Support Engineer Jobs in Reading

Support Engineer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Support Engineer salary in Reading is £34,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 110 100
Rank change year-on-year +33 -10 -15
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 40 19 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 2.36% 1.20% 1.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.49% 1.28% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 37 13 32
10th Percentile - - £25,000
25th Percentile £25,500 £23,500 £26,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,500 £32,500 £31,250
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% +4.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £36,000 £37,500 £42,500
90th Percentile £49,850 £54,300 £48,625
Berkshire median annual salary £35,200 £32,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -1.54% -13.91%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Reading

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 1,608 1,482 1,724
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.70% 93.62% 97.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,018 792 1,020
10th Percentile £29,938 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £82,500
Berkshire median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in Reading

Support Engineer
Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for Support Engineer in Reading

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in Reading over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Support Engineer in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, 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 Reading region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 20 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (47.50%) Windows
4 17 (42.50%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (42.50%) Social Skills
5 15 (37.50%) DV Cleared
5 15 (37.50%) Security Cleared
6 14 (35.00%) LAN
6 14 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (32.50%) Windows 10
7 13 (32.50%) Customer Service
8 11 (27.50%) SCCM
8 11 (27.50%) ITIL
8 11 (27.50%) HP
9 10 (25.00%) Firmware
9 10 (25.00%) Software Testing
9 10 (25.00%) Service Delivery
9 10 (25.00%) Windows 7
9 10 (25.00%) Software Deployment
9 10 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
10 9 (22.50%) Driving Licence
10 9 (22.50%) Azure
10 9 (22.50%) VLAN
11 8 (20.00%) Apple
11 8 (20.00%) SharePoint
11 8 (20.00%) Barracuda Networks
11 8 (20.00%) Android
12 7 (17.50%) Active Directory
12 7 (17.50%) Degree

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 8 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 6 (15.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 20 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 17 (42.50%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (22.50%) Azure
3 4 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (2.50%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 14 (35.00%) LAN
2 9 (22.50%) VLAN
3 6 (15.00%) Firewall
4 5 (12.50%) SAN
4 5 (12.50%) WAN
5 4 (10.00%) NAS
5 4 (10.00%) Network Security
5 4 (10.00%) VoIP
5 4 (10.00%) VPN
5 4 (10.00%) Wireshark
6 2 (5.00%) Wireless
7 1 (2.50%) DHCP
7 1 (2.50%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
1 1 (2.50%) Eclipse
1 1 (2.50%) Git
1 1 (2.50%) Gradle
1 1 (2.50%) IntelliJ
1 1 (2.50%) JIRA
1 1 (2.50%) JUnit
General
1 17 (42.50%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.50%) Kafka
2 1 (2.50%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 9 (22.50%) Driving Licence
2 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (47.50%) Windows
2 13 (32.50%) Windows 10
3 10 (25.00%) Windows 7
4 8 (20.00%) Android
5 6 (15.00%) Linux
6 1 (2.50%) Mac OS
6 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.50%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (32.50%) Customer Service
3 11 (27.50%) ITIL
4 10 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
4 10 (25.00%) Service Delivery
4 10 (25.00%) Software Deployment
4 10 (25.00%) Software Testing
5 3 (7.50%) Microservices
5 3 (7.50%) Migration
5 3 (7.50%) Software Engineering
6 2 (5.00%) Decision-Making
6 2 (5.00%) Kalman Filter
6 2 (5.00%) Mathematics
7 1 (2.50%) Break/Fix
7 1 (2.50%) Computer Science
7 1 (2.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (2.50%) Performance Monitoring
7 1 (2.50%) Performance Tuning
7 1 (2.50%) Proactive Monitoring
7 1 (2.50%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 4 (10.00%) Bash
2 4 (10.00%) Java
2 4 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (37.50%) DV Cleared
1 15 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 7 (17.50%) Degree
3 5 (12.50%) CCNA
3 5 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (10.00%) MCSE
4 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.00%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.50%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (25.00%) Firmware
2 7 (17.50%) Active Directory
3 5 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (5.00%) Docker
5 1 (2.50%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (27.50%) SCCM
2 1 (2.50%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.50%) NetBackup
2 1 (2.50%) SCOM
2 1 (2.50%) vCenter Server
2 1 (2.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 25 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 11 (27.50%) HP
3 8 (20.00%) Apple
3 8 (20.00%) Barracuda Networks
4 5 (12.50%) VMware
5 2 (5.00%) Oracle
6 1 (2.50%) 3PAR
6 1 (2.50%) Cisco
6 1 (2.50%) Dell
6 1 (2.50%) EMC
6 1 (2.50%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (2.50%) Google
6 1 (2.50%) Juniper
6 1 (2.50%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.50%) Symantec
6 1 (2.50%) Veeam