Support Engineer Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Support Engineer
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Support Engineer salary in Gloucestershire is £30,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 51 60
Rank change year-on-year +14 +9 +41
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 21 41 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 3.84% 3.73% 4.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.08% 3.87% 4.62%
Number of salaries quoted 8 30 33
10th Percentile £25,775 £25,900 -
25th Percentile £27,125 £27,500 £29,440
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £33,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +3.08% -7.14%
75th Percentile £39,594 £39,688 £38,750
90th Percentile £44,488 £43,750 £58,550
South West median annual salary £32,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year -8.57% +7.69% -7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Gloucestershire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Gloucestershire. 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 Gloucestershire with a recognized job title 515 1,059 844
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.15% 96.45% 94.20%
Number of salaries quoted 350 663 517
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £29,440
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £62,500 £72,000
90th Percentile £88,875 £77,300 £80,300
South West median annual salary £45,150 £52,000 £54,545
% change year-on-year -13.17% -4.67% +9.09%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in Gloucestershire

Support Engineer
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies in Gloucestershire.

Salary distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies in Gloucestershire

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Support Engineer in Gloucestershire

Support Engineer
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Support Engineer within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Filton +5 5 - - 4
Gloucester +19 2 £28,500 -26.45% 1
Cheltenham +22 1 £50,000 +42.86% 6
Support Engineer
South West

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 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 Gloucestershire region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (47.62%) Windows
1 10 (47.62%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 9 (42.86%) ITIL
2 9 (42.86%) Incident Management
3 8 (38.10%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (38.10%) Windows Server
4 7 (33.33%) Azure
4 7 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 7 (33.33%) SharePoint
4 7 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (28.57%) WAN
5 6 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (23.81%) Asset Management
6 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
6 5 (23.81%) Mac OS
6 5 (23.81%) Aerospace
6 5 (23.81%) Automotive
6 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
6 5 (23.81%) LAN
6 5 (23.81%) Cognizant
7 4 (19.05%) SLA
7 4 (19.05%) Configuration Management
7 4 (19.05%) Problem Management
7 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (19.05%) Management Information System
8 3 (14.29%) Creative Thinking
8 3 (14.29%) Customer Service
8 3 (14.29%) Time Management

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 7 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.76%) CMS
2 1 (4.76%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (14.29%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.76%) AWS
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (4.76%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (28.57%) WAN
1 6 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (23.81%) LAN
3 2 (9.52%) Firewall
4 1 (4.76%) IPv4
4 1 (4.76%) SD-WAN
4 1 (4.76%) VLAN
4 1 (4.76%) VPN
General
1 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Aerospace
2 5 (23.81%) Automotive
3 3 (14.29%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Police
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Management Information System
2 2 (9.52%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 10 (47.62%) Windows
2 8 (38.10%) Windows Server
3 5 (23.81%) Mac OS
4 1 (4.76%) Windows 10
4 1 (4.76%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (42.86%) Incident Management
2 9 (42.86%) ITIL
3 6 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (23.81%) Asset Management
5 4 (19.05%) Configuration Management
5 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (19.05%) Problem Management
6 3 (14.29%) CAD
6 3 (14.29%) Creative Thinking
6 3 (14.29%) Customer Service
6 3 (14.29%) Time Management
7 2 (9.52%) Remote Monitoring and Management
8 1 (4.76%) Collaborative Culture
8 1 (4.76%) CRM
8 1 (4.76%) Customer-Centricity
8 1 (4.76%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 1 (4.76%) Migration
8 1 (4.76%) Server Migrations
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) SLA
2 2 (9.52%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Cognizant
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) VMware
3 1 (4.76%) Draytek