Field Support Engineer Jobs

Field Support Engineer
UK

The median Field Support Engineer salary in the UK is £29,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 848 935 1137
Rank change year-on-year +87 +202 -235
Permanent jobs requiring a Field Support Engineer 54 37 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.054% 0.037% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.040% 0.061%
Number of salaries quoted 53 32 89
10th Percentile £24,550 £27,000 £26,600
25th Percentile £26,250 £30,313 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,000 £32,750 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.45% +0.77% +20.37%
75th Percentile £33,750 £36,094 £33,750
90th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £37,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £29,000 £32,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year -10.77% - +20.37%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Field Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Field Support Engineer in the UK

Field Support Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Field Support Engineer.

Salary trend for Field Support Engineer in the UK

Field Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Field Support Engineer over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Field Support Engineer in the UK

Field Support Engineer
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Field Support Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England +121 54 £29,000 -10.77% 12
UK excluding London +28 50 £29,000 -10.77% 11
South West -6 17 £29,000 -7.20%
North of England +62 11 £25,500 -5.56% 2
Midlands -8 9 £32,500 +20.37% 2
South East +1 7 £35,000 +7.69% 3
East Midlands -10 7 £32,500 -
Work from Home +71 6 £38,750 +18.10% 3
East of England +18 6 £27,500 -14.06% 6
North West - 6 £25,500 -
Yorkshire +92 5 £32,500 +20.37% 1
London +99 4 £37,500 -6.25% 1
West Midlands +8 1 £26,500 -1.85% 2

Field Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Field 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 featuring Field Support Engineer in the job title.

1 44 (81.48%) Active Directory
2 43 (79.63%) Windows
3 37 (68.52%) Microsoft
4 27 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (48.15%) Microsoft Office
6 23 (42.59%) Customer Service
7 22 (40.74%) Social Skills
7 22 (40.74%) Degree
7 22 (40.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (38.89%) A+ Certification
8 21 (38.89%) MCP
8 21 (38.89%) Network Security
8 21 (38.89%) Computer Science
8 21 (38.89%) Mac OS
8 21 (38.89%) Onboarding
8 21 (38.89%) DBS Check
8 21 (38.89%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (29.63%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (24.07%) Firewall
11 12 (22.22%) DNS
12 9 (16.67%) Windows Server
13 8 (14.81%) Windows 10
13 8 (14.81%) SLA
13 8 (14.81%) LAN
13 8 (14.81%) WAN
14 7 (12.96%) DHCP
14 7 (12.96%) SharePoint
14 7 (12.96%) Wireless
14 7 (12.96%) Azure
15 6 (11.11%) OneDrive

Field Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (12.96%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.85%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 26 (48.15%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 16 (29.63%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (12.96%) Azure
3 6 (11.11%) OneDrive
4 4 (7.41%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.85%) AWS
5 1 (1.85%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 21 (38.89%) Network Security
2 13 (24.07%) Firewall
3 12 (22.22%) DNS
4 8 (14.81%) LAN
4 8 (14.81%) WAN
5 7 (12.96%) DHCP
5 7 (12.96%) Wireless
6 5 (9.26%) VLAN
6 5 (9.26%) VPN
7 4 (7.41%) TCP/IP
7 4 (7.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
General
1 22 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.56%) Electronics
3 2 (3.70%) Legal
3 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.70%) Publishing
3 2 (3.70%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 21 (38.89%) Onboarding
2 4 (7.41%) Replication
3 3 (5.56%) iPad
4 1 (1.85%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 43 (79.63%) Windows
2 21 (38.89%) Mac OS
3 9 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 8 (14.81%) Windows 10
5 5 (9.26%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (7.41%) Apple iOS
7 2 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.85%) Android
8 1 (1.85%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (42.59%) Customer Service
3 21 (38.89%) Computer Science
4 6 (11.11%) Incident Management
4 6 (11.11%) ITIL
4 6 (11.11%) Service Delivery
5 5 (9.26%) Email Filtering
5 5 (9.26%) Kalman Filter
5 5 (9.26%) Project Delivery
6 4 (7.41%) Customer Engagement
6 4 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (5.56%) Asset Management
7 3 (5.56%) Time Management
8 2 (3.70%) Change Management
8 2 (3.70%) Coaching
8 2 (3.70%) Collaborative Working
8 2 (3.70%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (3.70%) Line Management
8 2 (3.70%) Service Management
9 1 (1.85%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 22 (40.74%) Degree
1 22 (40.74%) Microsoft Certification
2 21 (38.89%) A+ Certification
2 21 (38.89%) Computer Science Degree
2 21 (38.89%) DBS Check
2 21 (38.89%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.81%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (81.48%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.56%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (9.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (7.41%) WSUS
Vendors
1 37 (68.52%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.11%) Apple
3 5 (9.26%) Veeam
4 4 (7.41%) Sophos
5 3 (5.56%) HP
5 3 (5.56%) Sun
5 3 (5.56%) VMware
6 2 (3.70%) Cisco
7 1 (1.85%) Aruba
7 1 (1.85%) Avaya
7 1 (1.85%) Dell
7 1 (1.85%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.85%) Google
7 1 (1.85%) SonicWALL
7 1 (1.85%) Ubiquiti