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 £32,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 November 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 238 178
Rank change year-on-year +77 -60 +117
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Support Engineer 110 76 97
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.18% 0.68% 1.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.30% 0.71% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 103 55 66
10th Percentile £26,050 - £25,000
25th Percentile £27,250 £25,750 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £30,000 £30,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -1.64% +1.67%
75th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £38,250
90th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £43,125
England median annual salary £32,000 £31,250 £32,500
% change year-on-year +2.40% -3.85% +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 8,465 10,727 7,186
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.14% 95.49% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5,296 5,965 5,141
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £55,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% +3.77% -3.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,000
England median annual salary £54,292 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.58% -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 20 November 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 20 November 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 +31 44 £32,750 +15.93% 10
Surrey +19 24 £32,250 -7.86% 5
Hampshire +48 21 £37,500 +25.00% 12
Buckinghamshire +27 18 £33,000 -7.69% 3
Oxfordshire +25 16 £28,500 +3.64% 3
West Sussex +14 13 £31,000 - 3
Berkshire +12 10 £32,500 -7.14% 4
East Sussex +18 3 £26,000 -35.00%
Sussex +10 3 £42,500 +60.38% 2
Kent -2 1 £42,456 +54.39% 1
IT Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 November 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 83 (75.45%) Microsoft
2 79 (71.82%) Windows
3 66 (60.00%) Active Directory
4 62 (56.36%) Microsoft 365
5 53 (48.18%) Azure
6 37 (33.64%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (26.36%) Windows Server
8 22 (20.00%) SharePoint
9 20 (18.18%) Firewall
10 19 (17.27%) VMware
11 18 (16.36%) Customer Service
11 18 (16.36%) DHCP
11 18 (16.36%) DNS
11 18 (16.36%) ITIL
11 18 (16.36%) Microsoft Intune
11 18 (16.36%) Microsoft Office
12 17 (15.45%) Degree
13 15 (13.64%) Google
13 15 (13.64%) Windows 10
14 14 (12.73%) Computer Science
14 14 (12.73%) Computer Science Degree
14 14 (12.73%) Cyber Essentials
14 14 (12.73%) Entra ID
14 14 (12.73%) IIS
14 14 (12.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 14 (12.73%) Microsoft Exchange
14 14 (12.73%) SQL
15 13 (11.82%) Azure DevOps
15 13 (11.82%) Cybersecurity
15 13 (11.82%) DevOps

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 22 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 14 (12.73%) IIS
2 14 (12.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.82%) Confluence
Applications
1 18 (16.36%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 62 (56.36%) Microsoft 365
2 53 (48.18%) Azure
3 14 (12.73%) Entra ID
4 13 (11.82%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (11.82%) GCP
5 8 (7.27%) AWS
5 8 (7.27%) Power Automate
6 5 (4.55%) Azure AI
6 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Copilot
6 5 (4.55%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.73%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.91%) GitHub
8 1 (0.91%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.91%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (18.18%) Firewall
2 18 (16.36%) DHCP
2 18 (16.36%) DNS
3 13 (11.82%) TCP/IP
4 12 (10.91%) VPN
5 7 (6.36%) VoIP
5 7 (6.36%) Wireless
6 5 (4.55%) SAN
6 5 (4.55%) VLAN
7 4 (3.64%) LAN
7 4 (3.64%) WAN
7 4 (3.64%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (2.73%) Unified Communications
9 2 (1.82%) IP Telephony
9 2 (1.82%) NAS
9 2 (1.82%) SNMP
10 1 (0.91%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 9 (8.18%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.55%) Power BI
4 4 (3.64%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (2.73%) JIRA
General
1 43 (39.09%) Social Skills
2 6 (5.45%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (4.55%) Law
3 5 (4.55%) Telecoms
4 4 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (3.64%) Retail
5 3 (2.73%) Legal
5 3 (2.73%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.91%) Finance
7 1 (0.91%) German Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.91%) .NET
1 12 (10.91%) .NET Framework
1 12 (10.91%) Entity Framework
1 12 (10.91%) WinForms
2 7 (6.36%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.00%) Driving Licence
1 11 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 7 (6.36%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (1.82%) Blackberry
4 1 (0.91%) Client/Server
4 1 (0.91%) Device Driver
4 1 (0.91%) IVR
4 1 (0.91%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 79 (71.82%) Windows
2 29 (26.36%) Windows Server
3 15 (13.64%) Windows 10
4 7 (6.36%) Linux
5 5 (4.55%) Mac OS
6 3 (2.73%) Apple iOS
6 3 (2.73%) Unix
7 2 (1.82%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.91%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (33.64%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (16.36%) Customer Service
2 18 (16.36%) ITIL
3 14 (12.73%) Computer Science
4 13 (11.82%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (11.82%) DevOps
4 13 (11.82%) Software Engineering
5 10 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (7.27%) Agile
6 8 (7.27%) Project Delivery
7 7 (6.36%) Asset Management
7 7 (6.36%) ITSM
8 6 (5.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (5.45%) Process Improvement
8 6 (5.45%) Virtual Environments
9 5 (4.55%) Customer-Centricity
9 5 (4.55%) Mentoring
9 5 (4.55%) SDLC
9 5 (4.55%) Security Monitoring
9 5 (4.55%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 14 (12.73%) SQL
2 12 (10.91%) C#
2 12 (10.91%) T-SQL
3 10 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.64%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (15.45%) Degree
2 14 (12.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (8.18%) MCP
5 8 (7.27%) A+ Certification
6 7 (6.36%) DBS Check
7 4 (3.64%) Security Cleared
8 3 (2.73%) SC Cleared
9 2 (1.82%) HND
9 2 (1.82%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.73%) Cyber Essentials
1 14 (12.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (10.00%) SLA
3 5 (4.55%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.91%) NIST
System Software
1 66 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 13 (11.82%) Hyper-V
3 12 (10.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.82%) Firmware
4 2 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (16.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (3.64%) SCCM
3 3 (2.73%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.91%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 83 (75.45%) Microsoft
2 19 (17.27%) VMware
3 15 (13.64%) Google
4 12 (10.91%) Sage
4 12 (10.91%) Xamarin
5 9 (8.18%) Veeam
6 5 (4.55%) Zoho
7 4 (3.64%) Apple
8 3 (2.73%) Adobe
8 3 (2.73%) Sophos
9 2 (1.82%) Cisco
9 2 (1.82%) McAfee
9 2 (1.82%) SonicWALL
9 2 (1.82%) WatchGuard
10 1 (0.91%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.91%) Meraki
10 1 (0.91%) Peplink
10 1 (0.91%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.91%) Ubiquiti