Support Engineer Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Support Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Support Engineer salary in the Thames Valley is £35,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 April 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 74 55
Rank change year-on-year +18 -19 +27
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 145 88 269
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.71% 3.11% 4.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.89% 3.84% 4.34%
Number of salaries quoted 124 74 247
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £29,146
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £37,250 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% -0.67% +19.05%
75th Percentile £41,750 £50,000 £43,750
90th Percentile £45,000 £54,250 £46,750
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 5,009 2,293 6,201
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.78% 81.05% 94.66%
Number of salaries quoted 3,297 1,248 4,602
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,673 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.77% +13.35% -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,313 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
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 18 April 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 18 April 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 +21 60 £35,000 -42.86% 4
Berkshire +8 47 £40,000 +6.67% 7
Oxfordshire -2 38 £35,000 +11.11% 8
Support Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 18 April 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 (39.31%) Windows
2 42 (28.97%) Microsoft
3 41 (28.28%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (23.45%) Microsoft 365
5 30 (20.69%) Active Directory
6 27 (18.62%) Azure
6 27 (18.62%) Customer Service
7 20 (13.79%) Windows Server
8 18 (12.41%) DBS Check
9 17 (11.72%) Degree
9 17 (11.72%) Firewall
10 15 (10.34%) DNS
10 15 (10.34%) LAN
10 15 (10.34%) SLA
11 14 (9.66%) Entra ID
11 14 (9.66%) Windows 10
12 12 (8.28%) Microsoft Office
13 11 (7.59%) ITIL
13 11 (7.59%) Microsoft Intune
13 11 (7.59%) VoIP
14 10 (6.90%) DHCP
14 10 (6.90%) Linux
14 10 (6.90%) VPN
15 9 (6.21%) Continuous Improvement
15 9 (6.21%) TCP/IP
15 9 (6.21%) WAN
15 9 (6.21%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (5.52%) Microsoft Exchange
17 7 (4.83%) AWS
17 7 (4.83%) Biomedicine

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 8 (5.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.14%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.07%) IIS
4 1 (0.69%) JBoss
4 1 (0.69%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 12 (8.28%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.69%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 34 (23.45%) Microsoft 365
2 27 (18.62%) Azure
3 14 (9.66%) Entra ID
4 7 (4.83%) AWS
5 5 (3.45%) GCP
6 3 (2.07%) Google Workspace
6 3 (2.07%) Power Automate
6 3 (2.07%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.07%) SaaS
7 2 (1.38%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.38%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.38%) BigCommerce
7 2 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.38%) Serverless
8 1 (0.69%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.69%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 17 (11.72%) Firewall
2 15 (10.34%) DNS
2 15 (10.34%) LAN
3 11 (7.59%) VoIP
4 10 (6.90%) DHCP
4 10 (6.90%) VPN
5 9 (6.21%) TCP/IP
5 9 (6.21%) WAN
5 9 (6.21%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (2.76%) 4G
6 4 (2.76%) 5G
7 3 (2.07%) GSM
7 3 (2.07%) NAS
7 3 (2.07%) TETRA
7 3 (2.07%) UMTS
7 3 (2.07%) Wireless
8 1 (0.69%) 3GPP
8 1 (0.69%) IPv4
8 1 (0.69%) IPv6
8 1 (0.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.07%) Power BI
2 2 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.38%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.38%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.69%) Metadata
3 1 (0.69%) MySQL
3 1 (0.69%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (3.45%) JIRA
2 2 (1.38%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.38%) JUnit
3 1 (0.69%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (0.69%) Git
3 1 (0.69%) JMeter
3 1 (0.69%) Mockito
General
1 31 (21.38%) Social Skills
2 10 (6.90%) Electronics
3 8 (5.52%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (2.76%) Telecoms
5 3 (2.07%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.07%) Multimedia
6 1 (0.69%) Finance
6 1 (0.69%) Legal
6 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.69%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.69%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.07%) .NET
1 3 (2.07%) REST
1 3 (2.07%) Web Services
2 2 (1.38%) .NET Framework
2 2 (1.38%) Apache Camel
2 2 (1.38%) ASP.NET
2 2 (1.38%) Entity Framework
2 2 (1.38%) HTML
2 2 (1.38%) Spring
2 2 (1.38%) Spring Boot
2 2 (1.38%) WinForms
3 1 (0.69%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (0.69%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.69%) Hibernate
3 1 (0.69%) jQuery
3 1 (0.69%) JSON
3 1 (0.69%) Mustache
3 1 (0.69%) Node.js
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.90%) Driving Licence
2 9 (6.21%) Onboarding
3 8 (5.52%) NHS
3 8 (5.52%) Smart Home
4 7 (4.83%) Augmented Reality
5 4 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.38%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.69%) CCTV
7 1 (0.69%) IPTV
7 1 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.69%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.69%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.69%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 57 (39.31%) Windows
2 20 (13.79%) Windows Server
3 14 (9.66%) Windows 10
4 10 (6.90%) Linux
5 5 (3.45%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.69%) Android
6 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (28.28%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (18.62%) Customer Service
3 11 (7.59%) ITIL
4 9 (6.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (4.83%) Biomedicine
6 6 (4.14%) Collaborative Culture
6 6 (4.14%) Proactive Monitoring
7 5 (3.45%) Informatics
7 5 (3.45%) Project Delivery
7 5 (3.45%) Software Deployment
8 4 (2.76%) B2B
8 4 (2.76%) Computer Science
8 4 (2.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (2.76%) Logistics
8 4 (2.76%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (2.76%) Service Delivery
9 3 (2.07%) Cost Control
9 3 (2.07%) Critical Thinking
9 3 (2.07%) Data Acquisition
9 3 (2.07%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.14%) PowerShell
1 6 (4.14%) SQL
2 3 (2.07%) C#
2 3 (2.07%) Java
3 2 (1.38%) JavaScript
3 2 (1.38%) Python
3 2 (1.38%) Shell Script
3 2 (1.38%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.69%) Korn
Qualifications
1 18 (12.41%) DBS Check
2 17 (11.72%) Degree
3 7 (4.83%) City & Guilds
4 5 (3.45%) HNC
5 3 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.38%) A+ Certification
6 2 (1.38%) HND
6 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.69%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.69%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.69%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.69%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.34%) SLA
2 5 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.76%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.38%) QA
System Software
1 30 (20.69%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.76%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.07%) BitLocker
3 3 (2.07%) Terminal Services
3 3 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.38%) Docker
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (7.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.38%) Kibana
2 2 (1.38%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.69%) Ansible
3 1 (0.69%) Autotask
3 1 (0.69%) Control-M
3 1 (0.69%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 42 (28.97%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.45%) Adobe
2 5 (3.45%) Google
3 4 (2.76%) Sophos
4 3 (2.07%) Atlassian
4 3 (2.07%) Barracuda Networks
4 3 (2.07%) Fortinet
4 3 (2.07%) Fujitsu
4 3 (2.07%) Virgin Media
4 3 (2.07%) VMware
5 2 (1.38%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.38%) Sage
5 2 (1.38%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.69%) Cisco
6 1 (0.69%) Citrix
6 1 (0.69%) Draytek
6 1 (0.69%) Meraki
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle
6 1 (0.69%) Splunk
6 1 (0.69%) Yealink