IT Support Engineer Jobs 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 15 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 212 160 284
Rank change year-on-year -52 +124 +33
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Support Engineer 89 283 120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.94% 1.69% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.09% 1.80% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 68 279 98
10th Percentile £25,750 £23,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £27,500 £26,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £30,000 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £39,063 £40,500 £33,938
90th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £44,125
England median annual salary £32,500 £30,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +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 8,163 15,754 13,008
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.61% 93.96% 90.33%
Number of salaries quoted 4,490 11,303 8,204
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

IT Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured IT Support Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for IT Support Engineer in the South East

IT Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Support Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for IT Support Engineer 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 15 May 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 15 May 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
Surrey +75 40 £37,500 +7.14% 12
Thames Valley -19 25 £30,000 -22.08% 12
Berkshire +30 12 £37,500 -0.66% 4
Hampshire +25 12 £32,000 +10.34% 17
Oxfordshire -15 10 £27,500 -34.52% 4
Kent +23 9 £33,500 +19.64% 4
Buckinghamshire +14 3 £28,000 -6.67% 4
West Sussex +14 3 £50,000 +66.67% 14
IT Support Engineer
England

IT Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 15 May 2025, IT Support Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number 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 57 (64.04%) Windows
2 47 (52.81%) Microsoft
3 42 (47.19%) Microsoft 365
4 40 (44.94%) Active Directory
5 39 (43.82%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (41.57%) Social Skills
7 32 (35.96%) Azure
8 28 (31.46%) Microsoft Exchange
9 27 (30.34%) VMware
10 20 (22.47%) VMware Infrastructure
11 19 (21.35%) PowerShell
11 19 (21.35%) Microsoft Certification
12 18 (20.22%) Customer Service
13 17 (19.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 17 (19.10%) Security Cleared
14 16 (17.98%) Mac OS
15 15 (16.85%) Disaster Recovery
15 15 (16.85%) DNS
16 14 (15.73%) SAN
16 14 (15.73%) NAS
16 14 (15.73%) AWS
17 13 (14.61%) High Availability
17 13 (14.61%) Google
17 13 (14.61%) Degree
17 13 (14.61%) DHCP
17 13 (14.61%) Driving Licence
18 12 (13.48%) TCP/IP
18 12 (13.48%) DV Cleared
18 12 (13.48%) Kalman Filter
19 11 (12.36%) Continuous Improvement

IT Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 28 (31.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (12.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (7.87%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (5.62%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 42 (47.19%) Microsoft 365
2 32 (35.96%) Azure
3 14 (15.73%) AWS
4 10 (11.24%) GCP
5 5 (5.62%) Entra ID
5 5 (5.62%) SaaS
6 3 (3.37%) Mimecast
7 2 (2.25%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (16.85%) DNS
2 14 (15.73%) NAS
2 14 (15.73%) SAN
3 13 (14.61%) DHCP
4 12 (13.48%) TCP/IP
5 11 (12.36%) Firewall
5 11 (12.36%) VPN
6 8 (8.99%) VLAN
7 6 (6.74%) WAN
8 5 (5.62%) BGP
8 5 (5.62%) LAN
8 5 (5.62%) OSPF
8 5 (5.62%) VoIP
9 2 (2.25%) IP Telephony
9 2 (2.25%) SNMP
10 1 (1.12%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (1.12%) SD-WAN
10 1 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.62%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.25%) Power BI
General
1 37 (41.57%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.99%) Finance
3 7 (7.87%) Telecoms
4 4 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.25%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.61%) Driving Licence
2 8 (8.99%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (6.74%) Clustering
3 6 (6.74%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.25%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.12%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 57 (64.04%) Windows
2 16 (17.98%) Mac OS
3 11 (12.36%) Windows 10
3 11 (12.36%) Windows Server
4 8 (8.99%) Apple iOS
5 7 (7.87%) Linux
6 6 (6.74%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (4.49%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (3.37%) Android
9 1 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (43.82%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (20.22%) Customer Service
3 17 (19.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 15 (16.85%) Disaster Recovery
5 13 (14.61%) High Availability
6 12 (13.48%) Kalman Filter
7 11 (12.36%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (12.36%) ITSM
8 10 (11.24%) Mobile Device Management
8 10 (11.24%) Virtual Environments
9 9 (10.11%) Computer Science
9 9 (10.11%) Server Building
10 8 (8.99%) Antivirus Management
10 8 (8.99%) B2B
10 8 (8.99%) IT Strategy
10 8 (8.99%) Patch Management
10 8 (8.99%) Web Filtering
11 7 (7.87%) Change Control
12 6 (6.74%) Cybersecurity
12 6 (6.74%) Service Desk Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (21.35%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.62%) SQL
3 2 (2.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (21.35%) Microsoft Certification
2 17 (19.10%) Security Cleared
3 13 (14.61%) Degree
4 12 (13.48%) DV Cleared
5 10 (11.24%) A+ Certification
5 10 (11.24%) HND
5 10 (11.24%) MCP
6 6 (6.74%) DBS Check
7 5 (5.62%) CCNA
7 5 (5.62%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (4.49%) SC Cleared
9 3 (3.37%) MCSA
10 2 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (2.25%) MCSE
11 1 (1.12%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 40 (44.94%) Active Directory
2 20 (22.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (10.11%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.37%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (1.12%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (10.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (3.37%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 47 (52.81%) Microsoft
2 27 (30.34%) VMware
3 13 (14.61%) Google
4 8 (8.99%) Cisco
5 5 (5.62%) CheckPoint
5 5 (5.62%) Fortinet
5 5 (5.62%) Juniper
6 4 (4.49%) Meraki
7 3 (3.37%) Apple
7 3 (3.37%) Aruba
7 3 (3.37%) SonicWALL
7 3 (3.37%) Sophos
8 2 (2.25%) McAfee
8 2 (2.25%) Veeam