Systems Support Engineer Jobs in London

System Support Engineer
England > London

The median System Support Engineer salary in London is £51,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 394 487 609
Rank change year-on-year +93 +122 +265
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Support Engineer 2 21 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.016% 0.089% 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.095% 0.012%
Number of salaries quoted 2 16 3
10th Percentile £46,875 - £53,550
25th Percentile £47,813 - £57,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -18.52% +50.00%
75th Percentile £55,313 - £71,250
90th Percentile £56,625 - -
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £29,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +72.41% -34.46%

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 11,514 22,211 32,675
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.11% 94.13% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 7,380 16,662 24,070
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £42,500
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 £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Systems Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Support Engineer in London

Systems Support Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Systems Support Engineer in London

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 London region featuring Systems Support Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Extreme Networks
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (50.00%) VirtualBox
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365

Systems 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VirtualBox
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Extreme Networks