Support Engineer Jobs in Surrey

Support Engineer
South East > Surrey

The median Support Engineer salary in Surrey is £37,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 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
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 92 83
Rank change year-on-year +61 -9 +43
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 74 63 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 7.13% 2.49% 3.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.05% 2.72% 3.33%
Number of salaries quoted 49 62 63
10th Percentile £28,750 £27,550 £26,350
25th Percentile £32,000 £29,500 £28,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,500 £33,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +22.73% -3.30%
75th Percentile £43,750 £51,250 £38,375
90th Percentile £44,000 £65,000 £43,750
South East median annual salary £36,000 £34,000 £31,500
% change year-on-year +5.88% +7.94% -3.08%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Surrey

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Surrey. 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 Surrey with a recognized job title 818 2,314 2,280
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 78.81% 91.32% 94.06%
Number of salaries quoted 563 1,488 1,420
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,748 £38,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +8.11%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,250 £80,000 £90,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in Surrey

Support Engineer
Salary Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Support Engineer in Surrey.

Salary trend for Support Engineer in Surrey

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in Surrey over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Support Engineer in Surrey

Support Engineer
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Support Engineer within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 5 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
Redhill - 31 £40,000 - 2
Woking +24 12 £33,750 -20.59% 2
Guildford +26 6 £35,000 -15.15%
Camberley -2 5 £28,500 -18.57%
Leatherhead +52 2 £42,500 -22.73% 1
Reigate +4 2 - - 1
Staines -5 1 - - 1
Support Engineer
South East

Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey

For the 6 months to 5 May 2025, 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 Surrey region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (43.24%) Windows
2 28 (37.84%) Microsoft
3 26 (35.14%) Security Cleared
3 26 (35.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 25 (33.78%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (33.78%) Social Skills
5 24 (32.43%) Customer Service
6 20 (27.03%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (27.03%) Active Directory
7 19 (25.68%) Disaster Recovery
7 19 (25.68%) VMware
7 19 (25.68%) Azure
8 18 (24.32%) NAS
8 18 (24.32%) PowerShell
8 18 (24.32%) Kalman Filter
8 18 (24.32%) SAN
8 18 (24.32%) Microsoft Exchange
9 17 (22.97%) High Availability
9 17 (22.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (18.92%) Statistics
10 14 (18.92%) Degree
10 14 (18.92%) Computer Science
11 13 (17.57%) SC Cleared
11 13 (17.57%) VMware Infrastructure
11 13 (17.57%) Virtual Environments
11 13 (17.57%) LAN
11 13 (17.57%) WAN
12 12 (16.22%) ITSM
12 12 (16.22%) Web Filtering
12 12 (16.22%) DV Cleared

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 18 (24.32%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (6.76%) MS Visio
2 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (27.03%) Microsoft 365
2 19 (25.68%) Azure
3 1 (1.35%) AWS
3 1 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (24.32%) NAS
1 18 (24.32%) SAN
2 13 (17.57%) LAN
2 13 (17.57%) WAN
3 11 (14.86%) Firewall
4 8 (10.81%) SD-WAN
5 5 (6.76%) BGP
5 5 (6.76%) OSPF
5 5 (6.76%) VLAN
5 5 (6.76%) VPN
5 5 (6.76%) VSAT
6 1 (1.35%) IP Telephony
6 1 (1.35%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Jenkins
General
1 25 (33.78%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.86%) Telecoms
3 10 (13.51%) Finance
4 5 (6.76%) Games
5 4 (5.41%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.35%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.35%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.35%) RESTful
1 1 (1.35%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.86%) Clustering
2 10 (13.51%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (6.76%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.35%) Blackberry
4 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (43.24%) Windows
2 10 (13.51%) Apple iOS
2 10 (13.51%) Mac OS
3 3 (4.05%) Linux
4 1 (1.35%) Unix
4 1 (1.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (35.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 25 (33.78%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (32.43%) Customer Service
4 19 (25.68%) Disaster Recovery
5 18 (24.32%) Kalman Filter
6 17 (22.97%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (22.97%) High Availability
7 14 (18.92%) Computer Science
7 14 (18.92%) Statistics
8 13 (17.57%) Virtual Environments
9 12 (16.22%) ITSM
9 12 (16.22%) Web Filtering
10 10 (13.51%) B2B
11 8 (10.81%) Budget Management
11 8 (10.81%) Business Continuity
11 8 (10.81%) Data Protection
11 8 (10.81%) Migration
11 8 (10.81%) Server Building
11 8 (10.81%) Stress Testing
12 7 (9.46%) Antivirus Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (24.32%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.35%) Java
2 1 (1.35%) Shell Script
2 1 (1.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (35.14%) Security Cleared
2 14 (18.92%) Degree
3 13 (17.57%) SC Cleared
4 12 (16.22%) DV Cleared
5 11 (14.86%) CCNA
5 11 (14.86%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (10.81%) HND
7 6 (8.11%) JNCIA
8 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (2.70%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.76%) GDPR
2 2 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (27.03%) Active Directory
2 13 (17.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (10.81%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 28 (37.84%) Microsoft
2 19 (25.68%) VMware
3 8 (10.81%) Citrix
4 5 (6.76%) CheckPoint
4 5 (6.76%) Cisco
4 5 (6.76%) Fortinet
4 5 (6.76%) Juniper
5 2 (2.70%) SAP
6 1 (1.35%) McAfee
6 1 (1.35%) Veeam