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 26 January 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 118 93
Rank change year-on-year +72 -25 +55
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 100 43 76
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 4.02% 1.66% 2.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.27% 1.81% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 87 36 52
10th Percentile £28,400 £34,875 £27,975
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £49,500 £37,310
Median % change year-on-year -11.62% +32.67% -6.73%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,625 £43,813
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £62,000
Central London median annual salary £43,500 £48,250 £36,560
% change year-on-year -9.84% +31.97% -13.98%

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 2,342 2,382 2,914
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.25% 91.90% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,744 1,531 2,599
10th Percentile £42,250 £42,500 £39,085
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £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 26 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 26 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 26 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 58 (58.00%) Windows
2 44 (44.00%) Microsoft
3 42 (42.00%) Degree
4 39 (39.00%) Microsoft 365
5 37 (37.00%) Active Directory
5 37 (37.00%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (29.00%) Windows 10
7 28 (28.00%) ITIL
8 27 (27.00%) Azure
9 22 (22.00%) Microsoft Exchange
10 20 (20.00%) SharePoint
11 18 (18.00%) OneDrive
12 17 (17.00%) Apple
12 17 (17.00%) Windows Server
13 16 (16.00%) Bash
13 16 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (16.00%) Problem Management
13 16 (16.00%) Python
14 15 (15.00%) DNS
14 15 (15.00%) Line Management
14 15 (15.00%) Microsoft Intune
14 15 (15.00%) VMware
15 14 (14.00%) CI/CD
15 14 (14.00%) Microsoft Office
16 13 (13.00%) API Management
16 13 (13.00%) Customer Experience
16 13 (13.00%) DHCP
16 13 (13.00%) Machine Learning
16 13 (13.00%) Migration
16 13 (13.00%) VMware Infrastructure

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 22 (22.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (14.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (6.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.00%) Endur
2 1 (1.00%) EuroRunner
Cloud Services
1 39 (39.00%) Microsoft 365
2 27 (27.00%) Azure
3 18 (18.00%) OneDrive
4 7 (7.00%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (7.00%) Azure Event Grid
4 7 (7.00%) Azure Functions
4 7 (7.00%) Azure Monitor
4 7 (7.00%) Azure Storage
4 7 (7.00%) Serverless
5 6 (6.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 6 (6.00%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (6.00%) Google Workspace
5 6 (6.00%) Power Automate
5 6 (6.00%) Power Platform
5 6 (6.00%) PowerApps
6 5 (5.00%) AWS
7 3 (3.00%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.00%) Mimecast
9 1 (1.00%) GCP
9 1 (1.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 15 (15.00%) DNS
2 13 (13.00%) DHCP
3 12 (12.00%) VPN
4 10 (10.00%) TCP/IP
4 10 (10.00%) WAN
5 9 (9.00%) LAN
6 8 (8.00%) Firewall
7 6 (6.00%) WebEx
8 5 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (4.00%) Modbus
10 3 (3.00%) NetScaler
10 3 (3.00%) VoIP
11 2 (2.00%) SAN
12 1 (1.00%) Cisco Wireless
12 1 (1.00%) SD-WAN
12 1 (1.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (6.00%) Power BI
3 3 (3.00%) MySQL
4 1 (1.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (6.00%) Git
1 6 (6.00%) Visual Studio
2 4 (4.00%) JIRA
3 1 (1.00%) GitLab
3 1 (1.00%) Jenkins
General
1 49 (49.00%) Social Skills
2 33 (33.00%) Finance
3 9 (9.00%) Games
4 6 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.00%) Banking
5 5 (5.00%) Legal
6 4 (4.00%) Financial Institution
6 4 (4.00%) Front Office
6 4 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (4.00%) Wholesale Banking
7 3 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.00%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.00%) Back Office
8 2 (2.00%) Retail
9 1 (1.00%) Advertising
9 1 (1.00%) Law
9 1 (1.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.00%) .NET
1 7 (7.00%) WPF
2 6 (6.00%) REST
2 6 (6.00%) SOAP
2 6 (6.00%) Web Services
3 3 (3.00%) LAMP
4 2 (2.00%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 9 (9.00%) Fat Client
2 9 (9.00%) Thin Client
3 6 (6.00%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.00%) CCTV
4 4 (4.00%) Reinsurance
5 3 (3.00%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.00%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (3.00%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.00%) Equities
6 2 (2.00%) PKI
7 1 (1.00%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.00%) TWAP
7 1 (1.00%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 58 (58.00%) Windows
2 29 (29.00%) Windows 10
3 17 (17.00%) Windows Server
4 9 (9.00%) Linux
5 8 (8.00%) Mac OS
6 4 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (3.00%) CentOS
7 3 (3.00%) Rocky
7 3 (3.00%) Ubuntu
7 3 (3.00%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (37.00%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (28.00%) ITIL
3 16 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 16 (16.00%) Problem Management
4 15 (15.00%) Line Management
5 14 (14.00%) CI/CD
6 13 (13.00%) API Management
6 13 (13.00%) Customer Experience
6 13 (13.00%) Machine Learning
6 13 (13.00%) Migration
7 11 (11.00%) Incident Management
8 10 (10.00%) Computer Science
9 9 (9.00%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (8.00%) Customer Service
10 8 (8.00%) DevOps
10 8 (8.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 7 (7.00%) Data Pipeline
11 7 (7.00%) Observability
11 7 (7.00%) Runbook
11 7 (7.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (16.00%) Bash
1 16 (16.00%) Python
2 11 (11.00%) SQL
3 7 (7.00%) C#
4 5 (5.00%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (42.00%) Degree
2 6 (6.00%) A+ Certification
3 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (2.00%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.00%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (2.00%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.00%) CCNA
6 1 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.00%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.00%) SLA
2 2 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (37.00%) Active Directory
2 13 (13.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.00%) BitLocker
3 4 (4.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.00%) vSphere
5 1 (1.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (15.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (12.00%) SCCM
3 8 (8.00%) Grafana
4 7 (7.00%) Kibana
4 7 (7.00%) Nagios
5 4 (4.00%) Ansible
6 3 (3.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (2.00%) WSUS
8 1 (1.00%) Kubernetes
8 1 (1.00%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 44 (44.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (17.00%) Apple
3 15 (15.00%) VMware
4 10 (10.00%) HP
5 9 (9.00%) Acronis
5 9 (9.00%) Cisco
5 9 (9.00%) Datto
6 6 (6.00%) Google
7 5 (5.00%) Fortinet
7 5 (5.00%) Okta
7 5 (5.00%) ServiceNow
7 5 (5.00%) Toshiba
8 4 (4.00%) Bloomberg
8 4 (4.00%) CheckPoint
8 4 (4.00%) FactSet
8 4 (4.00%) Meraki
8 4 (4.00%) Salesforce
8 4 (4.00%) Symantec
9 3 (3.00%) Citrix
10 2 (2.00%) McAfee