Support Engineer Jobs in Belfast

Support Engineer
County Antrim > Belfast

The median Support Engineer salary in Belfast is £53,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 37 73
Rank change year-on-year +10 +36 -20
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 5 24 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 2.81% 4.74% 2.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.05% 4.97% 3.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4 24 6
10th Percentile £45,125 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £49,063 £32,438 £31,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £35,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +53.57% - +23.89%
75th Percentile £57,500 £36,500 £38,625
90th Percentile - £38,950 £43,250
County Antrim median annual salary £53,750 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year +53.57% - +18.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Belfast

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Belfast. 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 Belfast with a recognized job title 164 483 699
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 95.45% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 42 247 397
10th Percentile £42,875 £30,000 £32,175
25th Percentile £50,000 £35,000 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £87,500 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £99,500 £87,500 £68,000
County Antrim median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +9.29%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in Belfast

Support Engineer
Salary Trend in Belfast

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

Salary trend for Support Engineer in Belfast

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2025, 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 Belfast region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Trade Surveillance
2 3 (60.00%) Prometheus
2 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (60.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (60.00%) Docker
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Spring
2 3 (60.00%) PL/SQL
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 3 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) Control-M
2 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (40.00%) ITSM
3 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Middleware
3 2 (40.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 2 (40.00%) DB2
3 2 (40.00%) Advertising
3 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (40.00%) Kibana

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (20.00%) OneDrive
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (40.00%) DB2
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Advertising
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (20.00%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
1 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (40.00%) Middleware
2 2 (40.00%) React
3 1 (20.00%) JSON
3 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (20.00%) CCTV
2 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Trade Surveillance
3 2 (40.00%) Case Management
3 2 (40.00%) ITSM
3 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
4 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) High Availability
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (20.00%) Major Incident Management
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Remediation Plan
4 1 (20.00%) Runbook
4 1 (20.00%) Service Management
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Control-M
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (60.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (40.00%) Grafana
2 2 (40.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (40.00%) Splunk
3 1 (20.00%) AppDynamics
3 1 (20.00%) BMC
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow