IT Support Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

IT Support Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median IT Support Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £30,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 May 2025.

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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 194 340
Rank change year-on-year -140 +146 +89
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Support Engineer 260 1,047 549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.67% 1.42% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 1.50% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 201 973 381
10th Percentile £25,500 £22,641 £25,000
25th Percentile £25,750 £25,500 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £29,500 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -1.67% -
75th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
90th Percentile £42,500 £42,900 £38,750
UK median annual salary £32,500 £30,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.84%

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 35,130 69,905 52,029
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.92% 89.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,680 49,398 29,909
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,438 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

IT Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

IT Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for IT Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

IT Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Support Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IT Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

IT 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 IT Support Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
South East -56 95 £35,000 +16.67% 48
Midlands -56 53 £27,500 -5.17% 40
North of England -93 48 £30,000 +5.26% 37
Yorkshire +28 35 £26,500 -11.67% 13
West Midlands -10 31 £26,000 -8.77% 10
East of England -56 29 £29,000 -1.69% 30
South West +5 24 £32,500 +8.33% 24
East Midlands -10 22 £28,000 -6.67% 28
Scotland +97 11 £27,000 -1.82% 8
North West -91 11 £30,000 +11.11% 20
North East +10 2 £35,000 +7.69% 5
IT Support Engineer
UK

IT Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, IT 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 IT Support Engineer in the job title.

1 187 (71.92%) Windows
2 173 (66.54%) Microsoft
3 132 (50.77%) Microsoft 365
4 127 (48.85%) Problem-Solving
5 122 (46.92%) Social Skills
6 114 (43.85%) Active Directory
7 87 (33.46%) Driving Licence
8 72 (27.69%) Azure
9 66 (25.38%) Customer Service
10 64 (24.62%) Degree
11 56 (21.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 54 (20.77%) ITIL
13 53 (20.38%) Windows Server
14 51 (19.62%) Cisco
15 48 (18.46%) Linux
15 48 (18.46%) VMware
16 43 (16.54%) Microsoft Exchange
17 41 (15.77%) Computer Science
17 41 (15.77%) Microsoft Intune
18 39 (15.00%) MCP
19 38 (14.62%) CCNA
19 38 (14.62%) Cisco Certification
20 36 (13.85%) Network Management
21 35 (13.46%) Self-Motivation
22 33 (12.69%) Computer Science Degree
23 32 (12.31%) AWS
23 32 (12.31%) VMware Infrastructure
23 32 (12.31%) Firewall
24 31 (11.92%) MCSE
24 31 (11.92%) Android

IT 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 43 (16.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (10.38%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.38%) Apache
3 1 (0.38%) Confluence
3 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (7.31%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 132 (50.77%) Microsoft 365
2 72 (27.69%) Azure
3 32 (12.31%) AWS
4 28 (10.77%) Entra ID
5 24 (9.23%) SaaS
6 9 (3.46%) OneDrive
7 7 (2.69%) GCP
8 6 (2.31%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (1.92%) Mimecast
10 4 (1.54%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Copilot
12 1 (0.38%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (0.38%) Amazon S3
12 1 (0.38%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.38%) GitHub
12 1 (0.38%) IaaS
12 1 (0.38%) PaaS
12 1 (0.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 32 (12.31%) Firewall
2 30 (11.54%) DNS
3 29 (11.15%) Internet
4 28 (10.77%) Network Security
4 28 (10.77%) WLAN
5 24 (9.23%) DHCP
6 23 (8.85%) LAN
7 22 (8.46%) SAN
7 22 (8.46%) WAN
8 21 (8.08%) TCP/IP
9 20 (7.69%) VPN
10 18 (6.92%) VLAN
11 16 (6.15%) NAS
12 11 (4.23%) VoIP
12 11 (4.23%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (2.31%) Cisco IOS
13 6 (2.31%) IP Telephony
14 5 (1.92%) BGP
14 5 (1.92%) OSPF
15 4 (1.54%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.77%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.54%) Power BI
3 1 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.38%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 3 (1.15%) JIRA
2 1 (0.38%) Git
General
1 122 (46.92%) Social Skills
2 29 (11.15%) Analytical Skills
2 29 (11.15%) Organisational Skills
3 13 (5.00%) Telecoms
4 12 (4.62%) Finance
5 7 (2.69%) Retail
6 4 (1.54%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.15%) Law
8 2 (0.77%) Billing
8 2 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.77%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.38%) Electronics
9 1 (0.38%) Marketing
9 1 (0.38%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.15%) EDI
2 1 (0.38%) ModSecurity
2 1 (0.38%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 87 (33.46%) Driving Licence
2 35 (13.46%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (6.92%) Mobile App
4 8 (3.08%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.08%) Social Media
5 6 (2.31%) Clustering
5 6 (2.31%) EPoS
6 4 (1.54%) Blackberry
7 3 (1.15%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.77%) Educational Technology
8 2 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.77%) HP Storage
8 2 (0.77%) Life Science
8 2 (0.77%) NHS
8 2 (0.77%) PACS
8 2 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.38%) FMCG
9 1 (0.38%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.38%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 187 (71.92%) Windows
2 53 (20.38%) Windows Server
3 48 (18.46%) Linux
4 31 (11.92%) Android
5 29 (11.15%) Windows 10
6 22 (8.46%) Mac OS
7 14 (5.38%) Apple iOS
8 8 (3.08%) Windows 7
8 8 (3.08%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (2.31%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.77%) Unix
11 1 (0.38%) Debian
11 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (48.85%) Problem-Solving
2 66 (25.38%) Customer Service
3 54 (20.77%) ITIL
4 41 (15.77%) Computer Science
5 36 (13.85%) Network Management
6 31 (11.92%) Mentoring
7 29 (11.15%) Asset Management
8 28 (10.77%) IT Asset Management
9 24 (9.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 23 (8.85%) Mathematics
11 22 (8.46%) Disaster Recovery
12 21 (8.08%) Data Privacy
12 21 (8.08%) Migration
13 19 (7.31%) Cybersecurity
13 19 (7.31%) Kalman Filter
14 18 (6.92%) Analytical Thinking
14 18 (6.92%) CRM
14 18 (6.92%) Exploratory Testing
14 18 (6.92%) Software Testing
15 17 (6.54%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 29 (11.15%) PowerShell
2 8 (3.08%) SQL
3 2 (0.77%) Python
4 1 (0.38%) Bash
4 1 (0.38%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 64 (24.62%) Degree
2 56 (21.54%) Microsoft Certification
3 39 (15.00%) MCP
4 38 (14.62%) CCNA
4 38 (14.62%) Cisco Certification
5 33 (12.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (11.92%) MCSE
7 30 (11.54%) CCNP
8 28 (10.77%) LPIC
9 23 (8.85%) Security Cleared
10 16 (6.15%) DBS Check
11 15 (5.77%) A+ Certification
12 12 (4.62%) DV Cleared
12 12 (4.62%) HND
13 9 (3.46%) SC Cleared
14 6 (2.31%) MCSA
15 2 (0.77%) NVQ Level 3
16 1 (0.38%) CISSP
16 1 (0.38%) MCITP
16 1 (0.38%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.08%) SLA
2 4 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.15%) GDPR
4 2 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 114 (43.85%) Active Directory
2 32 (12.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (6.92%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.15%) Firmware
6 1 (0.38%) Docker
6 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (15.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (3.08%) SCCM
3 5 (1.92%) Jamf Pro
3 5 (1.92%) SmoothWall
4 3 (1.15%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.77%) Ansible
5 2 (0.77%) Autotask
6 1 (0.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 173 (66.54%) Microsoft
2 51 (19.62%) Cisco
3 48 (18.46%) VMware
4 18 (6.92%) Zoho
5 13 (5.00%) Google
6 10 (3.85%) Meraki
7 8 (3.08%) Apple
8 7 (2.69%) HP
9 6 (2.31%) Fortinet
9 6 (2.31%) Veeam
10 5 (1.92%) Aruba
10 5 (1.92%) CheckPoint
10 5 (1.92%) Juniper
10 5 (1.92%) SonicWALL
10 5 (1.92%) Sophos
11 4 (1.54%) McAfee
12 2 (0.77%) Avaya
12 2 (0.77%) Datto
12 2 (0.77%) Dell
12 2 (0.77%) ServiceNow