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 £33,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 October 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 191 245 194
Rank change year-on-year +54 -51 +123
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Support Engineer 98 76 91
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.10% 0.67% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.22% 0.69% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 87 59 61
10th Percentile £26,150 £25,750 £24,750
25th Percentile £27,500 £25,813 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £30,000 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% - +1.55%
75th Percentile £40,603 £36,250 £37,500
90th Percentile £43,250 £45,000 £42,500
England median annual salary £32,500 £32,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +3.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 8,059 10,984 7,461
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.50% 96.61% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 4,666 6,142 5,296
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,003 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,625 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% -4.17% -

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 29 October 2025.

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 29 October 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
Thames Valley +15 34 £33,000 +4.76% 12
Surrey +24 23 £36,000 +2.86% 4
Hampshire +39 18 £37,500 +25.00% 2
Buckinghamshire +17 14 £33,000 -12.00% 3
Oxfordshire +25 13 £28,500 +3.64% 5
West Sussex +11 11 £31,000 - 4
Berkshire +7 7 £33,500 -4.29% 4
Kent +16 5 £42,456 +41.52% 1
Sussex +11 3 £42,500 +60.38%
East Sussex +5 3 £26,000 -38.82%
IT Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 October 2025, 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 72 (73.47%) Microsoft
2 70 (71.43%) Windows
3 55 (56.12%) Active Directory
4 50 (51.02%) Microsoft 365
5 45 (45.92%) Azure
6 32 (32.65%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (25.51%) VMware
8 23 (23.47%) Windows Server
9 20 (20.41%) Degree
9 20 (20.41%) Microsoft Exchange
10 18 (18.37%) VMware Infrastructure
11 17 (17.35%) Firewall
11 17 (17.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 17 (17.35%) ITIL
12 16 (16.33%) Computer Science
12 16 (16.33%) Computer Science Degree
13 15 (15.31%) Customer Service
13 15 (15.31%) DHCP
13 15 (15.31%) DNS
13 15 (15.31%) Google
13 15 (15.31%) Microsoft Intune
14 14 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
14 14 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
14 14 (14.29%) PowerShell
15 13 (13.27%) GCP
15 13 (13.27%) Hyper-V
15 13 (13.27%) IIS
15 13 (13.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 13 (13.27%) SharePoint
15 13 (13.27%) SQL

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 20 (20.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (13.27%) IIS
2 13 (13.27%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 50 (51.02%) Microsoft 365
2 45 (45.92%) Azure
3 13 (13.27%) GCP
4 12 (12.24%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (11.22%) Entra ID
6 8 (8.16%) AWS
7 6 (6.12%) Power Automate
8 5 (5.10%) Azure AI
8 5 (5.10%) Microsoft Copilot
8 5 (5.10%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.06%) Google Workspace
10 1 (1.02%) GitHub
10 1 (1.02%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.02%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (17.35%) Firewall
2 15 (15.31%) DHCP
2 15 (15.31%) DNS
3 12 (12.24%) TCP/IP
4 9 (9.18%) SAN
4 9 (9.18%) VPN
5 6 (6.12%) Wireless
6 5 (5.10%) IP Telephony
6 5 (5.10%) NAS
6 5 (5.10%) SNMP
6 5 (5.10%) VLAN
7 4 (4.08%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.02%) LAN
8 1 (1.02%) PBX
8 1 (1.02%) Unified Communications
8 1 (1.02%) VoIP
8 1 (1.02%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.24%) SQL Server
2 11 (11.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (5.10%) Power BI
4 3 (3.06%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (3.06%) JIRA
General
1 41 (41.84%) Social Skills
2 4 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (4.08%) Law
2 4 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
2 4 (4.08%) Retail
3 2 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (2.04%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.02%) Finance
4 1 (1.02%) German Language
4 1 (1.02%) Legal
4 1 (1.02%) Military
4 1 (1.02%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.22%) .NET
1 11 (11.22%) .NET Framework
1 11 (11.22%) Entity Framework
1 11 (11.22%) WinForms
2 6 (6.12%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.18%) Onboarding
2 7 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (5.10%) Blackberry
4 4 (4.08%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.02%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.02%) Device Driver
5 1 (1.02%) IVR
5 1 (1.02%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.02%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 70 (71.43%) Windows
2 23 (23.47%) Windows Server
3 11 (11.22%) Linux
3 11 (11.22%) Windows 10
4 6 (6.12%) Mac OS
5 4 (4.08%) Apple iOS
5 4 (4.08%) Unix
6 2 (2.04%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (2.04%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.02%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (32.65%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (17.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (17.35%) ITIL
3 16 (16.33%) Computer Science
4 15 (15.31%) Customer Service
5 12 (12.24%) Cybersecurity
5 12 (12.24%) DevOps
6 11 (11.22%) Software Engineering
6 11 (11.22%) Virtual Environments
7 10 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (10.20%) Kalman Filter
8 9 (9.18%) Agile
9 6 (6.12%) IT Strategy
10 5 (5.10%) Antivirus Management
10 5 (5.10%) Customer-Centricity
10 5 (5.10%) Project Delivery
10 5 (5.10%) Security Monitoring
10 5 (5.10%) Storage Management
10 5 (5.10%) Threat Detection
10 5 (5.10%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 14 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 13 (13.27%) SQL
3 11 (11.22%) C#
3 11 (11.22%) T-SQL
4 3 (3.06%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (20.41%) Degree
2 16 (16.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (9.18%) MCP
5 8 (8.16%) A+ Certification
5 8 (8.16%) Security Cleared
6 6 (6.12%) HND
6 6 (6.12%) SC Cleared
7 5 (5.10%) DBS Check
8 2 (2.04%) MCSA
9 1 (1.02%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (12.24%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (6.12%) SLA
4 5 (5.10%) Accessibility
5 4 (4.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.02%) NIST
System Software
1 55 (56.12%) Active Directory
2 18 (18.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (13.27%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.04%) Firmware
4 2 (2.04%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (15.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (5.10%) SCCM
3 3 (3.06%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.02%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 72 (73.47%) Microsoft
2 25 (25.51%) VMware
3 15 (15.31%) Google
4 11 (11.22%) Sage
4 11 (11.22%) Veeam
4 11 (11.22%) Xamarin
5 5 (5.10%) Apple
5 5 (5.10%) McAfee
5 5 (5.10%) Zoho
6 4 (4.08%) Sophos
7 2 (2.04%) Cisco
7 2 (2.04%) SonicWALL
7 2 (2.04%) WatchGuard
8 1 (1.02%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.02%) Meraki
8 1 (1.02%) Peplink
8 1 (1.02%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.02%) Ubiquiti