Technical Support Engineer Jobs in the South West

Technical Support Engineer
England > South West

The median Technical Support Engineer salary in the South West is £31,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 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
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 232 234
Rank change year-on-year +92 +2 +51
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Support Engineer 40 60 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.14% 0.65% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.22% 0.68% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 14 42 16
10th Percentile - £27,975 £30,625
25th Percentile £27,000 £31,750 £31,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £35,500 £36,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.68% -2.74% +4.29%
75th Percentile £31,875 £40,000 £45,625
90th Percentile £33,750 £49,050 £58,750
England median annual salary £34,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -1.43% - +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 3,286 8,876 6,174
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.62% 96.23% 89.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,030 6,474 3,840
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Technical Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Support Engineer in the South West

Technical Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Technical Support Engineer in the South West

Technical Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Support Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Support Engineer in the South West

Technical Support Engineer
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Support Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 4 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
Devon +36 20 - - 2
Cornwall - 16 £28,000 - 5
Wiltshire +42 2 £32,500 -8.45%
Gloucestershire +32 1 - - 2
Somerset - 1 £40,000 -
Technical Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, Technical 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 West region featuring Technical Support Engineer in the job title.

1 29 (72.50%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (57.50%) Social Skills
3 20 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
3 20 (50.00%) Satnav
3 20 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
3 20 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 20 (50.00%) Degree
3 20 (50.00%) JIRA
3 20 (50.00%) Salesforce
3 20 (50.00%) HND
3 20 (50.00%) CRM
3 20 (50.00%) Linux
3 20 (50.00%) B2B
4 16 (40.00%) HNC
5 15 (37.50%) Customer Service
6 12 (30.00%) JNCIA
6 12 (30.00%) CCNA
6 12 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (25.00%) Telecoms
8 9 (22.50%) SC Cleared
8 9 (22.50%) Security Cleared
9 6 (15.00%) VSAT
9 6 (15.00%) Mentoring
9 6 (15.00%) Finance
9 6 (15.00%) Firewall
9 6 (15.00%) Juniper
9 6 (15.00%) Cisco
9 6 (15.00%) Commercial Awareness
10 5 (12.50%) Proactive Management
10 5 (12.50%) Web Filtering

Technical Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (2.50%) AWS
1 1 (2.50%) Azure
1 1 (2.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.00%) Firewall
1 6 (15.00%) VSAT
2 1 (2.50%) DNS
2 1 (2.50%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.50%) VPN
2 1 (2.50%) WAN
Development Applications
1 20 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 23 (57.50%) Social Skills
2 20 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
3 10 (25.00%) Telecoms
4 6 (15.00%) Finance
5 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Legal
6 1 (2.50%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 20 (50.00%) Satnav
2 2 (5.00%) Life Science
3 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.50%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (2.50%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.50%) Windows
2 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (72.50%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (50.00%) B2B
2 20 (50.00%) CRM
2 20 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 20 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 15 (37.50%) Customer Service
4 6 (15.00%) Commercial Awareness
4 6 (15.00%) Mentoring
5 5 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
5 5 (12.50%) Proactive Management
5 5 (12.50%) Web Filtering
6 4 (10.00%) Statistics
7 1 (2.50%) Change Management
7 1 (2.50%) Chemistry
7 1 (2.50%) Cloud Security
7 1 (2.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (2.50%) Customer Requirements
7 1 (2.50%) Load Balancing
7 1 (2.50%) Regulatory Change
Qualifications
1 20 (50.00%) Degree
1 20 (50.00%) HND
2 16 (40.00%) HNC
3 12 (30.00%) CCNA
3 12 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (30.00%) JNCIA
4 9 (22.50%) SC Cleared
4 9 (22.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.50%) Hyper-V
1 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 20 (50.00%) Salesforce
2 6 (15.00%) Cisco
2 6 (15.00%) Juniper
3 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.50%) Google
4 1 (2.50%) VMware