Support Engineer Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Support Engineer
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Support Engineer salary in Gloucestershire is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 55 66
Rank change year-on-year +20 +11 +48
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 22 30 38
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 4.31% 3.16% 4.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.56% 3.26% 4.35%
Number of salaries quoted 12 20 34
10th Percentile £26,150 £27,500 -
25th Percentile £34,063 £27,875 £29,440
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £33,000 £30,470
Median % change year-on-year +51.52% +8.30% -11.04%
75th Percentile - £40,000 £35,250
90th Percentile - £43,750 £41,450
South West median annual salary £32,000 £34,500 £32,000
% change year-on-year -7.25% +7.81% -1.54%

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 482 921 873
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.32% 97.05% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 341 474 515
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,450 £29,440
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £71,213
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
South West median annual salary £45,000 £51,500 £53,351
% change year-on-year -12.62% -3.47% +6.70%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Support Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Support Engineer job vacancy trend 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 28 October 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 28 October 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 +7 5 - - 2
Cheltenham +20 2 £50,000 +42.86% 4
Gloucester +14 1 - - 2
Support Engineer
South West

Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire

For the 6 months to 28 October 2025, Support Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Gloucestershire region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (45.45%) Windows
2 8 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (36.36%) Windows Server
3 7 (31.82%) Active Directory
3 7 (31.82%) Azure
3 7 (31.82%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (31.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (31.82%) SharePoint
4 6 (27.27%) Incident Management
4 6 (27.27%) ITIL
4 6 (27.27%) WAN
4 6 (27.27%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (22.73%) Asset Management
5 5 (22.73%) Cognizant
5 5 (22.73%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (22.73%) LAN
5 5 (22.73%) Mac OS
5 5 (22.73%) Risk Management
5 5 (22.73%) SAP
5 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
5 5 (22.73%) Windchill
6 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
7 3 (13.64%) AutoCAD
7 3 (13.64%) CAD
7 3 (13.64%) Creative Thinking
7 3 (13.64%) Customer Service
7 3 (13.64%) Time Management
8 2 (9.09%) Entra ID
8 2 (9.09%) Firewall

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (31.82%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (31.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Windchill
2 3 (13.64%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) Azure
1 7 (31.82%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.55%) AWS
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (4.55%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (27.27%) WAN
1 6 (27.27%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (22.73%) LAN
3 2 (9.09%) Firewall
4 1 (4.55%) IPv4
4 1 (4.55%) SD-WAN
4 1 (4.55%) VLAN
4 1 (4.55%) VPN
General
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Aerospace
2 5 (22.73%) Automotive
2 5 (22.73%) Legal
3 3 (13.64%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Police
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Driving Licence
2 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (45.45%) Windows
2 8 (36.36%) Windows Server
3 5 (22.73%) Mac OS
4 1 (4.55%) Windows 10
4 1 (4.55%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (27.27%) Incident Management
2 6 (27.27%) ITIL
3 5 (22.73%) Asset Management
3 5 (22.73%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (22.73%) Risk Management
4 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (13.64%) CAD
5 3 (13.64%) Creative Thinking
5 3 (13.64%) Customer Service
5 3 (13.64%) Time Management
6 2 (9.09%) Remote Monitoring and Management
7 1 (4.55%) Collaborative Culture
7 1 (4.55%) Configuration Management
7 1 (4.55%) Customer-Centricity
7 1 (4.55%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (4.55%) Migration
7 1 (4.55%) Patch Management
7 1 (4.55%) Problem Management
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) GDPR
1 1 (4.55%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.55%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Cognizant
1 5 (22.73%) SAP
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.09%) VMware
4 1 (4.55%) Draytek