Support Engineer Jobs 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 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 71 154
Rank change year-on-year -7 +83 -31
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 470 472 539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.11% 4.07% 2.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.30% 4.45% 2.56%
Number of salaries quoted 425 362 483
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,000 £27,795 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £32,500 £32,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +1.56% -3.40%
75th Percentile £43,750 £39,000 £42,500
90th Percentile £50,000 £47,950 £47,500
England median annual salary £34,000 £34,000 £34,000

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 14,224 10,599 21,077
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.24% 91.47% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 9,733 7,232 12,510
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £40,463
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 +18 179 £40,000 +23.08% 26
Hampshire -16 136 £39,000 +21.88% 21
Oxfordshire +11 62 £42,000 +33.33% 5
Berkshire +4 61 £41,250 +16.53% 9
Buckinghamshire +5 56 £32,500 +8.33% 12
Surrey -55 45 £35,000 - 8
East Sussex +38 40 £28,250 -13.08% 9
Kent 0 40 £28,000 -12.50% 6
West Sussex +18 22 £28,000 -6.67% 8
Isle of Wight - 4 £42,500 - 1
Sussex - 4 £26,500 - 1
Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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.

1 230 (48.94%) Windows
2 209 (44.47%) Microsoft
3 197 (41.91%) Microsoft 365
4 171 (36.38%) Active Directory
5 157 (33.40%) Social Skills
6 139 (29.57%) Azure
7 129 (27.45%) Firewall
8 127 (27.02%) Windows Server
9 103 (21.91%) VMware
10 93 (19.79%) Degree
11 91 (19.36%) Customer Service
12 87 (18.51%) SQL
13 86 (18.30%) Microsoft Exchange
14 79 (16.81%) VMware Infrastructure
15 78 (16.60%) SharePoint
16 69 (14.68%) SQL Server
17 63 (13.40%) Entra ID
18 60 (12.77%) Microsoft Office
19 59 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
20 58 (12.34%) Citrix
21 57 (12.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
21 57 (12.13%) Hyper-V
22 55 (11.70%) Windows 10
23 51 (10.85%) Wi-Fi
23 51 (10.85%) Finance
24 49 (10.43%) VPN
25 48 (10.21%) Linux
26 47 (10.00%) Cisco
27 46 (9.79%) SLA
28 44 (9.36%) TCP/IP

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 86 (18.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 78 (16.60%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.06%) Apache
3 5 (1.06%) Exchange Server 2013
4 4 (0.85%) Exchange Server 2000
4 4 (0.85%) JBoss
4 4 (0.85%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.64%) Confluence
6 2 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.21%) Appian
7 1 (0.21%) IIS
7 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Applications
1 60 (12.77%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (7.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.06%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 197 (41.91%) Microsoft 365
2 139 (29.57%) Azure
3 63 (13.40%) Entra ID
4 43 (9.15%) OneDrive
5 26 (5.53%) AWS
6 9 (1.91%) IaaS
7 8 (1.70%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (1.49%) Google Workspace
8 7 (1.49%) SaaS
9 6 (1.28%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (1.28%) iTunes
10 4 (0.85%) GCP
11 3 (0.64%) Mimecast
11 3 (0.64%) PaaS
11 3 (0.64%) Power Platform
11 3 (0.64%) WhatsApp
12 1 (0.21%) Nutanix
12 1 (0.21%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 129 (27.45%) Firewall
2 51 (10.85%) Wi-Fi
3 49 (10.43%) VPN
4 44 (9.36%) TCP/IP
5 37 (7.87%) DNS
6 34 (7.23%) VLAN
7 32 (6.81%) VoIP
8 31 (6.60%) Wireless
9 28 (5.96%) Internet
10 24 (5.11%) DHCP
11 16 (3.40%) LAN
11 16 (3.40%) WAN
12 14 (2.98%) SSL
13 12 (2.55%) SAN
14 10 (2.13%) Network Security
15 8 (1.70%) iSCSI
15 8 (1.70%) Remote Desktop
16 6 (1.28%) BGP
16 6 (1.28%) IPsec
16 6 (1.28%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (14.68%) SQL Server
2 15 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (3.19%) MySQL
3 5 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.85%) MongoDB
4 4 (0.85%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.43%) Power BI
5 2 (0.43%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.21%) GIS
Development Applications
1 12 (2.55%) JIRA
2 3 (0.64%) Eclipse
3 2 (0.43%) Git
3 2 (0.43%) GitLab
3 2 (0.43%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.21%) Gradle
4 1 (0.21%) Hudson
4 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.21%) JUnit
General
1 157 (33.40%) Social Skills
2 51 (10.85%) Finance
3 38 (8.09%) Manufacturing
4 31 (6.60%) Telecoms
5 25 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (5.32%) Documentation Skills
6 22 (4.68%) Law
7 15 (3.19%) Electronics
8 10 (2.13%) Games
8 10 (2.13%) Retail
9 9 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.70%) Legal
11 7 (1.49%) Automotive
12 6 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.85%) Marketing
14 3 (0.64%) Back Office
14 3 (0.64%) Local Government
15 2 (0.43%) Billing
15 2 (0.43%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.83%) .NET
2 14 (2.98%) HTML
3 11 (2.34%) CSS
4 7 (1.49%) Web Services
5 6 (1.28%) REST
5 6 (1.28%) SOAP
6 5 (1.06%) 802.1X
7 2 (0.43%) Ajax
7 2 (0.43%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.43%) JDBC
7 2 (0.43%) Kafka
7 2 (0.43%) ODBC
7 2 (0.43%) Spring
7 2 (0.43%) XHTML
7 2 (0.43%) XML
8 1 (0.21%) LAMP
8 1 (0.21%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.23%) Driving Licence
2 19 (4.04%) Clustering
3 16 (3.40%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (3.19%) PKI
5 14 (2.98%) Replication
6 13 (2.77%) Data Centre
6 13 (2.77%) Linux Command Line
7 10 (2.13%) Smartphone
8 7 (1.49%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.06%) Client/Server
10 4 (0.85%) Chip and PIN
10 4 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.85%) Mobile Payment
10 4 (0.85%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.43%) CMDB
11 2 (0.43%) IoT
11 2 (0.43%) NB-IoT
11 2 (0.43%) Online Games
12 1 (0.21%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.21%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 230 (48.94%) Windows
2 127 (27.02%) Windows Server
3 55 (11.70%) Windows 10
4 48 (10.21%) Linux
5 33 (7.02%) Windows Server 2012
6 22 (4.68%) Android
7 17 (3.62%) Apple iOS
8 10 (2.13%) Windows Server 2016
8 10 (2.13%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (1.70%) VMS
9 8 (1.70%) Windows Server 2008
10 6 (1.28%) Mac OS X
10 6 (1.28%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.85%) AIX
11 4 (0.85%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.43%) Unix
12 2 (0.43%) Windows 8
12 2 (0.43%) Windows Mobile
13 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (19.36%) Customer Service
2 59 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
3 57 (12.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 41 (8.72%) ITIL
5 30 (6.38%) Cybersecurity
6 27 (5.74%) Service Delivery
7 26 (5.53%) Customer Experience
8 24 (5.11%) Project Management
9 23 (4.89%) Change Control
10 21 (4.47%) Customer Requirements
10 21 (4.47%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 20 (4.26%) Problem Management
12 17 (3.62%) Mentoring
13 15 (3.19%) Antivirus Management
13 15 (3.19%) Time Management
14 14 (2.98%) ERP
14 14 (2.98%) OO
15 12 (2.55%) B2B
15 12 (2.55%) Computer Science
15 12 (2.55%) Fault Analysis
Programming Languages
1 87 (18.51%) SQL
2 32 (6.81%) PowerShell
3 19 (4.04%) VB
4 16 (3.40%) C#
4 16 (3.40%) Java
5 15 (3.19%) ActionScript
6 6 (1.28%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.06%) C
7 5 (1.06%) PL/SQL
7 5 (1.06%) Python
7 5 (1.06%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.85%) C++
9 2 (0.43%) Perl
10 1 (0.21%) Bash
10 1 (0.21%) PHP
Qualifications
1 93 (19.79%) Degree
2 30 (6.38%) Security Cleared
3 19 (4.04%) SC Cleared
4 18 (3.83%) DV Cleared
5 17 (3.62%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (3.40%) CCNA
7 13 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (2.34%) ITIL Certification
9 9 (1.91%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.91%) Network+ Certification
10 8 (1.70%) CCNP
10 8 (1.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 8 (1.70%) MCP
11 5 (1.06%) HNC
11 5 (1.06%) HND
11 5 (1.06%) JNCIA
12 4 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (0.64%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
15 1 (0.21%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (9.79%) SLA
2 15 (3.19%) GDPR
3 5 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.43%) NIST
System Software
1 171 (36.38%) Active Directory
2 79 (16.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 57 (12.13%) Hyper-V
4 23 (4.89%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (3.83%) XenApp
6 16 (3.40%) vSphere
7 15 (3.19%) OpenSSH
8 6 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (1.06%) Docker
10 3 (0.64%) Firmware
10 3 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.21%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.21%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 33 (7.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (4.26%) vCenter Server
3 15 (3.19%) IBM BigFix
3 15 (3.19%) PowerCLI
4 8 (1.70%) SCCM
5 6 (1.28%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 6 (1.28%) SCDPM
6 5 (1.06%) Cisco CUCM
6 5 (1.06%) ServiceCenter
7 3 (0.64%) Backup Exec
7 3 (0.64%) Kubernetes
8 2 (0.43%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (0.43%) WMI
9 1 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.21%) NetCrunch
9 1 (0.21%) PaperCut
9 1 (0.21%) WSUS
Vendors
1 209 (44.47%) Microsoft
2 103 (21.91%) VMware
3 58 (12.34%) Citrix
4 47 (10.00%) Cisco
5 37 (7.87%) Veeam
6 16 (3.40%) Meraki
7 15 (3.19%) IBM
7 15 (3.19%) Oracle
8 13 (2.77%) Dell
9 12 (2.55%) HP
10 11 (2.34%) Fortinet
11 10 (2.13%) Apple
12 9 (1.91%) Aruba
12 9 (1.91%) Draytek
13 8 (1.70%) Google
13 8 (1.70%) Progress
14 7 (1.49%) Juniper
14 7 (1.49%) Palo Alto
15 6 (1.28%) Dell Compellent
16 5 (1.06%) Sage