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 14 September 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 235 237
Rank change year-on-year +132 +2 -19
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Support Engineer 300 65 95
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.64% 0.72% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.74% 0.80% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 287 42 83
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,250 £23,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £25,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £38,750 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +29.17% -
75th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £38,750
90th Percentile £49,250 £43,250 £43,750
England median annual salary £34,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year -2.86% +7.69% -

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 17,290 8,099 12,367
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.54% 89.54% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 12,303 4,438 7,466
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 £51,749
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -3.38% -5.91%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £59,853 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.82% - -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 14 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 14 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 92 £39,000 +16.42% 8
Hampshire +33 89 £34,500 +16.95% 13
Surrey -6 53 £42,500 +6.25% 6
Oxfordshire -3 34 £36,250 -11.59% 5
Kent +8 33 £30,000 -29.34% 5
Berkshire +41 29 £39,000 +16.42% 2
Buckinghamshire +23 29 £35,000 +25.00% 1
West Sussex - 20 £35,000 - 3
East Sussex -2 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 14 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
2 148 (49.33%) Windows
3 144 (48.00%) Microsoft 365
4 104 (34.67%) Active Directory
5 82 (27.33%) Azure
6 75 (25.00%) Entra ID
6 75 (25.00%) Windows Server
7 68 (22.67%) Customer Service
8 63 (21.00%) Problem-Solving
9 61 (20.33%) Microsoft Intune
10 51 (17.00%) Microsoft Exchange
11 48 (16.00%) Firewall
12 47 (15.67%) DNS
13 44 (14.67%) Disaster Recovery
13 44 (14.67%) SharePoint
14 40 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
14 40 (13.33%) VMware
15 36 (12.00%) ITIL
16 35 (11.67%) DBS Check
17 34 (11.33%) DHCP
17 34 (11.33%) Hyper-V
18 31 (10.33%) VPN
19 29 (9.67%) Mac OS
19 29 (9.67%) Project Delivery
19 29 (9.67%) VMware Infrastructure
20 28 (9.33%) Linux
21 27 (9.00%) Wi-Fi
22 24 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
22 24 (8.00%) VLAN
22 24 (8.00%) VoIP

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 51 (17.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 44 (14.67%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.33%) IIS
4 1 (0.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (4.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.00%) NetSuite
1 3 (1.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 144 (48.00%) Microsoft 365
2 82 (27.33%) Azure
3 75 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 16 (5.33%) Google Workspace
5 14 (4.67%) SaaS
6 13 (4.33%) Power Automate
7 10 (3.33%) Mimecast
8 6 (2.00%) Power Platform
9 5 (1.67%) AWS
9 5 (1.67%) OneDrive
10 3 (1.00%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 48 (16.00%) Firewall
2 47 (15.67%) DNS
3 34 (11.33%) DHCP
4 31 (10.33%) VPN
5 27 (9.00%) Wi-Fi
6 24 (8.00%) VLAN
6 24 (8.00%) VoIP
7 18 (6.00%) LAN
7 18 (6.00%) TCP/IP
7 18 (6.00%) Wireless
8 14 (4.67%) SSL
8 14 (4.67%) WAN
9 13 (4.33%) Internet
10 8 (2.67%) Remote Desktop
11 7 (2.33%) NAS
12 6 (2.00%) SAN
13 4 (1.33%) WLAN
14 2 (0.67%) Network Security
15 1 (0.33%) Broadband
15 1 (0.33%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.33%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (1.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (5.33%) JIRA
General
1 94 (31.33%) Social Skills
2 15 (5.00%) Manufacturing
3 14 (4.67%) Legal
3 14 (4.67%) Organisational Skills
4 12 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (3.00%) Finance
6 7 (2.33%) Retail
7 5 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (1.00%) Advertising
9 3 (1.00%) Back Office
10 2 (0.67%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.33%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.33%) Aviation
11 1 (0.33%) Military
11 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.33%) .NET
1 4 (1.33%) ASP.NET Web Forms
1 4 (1.33%) WinForms
2 2 (0.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 43 (14.33%) Driving Licence
2 18 (6.00%) Onboarding
3 16 (5.33%) 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
8 1 (0.33%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 148 (49.33%) Windows
2 75 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 29 (9.67%) Mac OS
4 28 (9.33%) Linux
5 17 (5.67%) 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 68 (22.67%) Customer Service
2 63 (21.00%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (14.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 40 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
5 36 (12.00%) ITIL
6 29 (9.67%) Project Delivery
7 24 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 22 (7.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (5.67%) Change Management
10 16 (5.33%) Process Improvement
11 15 (5.00%) Identity Management
12 14 (4.67%) Kalman Filter
12 14 (4.67%) Mentoring
12 14 (4.67%) Ticket Management
13 13 (4.33%) Client Onboarding
13 13 (4.33%) Security Management
13 13 (4.33%) Server Management
14 12 (4.00%) Collaborative Culture
14 12 (4.00%) User Experience
15 11 (3.67%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 17 (5.67%) PowerShell
2 14 (4.67%) SQL
3 10 (3.33%) R
3 10 (3.33%) Ruby
4 4 (1.33%) C#
5 1 (0.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 35 (11.67%) 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
4 11 (3.67%) Security Cleared
5 4 (1.33%) A+ Certification
5 4 (1.33%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.33%) CCNA
5 4 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 15 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (4.67%) GDPR
4 11 (3.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 7 (2.33%) SLA
6 3 (1.00%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 104 (34.67%) 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 2 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 61 (20.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (4.00%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (0.67%) SCCM
3 2 (0.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 158 (52.67%) Microsoft
2 40 (13.33%) VMware
3 23 (7.67%) Veeam
4 22 (7.33%) Cisco
5 16 (5.33%) Google
6 15 (5.00%) Apple
7 13 (4.33%) SonicWALL
8 11 (3.67%) Datto
9 10 (3.33%) CrowdStrike
10 8 (2.67%) Meraki
11 7 (2.33%) Ubiquiti
12 5 (1.67%) Citrix
12 5 (1.67%) Dell
12 5 (1.67%) Okta
13 4 (1.33%) Facebook
13 4 (1.33%) Instagram
13 4 (1.33%) Sophos
14 3 (1.00%) Barracuda Networks
14 3 (1.00%) HP
15 2 (0.67%) Symantec