Support Engineer Jobs in Berkshire

Support Engineer
South East > Berkshire

The median Support Engineer salary in Berkshire is £34,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 120 85
Rank change year-on-year +51 -35 +43
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 98 69 106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.18% 2.17% 3.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.33% 2.35% 3.22%
Number of salaries quoted 94 54 96
10th Percentile £25,500 £23,650 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,500 £27,750 £27,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,750 £32,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.59% -1.54% -10.34%
75th Percentile £46,250 £35,400 £47,500
90th Percentile £52,200 £40,300 £58,750
South East median annual salary £34,000 £31,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year +7.94% -3.08% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 2,941 2,939 3,288
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.39% 92.39% 96.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,122 1,672 2,149
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,875 £40,688 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £74,813 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £81,250
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in Berkshire

Support Engineer
Salary Trend in Berkshire

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

Salary trend for Support Engineer in Berkshire

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in Berkshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Support Engineer in Berkshire

Support Engineer
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Support Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 27 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
Reading +33 41 £34,500 +7.81% 9
Bracknell +12 32 £42,500 +20.06% 5
Maidenhead +13 6 £27,000 -3.57%
Ascot - 6 £40,250 -
Slough +28 3 £30,000 -6.25%
Wokingham - 3 £40,000 -
Newbury +11 1 - -
Support Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 Berkshire region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 41 (41.84%) Microsoft
2 35 (35.71%) Linux
3 32 (32.65%) Windows
3 32 (32.65%) Security Cleared
3 32 (32.65%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (27.55%) Active Directory
5 26 (26.53%) SQL
5 26 (26.53%) Social Skills
6 24 (24.49%) Customer Service
7 21 (21.43%) Microsoft Office
8 18 (18.37%) DV Cleared
8 18 (18.37%) Azure
8 18 (18.37%) ITIL
8 18 (18.37%) MySQL
9 17 (17.35%) LAN
9 17 (17.35%) Service Delivery
9 17 (17.35%) Firewall
9 17 (17.35%) SC Cleared
9 17 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (16.33%) VMware Infrastructure
10 16 (16.33%) VMware
10 16 (16.33%) SharePoint
11 15 (15.31%) PL/SQL
11 15 (15.31%) Microsoft Exchange
11 15 (15.31%) Windows 10
12 14 (14.29%) Driving Licence
13 12 (12.24%) SCCM
13 12 (12.24%) Degree
13 12 (12.24%) HP
13 12 (12.24%) Organisational Skills

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 16 (16.33%) SharePoint
2 15 (15.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 21 (21.43%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (5.10%) Sage X3
2 1 (1.02%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Cloud Services
1 32 (32.65%) Microsoft 365
2 18 (18.37%) Azure
3 5 (5.10%) AWS
3 5 (5.10%) iTunes
4 1 (1.02%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 17 (17.35%) Firewall
1 17 (17.35%) LAN
2 11 (11.22%) VPN
3 10 (10.20%) Network Security
3 10 (10.20%) SSL
3 10 (10.20%) VLAN
4 7 (7.14%) DHCP
4 7 (7.14%) DNS
4 7 (7.14%) WAN
5 6 (6.12%) SAN
6 5 (5.10%) NAS
6 5 (5.10%) VoIP
7 4 (4.08%) Wireshark
8 3 (3.06%) BGP
8 3 (3.06%) OSPF
9 2 (2.04%) HSRP
9 2 (2.04%) Wireless
10 1 (1.02%) IPsec
10 1 (1.02%) SD-WAN
10 1 (1.02%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (18.37%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (5.10%) JIRA
2 2 (2.04%) Git
2 2 (2.04%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.02%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.02%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.02%) Gradle
3 1 (1.02%) JUnit
General
1 26 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.24%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.06%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.04%) Billing
6 1 (1.02%) Advertising
6 1 (1.02%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.08%) Kafka
2 3 (3.06%) Spring Boot
3 2 (2.04%) Spring
4 1 (1.02%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.29%) Driving Licence
2 8 (8.16%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.02%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.02%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 35 (35.71%) Linux
2 32 (32.65%) Windows
3 15 (15.31%) Windows 10
4 11 (11.22%) Windows 7
4 11 (11.22%) Windows Server
5 8 (8.16%) Android
6 3 (3.06%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.02%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (24.49%) Customer Service
2 18 (18.37%) ITIL
3 17 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (17.35%) Service Delivery
4 11 (11.22%) Customer Requirements
4 11 (11.22%) Incident Management
4 11 (11.22%) Software Deployment
4 11 (11.22%) Software Testing
5 10 (10.20%) Change Management
5 10 (10.20%) Problem Management
6 8 (8.16%) Data Integration
6 8 (8.16%) Project Management
7 7 (7.14%) Service Management
8 5 (5.10%) ERP
8 5 (5.10%) Migration
8 5 (5.10%) Project Delivery
8 5 (5.10%) Project Planning
9 4 (4.08%) Customer-Centricity
10 3 (3.06%) Microservices
10 3 (3.06%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (26.53%) SQL
2 15 (15.31%) PL/SQL
3 6 (6.12%) PowerShell
4 5 (5.10%) Java
5 4 (4.08%) Bash
5 4 (4.08%) Python
Qualifications
1 32 (32.65%) Security Cleared
2 18 (18.37%) DV Cleared
3 17 (17.35%) SC Cleared
4 12 (12.24%) Degree
5 9 (9.18%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (8.16%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (6.12%) Azure Certification
7 6 (6.12%) CCNA
8 4 (4.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (4.08%) MCSE
9 3 (3.06%) CCNP
10 1 (1.02%) JNCIA
10 1 (1.02%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.10%) SLA
2 1 (1.02%) QA
System Software
1 27 (27.55%) Active Directory
2 16 (16.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (11.22%) Firmware
3 11 (11.22%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (6.12%) Docker
5 2 (2.04%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.02%) NFS
Systems Management
1 12 (12.24%) SCCM
2 11 (11.22%) vCenter Server
3 4 (4.08%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.02%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (1.02%) NetBackup
4 1 (1.02%) SCOM
4 1 (1.02%) WSUS
Vendors
1 41 (41.84%) Microsoft
2 16 (16.33%) VMware
3 12 (12.24%) HP
4 8 (8.16%) Apple
4 8 (8.16%) Barracuda Networks
5 5 (5.10%) Sage
6 4 (4.08%) Juniper
7 3 (3.06%) Cisco
8 2 (2.04%) Oracle
8 2 (2.04%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.02%) 3PAR
9 1 (1.02%) Dell
9 1 (1.02%) EMC
9 1 (1.02%) Extreme Networks
9 1 (1.02%) Google
9 1 (1.02%) JD Edwards
9 1 (1.02%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.02%) Symantec
9 1 (1.02%) Veeam