Support Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Support Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Support Engineer salary in Manchester is £33,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 149 158
Rank change year-on-year +29 +9 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 24 73 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 1.12% 1.43% 1.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.24% 1.51% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 19 70 52
10th Percentile £26,000 £24,100 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £30,000 £31,750
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% -5.51% -2.31%
75th Percentile £43,750 £33,750 £39,375
90th Percentile £69,750 £53,750 £53,750
North West median annual salary £39,500 £28,000 £30,690
% change year-on-year +41.07% -8.77% +2.30%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,928 4,846 4,542
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.09% 94.61% 91.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,288 3,745 2,665
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,988 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.26% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,000 £81,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £54,882
% change year-on-year +0.11% -8.90% +4.54%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in Manchester

Support Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Support Engineer in Manchester

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Support Engineer in Manchester

Support Engineer
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Support Engineer within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 3 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
Heywood - 1 £23,000 -
Support Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 Manchester region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (37.50%) Azure
3 9 (37.50%) Microsoft
4 7 (29.17%) Windows
5 6 (25.00%) Linux
5 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 5 (20.83%) Analytical Thinking
6 5 (20.83%) Windows 10
6 5 (20.83%) Mentoring
6 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (20.83%) Telematics
6 5 (20.83%) SSH
6 5 (20.83%) Incident Management
6 5 (20.83%) ITIL
6 5 (20.83%) Vehicle Telematics
7 4 (16.67%) SQL
7 4 (16.67%) VMware
8 3 (12.50%) Service Delivery
8 3 (12.50%) Degree
8 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
8 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
8 3 (12.50%) Python
8 3 (12.50%) User Experience
8 3 (12.50%) Windows Server
9 2 (8.33%) Resource Allocation
9 2 (8.33%) Proactive Monitoring
9 2 (8.33%) Storage Management
9 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Cloud

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) AutoCAD
1 1 (4.17%) Autodesk Inventor
Cloud Services
1 12 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (37.50%) Azure
3 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (8.33%) GitHub
3 2 (8.33%) IaaS
3 2 (8.33%) PaaS
3 2 (8.33%) SaaS
4 1 (4.17%) AWS
4 1 (4.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) SSH
2 2 (8.33%) DNS
2 2 (8.33%) VoIP
3 1 (4.17%) DHCP
3 1 (4.17%) HTTP
3 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) MySQL
2 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.17%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Law
4 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) CMDB
1 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Driving Licence
2 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.17%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 7 (29.17%) Windows
2 6 (25.00%) Linux
3 5 (20.83%) Windows 10
4 3 (12.50%) Windows Server
5 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
5 1 (4.17%) Mac OS
5 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (20.83%) Analytical Thinking
2 5 (20.83%) Incident Management
2 5 (20.83%) ITIL
2 5 (20.83%) Mentoring
2 5 (20.83%) Telematics
2 5 (20.83%) Vehicle Telematics
3 3 (12.50%) Service Delivery
3 3 (12.50%) User Experience
4 2 (8.33%) Application Packaging
4 2 (8.33%) Business Continuity
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Security
4 2 (8.33%) Compatibility Testing
4 2 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (8.33%) Proactive Monitoring
4 2 (8.33%) Resource Allocation
4 2 (8.33%) Software Testing
4 2 (8.33%) Storage Management
4 2 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) SQL
2 3 (12.50%) Python
3 2 (8.33%) Bash
3 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.17%) Go
4 1 (4.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Degree
1 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) A+ Certification
2 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.17%) HND
2 1 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (4.17%) MCSE
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (8.33%) Terraform
2 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) VMware
3 2 (8.33%) Oracle
4 1 (4.17%) Google
4 1 (4.17%) SAP
4 1 (4.17%) Siemens