Support Engineer Job Trends in the City of London

Support Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Support Engineer salary in the City of London is £37,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 May 2026.

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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 99 85
Rank change year-on-year +25 -14 +46
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 84 42 98
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 2.13% 2.03% 3.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.24% 2.19% 3.21%
Number of salaries quoted 78 42 60
10th Percentile £28,425 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £33,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £42,250 £40,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.24% +3.68% +12.03%
75th Percentile £52,500 £56,563 £51,250
90th Percentile £77,625 £68,625 £62,500
Central London median annual salary £37,500 £42,000 £40,875
% change year-on-year -10.71% +2.75% +14.34%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 3,754 1,920 3,055
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.40% 92.62% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,724 1,463 2,565
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £73,441
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -1.28% -2.08%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +10.34% - -3.00%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of 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 the City of London.

Support Engineer job vacancy trend in the City of London

Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Salary distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies in the City of London

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Support Engineer in the City of London

Support Engineer
Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
London Bridge - 2 £43,500 -
Support Engineer
Central London

Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 4 May 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 City of London region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 64 (76.19%) Windows
2 58 (69.05%) Microsoft 365
3 57 (67.86%) Microsoft
4 33 (39.29%) Active Directory
5 28 (33.33%) Azure
5 28 (33.33%) ITIL
6 23 (27.38%) Windows 10
7 22 (26.19%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (26.19%) Windows Server
8 20 (23.81%) Problem Management
9 18 (21.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 17 (20.24%) Degree
10 17 (20.24%) SLA
11 16 (19.05%) Customer Service
12 15 (17.86%) DNS
12 15 (17.86%) Microsoft Office
13 14 (16.67%) PowerShell
14 13 (15.48%) A+ Certification
14 13 (15.48%) DHCP
14 13 (15.48%) Microsoft Intune
15 12 (14.29%) Apple
16 11 (13.10%) Change Management
16 11 (13.10%) Computer Science
16 11 (13.10%) Hyper-V
16 11 (13.10%) Microsoft Certification
16 11 (13.10%) SharePoint
16 11 (13.10%) SQL
16 11 (13.10%) VMware
16 11 (13.10%) VMware Infrastructure
16 11 (13.10%) VPN

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 18 (21.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (13.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (17.86%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 58 (69.05%) Microsoft 365
2 28 (33.33%) Azure
3 10 (11.90%) Entra ID
4 9 (10.71%) SaaS
5 8 (9.52%) Azure Storage
5 8 (9.52%) OneDrive
6 7 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (8.33%) Azure Event Grid
6 7 (8.33%) Azure Functions
6 7 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
6 7 (8.33%) Serverless
7 5 (5.95%) Google Workspace
8 3 (3.57%) AWS
8 3 (3.57%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 15 (17.86%) DNS
2 13 (15.48%) DHCP
3 11 (13.10%) VPN
4 10 (11.90%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (8.33%) Firewall
6 5 (5.95%) ADSL
6 5 (5.95%) TCP/IP
6 5 (5.95%) WAN
7 4 (4.76%) LAN
8 3 (3.57%) WebEx
9 2 (2.38%) SAN
9 2 (2.38%) VLAN
9 2 (2.38%) VoIP
10 1 (1.19%) Cisco Wireless
10 1 (1.19%) NetScaler
10 1 (1.19%) SD-WAN
10 1 (1.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (2.38%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.19%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (4.76%) JIRA
2 2 (2.38%) Postman
General
1 34 (40.48%) Social Skills
2 29 (34.52%) Finance
3 9 (10.71%) Legal
4 8 (9.52%) Games
4 8 (9.52%) Law
5 4 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.76%) Financial Institution
5 4 (4.76%) Retail
6 2 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.38%) Front Office
6 2 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.38%) Marketing
6 2 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.38%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.19%) Advertising
7 1 (1.19%) Banking
7 1 (1.19%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.33%) .NET
1 7 (8.33%) WPF
2 1 (1.19%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.52%) Fat Client
1 8 (9.52%) Onboarding
1 8 (9.52%) Thin Client
2 5 (5.95%) Reinsurance
3 2 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.38%) Derivative
3 2 (2.38%) Equities
3 2 (2.38%) Fixed Income
3 2 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.38%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (2.38%) PKI
3 2 (2.38%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (2.38%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.19%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 64 (76.19%) Windows
2 23 (27.38%) Windows 10
3 22 (26.19%) Windows Server
4 10 (11.90%) Linux
5 7 (8.33%) Mac OS
6 5 (5.95%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (2.38%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.19%) Android
9 1 (1.19%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.19%) CentOS
9 1 (1.19%) Mac OS X
9 1 (1.19%) Rocky
9 1 (1.19%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.19%) VMS
9 1 (1.19%) Windows 7
9 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (33.33%) ITIL
2 22 (26.19%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (23.81%) Problem Management
4 16 (19.05%) Customer Service
5 11 (13.10%) Change Management
5 11 (13.10%) Computer Science
6 10 (11.90%) ITSM
7 8 (9.52%) Line Management
8 7 (8.33%) Analytics
8 7 (8.33%) CI/CD
8 7 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (8.33%) DevOps
8 7 (8.33%) Incident Management
8 7 (8.33%) Log Analytics
8 7 (8.33%) Microservices
8 7 (8.33%) Migration
8 7 (8.33%) Observability
8 7 (8.33%) Runbook
8 7 (8.33%) Storage Management
8 7 (8.33%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 14 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 11 (13.10%) SQL
3 7 (8.33%) C#
4 4 (4.76%) Bash
4 4 (4.76%) Python
5 2 (2.38%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.38%) PHP
6 1 (1.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (20.24%) Degree
2 13 (15.48%) A+ Certification
3 11 (13.10%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.38%) CCNA
4 2 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.38%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.38%) DBS Check
4 2 (2.38%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (2.38%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.19%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.19%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (20.24%) SLA
2 2 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (39.29%) Active Directory
2 11 (13.10%) Hyper-V
2 11 (13.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.38%) vSphere
4 1 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (15.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (8.33%) Grafana
2 7 (8.33%) Kibana
3 6 (7.14%) SCCM
4 2 (2.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (2.38%) WSUS
5 1 (1.19%) Ansible
5 1 (1.19%) Nagios
Vendors
1 57 (67.86%) Microsoft
2 12 (14.29%) Apple
3 11 (13.10%) VMware
4 8 (9.52%) Acronis
4 8 (9.52%) Datto
5 6 (7.14%) Bloomberg
6 5 (5.95%) HP
6 5 (5.95%) Okta
7 4 (4.76%) FactSet
7 4 (4.76%) Google
7 4 (4.76%) Salesforce
7 4 (4.76%) ServiceNow
8 3 (3.57%) ConnectWise
9 2 (2.38%) BT
9 2 (2.38%) Cisco
9 2 (2.38%) McAfee
9 2 (2.38%) Meraki
9 2 (2.38%) Toshiba
10 1 (1.19%) Aruba
10 1 (1.19%) Fortinet