Support Engineer Job Trends in the South East

Support Engineer
England > South East

The median Support Engineer salary in the South East is £35,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 June 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 59 61
Rank change year-on-year +20 +2 +19
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 563 331 670
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.84% 4.23% 3.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.03% 4.90% 3.87%
Number of salaries quoted 524 255 628
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,750 £24,850
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £40,000 £34,667
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £43,750
90th Percentile £50,000 £58,000 £50,000
England median annual salary £35,000 £37,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -2.99%

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 13,983 6,760 17,301
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.32% 86.48% 94.25%
Number of salaries quoted 9,829 3,597 12,375
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,239 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.45% +9.52% -12.87%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Support Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Support Engineer job vacancy trend in the South East

Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies in the South East.

Salary distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies 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 15 June 2026.

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 15 June 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
Hampshire +24 176 £35,000 -1.41% 27
Thames Valley +31 158 £38,500 -3.75% 13
Surrey -19 79 £40,000 +3.23% 4
Kent +11 77 £30,000 -10.45% 7
Buckinghamshire +25 69 £37,500 -6.25% 5
Oxfordshire +13 50 £36,250 -2.03% 4
West Sussex +6 45 £32,000 -36.00%
Berkshire -6 39 £40,000 -4.76% 5
East Sussex -1 27 £30,000 -45.45%
Middlesex - 1 £37,500 -
Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 June 2026, 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 Support Engineer in the job title.

1 170 (30.20%) Microsoft
2 143 (25.40%) Windows
3 141 (25.04%) Microsoft 365
4 115 (20.43%) Problem-Solving
5 112 (19.89%) Active Directory
6 103 (18.29%) Customer Service
7 102 (18.12%) Azure
8 62 (11.01%) Windows Server
9 59 (10.48%) Entra ID
10 50 (8.88%) Microsoft Intune
11 49 (8.70%) Degree
12 47 (8.35%) Microsoft Exchange
13 46 (8.17%) Firewall
14 42 (7.46%) Microsoft Office
15 41 (7.28%) Project Delivery
15 41 (7.28%) SaaS
15 41 (7.28%) VPN
16 40 (7.10%) DBS Check
17 35 (6.22%) LAN
18 33 (5.86%) Cybersecurity
18 33 (5.86%) ITIL
18 33 (5.86%) SharePoint
19 32 (5.68%) AWS
19 32 (5.68%) Mac OS
20 31 (5.51%) DNS
20 31 (5.51%) VMware
21 30 (5.33%) Continuous Improvement
21 30 (5.33%) Disaster Recovery
21 30 (5.33%) WAN
22 28 (4.97%) Linux

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 47 (8.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (5.86%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.53%) IIS
4 1 (0.18%) CMS
4 1 (0.18%) Confluence
4 1 (0.18%) JBoss
4 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 42 (7.46%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.18%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.07%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 141 (25.04%) Microsoft 365
2 102 (18.12%) Azure
3 59 (10.48%) Entra ID
4 41 (7.28%) SaaS
5 32 (5.68%) AWS
6 20 (3.55%) Mimecast
7 11 (1.95%) Google Workspace
8 7 (1.24%) GCP
9 6 (1.07%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (1.07%) OneDrive
9 6 (1.07%) Power Automate
10 5 (0.89%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (0.89%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (0.89%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 5 (0.89%) Serverless
11 4 (0.71%) IaaS
11 4 (0.71%) PaaS
12 3 (0.53%) Power Platform
13 2 (0.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 1 (0.18%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 46 (8.17%) Firewall
2 41 (7.28%) VPN
3 35 (6.22%) LAN
4 31 (5.51%) DNS
5 30 (5.33%) WAN
6 20 (3.55%) Wi-Fi
7 19 (3.37%) VoIP
8 15 (2.66%) DHCP
8 15 (2.66%) TCP/IP
9 13 (2.31%) Wireless
10 9 (1.60%) Internet
10 9 (1.60%) SSL
10 9 (1.60%) VLAN
11 7 (1.24%) HTTP
11 7 (1.24%) NAS
12 5 (0.89%) Broadband
12 5 (0.89%) SAN
13 4 (0.71%) Remote Desktop
13 4 (0.71%) SSH
13 4 (0.71%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.02%) SQL Server
2 5 (0.89%) MySQL
2 5 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (0.89%) Relational Database
3 4 (0.71%) RDBMS
4 3 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (0.53%) Power BI
5 1 (0.18%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 27 (4.80%) JIRA
2 5 (0.89%) Jenkins
2 5 (0.89%) JUnit
3 4 (0.71%) JMeter
3 4 (0.71%) Mockito
4 1 (0.18%) Git
General
1 144 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 28 (4.97%) Electronics
3 21 (3.73%) Organisational Skills
4 18 (3.20%) Legal
5 15 (2.66%) Manufacturing
6 11 (1.95%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (1.60%) Finance
7 9 (1.60%) Games
8 8 (1.42%) Marketing
8 8 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.24%) Retail
10 6 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.07%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.71%) Law
11 4 (0.71%) Multimedia
11 4 (0.71%) Public Sector
12 3 (0.53%) Back Office
12 3 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.18%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.18%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.13%) .NET
2 9 (1.60%) HTML
3 7 (1.24%) Web Services
4 5 (0.89%) Apache Camel
4 5 (0.89%) CSS
4 5 (0.89%) REST
4 5 (0.89%) Spring
4 5 (0.89%) Spring Boot
5 4 (0.71%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (0.71%) Hibernate
5 4 (0.71%) jQuery
5 4 (0.71%) JSON
5 4 (0.71%) WireMock
5 4 (0.71%) XML
6 1 (0.18%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.18%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.18%) J2EE
6 1 (0.18%) Mustache
6 1 (0.18%) Node.js
6 1 (0.18%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 65 (11.55%) Driving Licence
2 17 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (2.49%) Onboarding
4 10 (1.78%) Smart Home
5 8 (1.42%) NHS
6 7 (1.24%) Augmented Reality
6 7 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.07%) iPhone
8 5 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (0.89%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.71%) EPoS
9 4 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.53%) CCTV
11 2 (0.36%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.36%) Social Media
12 1 (0.18%) Data Centre
12 1 (0.18%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.18%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.18%) Smartphone
12 1 (0.18%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 143 (25.40%) Windows
2 62 (11.01%) Windows Server
3 32 (5.68%) Mac OS
4 28 (4.97%) Linux
5 26 (4.62%) Windows 10
6 9 (1.60%) Android
7 7 (1.24%) CentOS
7 7 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.71%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.71%) VMS
10 3 (0.53%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.36%) AIX
11 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.18%) Unix
12 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (20.43%) Problem-Solving
2 103 (18.29%) Customer Service
3 41 (7.28%) Project Delivery
4 33 (5.86%) Cybersecurity
4 33 (5.86%) ITIL
5 30 (5.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 30 (5.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 26 (4.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 24 (4.26%) Workflow
8 21 (3.73%) Incident Management
9 20 (3.55%) Logistics
10 19 (3.37%) Mentoring
10 19 (3.37%) Technical Leadership
11 18 (3.20%) Identity Management
12 17 (3.02%) Change Management
12 17 (3.02%) Process Improvement
13 16 (2.84%) CRM
14 15 (2.66%) Business Continuity
14 15 (2.66%) Root Cause Analysis
15 13 (2.31%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (4.97%) SQL
2 16 (2.84%) R
3 12 (2.13%) C#
3 12 (2.13%) PowerShell
3 12 (2.13%) Python
4 9 (1.60%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.24%) Perl
5 7 (1.24%) PHP
5 7 (1.24%) T-SQL
6 5 (0.89%) Java
6 5 (0.89%) Shell Script
7 4 (0.71%) DCL
7 4 (0.71%) Tcl
8 1 (0.18%) Korn
Qualifications
1 49 (8.70%) Degree
2 40 (7.10%) DBS Check
3 24 (4.26%) HNC
3 24 (4.26%) HND
4 23 (4.09%) Security Cleared
5 8 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (1.42%) SC Cleared
6 7 (1.24%) City & Guilds
7 6 (1.07%) CCNA
7 6 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (0.89%) CompTIA Security+
8 5 (0.89%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (0.89%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (0.53%) A+ Certification
9 3 (0.53%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (3.55%) SLA
3 14 (2.49%) GDPR
4 6 (1.07%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (0.89%) ISO 9001
6 4 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.53%) QA
8 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 112 (19.89%) Active Directory
2 27 (4.80%) Hyper-V
3 22 (3.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.89%) Docker
5 4 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.53%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.53%) Terminal Services
6 3 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 50 (8.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (0.89%) Jamf Pro
2 5 (0.89%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.71%) Kibana
4 3 (0.53%) SCCM
5 2 (0.36%) Netcool
6 1 (0.18%) Ansible
6 1 (0.18%) Autotask
6 1 (0.18%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 170 (30.20%) Microsoft
2 31 (5.51%) VMware
3 17 (3.02%) Google
4 16 (2.84%) CrowdStrike
5 13 (2.31%) Meraki
6 11 (1.95%) Cisco
7 10 (1.78%) Veeam
8 8 (1.42%) Sophos
9 7 (1.24%) Apple
9 7 (1.24%) Citrix
9 7 (1.24%) Fortinet
9 7 (1.24%) SonicWALL
9 7 (1.24%) Ubiquiti
10 5 (0.89%) ConnectWise
10 5 (0.89%) Datto
11 4 (0.71%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.71%) Facebook
11 4 (0.71%) Fujitsu
11 4 (0.71%) Instagram
11 4 (0.71%) Virgin Media