Technical Support Engineer Jobs in the South East

Technical Support Engineer
England > South East

The median Technical Support Engineer salary in the South East is £35,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 264 337 443
Rank change year-on-year +73 +106 -101
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Support Engineer 132 78 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.79% 0.52% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% 0.57% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 120 28 44
10th Percentile £24,000 £26,838 £25,150
25th Percentile £29,500 £29,000 £27,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £42,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +30.77% -4.41%
75th Percentile £46,250 £46,000 £40,438
90th Percentile £65,000 £51,050 £47,500
England median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year - +7.69% +3.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 15,621 13,714 18,970
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.89% 90.60% 96.39%
Number of salaries quoted 11,330 8,594 12,572
10th Percentile £27,250 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £39,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

Technical Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Support Engineer in the South East

Technical Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Technical Support Engineer in the South East

Technical Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Support Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Support Engineer in the South East

Technical 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 Technical Support Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 25 April 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 +35 49 £42,500 -5.56% 6
Hampshire -12 26 £42,500 - 1
Buckinghamshire -14 24 £24,000 -46.67% 2
Berkshire +39 22 £42,500 - 4
Surrey +11 21 £35,000 +7.69% 1
Sussex - 13 £30,000 -
West Sussex - 9 £33,500 - 2
Kent +11 6 £40,000 - 1
East Sussex +20 4 £30,000 - 1
Middlesex - 4 £60,000 -
Oxfordshire +15 3 £23,500 -25.40%
Technical Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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 East region featuring Technical Support Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (24.24%) Linux
2 31 (23.48%) Windows
3 28 (21.21%) MySQL
4 23 (17.42%) Customer Service
5 22 (16.67%) Social Skills
6 20 (15.15%) TCP/IP
7 17 (12.88%) SQL
7 17 (12.88%) Mentoring
8 15 (11.36%) PL/SQL
8 15 (11.36%) ITIL
8 15 (11.36%) Business Intelligence
8 15 (11.36%) Python
8 15 (11.36%) PowerShell
9 14 (10.61%) Manufacturing
9 14 (10.61%) Wireless
10 13 (9.85%) ITSM
10 13 (9.85%) Active Directory
10 13 (9.85%) XHTML
10 13 (9.85%) Unix
10 13 (9.85%) OOP
10 13 (9.85%) OO
10 13 (9.85%) SNMP
10 13 (9.85%) Eclipse
10 13 (9.85%) CSS
10 13 (9.85%) JDBC
10 13 (9.85%) SOAP
10 13 (9.85%) Web Services
10 13 (9.85%) XML
10 13 (9.85%) ODBC
10 13 (9.85%) Oracle

Technical 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 8 (6.06%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.27%) AutoCAD
3 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.52%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Cloud Services
1 12 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (6.82%) Azure
3 8 (6.06%) Entra ID
4 1 (0.76%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (0.76%) Azure Table
Communications & Networking
1 20 (15.15%) TCP/IP
2 14 (10.61%) Wireless
3 13 (9.85%) SNMP
3 13 (9.85%) SSH
4 9 (6.82%) LTE
5 8 (6.06%) 3G
5 8 (6.06%) VoIP
6 7 (5.30%) Firewall
7 6 (4.55%) 4G
7 6 (4.55%) VSAT
8 2 (1.52%) GPRS
8 2 (1.52%) Modbus
9 1 (0.76%) Internet
9 1 (0.76%) Network Security
9 1 (0.76%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (21.21%) MySQL
2 13 (9.85%) Relational Database
3 7 (5.30%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.52%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (9.85%) Eclipse
2 2 (1.52%) JIRA
General
1 22 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.61%) Manufacturing
3 8 (6.06%) Finance
4 6 (4.55%) Military
5 5 (3.79%) Electronics
6 2 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.52%) Marketing
6 2 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.52%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.52%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.76%) Advertising
7 1 (0.76%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.85%) Ajax
1 13 (9.85%) AngularJS
1 13 (9.85%) CSS
1 13 (9.85%) HTML
1 13 (9.85%) JDBC
1 13 (9.85%) ODBC
1 13 (9.85%) REST
1 13 (9.85%) SOAP
1 13 (9.85%) Web Services
1 13 (9.85%) XHTML
1 13 (9.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.85%) CMDB
2 8 (6.06%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.03%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.52%) IoT
5 2 (1.52%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.52%) NB-IoT
6 1 (0.76%) Fat Client
6 1 (0.76%) iPhone
6 1 (0.76%) Smartphone
6 1 (0.76%) Thin Client
6 1 (0.76%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 32 (24.24%) Linux
2 31 (23.48%) Windows
3 13 (9.85%) Unix
4 7 (5.30%) Windows Server
4 7 (5.30%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (2.27%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (17.42%) Customer Service
2 17 (12.88%) Mentoring
3 15 (11.36%) Business Intelligence
3 15 (11.36%) ITIL
4 13 (9.85%) Data Extraction
4 13 (9.85%) Database Tuning
4 13 (9.85%) ITSM
4 13 (9.85%) Network Management
4 13 (9.85%) OO
4 13 (9.85%) OOP
5 7 (5.30%) Antivirus Management
6 6 (4.55%) Coaching
6 6 (4.55%) Commercial Awareness
6 6 (4.55%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (4.55%) Customer Experience
7 2 (1.52%) Architectural Design
7 2 (1.52%) DevOps
7 2 (1.52%) Impact Assessments
7 2 (1.52%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (1.52%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (12.88%) SQL
2 15 (11.36%) PL/SQL
2 15 (11.36%) PowerShell
2 15 (11.36%) Python
3 13 (9.85%) Java
3 13 (9.85%) JavaScript
3 13 (9.85%) Perl
4 2 (1.52%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (5.30%) Degree
1 7 (5.30%) GCSC
2 3 (2.27%) CCNA
2 3 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (0.76%) HNC
3 1 (0.76%) JNCIA
3 1 (0.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.06%) SLA
2 2 (1.52%) ISO 14001
2 2 (1.52%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.76%) GDPR
3 1 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 13 (9.85%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.30%) Hyper-V
2 7 (5.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (9.85%) WMI
2 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (9.85%) Oracle
1 13 (9.85%) Splunk
2 10 (7.58%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.82%) Cisco
4 7 (5.30%) HP
4 7 (5.30%) VMware
5 3 (2.27%) SAP
6 1 (0.76%) Adobe
6 1 (0.76%) Citrix
6 1 (0.76%) Dell
6 1 (0.76%) EMC
6 1 (0.76%) JD Edwards
6 1 (0.76%) Wyse