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 8 December 2025.

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

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 122 112
Rank change year-on-year +69 -10 +75
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 79 46 65
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 4.16% 1.64% 2.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.44% 1.77% 2.25%
Number of salaries quoted 66 39 60
10th Percentile £29,750 £34,050 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £32,188
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 £52,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,000 £76,000
Central London median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £37,120
% change year-on-year -11.11% +21.23% -17.51%

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 1,781 2,598 2,893
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.74% 92.69% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,391 1,735 2,603
10th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,500 £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 £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £115,000
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 8 December 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 8 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 City of London region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 38 (48.10%) Degree
2 37 (46.84%) Windows
3 34 (43.04%) Microsoft
4 31 (39.24%) Active Directory
4 31 (39.24%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (36.71%) Microsoft 365
6 22 (27.85%) Windows 10
7 19 (24.05%) ITIL
7 19 (24.05%) Microsoft Exchange
8 17 (21.52%) Bash
8 17 (21.52%) Python
9 16 (20.25%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (18.99%) Azure
10 15 (18.99%) Customer Experience
10 15 (18.99%) Machine Learning
10 15 (18.99%) OneDrive
10 15 (18.99%) SharePoint
11 13 (16.46%) Microsoft Intune
11 13 (16.46%) SCCM
12 12 (15.19%) VMware
13 11 (13.92%) Line Management
13 11 (13.92%) Microsoft Office
13 11 (13.92%) Windows Server
14 10 (12.66%) Apple
14 10 (12.66%) DHCP
14 10 (12.66%) DNS
14 10 (12.66%) VMware Infrastructure
15 9 (11.39%) Cisco
15 9 (11.39%) Cybersecurity
15 9 (11.39%) HP

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 19 (24.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (18.99%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (13.92%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (7.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.27%) Endur
2 1 (1.27%) EuroRunner
Cloud Services
1 29 (36.71%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (18.99%) Azure
2 15 (18.99%) OneDrive
3 6 (7.59%) Azure Logic Apps
3 6 (7.59%) Dynamics 365
3 6 (7.59%) Power Automate
3 6 (7.59%) Power Platform
3 6 (7.59%) PowerApps
4 4 (5.06%) AWS
4 4 (5.06%) Google Workspace
5 2 (2.53%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.27%) Datadog
6 1 (1.27%) GCP
6 1 (1.27%) GitHub
6 1 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.27%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.66%) DHCP
1 10 (12.66%) DNS
2 8 (10.13%) LAN
2 8 (10.13%) TCP/IP
2 8 (10.13%) WAN
3 7 (8.86%) VPN
4 5 (6.33%) Modbus
4 5 (6.33%) WebEx
5 4 (5.06%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (3.80%) Firewall
6 3 (3.80%) VoIP
7 2 (2.53%) NetScaler
8 1 (1.27%) Cisco IPT
8 1 (1.27%) IP Telephony
8 1 (1.27%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.59%) Power BI
2 3 (3.80%) MySQL
3 1 (1.27%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (7.59%) Git
1 6 (7.59%) Visual Studio
2 3 (3.80%) JIRA
3 1 (1.27%) GitLab
3 1 (1.27%) Jenkins
General
1 44 (55.70%) Social Skills
2 25 (31.65%) Finance
3 6 (7.59%) Games
4 5 (6.33%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (5.06%) Banking
5 4 (5.06%) Financial Institution
5 4 (5.06%) Front Office
5 4 (5.06%) Wholesale Banking
6 3 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.80%) Legal
7 2 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.53%) Back Office
8 1 (1.27%) Advertising
8 1 (1.27%) Law
8 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.59%) REST
1 6 (7.59%) SOAP
1 6 (7.59%) Web Services
2 3 (3.80%) LAMP
3 2 (2.53%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.86%) Onboarding
2 6 (7.59%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (6.33%) Fat Client
3 5 (6.33%) Thin Client
4 4 (5.06%) CCTV
5 3 (3.80%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.80%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (2.53%) Equities
6 2 (2.53%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.27%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.27%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.27%) TWAP
7 1 (1.27%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.27%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 37 (46.84%) Windows
2 22 (27.85%) Windows 10
3 11 (13.92%) Windows Server
4 6 (7.59%) Linux
5 4 (5.06%) Mac OS
6 3 (3.80%) CentOS
6 3 (3.80%) Rocky
6 3 (3.80%) Ubuntu
6 3 (3.80%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (3.80%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (3.80%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (39.24%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (24.05%) ITIL
3 16 (20.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 15 (18.99%) Customer Experience
4 15 (18.99%) Machine Learning
5 11 (13.92%) Line Management
6 9 (11.39%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (10.13%) Computer Science
7 8 (10.13%) Mentoring
8 7 (8.86%) CI/CD
8 7 (8.86%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (7.59%) Agile
9 6 (7.59%) API Management
9 6 (7.59%) CRM
9 6 (7.59%) Data Migration
9 6 (7.59%) Migration
9 6 (7.59%) OWASP
9 6 (7.59%) Scrum
9 6 (7.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 5 (6.33%) Trend Analysis
Programming Languages
1 17 (21.52%) Bash
1 17 (21.52%) Python
2 3 (3.80%) Shell Script
3 2 (2.53%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.53%) SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (48.10%) Degree
2 5 (6.33%) A+ Certification
2 5 (6.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.27%) CCNA
4 1 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.27%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.33%) SLA
2 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (39.24%) Active Directory
2 10 (12.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.06%) BitLocker
4 3 (3.80%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.27%) Docker
5 1 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (16.46%) Microsoft Intune
1 13 (16.46%) SCCM
2 7 (8.86%) Nagios
3 4 (5.06%) Ansible
4 3 (3.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.27%) Grafana
5 1 (1.27%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.27%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (43.04%) Microsoft
2 12 (15.19%) VMware
3 10 (12.66%) Apple
4 9 (11.39%) Cisco
4 9 (11.39%) HP
5 5 (6.33%) Acronis
5 5 (6.33%) Datto
5 5 (6.33%) ServiceNow
5 5 (6.33%) Toshiba
6 4 (5.06%) Bloomberg
6 4 (5.06%) FactSet
6 4 (5.06%) Fortinet
6 4 (5.06%) Google
6 4 (5.06%) Salesforce
6 4 (5.06%) Symantec
7 3 (3.80%) CheckPoint
7 3 (3.80%) Citrix
7 3 (3.80%) Meraki
7 3 (3.80%) Okta
8 1 (1.27%) Zscaler