
12 27 (23.08%) Firewall
12 27 (23.08%) Finance
13 25 (21.37%) TCP/IP
14 24 (20.51%) Customer Service
15 22 (18.80%) VMware
16 21 (17.95%) SQL
16 21 (17.95%) Technical Leadership
17 20 (17.09%) GCP
17 20 (17.09%) Service Management
18 19 (16.24%) Google
18 19 (16.24%) Agile
18 19 (16.24%) PowerShell
19 18 (15.38%) Problem Management
19 18 (15.38%) DevOps
19 18 (15.38%) Public Cloud
19 18 (15.38%) OneDrive
19 18 (15.38%) SharePoint
19 18 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
20 17 (14.53%) DNS

Senior Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 18 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
1 18 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.71%) Confluence
2 2 (1.71%) WordPress
3 1 (0.85%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 61 (52.14%) Azure
2 42 (35.90%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (23.93%) Entra ID
4 20 (17.09%) GCP
5 18 (15.38%) OneDrive
6 17 (14.53%) OpenShift
7 9 (7.69%) AWS
8 3 (2.56%) IaaS
8 3 (2.56%) PaaS
8 3 (2.56%) SaaS
9 1 (0.85%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.85%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.85%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 27 (23.08%) Firewall
2 25 (21.37%) TCP/IP
3 17 (14.53%) DNS
4 15 (12.82%) DHCP
5 14 (11.97%) WAN
6 13 (11.11%) SNMP
6 13 (11.11%) SSH
7 11 (9.40%) VLAN
8 10 (8.55%) SAN
9 7 (5.98%) VoIP
10 6 (5.13%) VPN
11 5 (4.27%) Internet
11 5 (4.27%) iSCSI
12 3 (2.56%) LAN
12 3 (2.56%) Remote Desktop
12 3 (2.56%) xDSL
13 2 (1.71%) DKIM
13 2 (1.71%) DMARC
13 2 (1.71%) Network Security
13 2 (1.71%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.11%) MySQL
1 13 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (14.53%) IBM UrbanCode
2 14 (11.97%) Eclipse
3 2 (1.71%) Git
3 2 (1.71%) IntelliJ
3 2 (1.71%) JIRA
4 1 (0.85%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.85%) Gradle
4 1 (0.85%) JUnit
General
1 32 (27.35%) Social Skills
2 27 (23.08%) Finance
3 17 (14.53%) Banking
3 17 (14.53%) Presentation Skills
4 8 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.98%) Telecoms
6 5 (4.27%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.42%) Billing
7 4 (3.42%) Electronics
8 3 (2.56%) Advertising
8 3 (2.56%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.71%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.71%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.68%) CSS
1 16 (13.68%) HTML
2 13 (11.11%) Ajax
2 13 (11.11%) AngularJS
2 13 (11.11%) JDBC
2 13 (11.11%) ODBC
2 13 (11.11%) REST
2 13 (11.11%) SOAP
2 13 (11.11%) Web Services
2 13 (11.11%) XHTML
2 13 (11.11%) XML
3 2 (1.71%) Spring
4 1 (0.85%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.38%) Public Cloud
2 13 (11.11%) CMDB
3 11 (9.40%) Driving Licence
4 5 (4.27%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.27%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.27%) Fat Client
4 5 (4.27%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.27%) Thin Client
5 4 (3.42%) Replication
6 3 (2.56%) CCTV
7 2 (1.71%) Handset
8 1 (0.85%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.85%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.85%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 87 (74.36%) Windows
2 39 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 38 (32.48%) Linux
4 13 (11.11%) Unix
5 12 (10.26%) Windows 10
6 7 (5.98%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (5.13%) Mac OS
8 4 (3.42%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (2.56%) Windows 7
9 3 (2.56%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (2.56%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (1.71%) CentOS
10 2 (1.71%) Mac OS X
10 2 (1.71%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.85%) Android
11 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (40.17%) ITIL
2 33 (28.21%) Mentoring
3 24 (20.51%) Customer Service
4 21 (17.95%) Technical Leadership
5 20 (17.09%) Service Management
6 19 (16.24%) Agile
7 18 (15.38%) DevOps
7 18 (15.38%) Problem Management
8 17 (14.53%) Cybersecurity
8 17 (14.53%) Disaster Recovery
8 17 (14.53%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (14.53%) Software Delivery
9 13 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
9 13 (11.11%) Data Extraction
9 13 (11.11%) Database Tuning
9 13 (11.11%) ITSM
9 13 (11.11%) Network Management
9 13 (11.11%) OO
9 13 (11.11%) OOP
10 11 (9.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 21 (17.95%) SQL
2 19 (16.24%) PowerShell
3 17 (14.53%) Groovy
4 15 (12.82%) Java
5 14 (11.97%) Python
6 13 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 13 (11.11%) Perl
7 1 (0.85%) C#
7 1 (0.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (11.97%) Degree
2 11 (9.40%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (5.98%) CCNA
3 7 (5.98%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (4.27%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (4.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (3.42%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.56%) Citrix Certification
7 2 (1.71%) CCNP
7 2 (1.71%) CESG Certified Professional
7 2 (1.71%) MCITP
7 2 (1.71%) MCSA
7 2 (1.71%) MCSE
8 1 (0.85%) CCAA
8 1 (0.85%) MCP
8 1 (0.85%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.84%) GDPR
2 6 (5.13%) SLA
3 2 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 31 (26.50%) Active Directory
2 15 (12.82%) Hyper-V
3 10 (8.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (5.98%) vSphere
5 5 (4.27%) NFS
6 2 (1.71%) Docker
6 2 (1.71%) Terminal Services
6 2 (1.71%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.71%) XenApp
6 2 (1.71%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.85%) Firmware
7 1 (0.85%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (14.53%) Ansible
1 17 (14.53%) Progress Chef
1 17 (14.53%) Terraform
2 13 (11.11%) WMI
3 8 (6.84%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.56%) NetCrunch
5 1 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 43 (36.75%) Microsoft
2 22 (18.80%) VMware
3 19 (16.24%) Google
4 17 (14.53%) IBM
5 16 (13.68%) Splunk
6 14 (11.97%) Oracle
7 13 (11.11%) Cisco
8 6 (5.13%) ConnectWise
9 5 (4.27%) Citrix
10 3 (2.56%) HP
10 3 (2.56%) Ivanti
10 3 (2.56%) Palo Alto
10 3 (2.56%) Veeam
11 2 (1.71%) Meraki
11 2 (1.71%) Sage
11 2 (1.71%) Zerto
12 1 (0.85%) Dell
12 1 (0.85%) Fortinet
12 1 (0.85%) Sophos