Development Support Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Development Support Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Development Support Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 August 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 600 694 651
Rank change year-on-year +94 -43 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Development Support Engineer 1 1 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.002% 0.002% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.003% 0.002% 0.008%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £46,001
25th Percentile - £38,750 £46,152
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £42,500 £48,370
Median % change year-on-year +52.94% -12.13% -
75th Percentile - £46,250 £50,652
90th Percentile - - £50,843
UK median annual salary £65,000 £42,500 £48,370
% change year-on-year +52.94% -12.13% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 39,576 58,913 39,529
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.36% 95.11% 90.01%
Number of salaries quoted 21,462 37,397 26,248
10th Percentile £25,500 £28,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,837
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% +1.90%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,600 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Development Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Development Support Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Development Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Development Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Development Support Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Development Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Development Support Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Development Support Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 August 2025. 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
Midlands +45 1 £65,000 +52.94% 1
West Midlands +42 1 £65,000 +52.94% 1
Development Support Engineer
UK

Development Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 16 August 2025, Development Support Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Development Support Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
1 1 (100.00%) X.21
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) BPMN
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) CA Agile Central
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Appian
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills

Development Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Appian
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BPMN
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CA Agile Central
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft