Systems Support Engineer Jobs in England

System Support Engineer
UK > England

The median System Support Engineer salary in England is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 671 764 907
Rank change year-on-year +93 +143 +191
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Support Engineer 18 67 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.037% 0.078% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.041% 0.083% 0.035%
Number of salaries quoted 14 53 26
10th Percentile £40,600 £26,200 £25,125
25th Percentile £42,500 £29,750 £25,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £29,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +72.41% -35.56%
75th Percentile £48,438 £55,000 £37,813
90th Percentile £48,750 - £55,250
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £32,250
% change year-on-year -10.00% +55.04% -25.86%

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 44,309 80,989 82,470
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 94.48% 91.56%
Number of salaries quoted 24,260 60,410 52,484
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,613 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -

Systems Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Support Engineer in England

Systems Support Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Systems Support Engineer in England

Systems Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Support Engineer in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Systems Support Engineer in England

Systems 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 Systems Support Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 14 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
Midlands +54 6 £35,750 +44.44% 5
East of England +51 6 £45,000 -7.22% 2
East Midlands +26 6 £35,750 +44.44% 4
North of England +44 3 £47,500 -5.00% 3
London +96 2 £51,250 -6.82% 5
Yorkshire +75 2 £47,500 +82.69% 1
South East +86 1 £40,000 +6.67% 2
North West -2 1 £44,500 -11.00% 2
Systems Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 2025, Systems 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 Systems Support Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 9 (50.00%) Windows
3 8 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (44.44%) Windows Server
4 7 (38.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (38.89%) Active Directory
4 7 (38.89%) Project Management
4 7 (38.89%) Wireless
4 7 (38.89%) PowerShell
4 7 (38.89%) Azure
5 6 (33.33%) VMS
5 6 (33.33%) DHCP
5 6 (33.33%) TCP/IP
5 6 (33.33%) DNS
5 6 (33.33%) Wireless Security
5 6 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
5 6 (33.33%) Azure Storage
5 6 (33.33%) Storage Management
6 4 (22.22%) Data Centre
6 4 (22.22%) SaaS
7 3 (16.67%) VMware
7 3 (16.67%) Customer Service
8 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (11.11%) Health Informatics
8 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (11.11%) NHS
8 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (11.11%) Finance
8 2 (11.11%) PACS
8 2 (11.11%) Informatics

Systems 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (38.89%) Azure
3 6 (33.33%) Azure Storage
4 4 (22.22%) SaaS
5 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (38.89%) Wireless
2 6 (33.33%) DHCP
2 6 (33.33%) DNS
2 6 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 6 (33.33%) Wireless Security
3 1 (5.56%) Network Security
3 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) ClearCase
1 1 (5.56%) ClearQuest
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
1 1 (5.56%) Rational DOORS
General
1 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Aviation
2 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.11%) NHS
2 2 (11.11%) PACS
3 1 (5.56%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Windows
2 8 (44.44%) Windows Server
3 6 (33.33%) VMS
4 1 (5.56%) Linux
4 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Project Management
2 6 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 6 (33.33%) Storage Management
3 3 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (11.11%) Health Informatics
4 2 (11.11%) Informatics
4 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (5.56%) Incident Management
5 1 (5.56%) ITIL
5 1 (5.56%) Patch Management
5 1 (5.56%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (5.56%) Problem Management
5 1 (5.56%) Programme Management
5 1 (5.56%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (5.56%) Time Management
5 1 (5.56%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (5.56%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) A+ Certification
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.56%) VirtualBox
3 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (5.56%) Extreme Networks
3 1 (5.56%) IBM
3 1 (5.56%) SAP