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 12 November 2025.

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

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 237 196
Rank change year-on-year +65 -41 +106
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Support Engineer 112 76 94
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.23% 0.68% 1.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.35% 0.71% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 104 56 62
10th Percentile £26,075 - £25,000
25th Percentile £27,250 £25,750 £27,124
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £30,000 £30,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -1.64% +3.39%
75th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £37,500
90th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £42,500
England median annual salary £32,000 £31,250 £32,500
% change year-on-year +2.40% -3.85% +2.36%

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 8,290 10,768 7,295
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.76% 96.00% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5,030 5,981 5,213
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £53,825
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +2.18% -2.14%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.83% -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 12 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 12 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 +24 42 £33,000 +16.81% 12
Surrey +18 26 £35,000 - 5
Hampshire +39 21 £37,500 +25.00% 7
Buckinghamshire +15 18 £33,000 -7.69% 1
Oxfordshire +28 15 £28,500 +3.64% 7
West Sussex +14 13 £31,000 - 6
Berkshire +5 9 £33,000 -5.71% 4
Sussex +10 3 £42,500 +60.38% 3
East Sussex +10 3 £26,000 -35.00% 1
Kent +7 3 £42,456 +41.52% 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 12 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 84 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 78 (69.64%) Windows
3 67 (59.82%) Active Directory
4 61 (54.46%) Microsoft 365
5 52 (46.43%) Azure
6 38 (33.93%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (24.11%) Windows Server
8 22 (19.64%) VMware
9 21 (18.75%) SharePoint
10 20 (17.86%) Firewall
11 19 (16.96%) Customer Service
11 19 (16.96%) ITIL
12 18 (16.07%) Degree
12 18 (16.07%) Microsoft Intune
13 17 (15.18%) DHCP
13 17 (15.18%) DNS
13 17 (15.18%) Microsoft Exchange
13 17 (15.18%) Microsoft Office
14 15 (13.39%) Computer Science
14 15 (13.39%) Computer Science Degree
14 15 (13.39%) Google
14 15 (13.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 15 (13.39%) VMware Infrastructure
14 15 (13.39%) Windows 10
15 14 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
15 14 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
15 14 (12.50%) Entra ID
15 14 (12.50%) Hyper-V
15 14 (12.50%) IIS
15 14 (12.50%) 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 21 (18.75%) SharePoint
2 17 (15.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (12.50%) IIS
4 2 (1.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (15.18%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 61 (54.46%) Microsoft 365
2 52 (46.43%) Azure
3 14 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 13 (11.61%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (11.61%) GCP
5 8 (7.14%) AWS
5 8 (7.14%) Power Automate
6 5 (4.46%) Azure AI
6 5 (4.46%) Microsoft Copilot
6 5 (4.46%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.68%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.89%) GitHub
8 1 (0.89%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.89%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (17.86%) Firewall
2 17 (15.18%) DHCP
2 17 (15.18%) DNS
3 13 (11.61%) TCP/IP
4 11 (9.82%) VPN
5 7 (6.25%) SAN
5 7 (6.25%) Wireless
6 5 (4.46%) VLAN
6 5 (4.46%) VoIP
7 4 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (2.68%) IP Telephony
8 3 (2.68%) LAN
8 3 (2.68%) NAS
8 3 (2.68%) SNMP
8 3 (2.68%) Unified Communications
8 3 (2.68%) WAN
9 1 (0.89%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 10 (8.93%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.46%) Power BI
4 4 (3.57%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (2.68%) JIRA
General
1 46 (41.07%) Social Skills
2 6 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (4.46%) Law
4 4 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (3.57%) Retail
4 4 (3.57%) Telecoms
5 3 (2.68%) Legal
5 3 (2.68%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.89%) Finance
7 1 (0.89%) German Language
7 1 (0.89%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.71%) .NET
1 12 (10.71%) .NET Framework
1 12 (10.71%) Entity Framework
1 12 (10.71%) WinForms
2 7 (6.25%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.82%) Onboarding
2 10 (8.93%) Driving Licence
3 8 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.68%) Blackberry
5 1 (0.89%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.89%) Device Driver
5 1 (0.89%) IVR
5 1 (0.89%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.89%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 78 (69.64%) Windows
2 27 (24.11%) Windows Server
3 15 (13.39%) Windows 10
4 9 (8.04%) Linux
5 6 (5.36%) Mac OS
6 4 (3.57%) Apple iOS
6 4 (3.57%) Unix
7 2 (1.79%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.89%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (33.93%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (16.96%) Customer Service
2 19 (16.96%) ITIL
3 15 (13.39%) Computer Science
4 14 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
5 13 (11.61%) DevOps
5 13 (11.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 13 (11.61%) Software Engineering
6 9 (8.04%) Agile
7 8 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (7.14%) Virtual Environments
8 7 (6.25%) Asset Management
8 7 (6.25%) ITSM
8 7 (6.25%) Kalman Filter
8 7 (6.25%) Project Delivery
9 6 (5.36%) Process Improvement
10 5 (4.46%) AI
10 5 (4.46%) CAD
10 5 (4.46%) Data Management
10 5 (4.46%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 14 (12.50%) SQL
2 12 (10.71%) C#
2 12 (10.71%) PowerShell
2 12 (10.71%) T-SQL
3 4 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (16.07%) Degree
2 15 (13.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (10.71%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (8.04%) MCP
5 8 (7.14%) A+ Certification
6 7 (6.25%) DBS Check
7 6 (5.36%) Security Cleared
8 4 (3.57%) SC Cleared
9 3 (2.68%) HND
10 2 (1.79%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 10 (8.93%) SLA
4 5 (4.46%) Accessibility
5 4 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.89%) NIST
System Software
1 67 (59.82%) Active Directory
2 15 (13.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (12.50%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.79%) Firmware
4 2 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (16.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (4.46%) SCCM
3 3 (2.68%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.89%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 84 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 22 (19.64%) VMware
3 15 (13.39%) Google
4 12 (10.71%) Sage
4 12 (10.71%) Xamarin
5 10 (8.93%) Veeam
6 5 (4.46%) Apple
6 5 (4.46%) Zoho
7 4 (3.57%) Sophos
8 3 (2.68%) McAfee
9 2 (1.79%) Adobe
9 2 (1.79%) Cisco
9 2 (1.79%) SonicWALL
9 2 (1.79%) WatchGuard
10 1 (0.89%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.89%) Meraki
10 1 (0.89%) Peplink
10 1 (0.89%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.89%) Ubiquiti