Support Engineer Job Trends in Central London

Support Engineer
London > Central London

The median Support Engineer salary in Central London is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 October 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 101 102
Rank change year-on-year +26 +1 +75
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 65 81 85
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 3.45% 2.53% 2.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.64% 2.69% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 57 66 83
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £31,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £37,120
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +21.23% -18.42%
75th Percentile £62,500 £53,438 £46,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £71,000
London median annual salary £40,000 £44,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +17.33% -6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 1,784 3,013 3,205
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.59% 94.04% 96.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,445 1,969 2,889
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,696 £39,085
25th Percentile £53,688 £54,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £115,000
London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +4.17%

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 30 October 2025.

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 30 October 2025. 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 +47 61 £42,500 -5.56% 36
City of Westminster +21 4 £30,000 -10.45%
Support Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 30 October 2025, 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 34 (52.31%) Degree
2 30 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (43.08%) Windows
4 21 (32.31%) Microsoft
5 20 (30.77%) Active Directory
6 17 (26.15%) Python
7 16 (24.62%) Bash
8 15 (23.08%) Customer Experience
8 15 (23.08%) Machine Learning
8 15 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (20.00%) Azure
9 13 (20.00%) ITIL
10 12 (18.46%) Microsoft Intune
10 12 (18.46%) VMware
11 11 (16.92%) Microsoft Exchange
11 11 (16.92%) OneDrive
11 11 (16.92%) SharePoint
12 10 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (15.38%) SCCM
12 10 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
12 10 (15.38%) Windows 10
13 9 (13.85%) Cisco
13 9 (13.85%) Cybersecurity
14 8 (12.31%) Mentoring
14 8 (12.31%) Microsoft Office
15 7 (10.77%) Apple
15 7 (10.77%) AWS
15 7 (10.77%) CI/CD
15 7 (10.77%) Computer Science
15 7 (10.77%) Git

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 11 (16.92%) Microsoft Exchange
1 11 (16.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (12.31%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (9.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.54%) Endur
2 1 (1.54%) EuroRunner
Cloud Services
1 15 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (20.00%) Azure
3 11 (16.92%) OneDrive
4 7 (10.77%) AWS
5 6 (9.23%) Azure Logic Apps
5 6 (9.23%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (9.23%) Power Automate
5 6 (9.23%) Power Platform
5 6 (9.23%) PowerApps
6 2 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.54%) Datadog
7 1 (1.54%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.54%) GCP
7 1 (1.54%) GitHub
7 1 (1.54%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.54%) Mimecast
7 1 (1.54%) Serverless
7 1 (1.54%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.23%) LAN
1 6 (9.23%) WAN
1 6 (9.23%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (7.69%) DHCP
2 5 (7.69%) DNS
2 5 (7.69%) Modbus
2 5 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 5 (7.69%) VPN
2 5 (7.69%) WebEx
3 3 (4.62%) Firewall
4 2 (3.08%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.54%) Cisco IPT
5 1 (1.54%) IP Telephony
5 1 (1.54%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (1.54%) Unified Communications
5 1 (1.54%) VoIP
5 1 (1.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.23%) Power BI
2 1 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.54%) MySQL
2 1 (1.54%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (10.77%) Git
2 6 (9.23%) Visual Studio
3 3 (4.62%) JIRA
4 1 (1.54%) GitLab
4 1 (1.54%) Jenkins
General
1 37 (56.92%) Social Skills
2 19 (29.23%) Finance
3 5 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (6.15%) Banking
4 4 (6.15%) Financial Institution
4 4 (6.15%) Front Office
4 4 (6.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (6.15%) Wholesale Banking
5 3 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.08%) Advertising
6 2 (3.08%) Back Office
6 2 (3.08%) Games
7 1 (1.54%) Billing
7 1 (1.54%) Law
7 1 (1.54%) Legal
7 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.23%) REST
1 6 (9.23%) SOAP
1 6 (9.23%) Web Services
2 2 (3.08%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (3.08%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (1.54%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.77%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 5 (7.69%) iPhone
2 5 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.15%) CCTV
4 2 (3.08%) Equities
4 2 (3.08%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.54%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.54%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.54%) iPad
5 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.54%) Thin Client
5 1 (1.54%) TWAP
5 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.54%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 28 (43.08%) Windows
2 10 (15.38%) Windows 10
3 5 (7.69%) Linux
3 5 (7.69%) Mac OS
3 5 (7.69%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.54%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.54%) CentOS
4 1 (1.54%) Rocky
4 1 (1.54%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.54%) Unix
4 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (23.08%) Customer Experience
2 15 (23.08%) Machine Learning
3 13 (20.00%) ITIL
4 10 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (13.85%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (12.31%) Mentoring
7 7 (10.77%) CI/CD
7 7 (10.77%) Computer Science
7 7 (10.77%) Line Management
8 6 (9.23%) Agile
8 6 (9.23%) API Management
8 6 (9.23%) CRM
8 6 (9.23%) Data Migration
8 6 (9.23%) Migration
8 6 (9.23%) OWASP
8 6 (9.23%) Scrum
9 5 (7.69%) Break/Fix
9 5 (7.69%) Energy Management
9 5 (7.69%) Inventory Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (26.15%) Python
2 16 (24.62%) Bash
3 3 (4.62%) SQL
4 1 (1.54%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (52.31%) Degree
2 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.54%) A+ Certification
3 1 (1.54%) CCNA
3 1 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.54%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.08%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (30.77%) Active Directory
2 10 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.15%) BitLocker
4 2 (3.08%) Docker
5 1 (1.54%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (18.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (15.38%) SCCM
3 5 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.69%) Nagios
4 2 (3.08%) Ansible
5 1 (1.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.54%) Grafana
5 1 (1.54%) Kibana
5 1 (1.54%) logstash
5 1 (1.54%) Plesk
5 1 (1.54%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (32.31%) Microsoft
2 12 (18.46%) VMware
3 9 (13.85%) Cisco
4 7 (10.77%) Apple
5 5 (7.69%) HP
6 4 (6.15%) Fortinet
6 4 (6.15%) Symantec
7 3 (4.62%) CheckPoint
7 3 (4.62%) Citrix
7 3 (4.62%) Meraki
8 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
8 2 (3.08%) Toshiba
8 2 (3.08%) Zscaler
9 1 (1.54%) ConnectWise
9 1 (1.54%) Google
9 1 (1.54%) Intapp
9 1 (1.54%) ION Trading
9 1 (1.54%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (1.54%) Okta
9 1 (1.54%) Trayport