Support Engineer Jobs in Plymouth

Support Engineer
Devon > Plymouth

The median Support Engineer salary in Plymouth is £32,500 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 14 25 27
Rank change year-on-year +11 +2 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 4 9 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Plymouth 5.19% 4.29% 1.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.80% 4.48% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3 7 2
10th Percentile £31,000 £23,800 £35,125
25th Percentile £31,563 £25,000 £35,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £27,500 £36,250
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -24.14% +72.62%
75th Percentile - £28,750 £37,813
90th Percentile - - £38,375
Devon median annual salary £32,500 £29,000 £27,500
% change year-on-year +12.07% +5.45% -9.84%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Plymouth

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Plymouth. 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 Plymouth with a recognized job title 69 201 95
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.61% 95.71% 75.40%
Number of salaries quoted 42 166 72
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,125 £26,500
25th Percentile £25,267 £35,000 £35,164
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.59% -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £58,323 £55,000 £50,250
90th Percentile £61,500 £61,250 £54,892
Devon median annual salary £38,000 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -15.56% +12.50% -11.11%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Plymouth

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in Plymouth

Support Engineer
Salary Trend in Plymouth

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

Salary trend for Support Engineer in Plymouth

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 Plymouth region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (75.00%) LAN
1 3 (75.00%) WAN
1 3 (75.00%) DHCP
1 3 (75.00%) VPN
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
1 3 (75.00%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (75.00%) IPsec
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (75.00%) VLAN
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (75.00%) OneDrive
1 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (75.00%) Driving Licence
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineering

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Plymouth 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 3 (75.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (75.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DHCP
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
1 3 (75.00%) IPsec
1 3 (75.00%) LAN
1 3 (75.00%) VLAN
1 3 (75.00%) VPN
1 3 (75.00%) WAN
1 3 (75.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement Process
3 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft