Technical Support Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Technical Support Engineer
England > North of England

The median Technical Support Engineer salary in the North of England is £31,625 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 288 321 413
Rank change year-on-year +33 +92 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Support Engineer 31 70 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.28% 0.40% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.43% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 22 57 21
10th Percentile £27,750 £24,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,000 £27,000 £29,285
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,625 £32,500 £31,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +3.17% +26.00%
75th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £35,000
90th Percentile £58,000 £44,944 -
England median annual salary £34,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -1.43% - +7.69%

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 10,102 16,419 15,601
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.50% 94.97% 89.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,845 12,705 8,277
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,000 £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 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Technical Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

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

Technical Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Technical Support Engineer in the North of England

Technical Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Support Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Support Engineer in the North of England

Technical 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 Technical Support Engineer within the North of England 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
Yorkshire +51 18 £30,500 -6.15% 15
North West +14 13 £47,250 +57.50% 10
Technical Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Technical 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 Technical Support Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (38.71%) Customer Service
2 11 (35.48%) Social Skills
3 9 (29.03%) Mentoring
3 9 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (29.03%) VMware
3 9 (29.03%) Firewall
4 8 (25.81%) Microsoft
4 8 (25.81%) Windows
4 8 (25.81%) Azure
5 7 (22.58%) Hyper-V
5 7 (22.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (22.58%) ITIL
5 7 (22.58%) DNS
6 6 (19.35%) WAN
6 6 (19.35%) Degree
7 5 (16.13%) Project Management
7 5 (16.13%) Unified Communications
7 5 (16.13%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (16.13%) Windows Server
7 5 (16.13%) Project Delivery
8 4 (12.90%) Customer Experience
8 4 (12.90%) Private Cloud
8 4 (12.90%) Proxmox
8 4 (12.90%) MPLS
8 4 (12.90%) Cisco
8 4 (12.90%) VPN
8 4 (12.90%) SQL
8 4 (12.90%) Linux
8 4 (12.90%) Legal
9 3 (9.68%) Manufacturing

Technical 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 2 (6.45%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) AutoCAD
1 1 (3.23%) Autodesk Inventor
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.81%) Azure
2 5 (16.13%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.45%) AWS
3 2 (6.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (29.03%) Firewall
2 7 (22.58%) DNS
3 6 (19.35%) WAN
4 5 (16.13%) Unified Communications
5 4 (12.90%) MPLS
5 4 (12.90%) VPN
6 2 (6.45%) DHCP
6 2 (6.45%) LAN
6 2 (6.45%) TCP/IP
7 1 (3.23%) HTTP
7 1 (3.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) JIRA
General
1 11 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Legal
3 3 (9.68%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.45%) Advertising
4 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Health Technology
4 2 (6.45%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.23%) Finance
5 1 (3.23%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Private Cloud
2 2 (6.45%) Driving Licence
2 2 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.23%) NHS
3 1 (3.23%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.81%) Windows
2 5 (16.13%) Windows Server
3 4 (12.90%) Linux
4 2 (6.45%) Unix
5 1 (3.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (38.71%) Customer Service
2 9 (29.03%) Mentoring
2 9 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (22.58%) ITIL
4 5 (16.13%) Project Delivery
4 5 (16.13%) Project Management
5 4 (12.90%) Customer Experience
6 2 (6.45%) Application Packaging
6 2 (6.45%) Business Continuity
6 2 (6.45%) Compatibility Testing
6 2 (6.45%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (6.45%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (6.45%) Proactive Monitoring
6 2 (6.45%) Resource Allocation
6 2 (6.45%) Software Testing
6 2 (6.45%) Storage Management
6 2 (6.45%) Test Automation
7 1 (3.23%) CAD
7 1 (3.23%) Informatics
7 1 (3.23%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.90%) SQL
2 1 (3.23%) Go
2 1 (3.23%) Java
2 1 (3.23%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) Degree
2 1 (3.23%) HND
2 1 (3.23%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (22.58%) Hyper-V
1 7 (22.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.90%) Proxmox
2 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (29.03%) VMware
2 8 (25.81%) Microsoft
3 4 (12.90%) Cisco
4 2 (6.45%) Oracle
4 2 (6.45%) Siemens
5 1 (3.23%) Google
5 1 (3.23%) SAP