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 28 February 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 115 84
Rank change year-on-year +56 -31 +61
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 108 59 96
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 3.46% 1.99% 2.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.68% 2.20% 2.93%
Number of salaries quoted 94 50 65
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,500 £30,200
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -1.23%
75th Percentile £58,438 £57,500 £51,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,375 £60,500
London median annual salary £42,000 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +12.50% +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 2,937 2,687 3,273
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.16% 90.56% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,150 1,688 2,864
10th Percentile £41,750 £41,250 £39,085
25th Percentile £56,875 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £117,500 £112,500
London median annual salary £73,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -2.00% +3.45% -

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 28 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 28 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 +53 103 £43,500 -3.33% 8
Southwark - 4 £38,750 -
City of Westminster +29 3 £30,000 -42.86%
Support Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 68 (62.96%) Windows
2 56 (51.85%) Microsoft
3 52 (48.15%) Microsoft 365
4 41 (37.96%) Active Directory
5 38 (35.19%) Azure
6 33 (30.56%) ITIL
7 31 (28.70%) Degree
8 29 (26.85%) Windows 10
9 27 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (24.07%) Microsoft Exchange
11 23 (21.30%) Windows Server
12 19 (17.59%) DNS
12 19 (17.59%) Problem Management
13 18 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
14 17 (15.74%) DHCP
14 17 (15.74%) VMware
15 15 (13.89%) Apple
15 15 (13.89%) Line Management
15 15 (13.89%) SharePoint
15 15 (13.89%) SLA
15 15 (13.89%) VMware Infrastructure
15 15 (13.89%) VPN
16 14 (12.96%) CI/CD
17 13 (12.04%) API Management
17 13 (12.04%) Migration
17 13 (12.04%) OneDrive
17 13 (12.04%) Wi-Fi
18 12 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
18 12 (11.11%) SCCM
19 11 (10.19%) Continuous Improvement

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 26 (24.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (13.89%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.93%) CMS
Applications
1 12 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.93%) Endur
2 1 (0.93%) EuroRunner
Cloud Services
1 52 (48.15%) Microsoft 365
2 38 (35.19%) Azure
3 13 (12.04%) OneDrive
4 9 (8.33%) Entra ID
5 8 (7.41%) AWS
6 7 (6.48%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (6.48%) Azure Event Grid
6 7 (6.48%) Azure Functions
6 7 (6.48%) Azure Monitor
6 7 (6.48%) Azure Storage
6 7 (6.48%) Google Workspace
6 7 (6.48%) Serverless
7 6 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (5.56%) Power Automate
7 6 (5.56%) Power Platform
7 6 (5.56%) PowerApps
7 6 (5.56%) SaaS
8 4 (3.70%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.93%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 19 (17.59%) DNS
2 17 (15.74%) DHCP
3 15 (13.89%) VPN
4 13 (12.04%) Wi-Fi
5 11 (10.19%) TCP/IP
6 10 (9.26%) Firewall
7 9 (8.33%) WAN
8 8 (7.41%) LAN
9 5 (4.63%) WebEx
10 3 (2.78%) ADSL
10 3 (2.78%) NetScaler
10 3 (2.78%) VoIP
11 2 (1.85%) SAN
12 1 (0.93%) Cisco Wireless
12 1 (0.93%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.93%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.48%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (5.56%) Power BI
3 3 (2.78%) MySQL
4 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (5.56%) Git
1 6 (5.56%) Visual Studio
2 5 (4.63%) JIRA
3 1 (0.93%) GitLab
3 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.93%) Postman
General
1 44 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 36 (33.33%) Finance
3 9 (8.33%) Games
4 8 (7.41%) Legal
5 7 (6.48%) Law
6 6 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.63%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.78%) Banking
9 3 (2.78%) Retail
9 3 (2.78%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.85%) Front Office
10 2 (1.85%) Wholesale Banking
11 1 (0.93%) Advertising
11 1 (0.93%) Marketing
11 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.93%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.48%) .NET
1 7 (6.48%) WPF
2 6 (5.56%) REST
2 6 (5.56%) SOAP
2 6 (5.56%) Web Services
3 3 (2.78%) LAMP
4 1 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.26%) Onboarding
2 9 (8.33%) Fat Client
2 9 (8.33%) Thin Client
3 5 (4.63%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.63%) Reinsurance
4 3 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.78%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (2.78%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.85%) CCTV
5 2 (1.85%) iPhone
5 2 (1.85%) PKI
6 1 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.93%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 68 (62.96%) Windows
2 29 (26.85%) Windows 10
3 23 (21.30%) Windows Server
4 11 (10.19%) Mac OS
5 10 (9.26%) Linux
6 7 (6.48%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (3.70%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (2.78%) CentOS
9 3 (2.78%) Rocky
9 3 (2.78%) Ubuntu
10 2 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.93%) Android
11 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.93%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.93%) Unix
11 1 (0.93%) VMS
11 1 (0.93%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (30.56%) ITIL
2 27 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (17.59%) Problem Management
4 15 (13.89%) Line Management
5 14 (12.96%) CI/CD
6 13 (12.04%) API Management
6 13 (12.04%) Migration
7 11 (10.19%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (9.26%) Customer Service
8 10 (9.26%) ITSM
9 9 (8.33%) Incident Management
10 8 (7.41%) Analytics
10 8 (7.41%) Change Management
10 8 (7.41%) Computer Science
10 8 (7.41%) DevOps
11 7 (6.48%) Customer Experience
11 7 (6.48%) Log Analytics
11 7 (6.48%) Microservices
11 7 (6.48%) Runbook
11 7 (6.48%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (10.19%) SQL
2 10 (9.26%) Bash
2 10 (9.26%) Python
3 9 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 7 (6.48%) C#
5 3 (2.78%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.93%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.93%) PHP
Qualifications
1 31 (28.70%) Degree
2 7 (6.48%) A+ Certification
3 5 (4.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.78%) CCNA
4 3 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.85%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (1.85%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.85%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (1.85%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.93%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.89%) SLA
2 2 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 41 (37.96%) Active Directory
2 15 (13.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (9.26%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.85%) BitLocker
4 2 (1.85%) vSphere
5 1 (0.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (11.11%) SCCM
3 8 (7.41%) Grafana
4 7 (6.48%) Kibana
5 5 (4.63%) Nagios
6 4 (3.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (3.70%) Ansible
7 3 (2.78%) Kubernetes
8 2 (1.85%) WSUS
9 1 (0.93%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 56 (51.85%) Microsoft
2 17 (15.74%) VMware
3 15 (13.89%) Apple
4 9 (8.33%) Acronis
4 9 (8.33%) Datto
5 7 (6.48%) Cisco
5 7 (6.48%) HP
6 6 (5.56%) Google
6 6 (5.56%) Okta
7 5 (4.63%) Meraki
7 5 (4.63%) ServiceNow
7 5 (4.63%) Toshiba
8 4 (3.70%) Bloomberg
8 4 (3.70%) CheckPoint
8 4 (3.70%) ConnectWise
8 4 (3.70%) FactSet
8 4 (3.70%) Salesforce
9 3 (2.78%) Citrix
9 3 (2.78%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.85%) Symantec