Support Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Support Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Support Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £37,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 June 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 78 131
Rank change year-on-year -12 +53 +64
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 1,244 2,474 1,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.10% 3.02% 2.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.47% 3.19% 3.06%
Number of salaries quoted 895 2,149 1,150
10th Percentile £26,000 £24,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,875 £26,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £32,000 £32,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.19% - +1.59%
75th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £38,750
90th Percentile £57,500 £48,500 £46,025
UK median annual salary £38,000 £32,500 £33,740
% change year-on-year +16.92% -3.68% -0.76%

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 35,829 77,657 48,357
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.22% 94.92% 88.79%
Number of salaries quoted 18,555 54,301 28,952
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £34,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +6.37%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £80,627
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

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 Support Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 June 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 -6 363 £40,000 +14.29% 424
North of England -13 336 £38,000 +26.67% 388
North West +23 239 £39,500 +41.07% 229
Midlands -22 224 £37,500 +25.00% 249
East of England -12 148 £37,500 +17.19% 127
South West -16 121 £32,000 +1.59% 163
West Midlands -17 121 £37,500 +20.97% 124
East Midlands -18 103 £37,500 +25.00% 117
Yorkshire -26 79 £30,500 -1.61% 108
Scotland +52 40 £30,000 +7.14% 79
North East -3 18 £29,000 -10.77% 56
Wales 0 10 £22,500 -18.18% 41
Northern Ireland +10 3 £55,000 +57.14% 21
Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 June 2025, 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 Support Engineer in the job title.

1 551 (44.29%) Social Skills
2 484 (38.91%) Windows
3 478 (38.42%) Microsoft
4 354 (28.46%) Active Directory
5 328 (26.37%) Problem-Solving
6 323 (25.96%) Degree
6 323 (25.96%) Microsoft 365
7 257 (20.66%) Azure
8 225 (18.09%) Customer Service
9 183 (14.71%) Windows Server
10 172 (13.83%) Firewall
11 152 (12.22%) VMware
11 152 (12.22%) Microsoft Exchange
12 150 (12.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 148 (11.90%) Driving Licence
14 145 (11.66%) BPSS Clearance
15 138 (11.09%) VMware Infrastructure
16 123 (9.89%) Security Cleared
17 120 (9.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 119 (9.57%) PowerShell
19 115 (9.24%) Linux
20 109 (8.76%) WAN
20 109 (8.76%) DNS
21 108 (8.68%) Cisco
22 106 (8.52%) Hyper-V
23 105 (8.44%) Microsoft Intune
24 104 (8.36%) ITIL
25 99 (7.96%) LAN
26 98 (7.88%) SQL
27 94 (7.56%) Continuous Improvement

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
1 152 (12.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 82 (6.59%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.37%) Confluence
4 14 (1.13%) IIS
5 7 (0.56%) IBM Domino
6 4 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2013
6 4 (0.32%) Office Communications Server
6 4 (0.32%) Skype for Business
7 3 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2007
7 3 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (0.16%) JOnAS
9 1 (0.080%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.080%) CMS
9 1 (0.080%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.080%) Umbraco
Applications
1 86 (6.91%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (1.61%) AutoCAD
4 16 (1.29%) Chatbot
5 6 (0.48%) SOLIDWORKS
6 5 (0.40%) Autodesk Inventor
6 5 (0.40%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.080%) Weka
Business Applications
1 9 (0.72%) Oracle Applications
1 9 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.080%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 323 (25.96%) Microsoft 365
2 257 (20.66%) Azure
3 89 (7.15%) AWS
4 59 (4.74%) Entra ID
5 43 (3.46%) SaaS
6 25 (2.01%) Power Platform
7 18 (1.45%) GCP
8 17 (1.37%) OneDrive
9 15 (1.21%) Power Automate
9 15 (1.21%) Serverless
10 14 (1.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (1.05%) Amazon ELB
11 13 (1.05%) Amazon Glacier
11 13 (1.05%) Amazon S3
11 13 (1.05%) AWS KMS
11 13 (1.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 12 (0.96%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (0.64%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 172 (13.83%) Firewall
2 109 (8.76%) DNS
2 109 (8.76%) WAN
3 99 (7.96%) LAN
4 86 (6.91%) DHCP
5 65 (5.23%) Broadband
6 59 (4.74%) VPN
7 57 (4.58%) SAN
8 47 (3.78%) TCP/IP
9 46 (3.70%) VLAN
10 39 (3.14%) Wi-Fi
11 35 (2.81%) NAS
12 27 (2.17%) Remote Desktop
13 26 (2.09%) VSAT
14 23 (1.85%) SD-WAN
15 22 (1.77%) Wireless
16 19 (1.53%) VoIP
17 14 (1.13%) Cisco IOS
18 13 (1.05%) Internet
19 8 (0.64%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (4.18%) SQL Server
2 25 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (1.85%) Power BI
4 12 (0.96%) MySQL
5 8 (0.64%) DB2
6 6 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (0.32%) Metabase
8 2 (0.16%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.16%) Big Data
8 2 (0.16%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.080%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.080%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.080%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.080%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.080%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.080%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 44 (3.54%) JIRA
2 15 (1.21%) Git
2 15 (1.21%) Jenkins
3 13 (1.05%) Vagrant
4 7 (0.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.16%) JUnit
5 2 (0.16%) LabVIEW
5 2 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.080%) ClearCase
6 1 (0.080%) ClearQuest
6 1 (0.080%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.080%) Visual Studio
General
1 551 (44.29%) Social Skills
2 64 (5.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 61 (4.90%) Manufacturing
4 57 (4.58%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (3.54%) Finance
6 36 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
6 36 (2.89%) Retail
7 35 (2.81%) Public Sector
7 35 (2.81%) Telecoms
8 24 (1.93%) Electronics
9 21 (1.69%) Aerospace
10 19 (1.53%) Advertising
10 19 (1.53%) Automotive
11 16 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
12 14 (1.13%) Marketing
13 10 (0.80%) Billing
13 10 (0.80%) Legal
14 8 (0.64%) Law
14 8 (0.64%) Local Government
15 7 (0.56%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.21%) .NET
2 11 (0.88%) Middleware
3 9 (0.72%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (0.48%) 802.1X
5 5 (0.40%) HTML
5 5 (0.40%) Spring
6 4 (0.32%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.24%) EDI
7 3 (0.24%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.16%) React
8 2 (0.16%) XML
9 1 (0.080%) CSS
9 1 (0.080%) Entity Framework
9 1 (0.080%) Kafka
9 1 (0.080%) KnockoutJS
9 1 (0.080%) Razor View Engine
9 1 (0.080%) SAP Basis
9 1 (0.080%) ServiceStack
9 1 (0.080%) Web Services
9 1 (0.080%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 148 (11.90%) Driving Licence
2 46 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
3 43 (3.46%) Onboarding
4 29 (2.33%) Data Centre
5 26 (2.09%) Clustering
6 25 (2.01%) Replication
7 18 (1.45%) Mobile App
8 16 (1.29%) Management Information System
9 15 (1.21%) Renewable Energy
10 14 (1.13%) Satnav
10 14 (1.13%) Video Conferencing
11 13 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
12 9 (0.72%) Life Science
13 8 (0.64%) Social Media
14 7 (0.56%) Blog
14 7 (0.56%) PKI
15 6 (0.48%) Analytical Mindset
15 6 (0.48%) EPoS
15 6 (0.48%) Legacy Systems
15 6 (0.48%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 484 (38.91%) Windows
2 183 (14.71%) Windows Server
3 115 (9.24%) Linux
4 86 (6.91%) Windows 10
5 78 (6.27%) Windows Server 2012
6 68 (5.47%) Mac OS
7 44 (3.54%) Windows Server 2019
8 41 (3.30%) Android
9 38 (3.05%) Windows Server 2016
10 22 (1.77%) VMS
11 18 (1.45%) Apple iOS
12 11 (0.88%) Windows 7
13 6 (0.48%) Unix
14 5 (0.40%) Windows Server 2003
15 4 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.16%) Mac OS X
17 1 (0.080%) AIX
17 1 (0.080%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (26.37%) Problem-Solving
2 225 (18.09%) Customer Service
3 150 (12.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 120 (9.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 104 (8.36%) ITIL
6 94 (7.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 82 (6.59%) Proactive Monitoring
8 73 (5.87%) Coaching
9 68 (5.47%) CRM
9 68 (5.47%) Proactive Maintenance
10 65 (5.23%) Broadcast Engineering
10 65 (5.23%) Post-Production
10 65 (5.23%) Procure-to-Pay
11 61 (4.90%) Mentoring
12 51 (4.10%) Mathematics
13 50 (4.02%) Incident Management
14 49 (3.94%) Cybersecurity
15 46 (3.70%) High Availability
16 43 (3.46%) Migration
17 42 (3.38%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 119 (9.57%) PowerShell
2 98 (7.88%) SQL
3 48 (3.86%) Python
4 26 (2.09%) Java
5 15 (1.21%) Bash
6 12 (0.96%) Groovy
6 12 (0.96%) Shell Script
7 11 (0.88%) PL/SQL
8 9 (0.72%) T-SQL
9 7 (0.56%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.32%) C++
10 4 (0.32%) VB
11 3 (0.24%) C#
11 3 (0.24%) MATLAB
11 3 (0.24%) Perl
11 3 (0.24%) R
12 1 (0.080%) Go
12 1 (0.080%) Progress 4GL
12 1 (0.080%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 323 (25.96%) Degree
2 145 (11.66%) BPSS Clearance
3 123 (9.89%) Security Cleared
4 83 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 70 (5.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 65 (5.23%) Cisco Certification
7 58 (4.66%) CCNA
8 51 (4.10%) HND
9 47 (3.78%) A+ Certification
10 39 (3.14%) HNC
11 37 (2.97%) DV Cleared
12 33 (2.65%) JNCIA
12 33 (2.65%) MCP
13 27 (2.17%) DBS Check
14 24 (1.93%) MCSA
15 17 (1.37%) MCSE
16 15 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
17 10 (0.80%) CCNP
18 9 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 7 (0.56%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (6.19%) Def Stans
1 77 (6.19%) IEC 61508
2 37 (2.97%) SLA
3 13 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
3 13 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (0.96%) PCI DSS
4 12 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (0.88%) GDPR
6 7 (0.56%) COSHH
7 4 (0.32%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.16%) ISO 9000
9 1 (0.080%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.080%) NIST
9 1 (0.080%) QA
System Software
1 354 (28.46%) Active Directory
2 138 (11.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 106 (8.52%) Hyper-V
4 23 (1.85%) vSphere
5 22 (1.77%) VMware ESXi
6 18 (1.45%) Docker
7 14 (1.13%) XenApp
8 13 (1.05%) Terminal Services
9 12 (0.96%) DFS Replication
9 12 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.64%) BitLocker
11 7 (0.56%) Microsoft App-V
11 7 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
12 4 (0.32%) ISA Server
13 3 (0.24%) Firmware
14 2 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
15 1 (0.080%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 105 (8.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (2.17%) Ansible
3 24 (1.93%) Kubernetes
4 23 (1.85%) SCCM
5 21 (1.69%) Grafana
5 21 (1.69%) vCenter Server
6 18 (1.45%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.45%) Terraform
7 15 (1.21%) Backup Exec
8 13 (1.05%) Puppet
8 13 (1.05%) vMotion
9 8 (0.64%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.56%) Nagios
11 6 (0.48%) PowerCLI
11 6 (0.48%) Proxmox
11 6 (0.48%) vRealize
12 5 (0.40%) Autotask
12 5 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.40%) SmoothWall
13 4 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 478 (38.42%) Microsoft
2 152 (12.22%) VMware
3 108 (8.68%) Cisco
4 65 (5.23%) Sun
5 43 (3.46%) Citrix
6 41 (3.30%) HP
7 37 (2.97%) Meraki
8 36 (2.89%) ServiceNow
9 34 (2.73%) Juniper
10 33 (2.65%) Veeam
11 32 (2.57%) Siemens
12 31 (2.49%) SAP
13 29 (2.33%) Google
14 23 (1.85%) Apple
14 23 (1.85%) SonicWALL
15 20 (1.61%) Dell
15 20 (1.61%) Salesforce
16 19 (1.53%) CheckPoint
16 19 (1.53%) Oracle
17 18 (1.45%) Aruba