Senior Support Engineer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Senior Support Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Support Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 January 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 442 562 500
Rank change year-on-year +120 -62 +168
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Support Engineer 64 10 67
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.028% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.030% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 53 4 60
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,700 £34,983
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £62,500 £43,875 £72,433
90th Percentile - £49,050 -
UK median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 38,179 33,328 33,027
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.48% 92.91% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 23,318 16,178 25,075
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

Senior Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Support Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Senior Support Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Senior Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Senior Support Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Support Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Senior Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Support Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior Support Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
South East +52 30 £60,000 +20.00% 5
South West +23 17 £41,928 - 2
East of England - 9 £67,500 - 3
North West +30 4 £36,000 - 1
North of England +29 4 £36,000 -10.00% 1
Scotland +2 2 £34,000 -
Wales - 1 £45,000 -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
Senior Support Engineer
UK

Senior Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 13 January 2026, Senior 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Support Engineer in the job title.

1 36 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (46.88%) SQL
2 30 (46.88%) Windows
3 28 (43.75%) Azure
3 28 (43.75%) Microsoft
4 24 (37.50%) PowerShell
5 21 (32.81%) C#
5 21 (32.81%) Linux
6 19 (29.69%) Windows Server
7 17 (26.56%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (26.56%) Root Cause Analysis
8 16 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
8 16 (25.00%) Data Analysis
8 16 (25.00%) REST
8 16 (25.00%) Security Cleared
8 16 (25.00%) SOA
8 16 (25.00%) SOAP
8 16 (25.00%) Task Automation
8 16 (25.00%) VLAN
9 15 (23.44%) Degree
10 14 (21.88%) Active Directory
10 14 (21.88%) Firewall
11 11 (17.19%) DHCP
11 11 (17.19%) DNS
11 11 (17.19%) IIS
12 10 (15.63%) ITIL
12 10 (15.63%) SQL Server
13 9 (14.06%) AWS
13 9 (14.06%) Cybersecurity
13 9 (14.06%) Microsoft Intune

Senior Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (17.19%) IIS
2 5 (7.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (6.25%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.56%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (6.25%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 28 (43.75%) Azure
2 17 (26.56%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (14.06%) AWS
4 6 (9.38%) SaaS
5 5 (7.81%) IaaS
5 5 (7.81%) PaaS
6 2 (3.13%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.56%) Datadog
7 1 (1.56%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 16 (25.00%) VLAN
2 14 (21.88%) Firewall
3 11 (17.19%) DHCP
3 11 (17.19%) DNS
4 9 (14.06%) Wireless
5 8 (12.50%) VPN
6 6 (9.38%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (7.81%) PuTTY
7 5 (7.81%) SSH
7 5 (7.81%) VoIP
8 4 (6.25%) Cisco IOS
8 4 (6.25%) IPsec
8 4 (6.25%) LAN
9 3 (4.69%) SAN
9 3 (4.69%) TCP/IP
10 2 (3.13%) WAN
11 1 (1.56%) Internet
11 1 (1.56%) Network Security
11 1 (1.56%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (1.56%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.63%) SQL Server
2 6 (9.38%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (6.25%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (6.25%) MS Access
3 4 (6.25%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 8 (12.50%) JIRA
2 4 (6.25%) Toad
General
1 47 (73.44%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
2 8 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.81%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (6.25%) Electronics
4 4 (6.25%) Finance
4 4 (6.25%) Local Government
4 4 (6.25%) Manufacturing
4 4 (6.25%) Marketing
4 4 (6.25%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.56%) Law
5 1 (1.56%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (25.00%) REST
1 16 (25.00%) SOAP
2 5 (7.81%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.50%) Satnav
2 5 (7.81%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (6.25%) Clustering
3 4 (6.25%) Driving Licence
4 3 (4.69%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 30 (46.88%) Windows
2 21 (32.81%) Linux
3 19 (29.69%) Windows Server
4 5 (7.81%) VMS
5 4 (6.25%) Mac OS
5 4 (6.25%) Unix
6 2 (3.13%) Windows 10
6 2 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.56%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.56%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.56%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (26.56%) Root Cause Analysis
3 16 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
3 16 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 16 (25.00%) SOA
3 16 (25.00%) Task Automation
4 10 (15.63%) ITIL
5 9 (14.06%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (12.50%) B2B
6 8 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (12.50%) CRM
6 8 (12.50%) Migration
6 8 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
6 8 (12.50%) Test Automation
7 5 (7.81%) Collaborative Engineering
7 5 (7.81%) DevOps
7 5 (7.81%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (7.81%) Mathematics
7 5 (7.81%) Physics
7 5 (7.81%) Remote Monitoring and Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (46.88%) SQL
2 24 (37.50%) PowerShell
3 21 (32.81%) C#
4 5 (7.81%) C++
4 5 (7.81%) DCL
4 5 (7.81%) Tcl
5 4 (6.25%) Shell Script
5 4 (6.25%) VB
6 1 (1.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (23.44%) Degree
3 8 (12.50%) HND
4 4 (6.25%) ACMT
4 4 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (3.13%) DBS Check
5 2 (3.13%) MCP
5 2 (3.13%) MCSA
5 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 14 (21.88%) Active Directory
2 8 (12.50%) Hyper-V
3 7 (10.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (6.25%) Docker
4 4 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (3.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (14.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (7.81%) Autotask
2 5 (7.81%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.25%) vCenter Server
4 3 (4.69%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (3.13%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 28 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 9 (14.06%) VMware
3 8 (12.50%) Oracle
3 8 (12.50%) Salesforce
3 8 (12.50%) SAP
4 7 (10.94%) Apple
5 6 (9.38%) Cisco
5 6 (9.38%) Veeam
6 4 (6.25%) Datto
6 4 (6.25%) NEC
6 4 (6.25%) Sophos
7 2 (3.13%) SonicWALL
7 2 (3.13%) WatchGuard
8 1 (1.56%) ESET
8 1 (1.56%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.56%) Google