Technical Support Engineer Jobs in the North West

Technical Support Engineer
England > North West

The median Technical Support Engineer salary in the North West is £47,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 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
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 252 262 285
Rank change year-on-year +10 +23 +23
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Support Engineer 13 25 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.17% 0.26% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.27% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6 23 10
10th Percentile £33,813 £26,000 £25,925
25th Percentile £36,250 £27,250 £29,285
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,250 £30,000 £30,690
Median % change year-on-year +57.50% -2.25% +30.60%
75th Percentile £65,125 £42,500 £32,118
90th Percentile £76,250 £50,000 £33,500
England median annual salary £34,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -1.43% - +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 6,933 9,216 7,073
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.82% 94.65% 89.09%
Number of salaries quoted 4,092 7,079 4,124
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,200 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,620 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -8.90% +4.54%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,550 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Support Engineer in the North West

Technical Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Technical Support Engineer in the North West

Technical Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Support Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Support Engineer in the North West

Technical Support Engineer
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 4 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
Manchester +75 6 £57,000 +103.57% 6
Merseyside +36 4 - - 1
Cheshire +26 3 £37,500 -25.00% 1
Technical Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 West region featuring Technical Support Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (69.23%) VMware
2 8 (61.54%) Microsoft
2 8 (61.54%) Azure
3 7 (53.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (53.85%) Hyper-V
3 7 (53.85%) Firewall
3 7 (53.85%) ITIL
3 7 (53.85%) DNS
3 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
4 6 (46.15%) WAN
4 6 (46.15%) Windows
5 5 (38.46%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (38.46%) Customer Service
5 5 (38.46%) Windows Server
6 4 (30.77%) Private Cloud
6 4 (30.77%) Customer Experience
6 4 (30.77%) Proxmox
6 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
6 4 (30.77%) Cisco
6 4 (30.77%) VPN
6 4 (30.77%) MPLS
7 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
7 2 (15.38%) Business Continuity
7 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
7 2 (15.38%) DHCP
7 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
7 2 (15.38%) LAN
7 2 (15.38%) Linux
7 2 (15.38%) Unix

Technical Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) AutoCAD
1 1 (7.69%) Autodesk Inventor
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (53.85%) DNS
1 7 (53.85%) Firewall
2 6 (46.15%) WAN
3 4 (30.77%) MPLS
3 4 (30.77%) VPN
4 2 (15.38%) DHCP
4 2 (15.38%) LAN
4 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
5 1 (7.69%) HTTP
5 1 (7.69%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Legal
2 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Private Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Windows
2 5 (38.46%) Windows Server
3 2 (15.38%) Linux
3 2 (15.38%) Unix
4 1 (7.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) ITIL
1 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (38.46%) Customer Service
3 4 (30.77%) Customer Experience
3 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
4 2 (15.38%) Application Packaging
4 2 (15.38%) Business Continuity
4 2 (15.38%) Compatibility Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (15.38%) Proactive Monitoring
4 2 (15.38%) Resource Allocation
4 2 (15.38%) Software Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Storage Management
4 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
5 1 (7.69%) CAD
5 1 (7.69%) Computer Science
5 1 (7.69%) DevSecOps
5 1 (7.69%) Ergonomics
5 1 (7.69%) Logistics
5 1 (7.69%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) Go
2 1 (7.69%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) HND
1 1 (7.69%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Hyper-V
1 7 (53.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Proxmox
2 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) VMware
2 8 (61.54%) Microsoft
3 4 (30.77%) Cisco
4 2 (15.38%) Oracle
5 1 (7.69%) Google
5 1 (7.69%) SAP
5 1 (7.69%) Siemens