Support Engineer Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Support Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Support Engineer salary in the Thames Valley is £36,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2026.

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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 81 56
Rank change year-on-year +24 -25 +25
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 141 97 259
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.52% 3.23% 3.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.68% 3.93% 4.20%
Number of salaries quoted 121 79 237
10th Percentile £31,000 £26,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £29,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £43,750
90th Percentile £45,000 £53,000 £46,250
South East median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year - +2.94% +7.94%

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 5,266 2,469 6,170
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 82.16% 94.50%
Number of salaries quoted 3,474 1,275 4,540
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,350 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 +18 57 £35,750 -28.50% 2
Berkshire +5 46 £40,000 +6.67% 8
Oxfordshire -4 38 £35,000 +7.69% 10
Support Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 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 52 (36.88%) Windows
2 38 (26.95%) Microsoft
3 34 (24.11%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (19.86%) Customer Service
4 28 (19.86%) Microsoft 365
5 27 (19.15%) Active Directory
6 21 (14.89%) Windows Server
7 20 (14.18%) Azure
8 17 (12.06%) DBS Check
9 16 (11.35%) Degree
9 16 (11.35%) LAN
10 15 (10.64%) Firewall
11 13 (9.22%) Windows 10
12 12 (8.51%) Microsoft Office
12 12 (8.51%) SLA
13 11 (7.80%) DNS
13 11 (7.80%) ITIL
14 10 (7.09%) Entra ID
14 10 (7.09%) Linux
14 10 (7.09%) Wi-Fi
15 9 (6.38%) VoIP
15 9 (6.38%) WAN
16 8 (5.67%) Continuous Improvement
16 8 (5.67%) VPN
17 7 (4.96%) Biomedicine
17 7 (4.96%) City & Guilds
17 7 (4.96%) Microsoft Intune
17 7 (4.96%) Proactive Monitoring
17 7 (4.96%) TCP/IP
18 6 (4.26%) AWS

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 6 (4.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.84%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.42%) IIS
4 1 (0.71%) JBoss
4 1 (0.71%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 12 (8.51%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.71%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 28 (19.86%) Microsoft 365
2 20 (14.18%) Azure
3 10 (7.09%) Entra ID
4 6 (4.26%) AWS
5 3 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (2.13%) GCP
5 3 (2.13%) Google Workspace
5 3 (2.13%) Power Automate
5 3 (2.13%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.13%) SaaS
5 3 (2.13%) Serverless
6 2 (1.42%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.42%) BigCommerce
6 2 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.71%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.35%) LAN
2 15 (10.64%) Firewall
3 11 (7.80%) DNS
4 10 (7.09%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (6.38%) VoIP
5 9 (6.38%) WAN
6 8 (5.67%) VPN
7 7 (4.96%) TCP/IP
8 6 (4.26%) DHCP
9 4 (2.84%) 4G
9 4 (2.84%) 5G
10 3 (2.13%) GSM
10 3 (2.13%) NAS
10 3 (2.13%) TETRA
10 3 (2.13%) UMTS
10 3 (2.13%) Wireless
11 2 (1.42%) SSL
12 1 (0.71%) Intranet
12 1 (0.71%) IPv4
12 1 (0.71%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (2.13%) Power BI
1 3 (2.13%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.42%) RDBMS
2 2 (1.42%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.71%) Metadata
3 1 (0.71%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (3.55%) JIRA
2 3 (2.13%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.13%) JUnit
3 2 (1.42%) JMeter
3 2 (1.42%) Mockito
4 1 (0.71%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.71%) Git
General
1 29 (20.57%) Social Skills
2 11 (7.80%) Electronics
3 6 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (2.84%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.13%) Multimedia
6 2 (1.42%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.42%) Retail
6 2 (1.42%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.71%) Finance
7 1 (0.71%) Legal
7 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.55%) Web Services
2 4 (2.84%) REST
3 3 (2.13%) Apache Camel
3 3 (2.13%) HTML
3 3 (2.13%) Spring
3 3 (2.13%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.42%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (1.42%) Hibernate
4 2 (1.42%) jQuery
4 2 (1.42%) JSON
4 2 (1.42%) WireMock
4 2 (1.42%) XML
5 1 (0.71%) .NET
5 1 (0.71%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.71%) CSS
5 1 (0.71%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.71%) J2EE
5 1 (0.71%) Mustache
5 1 (0.71%) Node.js
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.38%) Smart Home
2 8 (5.67%) Driving Licence
2 8 (5.67%) NHS
2 8 (5.67%) Onboarding
3 7 (4.96%) Augmented Reality
4 3 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.42%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.71%) CCTV
6 1 (0.71%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.71%) IPTV
6 1 (0.71%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.71%) Smartphone
6 1 (0.71%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 52 (36.88%) Windows
2 21 (14.89%) Windows Server
3 13 (9.22%) Windows 10
4 10 (7.09%) Linux
5 5 (3.55%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.71%) Android
6 1 (0.71%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (24.11%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (19.86%) Customer Service
3 11 (7.80%) ITIL
4 8 (5.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (4.96%) Biomedicine
5 7 (4.96%) Proactive Monitoring
6 6 (4.26%) Informatics
7 5 (3.55%) Logistics
7 5 (3.55%) Software Deployment
8 4 (2.84%) Collaborative Culture
8 4 (2.84%) Data Acquisition
8 4 (2.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (2.84%) Project Delivery
8 4 (2.84%) Root Cause Analysis
9 3 (2.13%) CI/CD
9 3 (2.13%) Critical Thinking
9 3 (2.13%) High Availability
9 3 (2.13%) Mentoring
9 3 (2.13%) Microservices
9 3 (2.13%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (2.84%) Java
1 4 (2.84%) PowerShell
1 4 (2.84%) SQL
2 3 (2.13%) JavaScript
2 3 (2.13%) Python
2 3 (2.13%) Shell Script
3 1 (0.71%) C#
3 1 (0.71%) Korn
Qualifications
1 17 (12.06%) DBS Check
2 16 (11.35%) Degree
3 7 (4.96%) City & Guilds
4 3 (2.13%) HNC
5 2 (1.42%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.42%) HND
6 1 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.71%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.71%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (0.71%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.71%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.51%) SLA
2 6 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.71%) QA
System Software
1 27 (19.15%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.84%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.13%) BitLocker
3 3 (2.13%) Docker
3 3 (2.13%) Terminal Services
3 3 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (4.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.13%) Kibana
2 3 (2.13%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.71%) Ansible
3 1 (0.71%) Autotask
3 1 (0.71%) Control-M
3 1 (0.71%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 38 (26.95%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.55%) Adobe
3 4 (2.84%) Sophos
4 3 (2.13%) Atlassian
4 3 (2.13%) Barracuda Networks
4 3 (2.13%) Dynatrace
4 3 (2.13%) Fortinet
4 3 (2.13%) Fujitsu
4 3 (2.13%) Google
4 3 (2.13%) Virgin Media
4 3 (2.13%) VMware
5 2 (1.42%) Splunk
6 1 (0.71%) Cisco
6 1 (0.71%) Citrix
6 1 (0.71%) ConnectWise
6 1 (0.71%) Datto
6 1 (0.71%) Draytek
6 1 (0.71%) Meraki
6 1 (0.71%) Oracle
6 1 (0.71%) Yealink