Support Engineer Jobs in the North East

Support Engineer
England > North East

The median Support Engineer salary in the North East is £35,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 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
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 57 94
Rank change year-on-year -13 +37 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 5 60 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 0.62% 3.19% 1.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 3.33% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 4 55 20
10th Percentile £25,850 £25,350 £26,075
25th Percentile £27,875 £28,625 £31,083
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £32,500 £34,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -5.80% +27.78%
75th Percentile £42,500 £33,750 £39,875
90th Percentile - £37,250 £42,625
England median annual salary £38,000 £32,500 £33,500
% change year-on-year +16.92% -2.99% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North East. 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 North East with a recognized job title 729 1,802 1,007
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.00% 95.75% 79.98%
Number of salaries quoted 400 1,447 602
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,500 £30,600
25th Percentile £26,500 £35,500 £37,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £47,641
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -0.30% +19.10%
75th Percentile £65,526 £62,500 £60,899
90th Percentile £75,945 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £56,000 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +5.66% -12.83% +1.33%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in the North East

Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Support Engineer in the North East.

Salary trend for Support Engineer in the North East

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in the North East over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Support Engineer in the North East

Support Engineer
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Support Engineer within the North East region over the 6 months to 20 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
Tyne and Wear -6 3 £30,000 -7.69% 21
Durham +10 1 £40,000 +40.35% 3
Northumberland - 1 - - 1
Support Engineer
England

Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 20 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 North East region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (20.00%) Broadcast Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Post-Production
4 1 (20.00%) B2B Sales
4 1 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (20.00%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (20.00%) Commercial Awareness
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (20.00%) Mobile Device Management
4 1 (20.00%) Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (20.00%) Coaching
4 1 (20.00%) User Experience
4 1 (20.00%) Driving Licence
4 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (20.00%) Proactive Maintenance
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
4 1 (20.00%) VLAN
4 1 (20.00%) Telesales
4 1 (20.00%) Business Development
4 1 (20.00%) Degree

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Broadband
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) VLAN
1 1 (20.00%) VoIP
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
1 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (20.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) B2B
2 1 (20.00%) B2B Sales
2 1 (20.00%) Broadcast Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Business Development
2 1 (20.00%) Coaching
2 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (20.00%) Commercial Awareness
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (20.00%) Data Entry
2 1 (20.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (20.00%) Post-Production
2 1 (20.00%) Proactive Maintenance
2 1 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (20.00%) Telesales
2 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) HNC
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Sun
2 1 (20.00%) VMware