Support Engineer Job Trends in the Midlands

Support Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Support Engineer salary in the Midlands is £33,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 June 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 65 63
Rank change year-on-year +15 -2 +63
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 367 221 497
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.90% 4.37% 3.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.06% 4.80% 3.75%
Number of salaries quoted 276 193 366
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,000 £24,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £30,500 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,250 £37,500 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.33% +25.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £43,750 £52,500 £38,750
90th Percentile £46,000 £63,750 £46,100
England median annual salary £35,000 £37,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -3.35%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 11,997 4,604 13,253
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.77% 90.93% 94.17%
Number of salaries quoted 8,336 2,795 9,468
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £38,250 £32,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Support Engineer job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies in the Midlands.

Salary distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies in the Midlands

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 24 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Support Engineer in the Midlands

Support Engineer
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Support Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 June 2026. 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
West Midlands +21 208 £33,500 -10.67% 15
East Midlands +8 157 £32,500 -13.33% 16
Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 2026, 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 Midlands region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 145 (39.51%) Problem-Solving
2 105 (28.61%) Microsoft
3 104 (28.34%) Windows
4 92 (25.07%) Microsoft 365
5 72 (19.62%) Active Directory
6 62 (16.89%) Azure
7 61 (16.62%) Customer Service
8 56 (15.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 42 (11.44%) Firewall
10 41 (11.17%) Root Cause Analysis
11 38 (10.35%) DNS
11 38 (10.35%) Windows Server
12 34 (9.26%) Entra ID
13 33 (8.99%) Microsoft Office
13 33 (8.99%) SQL
14 32 (8.72%) VPN
15 30 (8.17%) SLA
16 29 (7.90%) VMware
16 29 (7.90%) VMware Infrastructure
17 27 (7.36%) DHCP
18 26 (7.08%) Wireless
19 25 (6.81%) PowerShell
20 24 (6.54%) Microsoft Intune
21 23 (6.27%) SharePoint
22 22 (5.99%) ITSM
23 21 (5.72%) Customer Experience
23 21 (5.72%) LAN
23 21 (5.72%) Microsoft Exchange
24 19 (5.18%) Cisco
24 19 (5.18%) Hyper-V

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 23 (6.27%) SharePoint
2 21 (5.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (3.00%) IIS
4 8 (2.18%) Confluence
5 4 (1.09%) Exchange Server 2007
5 4 (1.09%) Exchange Server 2010
5 4 (1.09%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.27%) Mendix
Applications
1 33 (8.99%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.82%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (1.36%) Q-Pulse
2 2 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.27%) iTrent
3 1 (0.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 92 (25.07%) Microsoft 365
2 62 (16.89%) Azure
3 34 (9.26%) Entra ID
4 16 (4.36%) Google Workspace
5 9 (2.45%) OneDrive
6 2 (0.54%) Power Platform
6 2 (0.54%) Pulumi
6 2 (0.54%) SaaS
6 2 (0.54%) Slack
7 1 (0.27%) AWS
7 1 (0.27%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.27%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 42 (11.44%) Firewall
2 38 (10.35%) DNS
3 32 (8.72%) VPN
4 27 (7.36%) DHCP
5 26 (7.08%) Wireless
6 21 (5.72%) LAN
7 19 (5.18%) WAN
8 16 (4.36%) TCP/IP
9 10 (2.72%) VoIP
10 8 (2.18%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (1.09%) Internet
11 4 (1.09%) MQTT
11 4 (1.09%) TETRA
12 3 (0.82%) VLAN
13 2 (0.54%) Cisco IOS
13 2 (0.54%) Remote Desktop
13 2 (0.54%) SAN
14 1 (0.27%) DMZ
14 1 (0.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.72%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (1.09%) MongoDB
3 3 (0.82%) MySQL
4 1 (0.27%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (3.00%) JIRA
2 1 (0.27%) Carbide.c++
2 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 96 (26.16%) Social Skills
2 47 (12.81%) Manufacturing
3 34 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (5.99%) Marketing
5 14 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (3.00%) Multimedia
7 10 (2.72%) Electronics
7 10 (2.72%) Legal
8 9 (2.45%) Law
9 7 (1.91%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.63%) Agriculture
11 5 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.36%) Public Sector
12 3 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.82%) Retail
13 2 (0.54%) Finance
14 1 (0.27%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.27%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.36%) LDAP
2 4 (1.09%) COM
2 4 (1.09%) DCOM
2 4 (1.09%) Middleware
3 3 (0.82%) CSS
3 3 (0.82%) HTML
3 3 (0.82%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 53 (14.44%) Driving Licence
2 18 (4.90%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (3.27%) Data Centre
3 12 (3.27%) Onboarding
4 9 (2.45%) CCTV
5 8 (2.18%) FMCG
6 7 (1.91%) PKI
6 7 (1.91%) Robotics
7 6 (1.63%) IoT
8 5 (1.36%) Social Media
9 4 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.09%) CAN bus
9 4 (1.09%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.09%) Smartcard
10 3 (0.82%) Cyber Security Posture
10 3 (0.82%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.82%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.27%) Clustering
11 1 (0.27%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.27%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 104 (28.34%) Windows
2 38 (10.35%) Windows Server
3 19 (5.18%) Linux
3 19 (5.18%) Windows 10
4 8 (2.18%) Mac OS
5 7 (1.91%) Android
6 5 (1.36%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.09%) VMS
7 4 (1.09%) Windows 7
8 3 (0.82%) CentOS
8 3 (0.82%) SUSE
8 3 (0.82%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (39.51%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (16.62%) Customer Service
3 56 (15.26%) Continuous Improvement
4 41 (11.17%) Root Cause Analysis
5 22 (5.99%) ITSM
6 21 (5.72%) Customer Experience
7 16 (4.36%) Decision-Making
7 16 (4.36%) Presales
7 16 (4.36%) Time Management
8 15 (4.09%) Incident Management
9 14 (3.81%) Process Improvement
9 14 (3.81%) Service Delivery
10 13 (3.54%) Cybersecurity
10 13 (3.54%) ITIL
10 13 (3.54%) SIEM
11 12 (3.27%) Mentoring
11 12 (3.27%) Proactive Monitoring
12 10 (2.72%) Agile
12 10 (2.72%) Mathematics
13 9 (2.45%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 33 (8.99%) SQL
2 25 (6.81%) PowerShell
3 16 (4.36%) Ladder Logic
4 7 (1.91%) Python
5 4 (1.09%) Bash
5 4 (1.09%) Bicep
5 4 (1.09%) PHP
6 3 (0.82%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.82%) VBA
7 2 (0.54%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (4.63%) DBS Check
2 16 (4.36%) Degree
2 16 (4.36%) Security Cleared
3 12 (3.27%) SC Cleared
4 7 (1.91%) HNC
4 7 (1.91%) HND
4 7 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (1.36%) A+ Certification
5 5 (1.36%) MCITP
6 4 (1.09%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.27%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (8.17%) SLA
2 11 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.45%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (1.36%) COSHH
4 5 (1.36%) GMP
4 5 (1.36%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.54%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.27%) GDPR
7 1 (0.27%) NIST
System Software
1 72 (19.62%) Active Directory
2 29 (7.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (5.18%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.27%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 24 (6.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (1.09%) Terraform
3 2 (0.54%) Ansible
3 2 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.27%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 105 (28.61%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.90%) VMware
3 19 (5.18%) Cisco
4 16 (4.36%) Dell
4 16 (4.36%) Google
4 16 (4.36%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.27%) Juniper
5 12 (3.27%) McAfee
6 11 (3.00%) Fortinet
6 11 (3.00%) Fujitsu
6 11 (3.00%) Virgin Media
7 7 (1.91%) HP
8 6 (1.63%) Siemens
9 5 (1.36%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.09%) Freshdesk
11 3 (0.82%) Adobe
11 3 (0.82%) Apple
11 3 (0.82%) Infor
11 3 (0.82%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.82%) Veeam