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 27 September 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 90 94
Rank change year-on-year +38 +4 -26
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 200 121 116
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.68% 3.20% 2.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.87% 3.51% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 180 104 94
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,400 £25,975
25th Percentile £35,250 £32,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% +5.93%
75th Percentile £47,500 £44,063 £48,438
90th Percentile £50,375 £49,750 £56,525
South East median annual salary £39,000 £40,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -2.50% +14.29% +2.94%

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 6,980 3,451 4,598
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.63% 91.30% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 4,942 1,590 2,403
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £71,535 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

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 27 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 27 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 +16 81 £42,500 +6.25% 16
Berkshire +14 65 £40,000 -3.03% 18
Oxfordshire 0 54 £40,000 +5.26% 10
Support Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 80 (40.00%) Windows
2 68 (34.00%) Microsoft
3 51 (25.50%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (25.50%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (23.50%) Azure
5 42 (21.00%) Degree
6 38 (19.00%) Customer Service
7 33 (16.50%) Active Directory
8 31 (15.50%) Entra ID
9 29 (14.50%) SharePoint
9 29 (14.50%) Windows Server
10 27 (13.50%) DBS Check
10 27 (13.50%) DNS
11 26 (13.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (13.00%) Mac OS
11 26 (13.00%) Microsoft Intune
12 25 (12.50%) Firewall
13 24 (12.00%) VLAN
14 23 (11.50%) DHCP
14 23 (11.50%) Microsoft Exchange
14 23 (11.50%) VMware
15 22 (11.00%) Wi-Fi
16 21 (10.50%) VPN
17 20 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
17 20 (10.00%) Project Delivery
18 19 (9.50%) PowerShell
19 18 (9.00%) Root Cause Analysis
20 17 (8.50%) Apple
20 17 (8.50%) Linux
20 17 (8.50%) VMware Infrastructure

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 29 (14.50%) SharePoint
2 23 (11.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.00%) IIS
4 1 (0.50%) Confluence
4 1 (0.50%) JBoss
4 1 (0.50%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (3.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.00%) NetSuite
1 4 (2.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 51 (25.50%) Microsoft 365
2 47 (23.50%) Azure
3 31 (15.50%) Entra ID
4 16 (8.00%) Google Workspace
4 16 (8.00%) SaaS
5 13 (6.50%) AWS
6 11 (5.50%) Power Automate
7 5 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (2.50%) Serverless
8 4 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.50%) GitHub
9 3 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.00%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 27 (13.50%) DNS
2 25 (12.50%) Firewall
3 24 (12.00%) VLAN
4 23 (11.50%) DHCP
5 22 (11.00%) Wi-Fi
6 21 (10.50%) VPN
7 15 (7.50%) VoIP
8 14 (7.00%) SSL
9 12 (6.00%) TCP/IP
10 7 (3.50%) LAN
11 5 (2.50%) Wireless
12 4 (2.00%) WAN
13 2 (1.00%) NAS
13 2 (1.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.50%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (2.50%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.00%) RDBMS
4 2 (1.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (3.50%) JIRA
2 5 (2.50%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.50%) JUnit
3 4 (2.00%) Git
3 4 (2.00%) JMeter
3 4 (2.00%) Mockito
4 3 (1.50%) GitLab
5 1 (0.50%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.50%) Postman
5 1 (0.50%) SoapUI
General
1 66 (33.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (6.50%) Electronics
3 8 (4.00%) Advertising
4 7 (3.50%) Retail
5 5 (2.50%) Manufacturing
5 5 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.00%) Law
6 4 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (2.00%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.50%) .NET
2 7 (3.50%) Web Services
3 6 (3.00%) REST
4 5 (2.50%) Apache Camel
4 5 (2.50%) Spring
4 5 (2.50%) Spring Boot
5 4 (2.00%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (2.00%) Hibernate
5 4 (2.00%) HTML
5 4 (2.00%) jQuery
5 4 (2.00%) JSON
5 4 (2.00%) Node.js
5 4 (2.00%) WireMock
5 4 (2.00%) XML
6 3 (1.50%) React
7 2 (1.00%) SOAP
8 1 (0.50%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.50%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.50%) Jakarta EE
8 1 (0.50%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.00%) Driving Licence
2 12 (6.00%) Onboarding
3 9 (4.50%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.00%) Smart Home
5 5 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.50%) Replication
6 4 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.50%) CCTV
7 3 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.50%) Robotics
8 1 (0.50%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 80 (40.00%) Windows
2 29 (14.50%) Windows Server
3 26 (13.00%) Mac OS
4 17 (8.50%) Linux
5 10 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (4.00%) Ubuntu
7 7 (3.50%) Windows 10
8 5 (2.50%) Rocky
9 3 (1.50%) Debian
9 3 (1.50%) Robot Operating System
10 1 (0.50%) Android
10 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (25.50%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (19.00%) Customer Service
3 26 (13.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 20 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
4 20 (10.00%) Project Delivery
5 18 (9.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 16 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 16 (8.00%) ITIL
7 15 (7.50%) Disaster Recovery
8 14 (7.00%) Kalman Filter
9 12 (6.00%) Resource Management
10 11 (5.50%) Data Privacy
10 11 (5.50%) Mobile Device Management
10 11 (5.50%) Software Engineering
10 11 (5.50%) Validation
11 9 (4.50%) AI
12 8 (4.00%) CI/CD
12 8 (4.00%) Performance Tuning
12 8 (4.00%) Server Management
12 8 (4.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 19 (9.50%) PowerShell
2 11 (5.50%) SQL
3 9 (4.50%) C#
4 8 (4.00%) T-SQL
5 7 (3.50%) Python
6 5 (2.50%) Java
7 4 (2.00%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.00%) Ladder Logic
7 4 (2.00%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.50%) Bash
9 1 (0.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 42 (21.00%) Degree
2 27 (13.50%) DBS Check
3 15 (7.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (5.50%) CompTIA Security+
4 11 (5.50%) HNC
4 11 (5.50%) Network+ Certification
5 5 (2.50%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.50%) HND
6 4 (2.00%) CCNA
6 4 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.00%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.00%) Security Cleared
7 3 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 11 (5.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 8 (4.00%) GDPR
4 4 (2.00%) QA
5 3 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.00%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (16.50%) Active Directory
2 17 (8.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (6.50%) Hyper-V
4 8 (4.00%) Docker
5 4 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.00%) BitLocker
6 2 (1.00%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 26 (13.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (6.00%) Jamf Pro
3 5 (2.50%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.00%) Kibana
5 1 (0.50%) Ansible
5 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 68 (34.00%) Microsoft
2 23 (11.50%) VMware
3 17 (8.50%) Apple
4 16 (8.00%) Google
4 16 (8.00%) Veeam
5 13 (6.50%) Cisco
6 11 (5.50%) Datto
6 11 (5.50%) SonicWALL
7 5 (2.50%) Dell
7 5 (2.50%) Okta
8 4 (2.00%) Dynatrace
8 4 (2.00%) Splunk
9 3 (1.50%) NVIDIA
10 2 (1.00%) Adobe
10 2 (1.00%) Barracuda Networks
10 2 (1.00%) Meraki
10 2 (1.00%) Sophos
11 1 (0.50%) Fortinet