IT Support Engineer Jobs in the East Midlands

IT Support Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median IT Support Engineer salary in the East Midlands is £28,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 116 139
Rank change year-on-year -24 +23 +17
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Support Engineer 22 71 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.80% 1.58% 1.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 1.67% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 17 67 25
10th Percentile £24,461 £23,300 £25,375
25th Percentile £25,000 £24,938 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,000 £30,000 £27,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +9.09% +5.77%
75th Percentile £31,000 £34,000 £28,750
90th Percentile £36,200 £43,750 £38,250
England median annual salary £32,500 £30,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +3.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 2,616 4,254 2,479
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 94.51% 88.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,046 3,069 1,324
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £58,750 £56,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +5.66% -12.83% +1.33%

IT Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings that featured IT Support Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for IT Support Engineer in the East Midlands

IT Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Support Engineer in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for IT Support Engineer in the East Midlands

IT Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Support Engineer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IT Support Engineer in the East Midlands

IT Support Engineer
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Support Engineer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 May 2025. 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
Derbyshire +4 8 £30,000 +20.00% 6
Leicestershire +32 5 £28,500 +14.00% 5
Nottinghamshire - 4 £27,500 - 7
Lincolnshire -9 3 £24,763 -29.25% 6
Northamptonshire -36 2 £27,500 -9.84% 1
IT Support Engineer
England

IT Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 20 May 2025, IT Support Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the East Midlands region featuring IT Support Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (72.73%) Windows
2 15 (68.18%) Microsoft
2 15 (68.18%) Driving Licence
3 13 (59.09%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
5 9 (40.91%) Active Directory
6 7 (31.82%) CCNA
6 7 (31.82%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (27.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (27.27%) Cisco
7 6 (27.27%) CCNP
7 6 (27.27%) Linux
7 6 (27.27%) MCSE
7 6 (27.27%) ITIL
7 6 (27.27%) MCP
7 6 (27.27%) Mentoring
8 5 (22.73%) IT Asset Management
8 5 (22.73%) Network Management
8 5 (22.73%) Windows Server
8 5 (22.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (22.73%) Customer Service
8 5 (22.73%) WLAN
8 5 (22.73%) DNS
8 5 (22.73%) Internet
8 5 (22.73%) Azure
8 5 (22.73%) Network Security
8 5 (22.73%) Asset Management
8 5 (22.73%) LPIC
8 5 (22.73%) Degree

IT Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (59.09%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (22.73%) Azure
3 1 (4.55%) AWS
3 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.55%) PaaS
3 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (22.73%) DNS
1 5 (22.73%) Internet
1 5 (22.73%) Network Security
1 5 (22.73%) WLAN
2 4 (18.18%) DHCP
3 3 (13.64%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (9.09%) TCP/IP
5 1 (4.55%) Firewall
5 1 (4.55%) iSCSI
5 1 (4.55%) SAN
5 1 (4.55%) VLAN
General
1 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.55%) Billing
3 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 15 (68.18%) Driving Licence
2 3 (13.64%) EPoS
2 3 (13.64%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 16 (72.73%) Windows
2 6 (27.27%) Linux
3 5 (22.73%) Windows Server
4 4 (18.18%) Windows 10
5 3 (13.64%) Windows 7
6 1 (4.55%) Android
6 1 (4.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (27.27%) ITIL
2 6 (27.27%) Mentoring
3 5 (22.73%) Asset Management
3 5 (22.73%) Computer Science
3 5 (22.73%) Customer Service
3 5 (22.73%) IT Asset Management
3 5 (22.73%) Network Management
4 3 (13.64%) Customer Experience
4 3 (13.64%) Decision-Making
4 3 (13.64%) Mathematics
5 2 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (9.09%) Requirements Workshops
6 1 (4.55%) Antivirus Management
6 1 (4.55%) Coaching
6 1 (4.55%) ITSM
6 1 (4.55%) Migration
6 1 (4.55%) Remote Monitoring and Management
6 1 (4.55%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) CCNA
1 7 (31.82%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (27.27%) CCNP
2 6 (27.27%) MCP
2 6 (27.27%) MCSE
2 6 (27.27%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (22.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (22.73%) Degree
3 5 (22.73%) LPIC
4 3 (13.64%) DBS Check
5 1 (4.55%) A+ Certification
5 1 (4.55%) MCSA
5 1 (4.55%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 9 (40.91%) Active Directory
2 3 (13.64%) Hyper-V
3 2 (9.09%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) SCCM
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.55%) Autotask
3 1 (4.55%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 15 (68.18%) Microsoft
2 6 (27.27%) Cisco
3 3 (13.64%) HP
4 2 (9.09%) Apple
4 2 (9.09%) VMware
5 1 (4.55%) Aruba
5 1 (4.55%) Datto