IT Support Engineer Jobs in Watford

IT Support Engineer
Hertfordshire > Watford

The median IT Support Engineer salary in Watford is £44,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 July 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 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 25 43
Rank change year-on-year -6 +18 +8
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Support Engineer 2 10 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Watford 1.28% 3.42% 2.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.40% 3.70% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2 10 7
10th Percentile £33,300 - £23,300
25th Percentile £37,125 £22,250 £24,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,500 £25,500 £26,000
Median % change year-on-year +74.51% -1.92% -30.67%
75th Percentile £52,125 £28,750 £26,500
90th Percentile £56,100 £29,750 £27,400
Hertfordshire median annual salary £31,500 £27,500 £31,375
% change year-on-year +14.55% -12.35% +4.58%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Watford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Watford. 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 Watford with a recognized job title 143 270 263
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.67% 92.47% 87.96%
Number of salaries quoted 96 214 198
10th Percentile £31,875 £25,075 £32,475
25th Percentile £38,750 £30,000 £48,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -25.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £55,063 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £77,500
Hertfordshire median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

IT Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Support Engineer in Watford

IT Support Engineer
Salary Trend in Watford

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

Salary trend for IT Support Engineer in Watford

IT Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in Watford

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Support Engineer in Watford over the 6 months to 14 July 2025.

Salary histogram for IT Support Engineer in Watford

IT Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Watford

For the 6 months to 14 July 2025, IT 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 Watford region featuring IT Support Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Server Management
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Server Building
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (50.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (50.00%) Software Licensing
2 1 (50.00%) iPad
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall

IT Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Watford 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 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) iPad
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Android
2 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Server Building
1 1 (50.00%) Server Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) HNC
1 1 (50.00%) HND
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (50.00%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Apple
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow