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 £43,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 January 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 121 101
Rank change year-on-year +70 -20 +54
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 97 42 72
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 4.00% 1.60% 2.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.25% 1.74% 2.58%
Number of salaries quoted 84 35 50
10th Percentile £28,325 £34,850 £29,775
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £50,000 £37,310
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +34.01% -6.73%
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £43,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £84,000 £63,250
Central London median annual salary £43,500 £49,000 £37,120
% change year-on-year -11.22% +32.00% -12.66%

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 2,285 2,415 2,790
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.23% 91.96% 95.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,701 1,557 2,488
10th Percentile £41,750 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -0.68% -2.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £108,750 £115,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%

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 21 January 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 21 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
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 21 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 City of London region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 55 (56.70%) Windows
2 42 (43.30%) Microsoft
3 41 (42.27%) Degree
4 37 (38.14%) Microsoft 365
4 37 (38.14%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (36.08%) Active Directory
6 27 (27.84%) ITIL
6 27 (27.84%) Windows 10
7 25 (25.77%) Azure
8 21 (21.65%) Microsoft Exchange
9 19 (19.59%) SharePoint
10 17 (17.53%) OneDrive
11 16 (16.49%) Apple
11 16 (16.49%) Bash
11 16 (16.49%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (16.49%) Python
11 16 (16.49%) Windows Server
12 15 (15.46%) VMware
13 14 (14.43%) DNS
13 14 (14.43%) Line Management
13 14 (14.43%) Microsoft Intune
13 14 (14.43%) Problem Management
14 13 (13.40%) CI/CD
14 13 (13.40%) Customer Experience
14 13 (13.40%) Machine Learning
14 13 (13.40%) Microsoft Office
14 13 (13.40%) VMware Infrastructure
15 12 (12.37%) API Management
15 12 (12.37%) DHCP
15 12 (12.37%) Migration

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 21 (21.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (19.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (13.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (6.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.03%) Endur
2 1 (1.03%) EuroRunner
Cloud Services
1 37 (38.14%) Microsoft 365
2 25 (25.77%) Azure
3 17 (17.53%) OneDrive
4 6 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (6.19%) Azure Event Grid
4 6 (6.19%) Azure Functions
4 6 (6.19%) Azure Logic Apps
4 6 (6.19%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (6.19%) Azure Storage
4 6 (6.19%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (6.19%) Google Workspace
4 6 (6.19%) Power Automate
4 6 (6.19%) Power Platform
4 6 (6.19%) PowerApps
4 6 (6.19%) Serverless
5 5 (5.15%) AWS
6 3 (3.09%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.03%) GCP
7 1 (1.03%) GitHub
7 1 (1.03%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 14 (14.43%) DNS
2 12 (12.37%) DHCP
3 11 (11.34%) VPN
4 10 (10.31%) TCP/IP
4 10 (10.31%) WAN
5 9 (9.28%) LAN
6 8 (8.25%) Firewall
7 5 (5.15%) Modbus
7 5 (5.15%) WebEx
8 4 (4.12%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (3.09%) NetScaler
9 3 (3.09%) VoIP
10 2 (2.06%) SAN
11 1 (1.03%) Cisco Wireless
11 1 (1.03%) SD-WAN
11 1 (1.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.19%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (6.19%) Power BI
2 3 (3.09%) MySQL
3 1 (1.03%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (6.19%) Git
1 6 (6.19%) Visual Studio
2 4 (4.12%) JIRA
3 1 (1.03%) GitLab
3 1 (1.03%) Jenkins
General
1 47 (48.45%) Social Skills
2 31 (31.96%) Finance
3 8 (8.25%) Games
4 6 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.15%) Banking
5 5 (5.15%) Legal
5 5 (5.15%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (4.12%) Financial Institution
6 4 (4.12%) Front Office
6 4 (4.12%) Wholesale Banking
7 3 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.09%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.06%) Back Office
9 1 (1.03%) Advertising
9 1 (1.03%) Law
9 1 (1.03%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.03%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.19%) .NET
1 6 (6.19%) REST
1 6 (6.19%) SOAP
1 6 (6.19%) Web Services
1 6 (6.19%) WPF
2 3 (3.09%) LAMP
3 2 (2.06%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (1.03%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.31%) Onboarding
2 8 (8.25%) Fat Client
2 8 (8.25%) Thin Client
3 6 (6.19%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.12%) CCTV
4 4 (4.12%) Reinsurance
5 3 (3.09%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.09%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (3.09%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.06%) Equities
6 2 (2.06%) PKI
7 1 (1.03%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.03%) TWAP
7 1 (1.03%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 55 (56.70%) Windows
2 27 (27.84%) Windows 10
3 16 (16.49%) Windows Server
4 9 (9.28%) Linux
5 8 (8.25%) Mac OS
6 4 (4.12%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (4.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (3.09%) CentOS
7 3 (3.09%) Rocky
7 3 (3.09%) Ubuntu
7 3 (3.09%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (38.14%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (27.84%) ITIL
3 16 (16.49%) Continuous Improvement
4 14 (14.43%) Line Management
4 14 (14.43%) Problem Management
5 13 (13.40%) CI/CD
5 13 (13.40%) Customer Experience
5 13 (13.40%) Machine Learning
6 12 (12.37%) API Management
6 12 (12.37%) Migration
7 10 (10.31%) Computer Science
7 10 (10.31%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (10.31%) Incident Management
8 8 (8.25%) Customer Service
8 8 (8.25%) Mentoring
8 8 (8.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (7.22%) DevOps
9 7 (7.22%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (6.19%) CRM
10 6 (6.19%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 16 (16.49%) Bash
1 16 (16.49%) Python
2 10 (10.31%) SQL
3 6 (6.19%) C#
4 5 (5.15%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (42.27%) Degree
2 6 (6.19%) A+ Certification
3 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.06%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (2.06%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.06%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (2.06%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.03%) CCNA
6 1 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.03%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.03%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.28%) SLA
2 2 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.06%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (36.08%) Active Directory
2 13 (13.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.12%) BitLocker
3 4 (4.12%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.06%) vSphere
5 1 (1.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (14.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (12.37%) SCCM
3 7 (7.22%) Grafana
3 7 (7.22%) Nagios
4 6 (6.19%) Kibana
5 4 (4.12%) Ansible
6 3 (3.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (2.06%) WSUS
8 1 (1.03%) Kubernetes
8 1 (1.03%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 42 (43.30%) Microsoft
2 16 (16.49%) Apple
3 15 (15.46%) VMware
4 10 (10.31%) HP
5 9 (9.28%) Cisco
6 8 (8.25%) Acronis
6 8 (8.25%) Datto
7 6 (6.19%) Google
8 5 (5.15%) Fortinet
8 5 (5.15%) Okta
8 5 (5.15%) ServiceNow
8 5 (5.15%) Toshiba
9 4 (4.12%) Bloomberg
9 4 (4.12%) CheckPoint
9 4 (4.12%) FactSet
9 4 (4.12%) Meraki
9 4 (4.12%) Salesforce
9 4 (4.12%) Symantec
10 3 (3.09%) Citrix
11 2 (2.06%) McAfee