Support Engineer Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Support Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Support Engineer salary in the Thames Valley is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 92 101
Rank change year-on-year +44 +9 -38
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 205 121 108
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.86% 3.07% 2.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.04% 3.36% 2.34%
Number of salaries quoted 184 104 89
10th Percentile £30,375 £28,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,250 £34,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.90% +10.00%
75th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £48,750
90th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £56,525
South East median annual salary £39,000 £40,000 £35,500
% change year-on-year -2.50% +12.68% +5.19%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 6,753 3,602 4,610
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.21% 91.26% 95.17%
Number of salaries quoted 4,784 1,600 2,627
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,075
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -4.85% -6.36%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £81,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,573
% change year-on-year +10.00% -3.05% -6.23%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Support Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Support Engineer job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies in the Thames Valley.

Salary distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies in the Thames Valley

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Support Engineer in the Thames Valley

Support Engineer
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Support Engineer within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 September 2026. 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
Buckinghamshire +20 85 £42,500 +6.25% 10
Berkshire +31 62 £40,000 -3.03% 11
Oxfordshire +4 58 £40,000 - 8
Support Engineer
South East

Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 13 September 2026, Support Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Thames Valley region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 81 (39.51%) Windows
2 69 (33.66%) Microsoft
3 53 (25.85%) Microsoft 365
4 50 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (22.93%) Azure
6 42 (20.49%) Degree
7 39 (19.02%) Customer Service
8 32 (15.61%) Active Directory
9 30 (14.63%) Entra ID
10 29 (14.15%) Windows Server
11 28 (13.66%) DBS Check
11 28 (13.66%) SharePoint
12 27 (13.17%) DNS
13 25 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (12.20%) Firewall
13 25 (12.20%) Mac OS
13 25 (12.20%) Microsoft Intune
14 24 (11.71%) VMware
15 23 (11.22%) DHCP
15 23 (11.22%) VLAN
15 23 (11.22%) Wi-Fi
16 22 (10.73%) Microsoft Exchange
17 20 (9.76%) Cybersecurity
17 20 (9.76%) Project Delivery
17 20 (9.76%) VPN
18 19 (9.27%) PowerShell
19 18 (8.78%) Root Cause Analysis
19 18 (8.78%) VMware Infrastructure
20 17 (8.29%) ITIL
20 17 (8.29%) Linux

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 28 (13.66%) SharePoint
2 22 (10.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.95%) IIS
4 1 (0.49%) Confluence
4 1 (0.49%) JBoss
4 1 (0.49%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.46%) NetSuite
1 3 (1.46%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 53 (25.85%) Microsoft 365
2 47 (22.93%) Azure
3 30 (14.63%) Entra ID
4 16 (7.80%) Google Workspace
4 16 (7.80%) SaaS
5 13 (6.34%) AWS
6 12 (5.85%) Power Automate
7 5 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (2.44%) Serverless
8 4 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.46%) GitHub
9 3 (1.46%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.46%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.49%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 27 (13.17%) DNS
2 25 (12.20%) Firewall
3 23 (11.22%) DHCP
3 23 (11.22%) VLAN
3 23 (11.22%) Wi-Fi
4 20 (9.76%) VPN
5 15 (7.32%) VoIP
6 14 (6.83%) SSL
7 11 (5.37%) TCP/IP
8 5 (2.44%) LAN
9 4 (1.95%) Wireless
10 3 (1.46%) NAS
11 2 (0.98%) Network Security
11 2 (0.98%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.37%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (2.44%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.95%) RDBMS
4 3 (1.46%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (4.39%) JIRA
2 5 (2.44%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.44%) JUnit
3 4 (1.95%) Git
3 4 (1.95%) JMeter
3 4 (1.95%) Mockito
4 3 (1.46%) GitLab
5 1 (0.49%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.49%) Postman
5 1 (0.49%) SoapUI
General
1 66 (32.20%) Social Skills
2 14 (6.83%) Electronics
3 7 (3.41%) Advertising
3 7 (3.41%) Retail
4 5 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (2.44%) Manufacturing
5 4 (1.95%) Law
5 4 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (1.95%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.39%) .NET
2 7 (3.41%) Web Services
3 6 (2.93%) REST
4 5 (2.44%) Apache Camel
4 5 (2.44%) Spring
4 5 (2.44%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.95%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (1.95%) Hibernate
5 4 (1.95%) HTML
5 4 (1.95%) jQuery
5 4 (1.95%) JSON
5 4 (1.95%) Node.js
5 4 (1.95%) WireMock
5 4 (1.95%) XML
6 3 (1.46%) React
7 2 (0.98%) SOAP
8 1 (0.49%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.49%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.49%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 1 (0.49%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.78%) Driving Licence
2 12 (5.85%) Onboarding
3 9 (4.39%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (3.41%) Smart Home
5 5 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.44%) Replication
6 4 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.46%) CCTV
7 3 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.46%) Robotics
8 1 (0.49%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.49%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 81 (39.51%) Windows
2 29 (14.15%) Windows Server
3 25 (12.20%) Mac OS
4 17 (8.29%) Linux
5 10 (4.88%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (3.90%) Ubuntu
6 8 (3.90%) Windows 10
7 5 (2.44%) Rocky
8 3 (1.46%) Debian
8 3 (1.46%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.49%) Android
9 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (19.02%) Customer Service
3 25 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
4 20 (9.76%) Cybersecurity
4 20 (9.76%) Project Delivery
5 18 (8.78%) Root Cause Analysis
6 17 (8.29%) ITIL
7 16 (7.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 14 (6.83%) Disaster Recovery
8 14 (6.83%) Kalman Filter
9 12 (5.85%) Resource Management
10 11 (5.37%) Data Privacy
10 11 (5.37%) Mobile Device Management
10 11 (5.37%) Software Engineering
10 11 (5.37%) Validation
11 8 (3.90%) AI
11 8 (3.90%) Data Acquisition
11 8 (3.90%) Performance Tuning
11 8 (3.90%) Server Management
11 8 (3.90%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 19 (9.27%) PowerShell
2 13 (6.34%) SQL
3 9 (4.39%) C#
4 8 (3.90%) T-SQL
5 7 (3.41%) Python
6 5 (2.44%) Java
7 4 (1.95%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.95%) Ladder Logic
7 4 (1.95%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.46%) Bash
9 1 (0.49%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 42 (20.49%) Degree
2 28 (13.66%) DBS Check
3 15 (7.32%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (5.37%) CompTIA Security+
4 11 (5.37%) HNC
4 11 (5.37%) Network+ Certification
5 5 (2.44%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.44%) HND
6 4 (1.95%) CCNA
6 4 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.95%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.95%) Security Cleared
7 3 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.32%) Cyber Essentials
2 11 (5.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 6 (2.93%) GDPR
4 4 (1.95%) QA
5 3 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.46%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (15.61%) Active Directory
2 18 (8.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (5.85%) Hyper-V
4 8 (3.90%) Docker
5 4 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.46%) BitLocker
6 3 (1.46%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 25 (12.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (5.85%) Jamf Pro
3 5 (2.44%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.95%) Kibana
5 1 (0.49%) Ansible
5 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 69 (33.66%) Microsoft
2 24 (11.71%) VMware
3 16 (7.80%) Google
3 16 (7.80%) Veeam
4 15 (7.32%) Apple
5 12 (5.85%) Cisco
6 11 (5.37%) Datto
6 11 (5.37%) SonicWALL
7 5 (2.44%) Dell
7 5 (2.44%) Okta
8 4 (1.95%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.95%) Splunk
9 3 (1.46%) Barracuda Networks
9 3 (1.46%) NVIDIA
9 3 (1.46%) Sophos
10 1 (0.49%) Adobe
10 1 (0.49%) Meraki