Junior Support Engineer Job Trends in England

Junior Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Junior Support Engineer salary in England is £28,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 591 646 639
Rank change year-on-year +55 -7 +266
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior Support Engineer 26 33 41
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.049% 0.069% 0.083%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.054% 0.074% 0.087%
Number of salaries quoted 22 31 37
10th Percentile £25,400 - £21,050
25th Percentile £25,675 £21,250 £21,906
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,500 £22,500 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -25.00% +16.10%
75th Percentile £30,250 £30,125 £35,000
90th Percentile £34,500 £33,750 £36,750
UK median annual salary £28,500 £22,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year +26.67% -25.00% +16.10%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 48,032 44,628 46,871
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.90% 92.71% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 30,380 23,318 36,700
10th Percentile £28,750 £33,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,670
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

Junior Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Junior Support Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Junior Support Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Junior Support Engineer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Junior Support Engineer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Junior Support Engineer job vacancies in England

Junior Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Junior Support Engineer in England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Junior Support Engineer in England

Junior 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 Junior Support Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 14 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 +57 9 £30,000 -6.25%
Yorkshire - 5 £33,000 -
South West - 5 £25,400 -
North of England - 5 £33,000 -
South East +30 3 £27,000 -12.90%
West Midlands - 3 - -
Midlands - 3 - -
East of England +8 1 - -
Junior Support Engineer
UK

Junior Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, Junior 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 England region featuring Junior Support Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (84.62%) Microsoft
2 21 (80.77%) Active Directory
3 16 (61.54%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (46.15%) Degree
4 12 (46.15%) Firewall
4 12 (46.15%) Windows
5 11 (42.31%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (38.46%) Azure
7 8 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (30.77%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (30.77%) SharePoint
8 7 (26.92%) Apple
8 7 (26.92%) DNS
8 7 (26.92%) Time Management
8 7 (26.92%) VPN
9 6 (23.08%) Google
9 6 (23.08%) Linux
9 6 (23.08%) Unified Communications
10 5 (19.23%) Customer Service
10 5 (19.23%) Entra ID
10 5 (19.23%) ITIL
10 5 (19.23%) JIRA
10 5 (19.23%) Juniper
10 5 (19.23%) SLA
10 5 (19.23%) VoIP
10 5 (19.23%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (15.38%) DHCP
11 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
11 4 (15.38%) Remote Monitoring and Management
11 4 (15.38%) TCP/IP

Junior Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (30.77%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (30.77%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 16 (61.54%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (38.46%) Azure
3 5 (19.23%) Entra ID
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (11.54%) AWS
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (11.54%) Datadog
4 3 (11.54%) GCP
4 3 (11.54%) Google Workspace
4 3 (11.54%) IaaS
4 3 (11.54%) PaaS
4 3 (11.54%) SaaS
5 1 (3.85%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 12 (46.15%) Firewall
2 7 (26.92%) DNS
2 7 (26.92%) VPN
3 6 (23.08%) Unified Communications
4 5 (19.23%) VoIP
5 4 (15.38%) DHCP
5 4 (15.38%) TCP/IP
6 1 (3.85%) LAN
6 1 (3.85%) VLAN
6 1 (3.85%) WAN
6 1 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) JIRA
General
1 14 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Legal
2 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) Driving Licence
2 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.69%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 12 (46.15%) Windows
2 6 (23.08%) Linux
3 5 (19.23%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (11.54%) Android
4 3 (11.54%) Mac OS
5 1 (3.85%) Apple iOS
5 1 (3.85%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (26.92%) Time Management
4 5 (19.23%) Customer Service
4 5 (19.23%) ITIL
5 4 (15.38%) Remote Monitoring and Management
6 3 (11.54%) Asset Management
6 3 (11.54%) Customer Experience
6 3 (11.54%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (11.54%) Incident Management
7 2 (7.69%) AI
7 2 (7.69%) Computer Science
7 2 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (7.69%) User Experience
8 1 (3.85%) Logistics
8 1 (3.85%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.69%) Bash
1 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
1 2 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (46.15%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.85%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) SLA
2 2 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (7.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (80.77%) Active Directory
2 3 (11.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 22 (84.62%) Microsoft
2 7 (26.92%) Apple
3 6 (23.08%) Google
4 5 (19.23%) Juniper
5 3 (11.54%) ServiceNow