Support Engineer Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Support Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Support Engineer salary in the Thames Valley is £38,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 June 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 85 67
Rank change year-on-year +31 -18 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 157 118 238
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.71% 3.50% 3.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.87% 4.00% 3.48%
Number of salaries quoted 140 98 214
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £40,000 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +3.90% +22.22%
75th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £43,750
90th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
South East median annual salary £35,000 £40,000 £34,667
% change year-on-year -12.50% +15.38% +8.33%

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 5,476 2,951 6,845
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.51% 87.49% 94.54%
Number of salaries quoted 3,793 1,256 4,724
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,625 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,840 £64,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,750
South East median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -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 14 June 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 14 June 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 +28 68 £37,500 -6.25% 4
Oxfordshire +10 50 £36,250 -2.03% 4
Berkshire -11 39 £40,000 -4.76% 5
Support Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 14 June 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 57 (36.31%) Windows
2 42 (26.75%) Microsoft
3 35 (22.29%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (19.11%) Customer Service
4 30 (19.11%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (17.20%) Azure
6 24 (15.29%) Active Directory
6 24 (15.29%) DBS Check
7 21 (13.38%) Windows Server
8 19 (12.10%) Degree
9 17 (10.83%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (9.55%) Firewall
11 14 (8.92%) Entra ID
12 13 (8.28%) Mac OS
13 12 (7.64%) DNS
13 12 (7.64%) LAN
13 12 (7.64%) SaaS
13 12 (7.64%) Windows 10
14 11 (7.01%) ITIL
14 11 (7.01%) Microsoft Exchange
15 10 (6.37%) Cybersecurity
15 10 (6.37%) Microsoft Intune
15 10 (6.37%) SQL
15 10 (6.37%) VPN
16 9 (5.73%) JIRA
16 9 (5.73%) Linux
16 9 (5.73%) Logistics
16 9 (5.73%) Microsoft Office
16 9 (5.73%) Project Delivery
16 9 (5.73%) Root Cause Analysis

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 11 (7.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (5.73%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.91%) IIS
4 1 (0.64%) Confluence
4 1 (0.64%) JBoss
4 1 (0.64%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.64%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 9 (5.73%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.64%) Acrobat
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 35 (22.29%) Microsoft 365
2 27 (17.20%) Azure
3 14 (8.92%) Entra ID
4 12 (7.64%) SaaS
5 6 (3.82%) AWS
5 6 (3.82%) Power Automate
6 5 (3.18%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (3.18%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (3.18%) Google Workspace
6 5 (3.18%) Serverless
7 4 (2.55%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.91%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.64%) BigCommerce
9 1 (0.64%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.64%) GCP
9 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.64%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.83%) Wi-Fi
2 15 (9.55%) Firewall
3 12 (7.64%) DNS
3 12 (7.64%) LAN
4 10 (6.37%) VPN
5 7 (4.46%) DHCP
5 7 (4.46%) SSL
5 7 (4.46%) TCP/IP
5 7 (4.46%) VoIP
6 5 (3.18%) VLAN
6 5 (3.18%) WAN
7 3 (1.91%) NAS
8 1 (0.64%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.73%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.18%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (3.18%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.55%) RDBMS
4 3 (1.91%) Power BI
5 1 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.64%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (5.73%) JIRA
2 5 (3.18%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.18%) JUnit
3 4 (2.55%) JMeter
3 4 (2.55%) Mockito
4 1 (0.64%) Git
General
1 34 (21.66%) Social Skills
2 15 (9.55%) Electronics
3 5 (3.18%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (2.55%) Public Sector
5 3 (1.91%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (1.91%) Multimedia
5 3 (1.91%) Retail
6 1 (0.64%) Finance
6 1 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.64%) Legal
6 1 (0.64%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.10%) .NET
2 7 (4.46%) Web Services
3 5 (3.18%) Apache Camel
3 5 (3.18%) HTML
3 5 (3.18%) REST
3 5 (3.18%) Spring
3 5 (3.18%) Spring Boot
4 4 (2.55%) ActiveMQ
4 4 (2.55%) Hibernate
4 4 (2.55%) jQuery
4 4 (2.55%) JSON
4 4 (2.55%) WireMock
4 4 (2.55%) XML
5 1 (0.64%) CSS
5 1 (0.64%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.64%) J2EE
5 1 (0.64%) Mustache
5 1 (0.64%) Node.js
5 1 (0.64%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (0.64%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.64%) Driving Licence
2 10 (6.37%) Onboarding
2 10 (6.37%) Smart Home
3 8 (5.10%) NHS
4 7 (4.46%) Augmented Reality
4 7 (4.46%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.27%) CCTV
8 1 (0.64%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.64%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.64%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 57 (36.31%) Windows
2 21 (13.38%) Windows Server
3 13 (8.28%) Mac OS
4 12 (7.64%) Windows 10
5 9 (5.73%) Linux
6 4 (2.55%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.27%) Android
7 2 (1.27%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (19.11%) Customer Service
1 30 (19.11%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (7.01%) ITIL
3 10 (6.37%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (5.73%) Logistics
4 9 (5.73%) Project Delivery
4 9 (5.73%) Root Cause Analysis
5 8 (5.10%) Data Acquisition
6 7 (4.46%) Biomedicine
6 7 (4.46%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (4.46%) Performance Tuning
6 7 (4.46%) Software Engineering
7 6 (3.82%) Informatics
7 6 (3.82%) Proactive Monitoring
8 5 (3.18%) Agile
8 5 (3.18%) CI/CD
8 5 (3.18%) Microservices
8 5 (3.18%) Service Management
8 5 (3.18%) Software Deployment
8 5 (3.18%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 10 (6.37%) SQL
2 8 (5.10%) C#
3 7 (4.46%) PowerShell
3 7 (4.46%) T-SQL
4 5 (3.18%) Java
4 5 (3.18%) JavaScript
4 5 (3.18%) Shell Script
5 4 (2.55%) Python
6 1 (0.64%) Korn
Qualifications
1 24 (15.29%) DBS Check
2 19 (12.10%) Degree
3 7 (4.46%) City & Guilds
4 5 (3.18%) CompTIA Security+
4 5 (3.18%) Network+ Certification
5 4 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.27%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.27%) HNC
6 2 (1.27%) HND
7 1 (0.64%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.64%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.64%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.10%) SLA
2 6 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.55%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.27%) GDPR
5 1 (0.64%) QA
System Software
1 24 (15.29%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.10%) Hyper-V
3 7 (4.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (3.18%) Docker
5 3 (1.91%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.91%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.64%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (6.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (3.18%) Jamf Pro
2 5 (3.18%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.55%) Kibana
4 1 (0.64%) Ansible
4 1 (0.64%) Autotask
4 1 (0.64%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (26.75%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.46%) VMware
3 5 (3.18%) Apple
3 5 (3.18%) Datto
3 5 (3.18%) Google
4 4 (2.55%) Cisco
4 4 (2.55%) Dynatrace
4 4 (2.55%) SonicWALL
4 4 (2.55%) Sophos
4 4 (2.55%) Splunk
4 4 (2.55%) Veeam
5 3 (1.91%) Barracuda Networks
5 3 (1.91%) Fortinet
5 3 (1.91%) Fujitsu
5 3 (1.91%) Okta
5 3 (1.91%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.64%) Adobe
6 1 (0.64%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.64%) Citrix
6 1 (0.64%) Oracle