Support Engineer Job Trends in Central London

Support Engineer
London > Central London

The median Support Engineer salary in Central London is £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 February 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 113 91
Rank change year-on-year +55 -22 +57
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 106 64 97
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 3.56% 2.08% 2.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.79% 2.29% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 93 50 68
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,188 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £48,250 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.92% +26.97% -7.05%
75th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £45,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £78,000 £59,000
London median annual salary £40,750 £47,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -13.30% +17.50% +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,798 2,793 3,301
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.02% 90.95% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,085 1,718 2,905
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £39,085
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £117,500 £112,500
London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% -1.36%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Support Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Support Engineer job vacancy trend in Central London

Support Engineer
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies in Central London.

Salary distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies in Central London

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Support Engineer in Central London

Support Engineer
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Support Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 14 February 2026. 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
City of London +58 101 £43,500 -12.12% 12
City of Westminster +32 4 £30,000 -42.86%
Southwark - 3 £43,500 - 1
Support Engineer
London

Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 14 February 2026, Support Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Central London region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 64 (60.38%) Windows
2 49 (46.23%) Microsoft
3 45 (42.45%) Microsoft 365
4 40 (37.74%) Active Directory
5 35 (33.02%) Degree
6 33 (31.13%) Azure
7 30 (28.30%) ITIL
7 30 (28.30%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (27.36%) Windows 10
9 24 (22.64%) Microsoft Exchange
10 20 (18.87%) Windows Server
11 19 (17.92%) DNS
12 18 (16.98%) Problem Management
13 17 (16.04%) DHCP
13 17 (16.04%) Microsoft Intune
13 17 (16.04%) SharePoint
14 15 (14.15%) Apple
14 15 (14.15%) Line Management
14 15 (14.15%) OneDrive
15 14 (13.21%) CI/CD
15 14 (13.21%) VMware
15 14 (13.21%) VPN
16 13 (12.26%) API Management
16 13 (12.26%) Continuous Improvement
16 13 (12.26%) Migration
16 13 (12.26%) SCCM
16 13 (12.26%) SLA
16 13 (12.26%) Wi-Fi
17 12 (11.32%) Bash
17 12 (11.32%) Mac OS

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 24 (22.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (16.04%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.94%) CMS
Applications
1 11 (10.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (5.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.94%) Endur
2 1 (0.94%) EuroRunner
Cloud Services
1 45 (42.45%) Microsoft 365
2 33 (31.13%) Azure
3 15 (14.15%) OneDrive
4 9 (8.49%) AWS
5 7 (6.60%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (6.60%) Azure Event Grid
5 7 (6.60%) Azure Functions
5 7 (6.60%) Azure Monitor
5 7 (6.60%) Azure Storage
5 7 (6.60%) Google Workspace
5 7 (6.60%) Serverless
6 6 (5.66%) Azure Logic Apps
6 6 (5.66%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (5.66%) Entra ID
6 6 (5.66%) Power Automate
6 6 (5.66%) Power Platform
6 6 (5.66%) PowerApps
7 4 (3.77%) Mimecast
7 4 (3.77%) SaaS
8 1 (0.94%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 19 (17.92%) DNS
2 17 (16.04%) DHCP
3 14 (13.21%) VPN
4 13 (12.26%) Wi-Fi
5 12 (11.32%) TCP/IP
6 11 (10.38%) WAN
7 10 (9.43%) LAN
8 8 (7.55%) Firewall
9 5 (4.72%) WebEx
10 3 (2.83%) NetScaler
10 3 (2.83%) VoIP
11 2 (1.89%) ADSL
11 2 (1.89%) Modbus
11 2 (1.89%) SAN
12 1 (0.94%) Cisco Wireless
12 1 (0.94%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.94%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.60%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (5.66%) Power BI
3 3 (2.83%) MySQL
4 1 (0.94%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (5.66%) Git
1 6 (5.66%) Visual Studio
2 4 (3.77%) JIRA
3 1 (0.94%) GitLab
3 1 (0.94%) Jenkins
General
1 45 (42.45%) Social Skills
2 35 (33.02%) Finance
3 9 (8.49%) Games
4 6 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.66%) Legal
5 5 (4.72%) Banking
6 4 (3.77%) Law
6 4 (3.77%) Wholesale Banking
7 3 (2.83%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.83%) Front Office
7 3 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.83%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.89%) Retail
9 1 (0.94%) Advertising
9 1 (0.94%) Back Office
9 1 (0.94%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.60%) .NET
1 7 (6.60%) WPF
2 6 (5.66%) REST
2 6 (5.66%) SOAP
2 6 (5.66%) Web Services
3 3 (2.83%) LAMP
4 1 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.94%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.38%) Onboarding
2 9 (8.49%) Fat Client
2 9 (8.49%) Thin Client
3 6 (5.66%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.72%) Reinsurance
5 4 (3.77%) CCTV
6 3 (2.83%) iPhone
6 3 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.83%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (2.83%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.89%) PKI
8 1 (0.94%) Equities
8 1 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.94%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 64 (60.38%) Windows
2 29 (27.36%) Windows 10
3 20 (18.87%) Windows Server
4 12 (11.32%) Mac OS
5 10 (9.43%) Linux
6 5 (4.72%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (3.77%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (3.77%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (2.83%) CentOS
8 3 (2.83%) Rocky
8 3 (2.83%) Ubuntu
9 2 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.94%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.94%) Unix
10 1 (0.94%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.94%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (28.30%) ITIL
1 30 (28.30%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (16.98%) Problem Management
3 15 (14.15%) Line Management
4 14 (13.21%) CI/CD
5 13 (12.26%) API Management
5 13 (12.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (12.26%) Migration
6 10 (9.43%) Computer Science
6 10 (9.43%) Customer Experience
6 10 (9.43%) Incident Management
7 9 (8.49%) Customer Service
7 9 (8.49%) Machine Learning
8 8 (7.55%) Analytics
8 8 (7.55%) DevOps
8 8 (7.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (6.60%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (6.60%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (6.60%) Microservices
9 7 (6.60%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 12 (11.32%) Bash
1 12 (11.32%) Python
2 11 (10.38%) SQL
3 7 (6.60%) C#
3 7 (6.60%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (33.02%) Degree
2 6 (5.66%) A+ Certification
3 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.89%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (1.89%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.89%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (1.89%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.94%) CCNA
6 1 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.94%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.94%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.26%) SLA
2 2 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.89%) SOC 2
System Software
1 40 (37.74%) Active Directory
2 12 (11.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (6.60%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.77%) BitLocker
5 2 (1.89%) vSphere
6 1 (0.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (16.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (12.26%) SCCM
3 8 (7.55%) Grafana
4 7 (6.60%) Kibana
4 7 (6.60%) Nagios
5 4 (3.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (3.77%) Ansible
5 4 (3.77%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.89%) WSUS
7 1 (0.94%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 49 (46.23%) Microsoft
2 15 (14.15%) Apple
3 14 (13.21%) VMware
4 9 (8.49%) Acronis
4 9 (8.49%) Cisco
4 9 (8.49%) Datto
5 7 (6.60%) HP
6 6 (5.66%) Google
6 6 (5.66%) Okta
7 5 (4.72%) Fortinet
7 5 (4.72%) ServiceNow
7 5 (4.72%) Toshiba
8 4 (3.77%) Bloomberg
8 4 (3.77%) CheckPoint
8 4 (3.77%) FactSet
8 4 (3.77%) Meraki
8 4 (3.77%) Salesforce
8 4 (3.77%) Symantec
9 3 (2.83%) Citrix
10 2 (1.89%) McAfee