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 £42,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 November 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 120 113
Rank change year-on-year +56 -7 +88
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 62 47 60
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.82% 1.70% 1.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.04% 1.82% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 54 40 56
10th Percentile £29,750 £34,975 £29,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,813 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,750 £45,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +20.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £54,688 £58,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £71,250
Central London median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £37,120
% change year-on-year -11.11% +21.23% -18.42%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 1,536 2,576 2,940
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.52% 93.13% 96.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,213 1,713 2,641
10th Percentile £36,863 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £96,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,000 £115,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.01%

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 7 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Support Engineer in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 7 November 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 City of London region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 35 (56.45%) Degree
2 29 (46.77%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (38.71%) Windows
4 22 (35.48%) Microsoft
5 21 (33.87%) Active Directory
6 16 (25.81%) Bash
6 16 (25.81%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (25.81%) Python
7 15 (24.19%) Customer Experience
7 15 (24.19%) Machine Learning
8 14 (22.58%) Azure
9 13 (20.97%) ITIL
10 12 (19.35%) Microsoft Exchange
10 12 (19.35%) Microsoft Intune
10 12 (19.35%) VMware
11 11 (17.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (17.74%) OneDrive
11 11 (17.74%) SharePoint
11 11 (17.74%) Windows 10
12 10 (16.13%) SCCM
12 10 (16.13%) VMware Infrastructure
13 9 (14.52%) Cisco
13 9 (14.52%) Cybersecurity
14 8 (12.90%) Mentoring
14 8 (12.90%) Microsoft Office
15 7 (11.29%) Apple
15 7 (11.29%) CI/CD
15 7 (11.29%) Computer Science
15 7 (11.29%) LAN
15 7 (11.29%) Line Management

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 12 (19.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (17.74%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (12.90%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (9.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.61%) Endur
2 1 (1.61%) EuroRunner
Cloud Services
1 16 (25.81%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (22.58%) Azure
3 11 (17.74%) OneDrive
4 6 (9.68%) Azure Logic Apps
4 6 (9.68%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (9.68%) Power Automate
4 6 (9.68%) Power Platform
4 6 (9.68%) PowerApps
5 3 (4.84%) AWS
6 2 (3.23%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.61%) Datadog
7 1 (1.61%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.61%) GCP
7 1 (1.61%) GitHub
7 1 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.61%) Mimecast
7 1 (1.61%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.29%) LAN
1 7 (11.29%) WAN
2 6 (9.68%) DHCP
2 6 (9.68%) DNS
2 6 (9.68%) TCP/IP
3 5 (8.06%) Modbus
3 5 (8.06%) VPN
3 5 (8.06%) WebEx
4 3 (4.84%) Firewall
4 3 (4.84%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (3.23%) NetScaler
5 2 (3.23%) VoIP
6 1 (1.61%) Cisco IPT
6 1 (1.61%) IP Telephony
6 1 (1.61%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (1.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.68%) Power BI
2 2 (3.23%) MySQL
3 1 (1.61%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (9.68%) Git
1 6 (9.68%) Visual Studio
2 2 (3.23%) JIRA
3 1 (1.61%) GitLab
3 1 (1.61%) Jenkins
General
1 35 (56.45%) Social Skills
2 18 (29.03%) Finance
3 5 (8.06%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (6.45%) Banking
4 4 (6.45%) Financial Institution
4 4 (6.45%) Front Office
4 4 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (6.45%) Wholesale Banking
5 2 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.23%) Back Office
5 2 (3.23%) Games
6 1 (1.61%) Advertising
6 1 (1.61%) Billing
6 1 (1.61%) Law
6 1 (1.61%) Legal
6 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.68%) REST
1 6 (9.68%) SOAP
1 6 (9.68%) Web Services
2 2 (3.23%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (3.23%) LAMP
3 1 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.29%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (8.06%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.45%) CCTV
4 2 (3.23%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.23%) Equities
4 2 (3.23%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.61%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.61%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.61%) iPad
5 1 (1.61%) iPhone
5 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.61%) Thin Client
5 1 (1.61%) TWAP
5 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.61%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 24 (38.71%) Windows
2 11 (17.74%) Windows 10
3 6 (9.68%) Windows Server
4 5 (8.06%) Linux
5 2 (3.23%) CentOS
5 2 (3.23%) Mac OS
5 2 (3.23%) Rocky
5 2 (3.23%) Ubuntu
5 2 (3.23%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.61%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (46.77%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (24.19%) Customer Experience
2 15 (24.19%) Machine Learning
3 13 (20.97%) ITIL
4 11 (17.74%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (14.52%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (12.90%) Mentoring
7 7 (11.29%) CI/CD
7 7 (11.29%) Computer Science
7 7 (11.29%) Line Management
8 6 (9.68%) Agile
8 6 (9.68%) API Management
8 6 (9.68%) CRM
8 6 (9.68%) Data Migration
8 6 (9.68%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (9.68%) Migration
8 6 (9.68%) OWASP
8 6 (9.68%) Scrum
9 5 (8.06%) Break/Fix
9 5 (8.06%) Inventory Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (25.81%) Bash
1 16 (25.81%) Python
2 2 (3.23%) Shell Script
2 2 (3.23%) SQL
3 1 (1.61%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 35 (56.45%) Degree
2 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.61%) A+ Certification
3 1 (1.61%) CCNA
3 1 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.61%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.61%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (33.87%) Active Directory
2 10 (16.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.45%) BitLocker
4 2 (3.23%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.61%) Docker
5 1 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (19.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (16.13%) SCCM
3 6 (9.68%) Nagios
4 3 (4.84%) Ansible
5 2 (3.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.61%) Grafana
6 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.61%) Plesk
6 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (35.48%) Microsoft
2 12 (19.35%) VMware
3 9 (14.52%) Cisco
4 7 (11.29%) Apple
5 5 (8.06%) HP
6 4 (6.45%) Fortinet
6 4 (6.45%) Symantec
7 3 (4.84%) CheckPoint
7 3 (4.84%) Citrix
7 3 (4.84%) Meraki
7 3 (4.84%) Toshiba
8 2 (3.23%) Google
8 2 (3.23%) ServiceNow
8 2 (3.23%) Zscaler
9 1 (1.61%) ConnectWise
9 1 (1.61%) Intapp
9 1 (1.61%) ION Trading
9 1 (1.61%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (1.61%) Okta
9 1 (1.61%) Trayport