Support Engineer Jobs in the East of England

Support Engineer
England > East of England

The median Support Engineer salary in the East of England is £37,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 July 2025.

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

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 54 81
Rank change year-on-year -12 +27 +93
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 156 230 147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 4.27% 3.44% 3.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.54% 3.66% 4.08%
Number of salaries quoted 123 219 138
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,192 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £26,125 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £32,000 £32,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.19% - -1.54%
75th Percentile £46,250 £38,750 £37,875
90th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £40,673
England median annual salary £38,750 £32,500 £33,750
% change year-on-year +19.23% -3.70% -0.74%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 3,438 6,291 3,602
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.01% 94.02% 82.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,735 4,785 1,975
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,375 £31,833 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in the East of England

Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Support Engineer in the East of England.

Salary trend for Support Engineer in the East of England

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in the East of England over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Support Engineer in the East of England

Support Engineer
Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 2 July 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
Essex +8 40 £45,000 +50.00% 34
Hertfordshire -1 38 £42,000 +42.37% 25
Cambridgeshire +6 28 £39,000 +11.43% 34
Bedfordshire +14 22 £35,000 +7.69% 17
Suffolk -11 18 £37,500 +33.93% 7
Norfolk +8 10 £32,533 +4.95% 12
Support Engineer
England

Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 2 July 2025, 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 of England region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 94 (60.26%) Microsoft
2 77 (49.36%) Social Skills
3 73 (46.79%) Windows
4 53 (33.97%) Active Directory
5 51 (32.69%) Degree
6 50 (32.05%) Microsoft 365
7 41 (26.28%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (24.36%) Azure
9 31 (19.87%) ITIL
10 29 (18.59%) PowerShell
11 28 (17.95%) Proactive Maintenance
12 27 (17.31%) Proactive Monitoring
13 26 (16.67%) Post-Production
13 26 (16.67%) Broadcast Engineering
13 26 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
13 26 (16.67%) Procure-to-Pay
13 26 (16.67%) Coaching
13 26 (16.67%) Broadband
13 26 (16.67%) Sun
14 25 (16.03%) Windows Server
15 22 (14.10%) Customer Service
16 19 (12.18%) Microsoft Intune
17 18 (11.54%) Manufacturing
17 18 (11.54%) Microsoft Exchange
17 18 (11.54%) Driving Licence
18 17 (10.90%) SQL
19 15 (9.62%) VMware
19 15 (9.62%) Root Cause Analysis
19 15 (9.62%) Hyper-V
20 14 (8.97%) Veeam

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 18 (11.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (8.97%) SharePoint
3 7 (4.49%) IIS
4 1 (0.64%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 8 (5.13%) Chatbot
2 7 (4.49%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.28%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 50 (32.05%) Microsoft 365
2 38 (24.36%) Azure
3 8 (5.13%) Entra ID
4 7 (4.49%) Power Platform
5 6 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (3.85%) AWS
5 6 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (3.85%) Azure Storage
5 6 (3.85%) Serverless
6 2 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.28%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 26 (16.67%) Broadband
2 11 (7.05%) DNS
3 10 (6.41%) DHCP
4 9 (5.77%) LAN
4 9 (5.77%) TCP/IP
5 7 (4.49%) FTP
5 7 (4.49%) WAN
6 6 (3.85%) Firewall
6 6 (3.85%) Wireless
6 6 (3.85%) Wireless Security
7 5 (3.21%) VoIP
8 3 (1.92%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (1.28%) VPN
10 1 (0.64%) Cisco IOS
10 1 (0.64%) Internet
10 1 (0.64%) SAN
10 1 (0.64%) VLAN
10 1 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.49%) Power BI
1 7 (4.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (4.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (1.28%) LabVIEW
General
1 77 (49.36%) Social Skills
2 18 (11.54%) Manufacturing
3 7 (4.49%) Local Government
3 7 (4.49%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (3.85%) Retail
5 4 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.28%) Automotive
6 2 (1.28%) Electronics
6 2 (1.28%) Finance
6 2 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.64%) Back Office
7 1 (0.64%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.13%) .NET
2 1 (0.64%) ServiceStack
2 1 (0.64%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.54%) Driving Licence
2 8 (5.13%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (3.21%) Social Media
4 4 (2.56%) Wiki
5 2 (1.28%) FMCG
6 1 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.64%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 73 (46.79%) Windows
2 26 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
3 25 (16.03%) Windows Server
4 14 (8.97%) Windows Server 2019
5 13 (8.33%) Mac OS
6 10 (6.41%) Linux
7 9 (5.77%) Windows 10
8 7 (4.49%) VMS
9 2 (1.28%) Android
9 2 (1.28%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (26.28%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (19.87%) ITIL
3 28 (17.95%) Proactive Maintenance
4 27 (17.31%) Proactive Monitoring
5 26 (16.67%) Broadcast Engineering
5 26 (16.67%) Coaching
5 26 (16.67%) Post-Production
5 26 (16.67%) Procure-to-Pay
6 22 (14.10%) Customer Service
7 15 (9.62%) Root Cause Analysis
8 14 (8.97%) Patch Management
8 14 (8.97%) Task Automation
9 10 (6.41%) Asset Management
10 9 (5.77%) CRM
10 9 (5.77%) Project Management
11 8 (5.13%) Artificial Intelligence
11 8 (5.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (5.13%) Conversational UI
11 8 (5.13%) Problem Management
12 7 (4.49%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (18.59%) PowerShell
2 17 (10.90%) SQL
3 8 (5.13%) Bash
3 8 (5.13%) Python
3 8 (5.13%) Shell Script
4 7 (4.49%) T-SQL
5 6 (3.85%) Java
6 2 (1.28%) C#
7 1 (0.64%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 51 (32.69%) Degree
2 8 (5.13%) DBS Check
3 5 (3.21%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.92%) HNC
4 3 (1.92%) HND
5 2 (1.28%) A+ Certification
6 1 (0.64%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.64%) MCITP
6 1 (0.64%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.05%) SLA
2 6 (3.85%) PCI DSS
2 6 (3.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 53 (33.97%) Active Directory
2 15 (9.62%) Hyper-V
3 14 (8.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.64%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (12.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (8.97%) Backup Exec
3 5 (3.21%) Jamf Pro
3 5 (3.21%) SmoothWall
4 1 (0.64%) SCCM
Vendors
1 94 (60.26%) Microsoft
2 26 (16.67%) Sun
3 15 (9.62%) VMware
4 14 (8.97%) Veeam
5 10 (6.41%) Apple
6 6 (3.85%) Cisco
7 5 (3.21%) Meraki
7 5 (3.21%) Siemens
8 3 (1.92%) HP
9 2 (1.28%) Google
9 2 (1.28%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.64%) Mitel
10 1 (0.64%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.64%) Remedy
10 1 (0.64%) ServiceNow