Junior Support Engineer Jobs

Junior Support Engineer
UK

The median Junior Support Engineer salary in the UK is £27,500 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 665 838 929
Rank change year-on-year +173 +91 +285
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior Support Engineer 46 72 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.084% 0.070% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.093% 0.074% 0.039%
Number of salaries quoted 34 68 12
10th Percentile - £20,750 £21,000
25th Percentile £21,250 £23,000 £27,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £24,240 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.45% -25.42% +44.44%
75th Percentile £33,250 £27,000 £34,250
90th Percentile £43,750 £33,000 £48,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £27,000 £24,240 £22,000
% change year-on-year +11.39% +10.18% -2.22%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 49,435 96,820 89,564
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 94.78% 91.46%
Number of salaries quoted 25,727 69,155 56,824
10th Percentile £28,822 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%

Junior Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior Support Engineer in the UK

Junior Support Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Junior Support Engineer.

Salary trend for Junior Support Engineer in the UK

Junior Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Junior Support Engineer over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Junior Support Engineer in the UK

Junior Support Engineer
Top 11 Job Locations

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 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
England +133 40 £27,500 +13.45% 10
UK excluding London +163 37 £27,000 +11.39% 4
North of England +41 13 £30,500 +12.96% 1
Work from Home +117 12 £30,500 +41.86% 2
East of England +39 11 £22,500 -7.18% 1
South East +82 8 £30,000 +39.53%
North West -1 8 £27,000 - 1
Yorkshire +64 5 £30,500 -
London +120 4 £40,000 +25.98% 8
South West +114 4 £27,250 -17.42% 2
Wales - 1 £45,000 -

Junior Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 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 featuring Junior Support Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (36.96%) Customer Service
3 16 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (34.78%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (30.43%) Active Directory
4 14 (30.43%) Windows
4 14 (30.43%) Driving Licence
4 14 (30.43%) Social Skills
5 11 (23.91%) Linux
6 10 (21.74%) Degree
6 10 (21.74%) AWS
7 9 (19.57%) Azure
8 7 (15.22%) Windows Server
8 7 (15.22%) Hyper-V
8 7 (15.22%) VMware Infrastructure
8 7 (15.22%) VMware
8 7 (15.22%) Cisco
9 6 (13.04%) WAN
9 6 (13.04%) VPN
9 6 (13.04%) DNS
9 6 (13.04%) ITIL
9 6 (13.04%) MPLS
9 6 (13.04%) Firewall
9 6 (13.04%) Proxmox
9 6 (13.04%) Mentoring
9 6 (13.04%) Private Cloud
9 6 (13.04%) Customer Experience
10 5 (10.87%) Ansible
10 5 (10.87%) Unified Communications
10 5 (10.87%) Terraform

Junior Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (8.70%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (34.78%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (21.74%) AWS
3 9 (19.57%) Azure
4 5 (10.87%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (4.35%) Amazon S3
5 2 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.35%) SaaS
5 2 (4.35%) Serverless
6 1 (2.17%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.17%) Mimecast
6 1 (2.17%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.04%) DNS
1 6 (13.04%) Firewall
1 6 (13.04%) MPLS
1 6 (13.04%) VPN
1 6 (13.04%) WAN
2 5 (10.87%) Unified Communications
3 3 (6.52%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (4.35%) Internet
5 1 (2.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.35%) Big Data
1 2 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (10.87%) JIRA
2 4 (8.70%) Git
3 2 (4.35%) JUnit
General
1 14 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.70%) Advertising
2 4 (8.70%) Finance
3 2 (4.35%) Cantonese Language
3 2 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (4.35%) Mandarin Language
3 2 (4.35%) Marketing
3 2 (4.35%) Retail
3 2 (4.35%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.35%) 802.1X
1 2 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (4.35%) Spring
2 1 (2.17%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (30.43%) Driving Licence
2 6 (13.04%) Private Cloud
3 2 (4.35%) Tandem
4 1 (2.17%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 14 (30.43%) Windows
2 11 (23.91%) Linux
3 7 (15.22%) Windows Server
4 3 (6.52%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.17%) Android
5 1 (2.17%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.96%) Customer Service
2 16 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (13.04%) Customer Experience
3 6 (13.04%) ITIL
3 6 (13.04%) Mentoring
4 5 (10.87%) Computer Science
5 4 (8.70%) Fintech
6 3 (6.52%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (6.52%) Customer Engagement
6 3 (6.52%) Logistics
7 2 (4.35%) Analytics
7 2 (4.35%) Big Data Analytics
7 2 (4.35%) Data Analytics
7 2 (4.35%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (4.35%) DevOps
7 2 (4.35%) High Availability
7 2 (4.35%) Presales
7 2 (4.35%) Resource Management
7 2 (4.35%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (4.35%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.52%) SQL
2 2 (4.35%) Java
2 2 (4.35%) Python
2 2 (4.35%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (21.74%) Degree
2 3 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.35%) A+ Certification
4 1 (2.17%) CCNA
4 1 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.17%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.17%) NVQ Level 3
4 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (30.43%) Active Directory
2 7 (15.22%) Hyper-V
2 7 (15.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.70%) Docker
4 1 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (13.04%) Proxmox
2 5 (10.87%) Ansible
2 5 (10.87%) Terraform
3 2 (4.35%) Kibana
3 2 (4.35%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.35%) logstash
3 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 23 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.22%) Cisco
2 7 (15.22%) VMware
3 1 (2.17%) Meraki
3 1 (2.17%) Snow
3 1 (2.17%) Sophos