Support Engineer Job Trends in the East Midlands

Support Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Support Engineer salary in the East Midlands is £32,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 July 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 49 51
Rank change year-on-year +6 +2 +22
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 161 107 200
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 3.22% 5.09% 3.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.37% 5.41% 4.05%
Number of salaries quoted 120 92 166
10th Percentile £25,000 £24,461 £23,750
25th Percentile £26,750 £29,000 £26,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £37,500 £30,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +22.95% +10.91%
75th Percentile £43,750 £46,875 £37,125
90th Percentile £45,000 £58,000 £45,625
England median annual salary £35,000 £37,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -3.70%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 4,778 1,977 4,936
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.45% 94.05% 94.09%
Number of salaries quoted 3,032 1,088 3,482
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £44,362
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -4.20% -14.69%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,250 £56,238
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Support Engineer job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Salary distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies in the East Midlands

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Support Engineer in the East Midlands

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 Support Engineer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
Derbyshire +31 47 £26,000 -8.77% 2
Leicestershire -9 45 £37,500 -6.25% 1
Nottinghamshire -7 31 £35,000 -9.09% 4
Lincolnshire -4 20 £27,500 +11.06% 2
Northamptonshire -19 16 £37,500 -6.25% 8
Support Engineer
England

Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 1 July 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 East Midlands region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 44 (27.33%) Windows
2 40 (24.84%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (23.60%) Microsoft
4 33 (20.50%) Active Directory
4 33 (20.50%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (13.66%) Azure
6 21 (13.04%) Customer Service
7 20 (12.42%) DNS
7 20 (12.42%) SQL
8 19 (11.80%) Windows Server
9 18 (11.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (10.56%) DBS Check
10 17 (10.56%) Root Cause Analysis
11 15 (9.32%) Wireless
12 14 (8.70%) Entra ID
12 14 (8.70%) Incident Management
13 13 (8.07%) DHCP
13 13 (8.07%) ITSM
14 12 (7.45%) Linux
15 11 (6.83%) Time Management
16 10 (6.21%) Agile
16 10 (6.21%) PowerShell
16 10 (6.21%) Salesforce
16 10 (6.21%) SLA
16 10 (6.21%) VPN
17 9 (5.59%) CRM
17 9 (5.59%) JIRA
17 9 (5.59%) Microsoft Intune
17 9 (5.59%) Microsoft Office
17 9 (5.59%) Service Delivery

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 8 (4.97%) Confluence
2 6 (3.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (3.11%) IIS
4 3 (1.86%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.62%) Mendix
Applications
1 9 (5.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.11%) Q-Pulse
2 2 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 33 (20.50%) Microsoft 365
2 22 (13.66%) Azure
3 14 (8.70%) Entra ID
4 6 (3.73%) Google Workspace
5 1 (0.62%) AWS
5 1 (0.62%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.62%) Mimecast
5 1 (0.62%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (12.42%) DNS
2 15 (9.32%) Wireless
3 13 (8.07%) DHCP
4 10 (6.21%) VPN
5 8 (4.97%) Firewall
6 7 (4.35%) TCP/IP
7 5 (3.11%) VoIP
8 4 (2.48%) Internet
8 4 (2.48%) MQTT
8 4 (2.48%) TETRA
9 2 (1.24%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.62%) DMZ
10 1 (0.62%) Network Security
10 1 (0.62%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.62%) SAN
10 1 (0.62%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.11%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (2.48%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (5.59%) JIRA
General
1 36 (22.36%) Social Skills
2 16 (9.94%) Manufacturing
3 10 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.59%) Law
5 5 (3.11%) Multimedia
5 5 (3.11%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (1.86%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.24%) Finance
8 1 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.62%) Military
8 1 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.62%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.62%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.15%) Driving Licence
2 9 (5.59%) CCTV
3 7 (4.35%) Robotics
4 4 (2.48%) CAN bus
4 4 (2.48%) IoT
5 3 (1.86%) FMCG
5 3 (1.86%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.86%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.86%) PKI
5 3 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.24%) Social Media
7 1 (0.62%) Clustering
7 1 (0.62%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 44 (27.33%) Windows
2 19 (11.80%) Windows Server
3 12 (7.45%) Linux
4 9 (5.59%) Windows 10
5 4 (2.48%) VMS
6 3 (1.86%) CentOS
6 3 (1.86%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.86%) SUSE
6 3 (1.86%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (24.84%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (13.04%) Customer Service
3 18 (11.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 17 (10.56%) Root Cause Analysis
5 14 (8.70%) Incident Management
6 13 (8.07%) ITSM
7 11 (6.83%) Time Management
8 10 (6.21%) Agile
9 9 (5.59%) CRM
9 9 (5.59%) Service Delivery
10 8 (4.97%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (4.35%) Mentoring
12 5 (3.11%) AI
12 5 (3.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 5 (3.11%) Proactive Maintenance
12 5 (3.11%) QMS
12 5 (3.11%) Quality Management
13 4 (2.48%) Asset Management
13 4 (2.48%) High Availability
13 4 (2.48%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (12.42%) SQL
2 10 (6.21%) PowerShell
3 5 (3.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (10.56%) DBS Check
2 7 (4.35%) HNC
2 7 (4.35%) HND
3 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.62%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.21%) SLA
2 5 (3.11%) COSHH
2 5 (3.11%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (3.11%) GMP
2 5 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.11%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.62%) GDPR
System Software
1 33 (20.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.11%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (5.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.24%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.62%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 38 (23.60%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.21%) Salesforce
3 6 (3.73%) Google
3 6 (3.73%) Siemens
4 5 (3.11%) Fortinet
4 5 (3.11%) Fujitsu
4 5 (3.11%) Virgin Media
5 4 (2.48%) Freshdesk
5 4 (2.48%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.86%) Apple
6 3 (1.86%) HP
6 3 (1.86%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.24%) Cisco
7 2 (1.24%) Meraki
8 1 (0.62%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.62%) SonicWALL
8 1 (0.62%) Veeam
8 1 (0.62%) VMware
8 1 (0.62%) Zoho