Development Support Engineer Jobs in England

Development Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Development Support Engineer salary in England is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 August 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 699 756 789
Rank change year-on-year +57 +33 +373
Permanent jobs requiring a Development Support Engineer 3 1 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.006% 0.001% 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.006% 0.001% 0.005%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile - - £46,001
25th Percentile - £38,750 £46,152
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £42,500 £48,370
Median % change year-on-year +52.94% -12.13% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £46,250 £50,652
90th Percentile £81,000 - £50,843
UK median annual salary £65,000 £42,500 £48,370
% change year-on-year +52.94% -12.13% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 47,876 70,761 59,890
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.24% 95.00% 91.77%
Number of salaries quoted 26,520 46,950 43,375
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,778 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Development Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Development Support Engineer in England

Development Support Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Development Support Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Development Support Engineer in England

Development Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Development Support Engineer in England over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Development Support Engineer in England

Development Support Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Development Support Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
London - 2 £72,500 - 2
Midlands +53 1 £65,000 +52.94% 1
West Midlands +40 1 £65,000 +52.94% 1
Development Support Engineer
UK

Development Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 15 August 2025, Development 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 England region featuring Development Support Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) SOAP
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) BPMN
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth
2 1 (33.33%) OWASP
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) UX Design
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft

Development Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 1 (33.33%) Appian
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
1 1 (33.33%) Power Automate
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (33.33%) Law
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) SOAP
2 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) SAML
2 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) BPMN
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) OWASP
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) UX Design
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Go
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) CA Agile Central
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat