Support Engineer Jobs in Northern Ireland

Support Engineer
UK > Northern Ireland

The median Support Engineer salary in Northern Ireland is £55,000 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 33 42 71
Rank change year-on-year +9 +29 -17
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 4 34 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 1.49% 4.82% 3.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.67% 5.04% 3.26%
Number of salaries quoted 3 34 14
10th Percentile £44,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £31,313 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £35,000 £36,750
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -4.76% +22.50%
75th Percentile £57,500 £36,500 £46,250
90th Percentile - £40,000 £47,500
UK median annual salary £37,500 £32,500 £33,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% -2.99% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Northern Ireland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Northern Ireland. 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 Northern Ireland with a recognized job title 240 675 829
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.55% 95.74% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 61 323 453
10th Percentile £23,504 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £68,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in Northern Ireland

Support Engineer
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Support Engineer in Northern Ireland.

Salary trend for Support Engineer in Northern Ireland

Support Engineer
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Support Engineer within the Northern Ireland 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
County Antrim +12 3 £55,000 +57.14% 16
Support Engineer
UK

Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Trade Surveillance
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) Prometheus
2 3 (75.00%) PL/SQL
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) Control-M
2 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Spring
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (50.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (50.00%) Advertising
3 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (50.00%) Middleware
3 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) DB2

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (50.00%) DB2
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Advertising
3 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (75.00%) Spring
1 3 (75.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (50.00%) Middleware
2 2 (50.00%) React
3 1 (25.00%) JSON
3 1 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Trade Surveillance
3 2 (50.00%) Case Management
3 2 (50.00%) Problem Management
4 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) High Availability
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (25.00%) ITSM
4 1 (25.00%) Major Incident Management
4 1 (25.00%) OO
4 1 (25.00%) OOD
4 1 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
4 1 (25.00%) Runbook
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Control-M
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (50.00%) Grafana
2 2 (50.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (50.00%) Splunk
3 1 (25.00%) AppDynamics
3 1 (25.00%) BMC
3 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow