Support Engineer Jobs in the South East

Support Engineer
England > South East

The median Support Engineer salary in the South East is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 June 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 62 83
Rank change year-on-year -9 +21 +66
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 362 670 457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.78% 3.54% 3.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.27% 3.75% 3.88%
Number of salaries quoted 259 627 361
10th Percentile £27,750 £24,800 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £27,000 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £34,834 £32,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.83% +8.86% -1.54%
75th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £37,500
90th Percentile £58,000 £50,000 £46,250
England median annual salary £39,000 £32,500 £33,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -2.99% -1.47%

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 8,483 17,867 11,791
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.48% 94.35% 89.62%
Number of salaries quoted 4,542 12,615 7,746
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £69,000 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,300
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.94% +0.50%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in the South East

Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Support Engineer in the South East

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 19 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Support Engineer in the South East

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 Support Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 June 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 -12 120 £40,000 +3.90% 157
Surrey +70 106 £38,750 +9.15% 42
Hampshire +11 70 £35,500 -4.05% 115
Berkshire +27 59 £42,000 +11.26% 83
Oxfordshire +7 32 £37,000 -11.90% 24
Kent +14 30 £33,500 +19.64% 37
Buckinghamshire -7 29 £40,000 +23.08% 51
East Sussex -16 18 £55,000 +113.51% 19
West Sussex +5 15 £50,000 +57.48% 35
Middlesex -18 3 - - 8
Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 June 2025, 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 Support Engineer in the job title.

1 165 (45.58%) Microsoft
2 162 (44.75%) Windows
3 138 (38.12%) Social Skills
4 124 (34.25%) Active Directory
5 105 (29.01%) Microsoft 365
6 80 (22.10%) Degree
7 76 (20.99%) Azure
7 76 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
8 69 (19.06%) Customer Service
9 66 (18.23%) Security Cleared
9 66 (18.23%) Microsoft Exchange
10 62 (17.13%) VMware
11 55 (15.19%) VMware Infrastructure
12 48 (13.26%) PowerShell
12 48 (13.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 45 (12.43%) Driving Licence
14 43 (11.88%) Windows Server
15 41 (11.33%) Firewall
15 41 (11.33%) Microsoft Office
15 41 (11.33%) DNS
16 40 (11.05%) Linux
16 40 (11.05%) Continuous Improvement
17 38 (10.50%) Mac OS
18 37 (10.22%) Hyper-V
19 36 (9.94%) SharePoint
19 36 (9.94%) DHCP
20 35 (9.67%) High Availability
21 34 (9.39%) SAN
22 32 (8.84%) Coaching
23 31 (8.56%) SC Cleared

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 66 (18.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 36 (9.94%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.66%) IBM Domino
4 4 (1.10%) Exchange Server 2013
4 4 (1.10%) Office Communications Server
4 4 (1.10%) Skype for Business
5 3 (0.83%) Exchange Server 2007
5 3 (0.83%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (0.83%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.28%) Confluence
6 1 (0.28%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 41 (11.33%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (4.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.38%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.10%) Dynamics NAV
1 4 (1.10%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 105 (29.01%) Microsoft 365
2 76 (20.99%) Azure
3 25 (6.91%) AWS
4 20 (5.52%) Entra ID
5 14 (3.87%) GCP
6 13 (3.59%) Power Platform
7 11 (3.04%) Power Automate
8 9 (2.49%) SaaS
9 6 (1.66%) Mimecast
9 6 (1.66%) OpenShift
10 3 (0.83%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.55%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (0.55%) GitHub
11 2 (0.55%) IaaS
11 2 (0.55%) PaaS
12 1 (0.28%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (0.28%) Google Workspace
12 1 (0.28%) Nutanix
12 1 (0.28%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 41 (11.33%) DNS
1 41 (11.33%) Firewall
2 36 (9.94%) DHCP
3 34 (9.39%) SAN
4 30 (8.29%) VPN
5 29 (8.01%) NAS
6 25 (6.91%) Broadband
7 21 (5.80%) WAN
8 19 (5.25%) LAN
8 19 (5.25%) TCP/IP
9 14 (3.87%) VLAN
10 12 (3.31%) Remote Desktop
11 10 (2.76%) SD-WAN
12 9 (2.49%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (1.93%) SMTP
13 7 (1.93%) VSAT
14 6 (1.66%) Cisco IOS
14 6 (1.66%) Network Security
14 6 (1.66%) VoIP
14 6 (1.66%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.04%) MySQL
1 11 (3.04%) Power BI
2 8 (2.21%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.10%) Metabase
Development Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Git
1 1 (0.28%) JIRA
1 1 (0.28%) JUnit
1 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 138 (38.12%) Social Skills
2 30 (8.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (3.87%) Telecoms
4 13 (3.59%) Retail
5 12 (3.31%) Finance
6 10 (2.76%) Electronics
6 10 (2.76%) Manufacturing
7 7 (1.93%) Marketing
7 7 (1.93%) Public Sector
8 6 (1.66%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (1.66%) Back Office
9 5 (1.38%) Games
10 4 (1.10%) Advertising
11 2 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.28%) Legal
12 1 (0.28%) Local Government
12 1 (0.28%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.55%) EDI
1 2 (0.55%) XML
2 1 (0.28%) SAP Basis
2 1 (0.28%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 45 (12.43%) Driving Licence
2 25 (6.91%) Clustering
3 12 (3.31%) Video Conferencing
4 10 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (2.49%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.93%) PKI
7 6 (1.66%) Blog
7 6 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.38%) Blackberry
8 5 (1.38%) Home Automation
8 5 (1.38%) Life Science
8 5 (1.38%) PMI
8 5 (1.38%) Smart Home
9 4 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.10%) Replication
9 4 (1.10%) Robotics
10 2 (0.55%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.55%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.28%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 162 (44.75%) Windows
2 43 (11.88%) Windows Server
3 40 (11.05%) Linux
4 38 (10.50%) Mac OS
5 30 (8.29%) Windows Server 2012
6 29 (8.01%) Windows 10
7 13 (3.59%) Apple iOS
8 12 (3.31%) Android
9 7 (1.93%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (1.38%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (1.10%) Unix
11 4 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.55%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
2 69 (19.06%) Customer Service
3 48 (13.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 40 (11.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 35 (9.67%) High Availability
6 32 (8.84%) Coaching
7 30 (8.29%) Kalman Filter
8 28 (7.73%) Virtual Environments
9 27 (7.46%) Proactive Maintenance
10 25 (6.91%) Broadcast Engineering
10 25 (6.91%) Post-Production
10 25 (6.91%) Proactive Monitoring
10 25 (6.91%) Procure-to-Pay
11 24 (6.63%) Disaster Recovery
12 21 (5.80%) CRM
13 18 (4.97%) Computer Science
13 18 (4.97%) ITIL
13 18 (4.97%) Web Filtering
14 17 (4.70%) Mathematics
15 15 (4.14%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (13.26%) PowerShell
2 28 (7.73%) SQL
3 13 (3.59%) Python
4 9 (2.49%) PL/SQL
5 5 (1.38%) Java
6 4 (1.10%) C++
7 2 (0.55%) Bash
Qualifications
1 80 (22.10%) Degree
2 66 (18.23%) Security Cleared
3 31 (8.56%) SC Cleared
4 30 (8.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 29 (8.01%) DV Cleared
6 15 (4.14%) CCNA
6 15 (4.14%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (3.87%) A+ Certification
7 14 (3.87%) MCP
8 13 (3.59%) HND
9 8 (2.21%) JNCIA
10 6 (1.66%) DBS Check
10 6 (1.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 5 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.38%) Dell Certification
11 5 (1.38%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.83%) MCSA
12 3 (0.83%) MCSE
13 1 (0.28%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.93%) COSHH
1 7 (1.93%) GDPR
2 6 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (1.10%) SLA
System Software
1 124 (34.25%) Active Directory
2 55 (15.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (10.22%) Hyper-V
4 19 (5.25%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (3.59%) Docker
6 12 (3.31%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (3.31%) vSphere
7 7 (1.93%) BitLocker
7 7 (1.93%) Microsoft App-V
7 7 (1.93%) Terminal Services
8 4 (1.10%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 18 (4.97%) Microsoft Intune
1 18 (4.97%) vCenter Server
2 13 (3.59%) vMotion
3 12 (3.31%) Ansible
3 12 (3.31%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.31%) Puppet
4 8 (2.21%) SCCM
5 6 (1.66%) Nagios
5 6 (1.66%) PowerCLI
5 6 (1.66%) vRealize
6 3 (0.83%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.55%) SCOM
7 2 (0.55%) SCSM
7 2 (0.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 165 (45.58%) Microsoft
2 62 (17.13%) VMware
3 25 (6.91%) Sun
4 23 (6.35%) Cisco
4 23 (6.35%) Citrix
4 23 (6.35%) SAP
5 21 (5.80%) Google
6 14 (3.87%) HP
7 12 (3.31%) Sophos
8 11 (3.04%) Veeam
9 10 (2.76%) Apple
9 10 (2.76%) Siemens
10 8 (2.21%) Meraki
11 6 (1.66%) Fortinet
11 6 (1.66%) Juniper
11 6 (1.66%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.66%) Symantec
12 5 (1.38%) CheckPoint
12 5 (1.38%) Dell
12 5 (1.38%) McAfee