Senior Support Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Senior Support Engineer
England > North of England

The median Senior Support Engineer salary in the North of England is £37,500 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 318 352 431
Rank change year-on-year +34 +79 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Support Engineer 11 27 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.097% 0.15% 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.16% 0.013%
Number of salaries quoted 11 25 2
10th Percentile - £33,000 £42,875
25th Percentile £28,750 £33,500 £43,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £45,000 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -2.70% +38.06%
75th Percentile £45,625 £72,433 £48,438
90th Percentile £67,500 - £48,625
England median annual salary £45,000 £48,750 £45,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 10,443 16,576 15,393
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.81% 94.91% 89.36%
Number of salaries quoted 5,850 12,833 8,151
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Senior Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Support Engineer in the North of England

Senior Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Support Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Senior Support Engineer in the North of England

Senior Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Support Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Support Engineer in the North of England

Senior Support Engineer
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Support Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 9 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
Yorkshire +52 6 £29,500 -58.20% 3
North West +6 5 £45,000 +13.92% 4
Senior Support Engineer
England

Senior Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, Senior 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 of England region featuring Senior Support Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Project Delivery
2 5 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (45.45%) VMware
2 5 (45.45%) Mentoring
2 5 (45.45%) Project Management
3 4 (36.36%) Firewall
3 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
4 3 (27.27%) Windows
4 3 (27.27%) Linux
4 3 (27.27%) DNS
4 3 (27.27%) Azure
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (27.27%) Hyper-V
5 2 (18.18%) Windows 10
5 2 (18.18%) AWS
5 2 (18.18%) GCP
5 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
5 2 (18.18%) Unix
5 2 (18.18%) Legal
5 2 (18.18%) LAN
5 2 (18.18%) WAN
5 2 (18.18%) DHCP
5 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
5 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
6 1 (9.09%) VPN
6 1 (9.09%) Java
6 1 (9.09%) ITIL
6 1 (9.09%) A+ Certification

Senior Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Firewall
2 3 (27.27%) DNS
3 2 (18.18%) DHCP
3 2 (18.18%) LAN
3 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
3 2 (18.18%) WAN
4 1 (9.09%) HTTP
4 1 (9.09%) SAN
4 1 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Legal
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) Unix
2 2 (18.18%) Windows 10
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Mentoring
1 5 (45.45%) Project Delivery
1 5 (45.45%) Project Management
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (9.09%) Application Security
3 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
3 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
3 1 (9.09%) Customer Service
3 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) DevSecOps
3 1 (9.09%) Ergonomics
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (9.09%) ITIL
3 1 (9.09%) Presales
3 1 (9.09%) Product Management
3 1 (9.09%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Go
1 1 (9.09%) Java
1 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (27.27%) Hyper-V
3 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
4 1 (9.09%) Docker
4 1 (9.09%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) VMware
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco
3 1 (9.09%) CyberArk
3 1 (9.09%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) Meraki