Support Engineer Jobs in Chelmsford

Support Engineer
Essex > Chelmsford

The median Support Engineer salary in Chelmsford is £32,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 May 2025.

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

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 19 23
Rank change year-on-year +8 +4 +6
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 3 8 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chelmsford 6.00% 6.06% 4.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.82% 6.45% 5.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3 8 6
10th Percentile - £25,125 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,250 £30,000 £25,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £35,000 £26,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +34.62% -
75th Percentile £41,625 £37,500 £26,500
90th Percentile £45,150 £41,325 £27,625
Essex median annual salary £25,000 £30,000 £27,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -18.52%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Chelmsford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Chelmsford. 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 Chelmsford with a recognized job title 44 124 118
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.00% 93.94% 80.82%
Number of salaries quoted 40 109 67
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £24,400
25th Percentile £39,813 £32,500 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £47,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.68% +3.26% -14.02%
75th Percentile £65,313 £63,750 £50,143
90th Percentile £67,800 £70,000 £59,750
Essex median annual salary £41,000 £45,000 £47,000
% change year-on-year -8.89% -4.26% -1.05%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Chelmsford

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in Chelmsford

Support Engineer
Salary Trend in Chelmsford

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

Salary trend for Support Engineer in Chelmsford

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in Chelmsford

Salary distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in Chelmsford over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Support Engineer in Chelmsford

Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chelmsford

For the 6 months to 19 May 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 Chelmsford region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
1 2 (66.67%) Automotive
1 2 (66.67%) AutoCAD
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (33.33%) Veeam
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Backup Exec
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chelmsford 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 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
General
1 2 (66.67%) Automotive
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Service
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Veeam
1 1 (33.33%) VMware