IT Support Engineer Job Trends in the South East

IT Support Engineer
England > South East

The median IT Support Engineer salary in the South East is £35,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 224 222
Rank change year-on-year +125 -2 -7
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Support Engineer 300 69 126
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.70% 0.76% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.79% 0.85% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 288 47 116
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,000 £23,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £25,969
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £37,500 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £42,625
90th Percentile £50,000 £43,250 £43,750
England median annual salary £34,000 £35,000 £31,125
% change year-on-year -2.86% +12.45% -4.23%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 16,782 8,089 12,937
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.03% 89.38% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 11,980 4,523 8,176
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £66,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

IT Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'IT Support Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

IT Support Engineer job vacancy trend in the South East

IT Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for IT Support Engineer job vacancies in the South East.

Salary distribution trend for IT Support Engineer job vacancies in the South East

IT Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Support Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 2 September 2026.

Salary histogram for IT Support Engineer in the South East

IT Support Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Support Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 September 2026. 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
Thames Valley +82 90 £39,000 +0.65% 5
Hampshire +31 87 £32,500 +16.07% 5
Surrey -10 53 £42,500 +9.68% 2
Oxfordshire -1 34 £36,250 -12.65% 1
Kent +7 33 £31,500 -25.81% 4
Buckinghamshire +26 31 £35,000 +25.00%
Berkshire +43 25 £39,000 +16.42% 4
West Sussex - 24 £33,250 - 1
East Sussex -3 13 £30,000 -20.00%
IT Support Engineer
England

IT Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 2 September 2026, IT Support Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring IT Support Engineer in the job title.

1 158 (52.67%) Microsoft
2 141 (47.00%) Windows
3 139 (46.33%) Microsoft 365
4 100 (33.33%) Active Directory
5 82 (27.33%) Azure
6 74 (24.67%) Windows Server
7 73 (24.33%) Customer Service
8 71 (23.67%) Entra ID
9 59 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
10 58 (19.33%) Microsoft Intune
11 50 (16.67%) Firewall
11 50 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
12 47 (15.67%) Disaster Recovery
13 44 (14.67%) DNS
14 43 (14.33%) SharePoint
15 39 (13.00%) Cybersecurity
15 39 (13.00%) VMware
16 38 (12.67%) ITIL
17 36 (12.00%) DBS Check
18 34 (11.33%) Hyper-V
18 34 (11.33%) VPN
19 31 (10.33%) DHCP
20 30 (10.00%) Project Delivery
21 29 (9.67%) VMware Infrastructure
22 27 (9.00%) Linux
23 26 (8.67%) Mac OS
24 25 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
24 25 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
25 24 (8.00%) VLAN
26 23 (7.67%) Continuous Improvement

IT Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 50 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 43 (14.33%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.33%) IIS
4 1 (0.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 139 (46.33%) Microsoft 365
2 82 (27.33%) Azure
3 71 (23.67%) Entra ID
4 16 (5.33%) Google Workspace
5 15 (5.00%) SaaS
6 13 (4.33%) Power Automate
7 11 (3.67%) Mimecast
8 6 (2.00%) AWS
8 6 (2.00%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.33%) OneDrive
10 3 (1.00%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.33%) GCP
11 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 50 (16.67%) Firewall
2 44 (14.67%) DNS
3 34 (11.33%) VPN
4 31 (10.33%) DHCP
5 25 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
6 24 (8.00%) VLAN
7 20 (6.67%) LAN
7 20 (6.67%) VoIP
8 19 (6.33%) TCP/IP
9 17 (5.67%) Wireless
10 16 (5.33%) WAN
11 14 (4.67%) SSL
12 13 (4.33%) Internet
13 8 (2.67%) Remote Desktop
14 7 (2.33%) NAS
15 6 (2.00%) SAN
16 4 (1.33%) WLAN
17 2 (0.67%) Network Security
18 1 (0.33%) Broadband
18 1 (0.33%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (1.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (5.67%) JIRA
General
1 86 (28.67%) Social Skills
2 15 (5.00%) Legal
2 15 (5.00%) Manufacturing
3 12 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
4 11 (3.67%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (3.00%) Finance
6 7 (2.33%) Retail
7 4 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.00%) Back Office
9 1 (0.33%) Advertising
9 1 (0.33%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.33%) Aviation
9 1 (0.33%) Military
9 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.00%) .NET
1 3 (1.00%) ASP.NET Web Forms
1 3 (1.00%) WinForms
2 2 (0.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 43 (14.33%) Driving Licence
2 20 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 15 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (2.33%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.33%) PKI
6 5 (1.67%) Replication
7 4 (1.33%) CCTV
7 4 (1.33%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 141 (47.00%) Windows
2 74 (24.67%) Windows Server
3 27 (9.00%) Linux
4 26 (8.67%) Mac OS
5 16 (5.33%) Windows 10
6 10 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (3.00%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.67%) Rocky
9 4 (1.33%) Android
9 4 (1.33%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (24.33%) Customer Service
2 59 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (15.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 39 (13.00%) Cybersecurity
5 38 (12.67%) ITIL
6 30 (10.00%) Project Delivery
7 25 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 23 (7.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (6.33%) Process Improvement
10 18 (6.00%) Change Management
11 16 (5.33%) Identity Management
11 16 (5.33%) Mentoring
12 14 (4.67%) Kalman Filter
12 14 (4.67%) Ticket Management
13 13 (4.33%) Client Onboarding
13 13 (4.33%) Security Management
13 13 (4.33%) Service Management
14 12 (4.00%) Collaborative Culture
14 12 (4.00%) Server Management
14 12 (4.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 17 (5.67%) PowerShell
2 13 (4.33%) SQL
3 11 (3.67%) R
4 9 (3.00%) Ruby
5 3 (1.00%) C#
6 1 (0.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 36 (12.00%) DBS Check
2 23 (7.67%) Degree
3 20 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (3.67%) CompTIA Security+
4 11 (3.67%) Network+ Certification
5 10 (3.33%) Security Cleared
6 5 (1.67%) CCNA
6 5 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.33%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.00%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 17 (5.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (4.00%) GDPR
4 11 (3.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 8 (2.67%) SLA
6 3 (1.00%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 100 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 34 (11.33%) Hyper-V
3 29 (9.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.00%) BitLocker
6 3 (1.00%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 58 (19.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (4.00%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (1.00%) SCCM
4 1 (0.33%) Autotask
4 1 (0.33%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 158 (52.67%) Microsoft
2 39 (13.00%) VMware
3 23 (7.67%) Veeam
4 21 (7.00%) Cisco
5 17 (5.67%) Google
6 14 (4.67%) SonicWALL
7 13 (4.33%) Apple
8 12 (4.00%) Datto
9 11 (3.67%) CrowdStrike
10 8 (2.67%) Meraki
11 7 (2.33%) Ubiquiti
12 6 (2.00%) Citrix
13 5 (1.67%) Dell
13 5 (1.67%) Okta
14 4 (1.33%) Facebook
14 4 (1.33%) Instagram
14 4 (1.33%) Sophos
15 3 (1.00%) Barracuda Networks
15 3 (1.00%) Fortinet
15 3 (1.00%) HP