Support Engineer Jobs in London

Support Engineer
England > London

The median Support Engineer salary in London is £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 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
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 190 196
Rank change year-on-year +39 +6 +144
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 302 393 634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.33% 1.66% 1.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.59% 1.76% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 202 306 552
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,290 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +5.26% +1.33%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £45,063
90th Percentile £76,250 £73,250 £65,000
England median annual salary £38,000 £32,500 £33,500
% change year-on-year +16.92% -2.99% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,676 22,285 31,986
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 94.22% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 7,282 16,637 23,612
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,445
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,500 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.60% -12.83% +1.33%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in London

Support Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Support Engineer in London

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Support Engineer in London

Support Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Support Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 18 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
Central London -23 53 £42,250 +1.81% 11
South London +35 40 £51,500 +51.47% 6
West London +20 28 £47,000 +44.62% 5
East London - 15 £39,000 - 2
North London -4 7 - - 3
Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 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 London region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 197 (65.23%) Microsoft
2 185 (61.26%) Windows
3 173 (57.28%) Active Directory
4 165 (54.64%) Social Skills
5 112 (37.09%) Degree
6 95 (31.46%) Microsoft 365
7 90 (29.80%) Azure
8 78 (25.83%) Proactive Monitoring
9 72 (23.84%) Windows Server 2012
10 69 (22.85%) Proactive Maintenance
10 69 (22.85%) Sun
11 68 (22.52%) Customer Service
12 67 (22.19%) Procure-to-Pay
12 67 (22.19%) Coaching
12 67 (22.19%) Broadcast Engineering
12 67 (22.19%) Post-Production
12 67 (22.19%) Broadband
13 64 (21.19%) Problem-Solving
14 63 (20.86%) Windows Server
15 55 (18.21%) SQL
16 53 (17.55%) ITIL
17 45 (14.90%) SharePoint
18 44 (14.57%) Finance
19 42 (13.91%) Linux
20 39 (12.91%) Wi-Fi
20 39 (12.91%) AWS
20 39 (12.91%) Windows 10
21 38 (12.58%) Entra ID
21 38 (12.58%) Microsoft Intune
21 38 (12.58%) Firewall

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 45 (14.90%) SharePoint
2 30 (9.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (3.97%) Confluence
4 5 (1.66%) Kinematics
5 3 (0.99%) IIS
5 3 (0.99%) WordPress
6 1 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 29 (9.60%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (2.65%) SOLIDWORKS
4 7 (2.32%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.66%) Sage 200
1 5 (1.66%) Sage 50
2 3 (0.99%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.66%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.33%) Eikon
4 1 (0.33%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 95 (31.46%) Microsoft 365
2 90 (29.80%) Azure
3 39 (12.91%) AWS
4 38 (12.58%) Entra ID
5 23 (7.62%) OneDrive
6 17 (5.63%) SaaS
7 11 (3.64%) GCP
8 10 (3.31%) Azure Monitor
8 10 (3.31%) Mimecast
9 9 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (2.65%) Google Workspace
11 6 (1.99%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.99%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.66%) Power Platform
12 5 (1.66%) Slack
13 4 (1.32%) Azure App Service
13 4 (1.32%) Azure Storage
13 4 (1.32%) Azure Table
13 4 (1.32%) Serverless
14 3 (0.99%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 67 (22.19%) Broadband
2 39 (12.91%) Wi-Fi
3 38 (12.58%) Firewall
4 35 (11.59%) DNS
5 21 (6.95%) DHCP
6 20 (6.62%) TCP/IP
7 19 (6.29%) LAN
8 13 (4.30%) WAN
9 12 (3.97%) VLAN
10 11 (3.64%) Internet
10 11 (3.64%) VPN
11 9 (2.98%) PBX
11 9 (2.98%) Structured Cabling
12 7 (2.32%) Wireless
13 6 (1.99%) Cisco IOS
13 6 (1.99%) SAN
14 5 (1.66%) VoIP
15 4 (1.32%) FTP
15 4 (1.32%) IPv4
15 4 (1.32%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.31%) Relational Database
2 9 (2.98%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (2.98%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.66%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (0.66%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.66%) Power BI
4 1 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.33%) DB2
4 1 (0.33%) JasperReports
4 1 (0.33%) MySQL
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (3.31%) JIRA
2 6 (1.99%) GitLab
3 5 (1.66%) SonarQube
3 5 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (1.32%) Git
General
1 165 (54.64%) Social Skills
2 44 (14.57%) Finance
3 23 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (4.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (4.30%) Front Office
6 9 (2.98%) Banking
6 9 (2.98%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (2.65%) Aeronautics
7 8 (2.65%) Aerospace
7 8 (2.65%) Aviation
7 8 (2.65%) Back Office
7 8 (2.65%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.32%) Legal
9 6 (1.99%) Advertising
9 6 (1.99%) French Language
9 6 (1.99%) German Language
10 5 (1.66%) Retail
11 4 (1.32%) Marketing
11 4 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.99%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.64%) 802.1X
2 6 (1.99%) REST
3 3 (0.99%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (0.66%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.66%) Middleware
4 2 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.33%) .NET
5 1 (0.33%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.33%) Express.js
5 1 (0.33%) Node.js
5 1 (0.33%) Plotly
5 1 (0.33%) React
5 1 (0.33%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.30%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (3.64%) iPhone
3 9 (2.98%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (2.98%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (2.98%) Onboarding
4 8 (2.65%) Data Centre
4 8 (2.65%) Fat Client
4 8 (2.65%) Thin Client
4 8 (2.65%) Video Conferencing
5 6 (1.99%) CCTV
6 5 (1.66%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.32%) Fibre Optics
7 4 (1.32%) iPad
8 3 (0.99%) Driving Licence
8 3 (0.99%) Equities
8 3 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (0.99%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.66%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.66%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 185 (61.26%) Windows
2 72 (23.84%) Windows Server 2012
3 63 (20.86%) Windows Server
4 42 (13.91%) Linux
5 39 (12.91%) Windows 10
6 13 (4.30%) Mac OS
7 11 (3.64%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (2.32%) Unix
9 6 (1.99%) Android
9 6 (1.99%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.99%) Mac OS X
10 3 (0.99%) Windows 7
10 3 (0.99%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.66%) AIX
12 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.33%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (25.83%) Proactive Monitoring
2 69 (22.85%) Proactive Maintenance
3 68 (22.52%) Customer Service
4 67 (22.19%) Broadcast Engineering
4 67 (22.19%) Coaching
4 67 (22.19%) Post-Production
4 67 (22.19%) Procure-to-Pay
5 64 (21.19%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (17.55%) ITIL
7 29 (9.60%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (6.62%) DevOps
9 19 (6.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 16 (5.30%) CI/CD
10 16 (5.30%) Service Management
11 15 (4.97%) High Availability
12 14 (4.64%) Computer Science
12 14 (4.64%) Fintech
13 13 (4.30%) Migration
13 13 (4.30%) Password Management
13 13 (4.30%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (18.21%) SQL
2 30 (9.93%) Python
3 23 (7.62%) PowerShell
4 10 (3.31%) C#
5 9 (2.98%) Bash
6 8 (2.65%) VB
7 7 (2.32%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.66%) Java
9 1 (0.33%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.33%) Perl
9 1 (0.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 112 (37.09%) Degree
2 15 (4.97%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (2.65%) Security Cleared
4 7 (2.32%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (1.66%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.66%) CCNA
6 4 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (1.32%) Network+ Certification
7 3 (0.99%) A+ Certification
7 3 (0.99%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.33%) CCENT
8 1 (0.33%) CCNP
8 1 (0.33%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.33%) JNCIP
8 1 (0.33%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.30%) SLA
2 4 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.99%) FINRA
4 2 (0.66%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.66%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.66%) QA
5 1 (0.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 173 (57.28%) Active Directory
2 16 (5.30%) Hyper-V
3 11 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.98%) XenApp
5 8 (2.65%) Docker
6 6 (1.99%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (1.99%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.99%) XenDesktop
8 2 (0.66%) Firmware
8 2 (0.66%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.33%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (12.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 31 (10.26%) SCCM
3 21 (6.95%) Terraform
4 9 (2.98%) Ansible
5 8 (2.65%) Kubernetes
6 6 (1.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.32%) WSUS
8 2 (0.66%) Kibana
8 2 (0.66%) logstash
9 1 (0.33%) Grafana
9 1 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.33%) Plesk
9 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 197 (65.23%) Microsoft
2 69 (22.85%) Sun
3 27 (8.94%) Cisco
4 26 (8.61%) Citrix
5 17 (5.63%) Apple
6 16 (5.30%) ServiceNow
7 15 (4.97%) Google
7 15 (4.97%) VMware
8 11 (3.64%) Dell
8 11 (3.64%) SAP
9 10 (3.31%) Meraki
10 8 (2.65%) HP
11 7 (2.32%) Veeam
12 6 (1.99%) Sage
13 5 (1.66%) Databricks
13 5 (1.66%) Zscaler
14 4 (1.32%) Oracle
14 4 (1.32%) Red Hat
14 4 (1.32%) SolarWinds
15 3 (0.99%) Riverbed