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 12 July 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 79 63
Rank change year-on-year +30 -16 +19
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 178 126 232
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.90% 3.49% 3.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.05% 3.87% 3.74%
Number of salaries quoted 161 107 205
10th Percentile £29,500 £28,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £34,000 £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 £45,000 £45,500 £43,750
90th Percentile £50,000 £53,500 £50,000
South East median annual salary £35,000 £40,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +9.38%

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 5,830 3,254 6,198
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.89% 90.01% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 4,027 1,488 4,304
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 12 July 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 12 July 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 +15 74 £37,500 -6.25% 12
Oxfordshire +11 55 £36,250 -4.61% 5
Berkshire +11 49 £40,000 -4.76% 10
Support Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 12 July 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 69 (38.76%) Windows
2 55 (30.90%) Microsoft
3 45 (25.28%) Microsoft 365
4 35 (19.66%) Azure
5 34 (19.10%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (18.54%) Customer Service
7 28 (15.73%) Active Directory
8 27 (15.17%) DBS Check
9 23 (12.92%) Windows Server
10 22 (12.36%) Degree
11 19 (10.67%) Entra ID
11 19 (10.67%) Wi-Fi
12 18 (10.11%) Firewall
12 18 (10.11%) Mac OS
13 17 (9.55%) DNS
13 17 (9.55%) ITIL
14 16 (8.99%) Microsoft Exchange
15 15 (8.43%) SaaS
16 14 (7.87%) Microsoft Intune
16 14 (7.87%) SharePoint
17 13 (7.30%) LAN
17 13 (7.30%) PowerShell
17 13 (7.30%) SQL
17 13 (7.30%) VPN
18 12 (6.74%) Cybersecurity
18 12 (6.74%) JIRA
18 12 (6.74%) Linux
18 12 (6.74%) SQL Server
18 12 (6.74%) Windows 10
19 11 (6.18%) Continuous Improvement

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 16 (8.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (7.87%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.25%) IIS
4 1 (0.56%) Confluence
4 1 (0.56%) JBoss
4 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 9 (5.06%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.56%) Acrobat
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 45 (25.28%) Microsoft 365
2 35 (19.66%) Azure
3 19 (10.67%) Entra ID
4 15 (8.43%) SaaS
5 11 (6.18%) Power Automate
6 7 (3.93%) AWS
7 5 (2.81%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (2.81%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (2.81%) Serverless
8 4 (2.25%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (2.25%) Google Workspace
9 3 (1.69%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.56%) BigCommerce
10 1 (0.56%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 19 (10.67%) Wi-Fi
2 18 (10.11%) Firewall
3 17 (9.55%) DNS
4 13 (7.30%) LAN
4 13 (7.30%) VPN
5 11 (6.18%) DHCP
5 11 (6.18%) TCP/IP
6 8 (4.49%) VLAN
7 7 (3.93%) SSL
7 7 (3.93%) VoIP
8 6 (3.37%) WAN
9 3 (1.69%) NAS
9 3 (1.69%) Wireless
10 1 (0.56%) Internet
10 1 (0.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.74%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (2.81%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.25%) RDBMS
4 3 (1.69%) Power BI
5 1 (0.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (6.74%) JIRA
2 5 (2.81%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.81%) JUnit
3 4 (2.25%) JMeter
3 4 (2.25%) Mockito
4 1 (0.56%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.56%) Git
4 1 (0.56%) Postman
4 1 (0.56%) SoapUI
General
1 47 (26.40%) Social Skills
2 15 (8.43%) Electronics
3 5 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (2.25%) Public Sector
5 3 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (1.69%) Multimedia
5 3 (1.69%) Retail
6 1 (0.56%) Finance
6 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.56%) Law
6 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.62%) .NET
2 7 (3.93%) Web Services
3 6 (3.37%) REST
4 5 (2.81%) Apache Camel
4 5 (2.81%) HTML
4 5 (2.81%) Spring
4 5 (2.81%) Spring Boot
5 4 (2.25%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (2.25%) Hibernate
5 4 (2.25%) jQuery
5 4 (2.25%) JSON
5 4 (2.25%) WireMock
5 4 (2.25%) XML
6 2 (1.12%) SOAP
7 1 (0.56%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.56%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.56%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.56%) CSS
7 1 (0.56%) J2EE
7 1 (0.56%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.87%) Driving Licence
2 13 (7.30%) Smart Home
3 11 (6.18%) Onboarding
4 9 (5.06%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (4.49%) NHS
6 7 (3.93%) Augmented Reality
7 5 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.69%) CCTV
10 1 (0.56%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.56%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 69 (38.76%) Windows
2 23 (12.92%) Windows Server
3 18 (10.11%) Mac OS
4 12 (6.74%) Linux
4 12 (6.74%) Windows 10
5 5 (2.81%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.56%) Android
6 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (19.10%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (18.54%) Customer Service
3 17 (9.55%) ITIL
4 12 (6.74%) Cybersecurity
5 11 (6.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (6.18%) Root Cause Analysis
6 9 (5.06%) Proactive Monitoring
6 9 (5.06%) Project Delivery
7 8 (4.49%) Data Acquisition
7 8 (4.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (4.49%) Logistics
7 8 (4.49%) Performance Tuning
7 8 (4.49%) Service Management
7 8 (4.49%) Software Engineering
7 8 (4.49%) User Experience
8 7 (3.93%) Biomedicine
9 6 (3.37%) Informatics
9 6 (3.37%) Intelligent Automation
9 6 (3.37%) Mentoring
10 5 (2.81%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 13 (7.30%) PowerShell
1 13 (7.30%) SQL
2 10 (5.62%) C#
3 8 (4.49%) T-SQL
4 5 (2.81%) Java
4 5 (2.81%) JavaScript
4 5 (2.81%) Shell Script
5 4 (2.25%) Python
6 1 (0.56%) Korn
6 1 (0.56%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 27 (15.17%) DBS Check
2 22 (12.36%) Degree
3 7 (3.93%) City & Guilds
3 7 (3.93%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (2.81%) CompTIA Security+
4 5 (2.81%) Network+ Certification
5 3 (1.69%) CCNA
5 3 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.12%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.12%) HNC
6 2 (1.12%) HND
6 2 (1.12%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.12%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.49%) SLA
2 7 (3.93%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.69%) GDPR
6 1 (0.56%) QA
System Software
1 28 (15.73%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.93%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.81%) Docker
5 3 (1.69%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.69%) Terminal Services
5 3 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 14 (7.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (2.81%) Jamf Pro
2 5 (2.81%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.25%) Kibana
4 1 (0.56%) Ansible
4 1 (0.56%) Autotask
4 1 (0.56%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (30.90%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.49%) VMware
3 5 (2.81%) Apple
3 5 (2.81%) Cisco
3 5 (2.81%) Datto
3 5 (2.81%) Okta
4 4 (2.25%) Dynatrace
4 4 (2.25%) Google
4 4 (2.25%) SonicWALL
4 4 (2.25%) Sophos
4 4 (2.25%) Splunk
4 4 (2.25%) Veeam
5 3 (1.69%) Barracuda Networks
5 3 (1.69%) Fortinet
5 3 (1.69%) Fujitsu
5 3 (1.69%) Virgin Media
6 2 (1.12%) Meraki
7 1 (0.56%) Adobe
7 1 (0.56%) ConnectWise
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle