Support Engineer Jobs in England

Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Support Engineer salary in England is £37,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 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
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 91 135
Rank change year-on-year +8 +44 +136
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 1,718 2,434 1,973
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.27% 2.70% 2.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.63% 2.86% 2.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,205 2,083 1,624
10th Percentile £26,750 £24,240 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,000 £27,000 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £32,500 £33,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -2.99% -1.47%
75th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
90th Percentile £58,000 £50,000 £51,775
UK median annual salary £37,500 £32,500 £33,745
% change year-on-year +15.38% -3.69% -0.75%

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 47,373 85,234 69,473
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.28% 94.65% 91.58%
Number of salaries quoted 26,433 61,352 48,383
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -11.67% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in England

Support Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Support Engineer in England

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in England over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Support Engineer in England

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 Support Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
South East -1 394 £40,000 +14.29% 201
North of England -12 346 £37,500 +25.00% 133
London +49 308 £40,000 - 198
Midlands +5 261 £37,500 +22.95% 117
North West +18 230 £39,500 +38.60% 66
East of England -7 170 £37,500 +15.38% 81
South West +2 152 £32,000 +0.79% 83
West Midlands +5 145 £37,500 +25.00% 63
East Midlands -4 116 £37,500 +19.05% 54
Yorkshire -28 88 £30,500 -0.81% 52
North East +1 28 £35,000 +7.69% 20
Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 England region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 809 (47.09%) Microsoft
2 806 (46.92%) Social Skills
3 798 (46.45%) Windows
4 641 (37.31%) Active Directory
5 503 (29.28%) Degree
6 445 (25.90%) Microsoft 365
7 414 (24.10%) Problem-Solving
8 385 (22.41%) Azure
9 326 (18.98%) Customer Service
10 275 (16.01%) Windows Server
11 257 (14.96%) Proactive Monitoring
12 246 (14.32%) Firewall
13 229 (13.33%) Windows Server 2012
14 227 (13.21%) Coaching
15 223 (12.98%) Proactive Maintenance
16 217 (12.63%) Sun
17 215 (12.51%) Broadband
17 215 (12.51%) Procure-to-Pay
17 215 (12.51%) Broadcast Engineering
17 215 (12.51%) Post-Production
18 181 (10.54%) Microsoft Exchange
19 168 (9.78%) VMware
20 167 (9.72%) PowerShell
21 165 (9.60%) Driving Licence
22 157 (9.14%) Microsoft Intune
23 155 (9.02%) Security Cleared
24 153 (8.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
25 151 (8.79%) VMware Infrastructure
26 150 (8.73%) DNS
27 149 (8.67%) ITIL

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
1 181 (10.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 143 (8.32%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.69%) Confluence
4 21 (1.22%) IIS
5 7 (0.41%) IBM Domino
6 6 (0.35%) Skype for Business
7 5 (0.29%) Kinematics
8 4 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2010
8 4 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
8 4 (0.23%) Office Communications Server
9 3 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2007
9 3 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
9 3 (0.17%) WordPress
10 1 (0.058%) CMS
10 1 (0.058%) SharePoint 2010
10 1 (0.058%) Umbraco
Applications
1 126 (7.33%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (1.34%) Chatbot
4 21 (1.22%) AutoCAD
5 11 (0.64%) SOLIDWORKS
6 6 (0.35%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.29%) Autodesk Inventor
7 5 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.058%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.058%) Notion
9 1 (0.058%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
1 5 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.058%) Eikon
4 1 (0.058%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 445 (25.90%) Microsoft 365
2 385 (22.41%) Azure
3 131 (7.63%) AWS
4 118 (6.87%) Entra ID
5 66 (3.84%) SaaS
6 43 (2.50%) OneDrive
7 28 (1.63%) GCP
7 28 (1.63%) Power Platform
8 22 (1.28%) Serverless
9 20 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
9 20 (1.16%) Amazon S3
10 18 (1.05%) IaaS
10 18 (1.05%) Mimecast
11 15 (0.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (0.81%) Amazon ELB
12 14 (0.81%) Amazon Glacier
12 14 (0.81%) AWS KMS
12 14 (0.81%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (0.81%) Google Workspace
12 14 (0.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 246 (14.32%) Firewall
2 215 (12.51%) Broadband
3 150 (8.73%) DNS
4 140 (8.15%) WAN
5 135 (7.86%) LAN
6 115 (6.69%) DHCP
7 92 (5.36%) VPN
8 87 (5.06%) Wi-Fi
9 70 (4.07%) TCP/IP
10 68 (3.96%) VLAN
11 63 (3.67%) SAN
12 40 (2.33%) VSAT
13 39 (2.27%) Wireless
14 33 (1.92%) NAS
15 31 (1.80%) VoIP
16 28 (1.63%) Remote Desktop
17 26 (1.51%) SD-WAN
18 21 (1.22%) Internet
19 18 (1.05%) Cisco IOS
20 12 (0.70%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (3.96%) SQL Server
2 29 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (1.34%) Power BI
4 10 (0.58%) MySQL
5 9 (0.52%) Relational Database
6 7 (0.41%) DB2
6 7 (0.41%) NoSQL
6 7 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (0.23%) Metabase
9 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.12%) Big Data
10 2 (0.12%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.12%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.058%) DTS
11 1 (0.058%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.058%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 52 (3.03%) JIRA
2 19 (1.11%) Git
3 14 (0.81%) Vagrant
4 13 (0.76%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (0.29%) GitLab
6 5 (0.29%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.12%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.058%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.058%) ClearCase
8 1 (0.058%) ClearQuest
8 1 (0.058%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.058%) JUnit
8 1 (0.058%) Rational DOORS
General
1 806 (46.92%) Social Skills
2 96 (5.59%) Manufacturing
3 84 (4.89%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 67 (3.90%) Finance
6 50 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
6 50 (2.91%) Telecoms
7 43 (2.50%) Retail
8 41 (2.39%) Public Sector
9 37 (2.15%) Aerospace
10 34 (1.98%) Advertising
11 33 (1.92%) Electronics
12 29 (1.69%) Marketing
13 25 (1.46%) Automotive
14 17 (0.99%) Legal
15 16 (0.93%) Back Office
16 14 (0.81%) Billing
17 13 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
18 11 (0.64%) Banking
18 11 (0.64%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.46%) 802.1X
2 17 (0.99%) .NET
3 9 (0.52%) HTML
4 7 (0.41%) REST
5 5 (0.29%) EDI
5 5 (0.29%) Middleware
5 5 (0.29%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (0.23%) CSS
6 4 (0.23%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (0.17%) ModSecurity
8 2 (0.12%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.12%) Web Services
8 2 (0.12%) XML
9 1 (0.058%) OLE
9 1 (0.058%) SAML
9 1 (0.058%) SAP Basis
9 1 (0.058%) SOAP
9 1 (0.058%) WCF
9 1 (0.058%) WSH
9 1 (0.058%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 165 (9.60%) Driving Licence
2 73 (4.25%) Self-Motivation
3 58 (3.38%) Onboarding
4 36 (2.10%) Data Centre
5 32 (1.86%) Clustering
6 25 (1.46%) Replication
6 25 (1.46%) Video Conferencing
7 22 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
8 21 (1.22%) Renewable Energy
9 20 (1.16%) iPhone
10 18 (1.05%) Mobile App
11 13 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (0.64%) Satnav
13 10 (0.58%) Blog
14 9 (0.52%) Fat Client
14 9 (0.52%) Life Science
14 9 (0.52%) Management Information System
14 9 (0.52%) PKI
14 9 (0.52%) Public Cloud
14 9 (0.52%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 798 (46.45%) Windows
2 275 (16.01%) Windows Server
3 229 (13.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 148 (8.61%) Linux
5 122 (7.10%) Windows 10
6 83 (4.83%) Mac OS
7 51 (2.97%) Windows Server 2019
8 48 (2.79%) Windows Server 2016
9 46 (2.68%) Android
10 25 (1.46%) Apple iOS
11 21 (1.22%) VMS
12 12 (0.70%) Windows 7
13 9 (0.52%) Unix
14 7 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
15 6 (0.35%) Mac OS X
16 5 (0.29%) Windows Server 2003
17 2 (0.12%) AIX
18 1 (0.058%) Debian
18 1 (0.058%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 414 (24.10%) Problem-Solving
2 326 (18.98%) Customer Service
3 257 (14.96%) Proactive Monitoring
4 227 (13.21%) Coaching
5 223 (12.98%) Proactive Maintenance
6 215 (12.51%) Broadcast Engineering
6 215 (12.51%) Post-Production
6 215 (12.51%) Procure-to-Pay
7 153 (8.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 149 (8.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 149 (8.67%) ITIL
9 129 (7.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 89 (5.18%) Mentoring
11 81 (4.71%) CRM
12 72 (4.19%) Cybersecurity
13 67 (3.90%) High Availability
14 64 (3.73%) Migration
15 57 (3.32%) Computer Science
16 56 (3.26%) Mathematics
17 50 (2.91%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 167 (9.72%) PowerShell
2 137 (7.97%) SQL
3 66 (3.84%) Python
4 28 (1.63%) Bash
5 19 (1.11%) Java
6 17 (0.99%) Shell Script
7 16 (0.93%) C#
7 16 (0.93%) VB
8 13 (0.76%) Groovy
9 8 (0.47%) JavaScript
9 8 (0.47%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.35%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.23%) C++
12 3 (0.17%) MATLAB
12 3 (0.17%) Perl
12 3 (0.17%) R
13 2 (0.12%) PHP
13 2 (0.12%) VBA
14 1 (0.058%) Progress 4GL
14 1 (0.058%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 503 (29.28%) Degree
2 155 (9.02%) Security Cleared
3 125 (7.28%) BPSS Clearance
4 96 (5.59%) SC Cleared
5 80 (4.66%) Cisco Certification
6 79 (4.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 73 (4.25%) CCNA
8 48 (2.79%) HND
9 47 (2.74%) JNCIA
10 45 (2.62%) A+ Certification
11 39 (2.27%) HNC
12 37 (2.15%) DV Cleared
13 36 (2.10%) MCP
14 33 (1.92%) DBS Check
15 28 (1.63%) MCSA
16 21 (1.22%) MCSE
17 20 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
18 13 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 10 (0.58%) Azure Certification
20 9 (0.52%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (3.73%) Def Stans
1 64 (3.73%) IEC 61508
2 55 (3.20%) SLA
3 27 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
4 21 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (0.70%) Accessibility
5 12 (0.70%) GDPR
5 12 (0.70%) PCI DSS
5 12 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 9 (0.52%) COSHH
7 7 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.17%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.17%) QA
9 2 (0.12%) ISO 9000
10 1 (0.058%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.058%) NIST
System Software
1 641 (37.31%) Active Directory
2 151 (8.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 124 (7.22%) Hyper-V
4 28 (1.63%) VMware ESXi
5 26 (1.51%) vSphere
6 25 (1.46%) XenApp
7 23 (1.34%) Docker
8 19 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (0.76%) DFS Replication
9 13 (0.76%) Terminal Services
10 10 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
11 8 (0.47%) BitLocker
12 7 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
13 4 (0.23%) Firmware
13 4 (0.23%) ISA Server
13 4 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.17%) XenDesktop
15 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
16 1 (0.058%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 157 (9.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 52 (3.03%) SCCM
3 41 (2.39%) Terraform
4 36 (2.10%) Ansible
5 28 (1.63%) Kubernetes
6 25 (1.46%) vCenter Server
7 17 (0.99%) Backup Exec
7 17 (0.99%) Grafana
7 17 (0.99%) Prometheus
8 14 (0.81%) Puppet
9 13 (0.76%) vMotion
10 11 (0.64%) FortiGate
11 8 (0.47%) Nagios
12 7 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.41%) Autotask
13 6 (0.35%) PowerCLI
13 6 (0.35%) Proxmox
13 6 (0.35%) vRealize
14 5 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.29%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 809 (47.09%) Microsoft
2 217 (12.63%) Sun
3 168 (9.78%) VMware
4 138 (8.03%) Cisco
5 62 (3.61%) Citrix
6 53 (3.08%) ServiceNow
7 50 (2.91%) HP
8 48 (2.79%) Apple
9 46 (2.68%) Google
9 46 (2.68%) SAP
10 44 (2.56%) Veeam
11 43 (2.50%) Meraki
12 40 (2.33%) Juniper
13 37 (2.15%) Siemens
14 34 (1.98%) Dell
15 25 (1.46%) SonicWALL
16 24 (1.40%) Sophos
17 22 (1.28%) Salesforce
18 21 (1.22%) Aruba
18 21 (1.22%) CheckPoint