Senior Support Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Support Engineer salary in England is £45,000 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 644 704 846
Rank change year-on-year +60 +142 +190
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Support Engineer 45 137 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.090% 0.16% 0.080%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.099% 0.17% 0.088%
Number of salaries quoted 40 110 60
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,825 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,875 £35,250 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £53,923
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,433 £71,875
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +5.56%

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 45,303 81,796 81,052
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.09% 94.56% 91.55%
Number of salaries quoted 24,383 60,874 51,701
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,626
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £53,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +5.66% -12.83% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Senior Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Support Engineer in England

Senior Support Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Support Engineer in England

Senior Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Support Engineer in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Support Engineer in England

Senior 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 Senior Support Engineer within the England 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
London +95 12 £52,500 +13.51% 38
North of England +33 12 £37,500 -26.83% 8
South East +75 9 £50,000 -16.67% 17
Yorkshire +63 7 £29,500 -58.20% 4
East of England +39 7 £42,000 +9.09% 9
North West -16 5 £45,000 - 3
South West +93 4 £45,000 -10.00% 5
Midlands +28 1 £37,500 -16.67% 6
East Midlands +7 1 £37,500 +7.14% 3
Senior Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Support Engineer in the job title.

1 31 (68.89%) Social Skills
2 28 (62.22%) Microsoft
3 25 (55.56%) Windows
3 25 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (48.89%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (44.44%) Degree
6 15 (33.33%) SQL
6 15 (33.33%) SharePoint
6 15 (33.33%) Azure
7 14 (31.11%) Windows 10
8 13 (28.89%) ITIL
8 13 (28.89%) Active Directory
9 12 (26.67%) VPN
10 11 (24.44%) Windows Server
10 11 (24.44%) Linux
11 10 (22.22%) SQL Server
11 10 (22.22%) DNS
11 10 (22.22%) Firewall
11 10 (22.22%) PowerShell
12 9 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
12 9 (20.00%) Power Platform
12 9 (20.00%) Power BI
12 9 (20.00%) Mentoring
13 8 (17.78%) Project Delivery
13 8 (17.78%) IIS
13 8 (17.78%) MCP
13 8 (17.78%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (17.78%) VMware
13 8 (17.78%) VMware Infrastructure
14 7 (15.56%) Computer Science

Senior 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 15 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 8 (17.78%) IIS
3 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.22%) Apache
4 1 (2.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 25 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (33.33%) Azure
3 9 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 6 (13.33%) AWS
4 6 (13.33%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (4.44%) Azure Functions
5 2 (4.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (4.44%) GCP
5 2 (4.44%) OneDrive
5 2 (4.44%) Serverless
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.22%) PaaS
6 1 (2.22%) SaaS
6 1 (2.22%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 12 (26.67%) VPN
2 10 (22.22%) DNS
2 10 (22.22%) Firewall
3 7 (15.56%) DHCP
3 7 (15.56%) FTP
4 4 (8.89%) VoIP
5 3 (6.67%) SAN
5 3 (6.67%) VLAN
6 2 (4.44%) 4G
6 2 (4.44%) LAN
6 2 (4.44%) TCP/IP
6 2 (4.44%) WAN
6 2 (4.44%) Wireless
7 1 (2.22%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (2.22%) HTTP
7 1 (2.22%) Internet
7 1 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (2.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 9 (20.00%) Power BI
3 4 (8.89%) Metabase
4 2 (4.44%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.44%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (4.44%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.22%) MySQL
5 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (15.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 6 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 31 (68.89%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (15.56%) Local Government
3 3 (6.67%) Finance
3 3 (6.67%) Legal
3 3 (6.67%) Marketing
4 2 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Driving Licence
2 4 (8.89%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (8.89%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.44%) CCTV
3 2 (4.44%) Educational Technology
3 2 (4.44%) Fibre Optics
3 2 (4.44%) Satnav
4 1 (2.22%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.22%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 25 (55.56%) Windows
2 14 (31.11%) Windows 10
3 11 (24.44%) Linux
3 11 (24.44%) Windows Server
4 4 (8.89%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (6.67%) Android
5 3 (6.67%) Mac OS
6 2 (4.44%) Unix
7 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (48.89%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (28.89%) ITIL
3 9 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 8 (17.78%) Project Delivery
5 7 (15.56%) Computer Science
5 7 (15.56%) High Availability
6 5 (11.11%) Project Management
7 4 (8.89%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (8.89%) Data Privacy
7 4 (8.89%) DevOps
8 3 (6.67%) Asset Management
8 3 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (6.67%) Mobile Device Management
8 3 (6.67%) Remote Monitoring and Management
8 3 (6.67%) Service Management
8 3 (6.67%) Task Automation
9 2 (4.44%) Agile
9 2 (4.44%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 15 (33.33%) SQL
2 10 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 7 (15.56%) T-SQL
4 5 (11.11%) Python
5 4 (8.89%) C++
6 1 (2.22%) Bash
6 1 (2.22%) Go
6 1 (2.22%) Java
6 1 (2.22%) Perl
Qualifications
1 20 (44.44%) Degree
2 8 (17.78%) MCP
2 8 (17.78%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (11.11%) A+ Certification
4 4 (8.89%) Dell Certification
4 4 (8.89%) MCSA
5 3 (6.67%) AWS Certification
5 3 (6.67%) Azure Certification
5 3 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (6.67%) DBS Check
6 2 (4.44%) HND
7 1 (2.22%) CCNA
7 1 (2.22%) CCNP
7 1 (2.22%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) SLA
2 2 (4.44%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.44%) GDPR
3 1 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 13 (28.89%) Active Directory
2 8 (17.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (13.33%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.22%) Docker
4 1 (2.22%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (2.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (4.44%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.22%) Plesk
Vendors
1 28 (62.22%) Microsoft
2 8 (17.78%) VMware
3 5 (11.11%) Cisco
4 4 (8.89%) Dell
4 4 (8.89%) Meraki
5 3 (6.67%) Apple
5 3 (6.67%) Salesforce
5 3 (6.67%) SonicWALL
6 2 (4.44%) TOWER Software
6 2 (4.44%) Veeam
7 1 (2.22%) Aruba
7 1 (2.22%) Bloomberg
7 1 (2.22%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.22%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.22%) Google
7 1 (2.22%) HP
7 1 (2.22%) Juniper
7 1 (2.22%) Rackspace
7 1 (2.22%) Ruckus Wireless
7 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow