Technical Engineer Jobs in the South East

Technical Engineer
England > South East

The median Technical Engineer salary in the South East is £37,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 226 241 311
Rank change year-on-year +15 +70 +124
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Engineer 73 159 82
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.79% 0.95% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 1.01% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 57 136 33
10th Percentile £30,300 £25,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £29,419 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £35,750 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -15.88% +23.19%
75th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £46,250
90th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £53,700
England median annual salary £35,500 £35,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +1.43% -22.22% +28.57%

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 8,004 15,797 13,153
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.47% 93.98% 90.40%
Number of salaries quoted 4,536 11,357 8,268
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 £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Technical Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Engineer in the South East

Technical Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Technical Engineer in the South East

Technical Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Engineer in the South East

Technical 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 Technical Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 9 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
Thames Valley +35 29 £50,000 +58.73% 25
Berkshire +31 24 £50,000 +34.23% 13
Surrey +44 16 £31,000 -17.33% 12
Hampshire +29 11 £37,500 -11.76% 16
Kent +37 10 £33,000 -13.73% 6
West Sussex +38 5 £32,500 +16.07% 5
Buckinghamshire +21 5 £45,000 +87.50% 10
East Sussex +23 2 £27,500 -26.67% 2
Technical Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, Technical 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 Technical Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (27.40%) Firewall
2 17 (23.29%) Windows
2 17 (23.29%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (21.92%) Security Cleared
3 16 (21.92%) Linux
4 15 (20.55%) SQL
5 14 (19.18%) SC Cleared
5 14 (19.18%) Windows Server
6 13 (17.81%) Social Skills
6 13 (17.81%) Microsoft
7 12 (16.44%) MySQL
7 12 (16.44%) Hyper-V
7 12 (16.44%) Customer Service
8 11 (15.07%) PL/SQL
9 10 (13.70%) Active Directory
9 10 (13.70%) VPN
10 9 (12.33%) Mentoring
10 9 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (10.96%) Driving Licence
11 8 (10.96%) Mac OS
11 8 (10.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (10.96%) JNCIA
11 8 (10.96%) Degree
11 8 (10.96%) CCNA
11 8 (10.96%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (9.59%) Retail
12 7 (9.59%) VMware
12 7 (9.59%) DNS
12 7 (9.59%) CRM
12 7 (9.59%) VSAT

Technical 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 6 (8.22%) SharePoint
2 5 (6.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.37%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.37%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (5.48%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.37%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 17 (23.29%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (2.74%) Nutanix
3 1 (1.37%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (27.40%) Firewall
2 10 (13.70%) VPN
3 7 (9.59%) DNS
3 7 (9.59%) VSAT
4 5 (6.85%) DHCP
4 5 (6.85%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (2.74%) Network Security
6 1 (1.37%) HTTPS
6 1 (1.37%) Internet
6 1 (1.37%) IPsec
6 1 (1.37%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.37%) VLAN
6 1 (1.37%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.44%) MySQL
2 4 (5.48%) Metabase
3 1 (1.37%) Couchbase
3 1 (1.37%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.37%) SQL Server
General
1 13 (17.81%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.59%) Retail
3 6 (8.22%) Back Office
3 6 (8.22%) Telecoms
4 3 (4.11%) Aviation
5 2 (2.74%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.37%) Finance
6 1 (1.37%) Local Government
6 1 (1.37%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.37%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.96%) Driving Licence
2 4 (5.48%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.37%) Digital Media
3 1 (1.37%) Graphic Design
3 1 (1.37%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.37%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.37%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 17 (23.29%) Windows
2 16 (21.92%) Linux
3 14 (19.18%) Windows Server
4 8 (10.96%) Mac OS
5 7 (9.59%) Windows 10
6 6 (8.22%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (2.74%) VMS
8 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (16.44%) Customer Service
2 9 (12.33%) Mentoring
2 9 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (10.96%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (9.59%) Commercial Awareness
4 7 (9.59%) CRM
4 7 (9.59%) Kalman Filter
4 7 (9.59%) Proactive Management
4 7 (9.59%) Web Filtering
5 6 (8.22%) Project Delivery
5 6 (8.22%) Server Virtualisation
5 6 (8.22%) Statistics
6 4 (5.48%) Data Analysis
6 4 (5.48%) Mathematics
7 3 (4.11%) Customer Engagement
7 3 (4.11%) Line Management
8 2 (2.74%) Asset Management
8 2 (2.74%) Coaching
8 2 (2.74%) Migration
9 1 (1.37%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 15 (20.55%) SQL
2 11 (15.07%) PL/SQL
3 4 (5.48%) C++
3 4 (5.48%) Python
4 1 (1.37%) PHP
4 1 (1.37%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 16 (21.92%) Security Cleared
2 14 (19.18%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.96%) CCNA
3 8 (10.96%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (10.96%) Degree
3 8 (10.96%) JNCIA
4 5 (6.85%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (5.48%) A+ Certification
5 4 (5.48%) Dell Certification
5 4 (5.48%) MCP
6 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.37%) MCSA
6 1 (1.37%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.74%) COSHH
System Software
1 12 (16.44%) Hyper-V
2 10 (13.70%) Active Directory
3 7 (9.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (6.85%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (6.85%) vCenter Server
2 1 (1.37%) Ansible
2 1 (1.37%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (17.81%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.59%) VMware
3 6 (8.22%) SAP
3 6 (8.22%) Sophos
4 5 (6.85%) Ubiquiti
5 4 (5.48%) Dell
6 2 (2.74%) Siemens
7 1 (1.37%) Apple
7 1 (1.37%) Cisco
7 1 (1.37%) Draytek
7 1 (1.37%) HP
7 1 (1.37%) Meraki