Support Engineer Job Trends in Central London

Support Engineer
London > Central London

The median Support Engineer salary in Central London is £43,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 January 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 115 95
Rank change year-on-year +61 -20 +51
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 104 59 86
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 3.83% 1.86% 2.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.07% 2.03% 2.75%
Number of salaries quoted 91 45 63
10th Percentile £28,500 £34,450 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £32,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £47,500 £37,120
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% +27.96% -12.66%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £43,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,500 £57,500
London median annual salary £42,000 £47,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year -10.64% +23.68% -

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 2,557 2,909 3,125
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 91.48% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,918 1,779 2,767
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,085
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,250 £112,500
London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% -2.03%

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 24 January 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 24 January 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 +75 100 £43,750 -10.71% 3
City of Westminster +34 4 £30,000 -42.86%
Southwark - 2 £43,500 -
Support Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 24 January 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 61 (58.65%) Windows
2 44 (42.31%) Microsoft
3 42 (40.38%) Degree
4 39 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
5 38 (36.54%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (35.58%) Active Directory
7 29 (27.88%) Windows 10
8 28 (26.92%) ITIL
9 27 (25.96%) Azure
10 22 (21.15%) Microsoft Exchange
11 20 (19.23%) SharePoint
12 18 (17.31%) OneDrive
13 17 (16.35%) Apple
13 17 (16.35%) Windows Server
14 16 (15.38%) Bash
14 16 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (15.38%) Problem Management
14 16 (15.38%) Python
15 15 (14.42%) DNS
15 15 (14.42%) Line Management
15 15 (14.42%) Microsoft Intune
15 15 (14.42%) VMware
16 14 (13.46%) CI/CD
16 14 (13.46%) Customer Experience
16 14 (13.46%) Microsoft Office
17 13 (12.50%) API Management
17 13 (12.50%) DHCP
17 13 (12.50%) Machine Learning
17 13 (12.50%) Migration
17 13 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure

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 22 (21.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (19.23%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.96%) CMS
Applications
1 14 (13.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (5.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.96%) Endur
2 1 (0.96%) EuroRunner
Cloud Services
1 39 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
2 27 (25.96%) Azure
3 18 (17.31%) OneDrive
4 8 (7.69%) AWS
5 7 (6.73%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (6.73%) Azure Event Grid
5 7 (6.73%) Azure Functions
5 7 (6.73%) Azure Monitor
5 7 (6.73%) Azure Storage
5 7 (6.73%) Serverless
6 6 (5.77%) Azure Logic Apps
6 6 (5.77%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (5.77%) Google Workspace
6 6 (5.77%) Power Automate
6 6 (5.77%) Power Platform
6 6 (5.77%) PowerApps
7 3 (2.88%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.92%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.96%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 15 (14.42%) DNS
2 13 (12.50%) DHCP
3 12 (11.54%) VPN
4 10 (9.62%) TCP/IP
4 10 (9.62%) WAN
5 9 (8.65%) LAN
6 8 (7.69%) Firewall
6 8 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (5.77%) WebEx
8 4 (3.85%) Modbus
9 3 (2.88%) NetScaler
9 3 (2.88%) VoIP
10 2 (1.92%) SAN
11 1 (0.96%) Cisco Wireless
11 1 (0.96%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.96%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.73%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (5.77%) Power BI
3 3 (2.88%) MySQL
4 1 (0.96%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (5.77%) Git
1 6 (5.77%) Visual Studio
2 4 (3.85%) JIRA
3 1 (0.96%) GitLab
3 1 (0.96%) Jenkins
General
1 49 (47.12%) Social Skills
2 33 (31.73%) Finance
3 9 (8.65%) Games
4 6 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.81%) Banking
5 5 (4.81%) Legal
6 4 (3.85%) Financial Institution
6 4 (3.85%) Front Office
6 4 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.85%) Wholesale Banking
7 3 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.88%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.92%) Back Office
8 2 (1.92%) Retail
9 1 (0.96%) Advertising
9 1 (0.96%) Law
9 1 (0.96%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.73%) .NET
1 7 (6.73%) WPF
2 6 (5.77%) REST
2 6 (5.77%) SOAP
2 6 (5.77%) Web Services
3 3 (2.88%) LAMP
4 2 (1.92%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.58%) Onboarding
2 9 (8.65%) Fat Client
2 9 (8.65%) Thin Client
3 6 (5.77%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.77%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.85%) CCTV
4 4 (3.85%) Reinsurance
5 3 (2.88%) iPhone
5 3 (2.88%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (2.88%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.92%) Equities
6 2 (1.92%) PKI
7 1 (0.96%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.96%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.96%) TWAP
7 1 (0.96%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 61 (58.65%) Windows
2 29 (27.88%) Windows 10
3 17 (16.35%) Windows Server
4 11 (10.58%) Mac OS
5 9 (8.65%) Linux
6 4 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (2.88%) CentOS
7 3 (2.88%) Rocky
7 3 (2.88%) Ubuntu
7 3 (2.88%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (36.54%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (26.92%) ITIL
3 16 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
3 16 (15.38%) Problem Management
4 15 (14.42%) Line Management
5 14 (13.46%) CI/CD
5 14 (13.46%) Customer Experience
6 13 (12.50%) API Management
6 13 (12.50%) Machine Learning
6 13 (12.50%) Migration
7 11 (10.58%) Incident Management
8 10 (9.62%) Computer Science
9 9 (8.65%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (7.69%) Analytics
10 8 (7.69%) Customer Service
10 8 (7.69%) DevOps
10 8 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 7 (6.73%) Data Pipeline
11 7 (6.73%) Log Analytics
11 7 (6.73%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (15.38%) Bash
1 16 (15.38%) Python
2 11 (10.58%) SQL
3 7 (6.73%) C#
4 5 (4.81%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (40.38%) Degree
2 6 (5.77%) A+ Certification
3 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.92%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (1.92%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.92%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (1.92%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.96%) CCNA
6 1 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.96%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.96%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.62%) SLA
2 2 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.92%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (35.58%) Active Directory
2 13 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.85%) BitLocker
3 4 (3.85%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.92%) vSphere
5 1 (0.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (14.42%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (11.54%) SCCM
3 8 (7.69%) Grafana
4 7 (6.73%) Kibana
4 7 (6.73%) Nagios
5 4 (3.85%) Ansible
5 4 (3.85%) Kubernetes
6 3 (2.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.92%) WSUS
8 1 (0.96%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 44 (42.31%) Microsoft
2 17 (16.35%) Apple
3 15 (14.42%) VMware
4 10 (9.62%) HP
5 9 (8.65%) Acronis
5 9 (8.65%) Cisco
5 9 (8.65%) Datto
6 6 (5.77%) Google
7 5 (4.81%) Fortinet
7 5 (4.81%) Okta
7 5 (4.81%) ServiceNow
7 5 (4.81%) Toshiba
8 4 (3.85%) Bloomberg
8 4 (3.85%) CheckPoint
8 4 (3.85%) FactSet
8 4 (3.85%) Meraki
8 4 (3.85%) Salesforce
8 4 (3.85%) Symantec
9 3 (2.88%) Citrix
10 2 (1.92%) McAfee