Technical Support Engineer
UK
The median Technical Support Engineer salary in the UK is £34,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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 14 May 2025 |
Same period 2024 | Same period 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 455 | 486 | 762 |
| Rank change year-on-year | +31 | +276 | +223 |
| Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Support Engineer | 275 | 453 | 213 |
| As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK | 0.50% | 0.46% | 0.21% |
| As % of the Job Titles category | 0.55% | 0.48% | 0.23% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 194 | 382 | 132 |
| 10th Percentile | £27,000 | £25,025 | £28,775 |
| 25th Percentile | £30,500 | £28,000 | £31,250 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £34,500 | £35,000 | £35,000 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -1.43% | - | +7.69% |
| 75th Percentile | £45,500 | £41,250 | £46,000 |
| 90th Percentile | £55,000 | £50,000 | £50,000 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary | £35,000 | £35,000 | £35,000 |
| % change year-on-year | - | - | +11.11% |
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 | 49,912 | 93,707 | 92,673 |
| % of permanent jobs with a recognized job title | 90.61% | 94.63% | 91.55% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 27,050 | 67,086 | 58,518 |
| 10th Percentile | £29,750 | £28,500 | £32,500 |
| 25th Percentile | £41,250 | £38,500 | £45,000 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £56,500 | £52,500 | £60,000 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +7.62% | -12.50% | - |
| 75th Percentile | £75,000 | £71,250 | £80,750 |
| 90th Percentile | £96,250 | £90,000 | £100,000 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary | £51,645 | £50,000 | £53,000 |
| % change year-on-year | +3.29% | -5.66% | +5.64% |
Technical Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings that featured Technical Support Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
Technical Support Engineer
Salary Trend
3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Support Engineer.
Technical Support Engineer
Salary Histogram
Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Support Engineer over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.
Technical Support Engineer
Top 15 Job Locations
The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Support Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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 | +5 | 249 | £35,000 | - | 156 |
| UK excluding London | +30 | 228 | £35,000 | - | 134 |
| South East | +47 | 73 | £42,000 | +20.00% | 42 |
| Work from Home | +93 | 49 | £34,500 | +7.81% | 44 |
| South West | +93 | 47 | £31,000 | -12.68% | 14 |
| North of England | +20 | 40 | £32,750 | +2.34% | 29 |
| London | +123 | 32 | £34,500 | -13.75% | 34 |
| Midlands | -14 | 31 | £38,750 | +10.71% | 30 |
| East of England | +44 | 26 | £37,500 | -0.66% | 12 |
| Yorkshire | +52 | 20 | £30,500 | -5.43% | 12 |
| North West | +1 | 20 | £47,250 | +57.50% | 11 |
| East Midlands | +8 | 19 | £40,000 | +45.45% | 24 |
| West Midlands | +4 | 12 | £26,000 | -25.71% | 4 |
| Scotland | +116 | 9 | £31,000 | +16.98% | 2 |
| Wales | - | 2 | £31,250 | - | 7 |
Technical Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities
For the 6 months to 14 May 2025, Technical 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 Technical Support Engineer in the job title.
|
|
Technical 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:
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||