Support Engineer Jobs in Central London

Support Engineer
London > Central London

The median Support Engineer salary in Central London is £36,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 July 2025.

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

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 93 109
Rank change year-on-year -17 +16 +92
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 46 103 137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 1.98% 2.80% 2.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.11% 2.93% 2.90%
Number of salaries quoted 37 80 122
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,175 £27,550
25th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,500 £42,000 £35,750
Median % change year-on-year -13.10% +17.48% -15.88%
75th Percentile £47,500 £51,063 £42,000
90th Percentile £56,000 £63,125 £64,625
London median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year - +6.67% -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 2,178 3,513 4,726
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.72% 95.36% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,617 2,684 3,900
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £74,372
Median % change year-on-year - -2.52% +2.58%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £112,500
London median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% +3.57%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in Central London

Support Engineer
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Support Engineer 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 12 July 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 12 July 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 -17 36 £35,750 -16.86% 15
Camden - 4 - -
West End of London +6 2 - - 1
City of Westminster -1 2 £30,000 -10.45%
Kensington and Chelsea -4 1 - -
Lambeth - 1 - - 1
Support Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 12 July 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 Central London region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (60.87%) Windows
2 27 (58.70%) Active Directory
3 25 (54.35%) Microsoft
3 25 (54.35%) Azure
4 24 (52.17%) Social Skills
5 18 (39.13%) Degree
5 18 (39.13%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (36.96%) Customer Service
7 16 (34.78%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (21.74%) 802.1X
9 10 (21.74%) Windows 10
9 10 (21.74%) Windows Server 2012
9 10 (21.74%) Internet
9 10 (21.74%) SaaS
9 10 (21.74%) Confluence
10 9 (19.57%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (17.39%) SLA
11 8 (17.39%) Microsoft Exchange
11 8 (17.39%) Windows Server
12 7 (15.22%) Broadcast Engineering
12 7 (15.22%) Post-Production
12 7 (15.22%) Proactive Monitoring
12 7 (15.22%) Procure-to-Pay
12 7 (15.22%) Coaching
12 7 (15.22%) Proactive Maintenance
12 7 (15.22%) Broadband
12 7 (15.22%) ITIL
12 7 (15.22%) Sun
12 7 (15.22%) Finance

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 10 (21.74%) Confluence
2 8 (17.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.17%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Eikon
1 1 (2.17%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 25 (54.35%) Azure
2 18 (39.13%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (21.74%) SaaS
4 7 (15.22%) AWS
5 6 (13.04%) Entra ID
6 3 (6.52%) Google Workspace
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.35%) IaaS
7 2 (4.35%) Serverless
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.17%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 16 (34.78%) Wi-Fi
2 10 (21.74%) Internet
3 7 (15.22%) Broadband
4 6 (13.04%) WAN
5 5 (10.87%) LAN
6 4 (8.70%) DHCP
6 4 (8.70%) DNS
6 4 (8.70%) TCP/IP
6 4 (8.70%) VoIP
6 4 (8.70%) Wireless
7 2 (4.35%) Firewall
7 2 (4.35%) VPN
8 1 (2.17%) ADSL
8 1 (2.17%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (2.17%) Cisco IPT
8 1 (2.17%) SD-WAN
8 1 (2.17%) Unified Communications
8 1 (2.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (8.70%) JIRA
2 2 (4.35%) Git
General
1 24 (52.17%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.22%) Finance
3 5 (10.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.52%) Legal
6 2 (4.35%) Advertising
6 2 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Back Office
7 1 (2.17%) Billing
7 1 (2.17%) Games
7 1 (2.17%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.74%) 802.1X
2 2 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.17%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.52%) iPhone
1 3 (6.52%) Onboarding
1 3 (6.52%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.35%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (2.17%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.17%) Equities
3 1 (2.17%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 28 (60.87%) Windows
2 10 (21.74%) Windows 10
2 10 (21.74%) Windows Server 2012
3 8 (17.39%) Windows Server
4 5 (10.87%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (8.70%) Linux
6 3 (6.52%) Windows 7
6 3 (6.52%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (6.52%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (4.35%) Apple iOS
7 2 (4.35%) Mac OS
7 2 (4.35%) Mac OS X
8 1 (2.17%) Android
8 1 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.96%) Customer Service
2 13 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (15.22%) Broadcast Engineering
3 7 (15.22%) Coaching
3 7 (15.22%) ITIL
3 7 (15.22%) Post-Production
3 7 (15.22%) Proactive Maintenance
3 7 (15.22%) Proactive Monitoring
3 7 (15.22%) Procure-to-Pay
4 4 (8.70%) Service Management
5 3 (6.52%) Collaborative Culture
5 3 (6.52%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (6.52%) Computer Science
5 3 (6.52%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (6.52%) Data Privacy
5 3 (6.52%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (6.52%) ITSM
5 3 (6.52%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (6.52%) Time Management
6 2 (4.35%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.87%) PowerShell
2 4 (8.70%) Python
2 4 (8.70%) SQL
3 1 (2.17%) Bash
Qualifications
1 18 (39.13%) Degree
2 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (4.35%) A+ Certification
3 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.17%) CCENT
4 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.17%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.39%) SLA
2 3 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (4.35%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 27 (58.70%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.70%) Hyper-V
3 2 (4.35%) Docker
3 2 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (2.17%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (19.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (13.04%) SCCM
3 3 (6.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (4.35%) Kibana
4 2 (4.35%) logstash
5 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.17%) Plesk
5 1 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (54.35%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.22%) Sun
3 6 (13.04%) Citrix
4 4 (8.70%) Cisco
5 3 (6.52%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.35%) ConnectWise
6 2 (4.35%) Google
6 2 (4.35%) VMware
7 1 (2.17%) Apple
7 1 (2.17%) Bloomberg
7 1 (2.17%) FactSet
7 1 (2.17%) HP
7 1 (2.17%) Intapp
7 1 (2.17%) Meraki
7 1 (2.17%) Mitel
7 1 (2.17%) Rackspace
7 1 (2.17%) Riverbed
7 1 (2.17%) Sage
7 1 (2.17%) Salesforce
7 1 (2.17%) Zscaler