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 20 December 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 121 106
Rank change year-on-year +65 -15 +65
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 91 64 77
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 4.00% 1.98% 2.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.27% 2.14% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 78 50 73
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,950 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +20.00% -14.77%
75th Percentile £61,563 £56,563 £51,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,000 £71,250
London median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -

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 2,133 2,991 3,018
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.76% 92.43% 95.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,658 1,935 2,700
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £39,085
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,400 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% -0.14% -3.33%
75th Percentile £95,938 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £115,000
London median annual salary £72,434 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.42% - +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 20 December 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 20 December 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 +75 87 £42,500 -5.56% 6
City of Westminster +32 4 £30,000 -36.84%
Southwark - 1 £43,500 - 1
Support Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 20 December 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 46 (50.55%) Windows
2 40 (43.96%) Degree
3 38 (41.76%) Microsoft
4 35 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (36.26%) Microsoft 365
6 32 (35.16%) Active Directory
7 24 (26.37%) Windows 10
8 21 (23.08%) ITIL
9 20 (21.98%) Azure
10 19 (20.88%) Microsoft Exchange
11 18 (19.78%) Bash
11 18 (19.78%) Python
12 16 (17.58%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (17.58%) Customer Experience
13 15 (16.48%) Machine Learning
13 15 (16.48%) OneDrive
13 15 (16.48%) SharePoint
14 14 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
15 13 (14.29%) SCCM
15 13 (14.29%) VMware
16 12 (13.19%) Apple
16 12 (13.19%) DHCP
16 12 (13.19%) DNS
16 12 (13.19%) Windows Server
17 11 (12.09%) Line Management
17 11 (12.09%) Microsoft Office
17 11 (12.09%) VMware Infrastructure
18 10 (10.99%) Cisco
18 10 (10.99%) Computer Science
18 10 (10.99%) Cybersecurity

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 19 (20.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (16.48%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.10%) CMS
Applications
1 11 (12.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (6.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.10%) Endur
2 1 (1.10%) EuroRunner
Cloud Services
1 33 (36.26%) Microsoft 365
2 20 (21.98%) Azure
3 15 (16.48%) OneDrive
4 8 (8.79%) AWS
5 6 (6.59%) Azure Logic Apps
5 6 (6.59%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (6.59%) Google Workspace
5 6 (6.59%) Power Automate
5 6 (6.59%) Power Platform
5 6 (6.59%) PowerApps
6 3 (3.30%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.10%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (1.10%) Azure Storage
7 1 (1.10%) Datadog
7 1 (1.10%) GCP
7 1 (1.10%) GitHub
7 1 (1.10%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.19%) DHCP
1 12 (13.19%) DNS
2 10 (10.99%) TCP/IP
2 10 (10.99%) VPN
2 10 (10.99%) WAN
3 9 (9.89%) LAN
4 7 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (6.59%) Firewall
6 5 (5.49%) Modbus
6 5 (5.49%) WebEx
7 3 (3.30%) NetScaler
7 3 (3.30%) VoIP
8 1 (1.10%) Cisco IPT
8 1 (1.10%) Cisco Wireless
8 1 (1.10%) IP Telephony
8 1 (1.10%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (1.10%) SD-WAN
8 1 (1.10%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.59%) Power BI
2 3 (3.30%) MySQL
3 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.10%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (6.59%) Git
1 6 (6.59%) Visual Studio
2 4 (4.40%) JIRA
3 1 (1.10%) GitLab
3 1 (1.10%) Jenkins
General
1 47 (51.65%) Social Skills
2 26 (28.57%) Finance
3 6 (6.59%) Games
4 5 (5.49%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.40%) Banking
5 4 (4.40%) Financial Institution
5 4 (4.40%) Front Office
5 4 (4.40%) Wholesale Banking
6 3 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.30%) Legal
7 2 (2.20%) Advertising
7 2 (2.20%) Back Office
7 2 (2.20%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.10%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.59%) REST
1 6 (6.59%) SOAP
1 6 (6.59%) Web Services
2 3 (3.30%) LAMP
3 2 (2.20%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (1.10%) .NET
4 1 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.10%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.89%) Onboarding
2 6 (6.59%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.59%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (5.49%) Fat Client
3 5 (5.49%) Thin Client
4 4 (4.40%) CCTV
4 4 (4.40%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (3.30%) iPhone
6 2 (2.20%) Equities
6 2 (2.20%) Reinsurance
6 2 (2.20%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.10%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.10%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.10%) TWAP
7 1 (1.10%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 46 (50.55%) Windows
2 24 (26.37%) Windows 10
3 12 (13.19%) Windows Server
4 10 (10.99%) Mac OS
5 7 (7.69%) Linux
6 4 (4.40%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (4.40%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (3.30%) CentOS
7 3 (3.30%) Rocky
7 3 (3.30%) Ubuntu
7 3 (3.30%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (23.08%) ITIL
3 16 (17.58%) Continuous Improvement
3 16 (17.58%) Customer Experience
4 15 (16.48%) Machine Learning
5 11 (12.09%) Line Management
6 10 (10.99%) Computer Science
6 10 (10.99%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (8.79%) CI/CD
7 8 (8.79%) Mentoring
8 7 (7.69%) API Management
8 7 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (7.69%) Migration
9 6 (6.59%) Agile
9 6 (6.59%) CRM
9 6 (6.59%) Data Migration
9 6 (6.59%) OWASP
9 6 (6.59%) Problem Management
9 6 (6.59%) Scrum
9 6 (6.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 18 (19.78%) Bash
1 18 (19.78%) Python
2 4 (4.40%) PowerShell
3 3 (3.30%) Shell Script
3 3 (3.30%) SQL
4 1 (1.10%) C#
Qualifications
1 40 (43.96%) Degree
2 6 (6.59%) A+ Certification
3 5 (5.49%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.10%) CCNA
5 1 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.10%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.10%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.10%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (1.10%) PhD
5 1 (1.10%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.10%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.59%) SLA
2 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (35.16%) Active Directory
2 11 (12.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.40%) BitLocker
3 4 (4.40%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.10%) Docker
4 1 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (14.29%) SCCM
3 7 (7.69%) Nagios
4 4 (4.40%) Ansible
4 4 (4.40%) Kubernetes
5 3 (3.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (2.20%) Grafana
7 1 (1.10%) Kibana
7 1 (1.10%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.10%) Terraform
Vendors
1 38 (41.76%) Microsoft
2 13 (14.29%) VMware
3 12 (13.19%) Apple
4 10 (10.99%) Cisco
4 10 (10.99%) HP
5 6 (6.59%) Google
6 5 (5.49%) Acronis
6 5 (5.49%) Datto
6 5 (5.49%) Fortinet
6 5 (5.49%) ServiceNow
6 5 (5.49%) Toshiba
7 4 (4.40%) Bloomberg
7 4 (4.40%) CheckPoint
7 4 (4.40%) FactSet
7 4 (4.40%) Meraki
7 4 (4.40%) Salesforce
7 4 (4.40%) Symantec
8 3 (3.30%) Citrix
8 3 (3.30%) Okta
9 2 (2.20%) ConnectWise