Junior Support Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Junior Support Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Junior Support Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £25,875 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 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
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 536 688 720
Rank change year-on-year +152 +32 +113
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior Support Engineer 37 71 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.095% 0.10% 0.050%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.11% 0.056%
Number of salaries quoted 30 67 10
10th Percentile - £20,750 £19,425
25th Percentile £21,250 £22,750 £20,175
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,875 £24,240 £21,425
Median % change year-on-year +6.75% +13.14% -4.78%
75th Percentile £33,250 £26,500 £25,445
90th Percentile £35,625 £32,700 £26,634
UK median annual salary £27,500 £24,240 £22,000
% change year-on-year +13.45% +10.18% -12.00%

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 35,390 67,294 53,432
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.56% 94.80% 89.16%
Number of salaries quoted 18,871 47,619 30,421
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £57,443 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.41% -12.50% -

Junior Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Junior Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Junior Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Junior Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Junior Support Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Junior Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Junior 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 Junior Support Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
East of England +39 14 £22,500 -7.18% 2
North of England +60 11 £30,500 +12.96% 2
South East +91 8 £32,500 +51.16% 4
North West -2 6 - - 2
Yorkshire +68 5 £30,500 +19.61%
South West +102 3 £27,000 -18.18% 2
Wales - 1 £45,000 -
Junior Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2025, Junior 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 Junior Support Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (70.27%) Microsoft
2 19 (51.35%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (45.95%) Driving Licence
3 17 (45.95%) Active Directory
4 14 (37.84%) Customer Service
5 13 (35.14%) Windows
6 12 (32.43%) Social Skills
6 12 (32.43%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (18.92%) Windows Server
7 7 (18.92%) Cisco
7 7 (18.92%) VMware
7 7 (18.92%) Hyper-V
7 7 (18.92%) VMware Infrastructure
7 7 (18.92%) Degree
7 7 (18.92%) Azure
8 6 (16.22%) Mentoring
8 6 (16.22%) Private Cloud
8 6 (16.22%) Firewall
8 6 (16.22%) MPLS
8 6 (16.22%) VPN
8 6 (16.22%) DNS
8 6 (16.22%) WAN
8 6 (16.22%) ITIL
8 6 (16.22%) Customer Experience
8 6 (16.22%) Proxmox
9 5 (13.51%) Unified Communications
10 4 (10.81%) AWS
11 3 (8.11%) Confluence
11 3 (8.11%) JIRA
11 3 (8.11%) Spring

Junior 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 3 (8.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (51.35%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (18.92%) Azure
3 4 (10.81%) AWS
4 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.70%) Mimecast
4 1 (2.70%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.22%) DNS
1 6 (16.22%) Firewall
1 6 (16.22%) MPLS
1 6 (16.22%) VPN
1 6 (16.22%) WAN
2 5 (13.51%) Unified Communications
3 1 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (2.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) JIRA
2 2 (5.41%) Git
2 2 (5.41%) JUnit
3 1 (2.70%) Eclipse
3 1 (2.70%) Gradle
3 1 (2.70%) IntelliJ
General
1 12 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.11%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 17 (45.95%) Driving Licence
2 6 (16.22%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.70%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 13 (35.14%) Windows
2 7 (18.92%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.41%) Linux
3 2 (5.41%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.70%) Android
4 1 (2.70%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (37.84%) Customer Service
2 12 (32.43%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (16.22%) Customer Experience
3 6 (16.22%) ITIL
3 6 (16.22%) Mentoring
4 2 (5.41%) Computer Science
4 2 (5.41%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (5.41%) Customer Engagement
4 2 (5.41%) Fintech
4 2 (5.41%) High Availability
5 1 (2.70%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (2.70%) Inventory Control
5 1 (2.70%) Inventory Management
5 1 (2.70%) Logistics
5 1 (2.70%) Presales
5 1 (2.70%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.11%) Java
2 1 (2.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (18.92%) Degree
2 2 (5.41%) A+ Certification
3 1 (2.70%) CCNA
3 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.70%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.70%) NVQ Level 3
3 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 17 (45.95%) Active Directory
2 7 (18.92%) Hyper-V
2 7 (18.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.41%) Docker
4 1 (2.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (16.22%) Proxmox
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 26 (70.27%) Microsoft
2 7 (18.92%) Cisco
2 7 (18.92%) VMware
3 1 (2.70%) Meraki
3 1 (2.70%) Snow
3 1 (2.70%) Sophos