Support Engineer Jobs in England

Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Support Engineer salary in England is £38,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 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
10 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 93 136
Rank change year-on-year +8 +43 +135
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 1,694 2,454 1,981
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.22% 2.70% 2.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.56% 2.85% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,179 2,103 1,632
10th Percentile £26,750 £24,240 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £27,000 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £32,500 £34,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.92% -4.41% -
75th Percentile £45,500 £42,500 £40,000
90th Percentile £58,000 £50,200 £52,000
UK median annual salary £37,500 £32,500 £34,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -4.41% -

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 47,525 85,994 70,378
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.62% 91.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,382 62,080 49,101
10th Percentile £28,125 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
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 10 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 10 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 -2 389 £40,000 +14.29% 187
North of England -8 349 £37,500 +25.00% 123
London +51 300 £40,000 - 184
Midlands +3 256 £37,500 +22.95% 91
North West +16 236 £39,500 +38.60% 62
East of England -11 167 £37,500 +15.38% 59
South West +2 146 £32,000 +0.79% 78
West Midlands +1 142 £37,500 +25.00% 46
East Midlands -6 114 £37,500 +20.00% 45
Yorkshire -25 86 £30,500 -1.61% 46
North East +1 27 £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 10 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.

1 802 (47.34%) Social Skills
2 801 (47.28%) Microsoft
3 791 (46.69%) Windows
4 631 (37.25%) Active Directory
5 506 (29.87%) Degree
6 438 (25.86%) Microsoft 365
7 404 (23.85%) Problem-Solving
8 378 (22.31%) Azure
9 314 (18.54%) Customer Service
10 271 (16.00%) Windows Server
11 252 (14.88%) Proactive Monitoring
12 242 (14.29%) Firewall
13 229 (13.52%) Windows Server 2012
14 227 (13.40%) Coaching
15 223 (13.16%) Proactive Maintenance
16 217 (12.81%) Sun
17 215 (12.69%) Broadband
17 215 (12.69%) Procure-to-Pay
17 215 (12.69%) Post-Production
17 215 (12.69%) Broadcast Engineering
18 178 (10.51%) Microsoft Exchange
19 167 (9.86%) VMware
20 163 (9.62%) PowerShell
21 162 (9.56%) Driving Licence
22 152 (8.97%) Microsoft Intune
23 150 (8.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
23 150 (8.85%) VMware Infrastructure
24 149 (8.80%) Security Cleared
25 147 (8.68%) Linux
25 147 (8.68%) DNS

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
1 178 (10.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 138 (8.15%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.71%) Confluence
4 21 (1.24%) IIS
5 7 (0.41%) IBM Domino
6 5 (0.30%) Kinematics
6 5 (0.30%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2010
7 4 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2013
7 4 (0.24%) Office Communications Server
8 3 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
8 3 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (0.18%) WordPress
9 1 (0.059%) CMS
9 1 (0.059%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.059%) Umbraco
Applications
1 125 (7.38%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (1.36%) Chatbot
4 21 (1.24%) AutoCAD
5 11 (0.65%) SOLIDWORKS
6 6 (0.35%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.30%) Autodesk Inventor
7 5 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.059%) Notion
9 1 (0.059%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
1 5 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.059%) Eikon
4 1 (0.059%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 438 (25.86%) Microsoft 365
2 378 (22.31%) Azure
3 129 (7.62%) AWS
4 114 (6.73%) Entra ID
5 63 (3.72%) SaaS
6 43 (2.54%) OneDrive
7 28 (1.65%) Power Platform
8 26 (1.53%) GCP
9 22 (1.30%) Serverless
10 20 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
10 20 (1.18%) Amazon S3
11 18 (1.06%) Mimecast
12 17 (1.00%) IaaS
13 15 (0.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 14 (0.83%) Amazon ELB
14 14 (0.83%) Amazon Glacier
14 14 (0.83%) AWS KMS
14 14 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
14 14 (0.83%) Google Workspace
14 14 (0.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 242 (14.29%) Firewall
2 215 (12.69%) Broadband
3 147 (8.68%) DNS
4 140 (8.26%) WAN
5 135 (7.97%) LAN
6 112 (6.61%) DHCP
7 90 (5.31%) VPN
8 83 (4.90%) Wi-Fi
9 69 (4.07%) TCP/IP
10 66 (3.90%) VLAN
11 63 (3.72%) SAN
12 38 (2.24%) Wireless
13 34 (2.01%) VSAT
14 33 (1.95%) NAS
15 30 (1.77%) VoIP
16 27 (1.59%) Remote Desktop
17 26 (1.53%) SD-WAN
18 21 (1.24%) Internet
19 18 (1.06%) Cisco IOS
20 8 (0.47%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (3.96%) SQL Server
2 29 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (1.36%) Power BI
4 10 (0.59%) MySQL
5 9 (0.53%) Relational Database
6 7 (0.41%) DB2
6 7 (0.41%) NoSQL
6 7 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (0.24%) Metabase
8 3 (0.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.12%) Big Data
9 2 (0.12%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.12%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.059%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.059%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.059%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 52 (3.07%) JIRA
2 19 (1.12%) Git
3 14 (0.83%) Vagrant
4 13 (0.77%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (0.30%) GitLab
6 5 (0.30%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.12%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.059%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.059%) ClearCase
8 1 (0.059%) ClearQuest
8 1 (0.059%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.059%) JUnit
8 1 (0.059%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.059%) Visual Studio
General
1 802 (47.34%) Social Skills
2 90 (5.31%) Manufacturing
3 79 (4.66%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (4.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 66 (3.90%) Finance
6 49 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
7 46 (2.72%) Telecoms
8 42 (2.48%) Retail
9 41 (2.42%) Public Sector
10 36 (2.13%) Aerospace
11 32 (1.89%) Electronics
12 31 (1.83%) Advertising
13 27 (1.59%) Marketing
14 24 (1.42%) Automotive
15 16 (0.94%) Back Office
15 16 (0.94%) Legal
16 13 (0.77%) Billing
16 13 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
17 10 (0.59%) Banking
17 10 (0.59%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.42%) 802.1X
2 17 (1.00%) .NET
3 7 (0.41%) HTML
3 7 (0.41%) REST
4 5 (0.30%) EDI
4 5 (0.30%) Middleware
4 5 (0.30%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (0.18%) CSS
5 3 (0.18%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (0.12%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.12%) XML
7 1 (0.059%) jQuery
7 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.059%) ModSecurity
7 1 (0.059%) OAuth
7 1 (0.059%) SAML
7 1 (0.059%) SOAP
7 1 (0.059%) WCF
7 1 (0.059%) Web Services
7 1 (0.059%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 162 (9.56%) Driving Licence
2 71 (4.19%) Self-Motivation
3 53 (3.13%) Onboarding
4 36 (2.13%) Data Centre
5 32 (1.89%) Clustering
6 25 (1.48%) Replication
7 24 (1.42%) Video Conferencing
8 22 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
9 19 (1.12%) iPhone
9 19 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
10 18 (1.06%) Mobile App
11 11 (0.65%) Satnav
12 10 (0.59%) Hybrid Cloud
13 9 (0.53%) Blog
13 9 (0.53%) Fat Client
13 9 (0.53%) Life Science
13 9 (0.53%) Management Information System
13 9 (0.53%) PKI
13 9 (0.53%) Public Cloud
13 9 (0.53%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 791 (46.69%) Windows
2 271 (16.00%) Windows Server
3 229 (13.52%) Windows Server 2012
4 147 (8.68%) Linux
5 121 (7.14%) Windows 10
6 82 (4.84%) Mac OS
7 51 (3.01%) Windows Server 2019
8 48 (2.83%) Windows Server 2016
9 45 (2.66%) Android
10 24 (1.42%) Apple iOS
11 21 (1.24%) VMS
12 12 (0.71%) Windows 7
13 9 (0.53%) Unix
14 6 (0.35%) Mac OS X
14 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
15 5 (0.30%) Windows Server 2003
16 2 (0.12%) AIX
17 1 (0.059%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 404 (23.85%) Problem-Solving
2 314 (18.54%) Customer Service
3 252 (14.88%) Proactive Monitoring
4 227 (13.40%) Coaching
5 223 (13.16%) Proactive Maintenance
6 215 (12.69%) Broadcast Engineering
6 215 (12.69%) Post-Production
6 215 (12.69%) Procure-to-Pay
7 150 (8.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 146 (8.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 145 (8.56%) ITIL
10 137 (8.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 83 (4.90%) Mentoring
12 79 (4.66%) CRM
13 69 (4.07%) Cybersecurity
14 65 (3.84%) High Availability
15 62 (3.66%) Migration
16 57 (3.36%) Computer Science
17 55 (3.25%) Mathematics
18 50 (2.95%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 163 (9.62%) PowerShell
2 132 (7.79%) SQL
3 65 (3.84%) Python
4 27 (1.59%) Bash
5 19 (1.12%) Java
6 17 (1.00%) Shell Script
7 16 (0.94%) VB
8 15 (0.89%) C#
9 13 (0.77%) Groovy
10 8 (0.47%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.41%) JavaScript
12 6 (0.35%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.24%) C++
14 3 (0.18%) MATLAB
14 3 (0.18%) Perl
14 3 (0.18%) R
15 2 (0.12%) VBA
16 1 (0.059%) Go
16 1 (0.059%) Progress 4GL
16 1 (0.059%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 506 (29.87%) Degree
2 149 (8.80%) Security Cleared
3 133 (7.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 92 (5.43%) SC Cleared
5 79 (4.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 74 (4.37%) Cisco Certification
7 67 (3.96%) CCNA
8 46 (2.72%) HND
9 45 (2.66%) A+ Certification
10 41 (2.42%) JNCIA
11 37 (2.18%) DV Cleared
12 36 (2.13%) HNC
12 36 (2.13%) MCP
13 31 (1.83%) DBS Check
14 28 (1.65%) MCSA
15 21 (1.24%) MCSE
16 20 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
17 13 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 9 (0.53%) CCNP
18 9 (0.53%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (4.25%) Def Stans
1 72 (4.25%) IEC 61508
2 55 (3.25%) SLA
3 26 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
4 20 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (0.71%) GDPR
5 12 (0.71%) PCI DSS
5 12 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 11 (0.65%) Accessibility
7 9 (0.53%) COSHH
8 7 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.18%) QA
10 2 (0.12%) ISO 9000
10 2 (0.12%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.059%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.059%) NIST
System Software
1 631 (37.25%) Active Directory
2 150 (8.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 123 (7.26%) Hyper-V
4 28 (1.65%) VMware ESXi
5 26 (1.53%) vSphere
6 25 (1.48%) XenApp
7 23 (1.36%) Docker
8 18 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (0.77%) DFS Replication
9 13 (0.77%) Terminal Services
10 10 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
11 8 (0.47%) BitLocker
12 7 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
13 4 (0.24%) Firmware
13 4 (0.24%) ISA Server
13 4 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.18%) XenDesktop
15 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 152 (8.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 49 (2.89%) SCCM
3 40 (2.36%) Terraform
4 36 (2.13%) Ansible
5 28 (1.65%) Kubernetes
6 25 (1.48%) vCenter Server
7 17 (1.00%) Backup Exec
7 17 (1.00%) Grafana
7 17 (1.00%) Prometheus
8 14 (0.83%) Puppet
9 13 (0.77%) vMotion
10 11 (0.65%) FortiGate
11 7 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.41%) Autotask
11 7 (0.41%) Nagios
12 6 (0.35%) PowerCLI
12 6 (0.35%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.35%) vRealize
13 5 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.30%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 801 (47.28%) Microsoft
2 217 (12.81%) Sun
3 167 (9.86%) VMware
4 138 (8.15%) Cisco
5 61 (3.60%) Citrix
6 51 (3.01%) ServiceNow
7 50 (2.95%) HP
8 48 (2.83%) Apple
9 46 (2.72%) SAP
10 44 (2.60%) Google
10 44 (2.60%) Veeam
11 43 (2.54%) Meraki
12 40 (2.36%) Juniper
13 37 (2.18%) Siemens
14 34 (2.01%) Dell
15 25 (1.48%) SonicWALL
16 22 (1.30%) Sophos
17 21 (1.24%) Aruba
17 21 (1.24%) CheckPoint
17 21 (1.24%) Salesforce