Hybrid/Remote Support Engineer Job Trends

Support Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Support Engineer salary for remote/hybrid work is £36,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 May 2026.

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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 174 177
Rank change year-on-year +69 +3 +28
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 441 286 609
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.42% 2.01% 1.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.58% 2.18% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 329 248 559
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,500 £37,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £43,000 £52,500 £47,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £58,000 £65,000
UK median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -3.68%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 17,091 13,102 31,137
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.64% 92.13% 95.87%
Number of salaries quoted 12,478 8,944 24,903
10th Percentile £33,500 £31,250 £33,127
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,318
Median % change year-on-year - +6.54% -9.89%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £93,200
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,033 £53,000
% change year-on-year -5.23% +9.50% -11.67%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Support Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Support Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Support Engineer
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for remote Support Engineer job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote Support Engineer job vacancies

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Support Engineer over the 6 months to 8 May 2026.

Support Engineer salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 8 May 2026, 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 jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 231 (52.38%) Microsoft 365
2 217 (49.21%) Windows
3 211 (47.85%) Microsoft
4 165 (37.41%) Azure
5 162 (36.73%) Customer Service
6 150 (34.01%) Problem-Solving
7 142 (32.20%) Active Directory
8 137 (31.07%) Entra ID
9 125 (28.34%) ITIL
10 101 (22.90%) Degree
10 101 (22.90%) Microsoft Office
11 95 (21.54%) Cybersecurity
11 95 (21.54%) Windows 10
12 91 (20.63%) Continuous Improvement
12 91 (20.63%) Windows Server
13 86 (19.50%) SLA
14 79 (17.91%) Cisco
15 78 (17.69%) Microsoft Intune
16 77 (17.46%) Security Cleared
17 75 (17.01%) Firewall
18 73 (16.55%) SC Cleared
19 69 (15.65%) Analytics
19 69 (15.65%) Customer Experience
20 68 (15.42%) Ticket Management
21 67 (15.19%) Microsoft Exchange
22 65 (14.74%) Software Deployment
23 61 (13.83%) Patch Management
24 59 (13.38%) CTC Cleared
24 59 (13.38%) Customer Acquisition
24 59 (13.38%) DNS

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 67 (15.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 54 (12.24%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.04%) Exchange Server 2007
3 9 (2.04%) Exchange Server 2010
3 9 (2.04%) Exchange Server 2013
4 5 (1.13%) Confluence
5 1 (0.23%) CMS
5 1 (0.23%) IIS
5 1 (0.23%) JBoss
5 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 101 (22.90%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.23%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 6 (1.36%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.91%) Markit EDM
3 3 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.23%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 231 (52.38%) Microsoft 365
2 165 (37.41%) Azure
3 137 (31.07%) Entra ID
4 55 (12.47%) SaaS
5 30 (6.80%) Google Workspace
6 25 (5.67%) AWS
7 19 (4.31%) Mimecast
8 12 (2.72%) OneDrive
9 8 (1.81%) Azure Sentinel
9 8 (1.81%) Power Platform
10 7 (1.59%) IaaS
11 5 (1.13%) Intacct
11 5 (1.13%) Serverless
12 4 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (0.91%) dbt
12 4 (0.91%) Power Automate
12 4 (0.91%) Snowflake
13 3 (0.68%) Amazon S3
13 3 (0.68%) Azure Storage
13 3 (0.68%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 75 (17.01%) Firewall
2 59 (13.38%) DNS
3 53 (12.02%) DHCP
4 52 (11.79%) Wi-Fi
5 48 (10.88%) VPN
6 43 (9.75%) VoIP
7 34 (7.71%) LAN
8 33 (7.48%) TCP/IP
9 31 (7.03%) WAN
10 24 (5.44%) VLAN
11 10 (2.27%) Wireless
12 7 (1.59%) Unified Communications
13 5 (1.13%) DMZ
13 5 (1.13%) Reverse Proxy
13 5 (1.13%) STUN
14 3 (0.68%) NAS
14 3 (0.68%) Network Security
15 2 (0.45%) IPsec
15 2 (0.45%) WLAN
16 1 (0.23%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (7.26%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.72%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (2.27%) MySQL
4 5 (1.13%) Power BI
5 4 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (5.44%) JIRA
2 7 (1.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 4 (0.91%) Browser DevTools
4 2 (0.45%) Git
4 2 (0.45%) Postman
5 1 (0.23%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.23%) JUnit
General
1 198 (44.90%) Social Skills
2 59 (13.38%) Back Office
3 36 (8.16%) Finance
4 30 (6.80%) Organisational Skills
5 24 (5.44%) Legal
6 19 (4.31%) Manufacturing
7 18 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (4.08%) Telecoms
8 13 (2.95%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (2.27%) Electronics
9 10 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.81%) Law
11 7 (1.59%) Public Sector
11 7 (1.59%) Retail
12 6 (1.36%) Advertising
13 4 (0.91%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.68%) Agriculture
14 3 (0.68%) French Language
15 2 (0.45%) Games
15 2 (0.45%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.85%) CSS
2 10 (2.27%) .NET
3 8 (1.81%) HTML
4 7 (1.59%) JSON
5 5 (1.13%) FreeSWITCH
6 4 (0.91%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.68%) HTML5
7 3 (0.68%) jQuery
8 2 (0.45%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.23%) Apache Camel
9 1 (0.23%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (0.23%) J2EE
9 1 (0.23%) Mustache
9 1 (0.23%) Node.js
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle GoldenGate
9 1 (0.23%) REST
9 1 (0.23%) SOAP
9 1 (0.23%) Spring
9 1 (0.23%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 42 (9.52%) Driving Licence
2 28 (6.35%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (3.63%) Onboarding
4 12 (2.72%) Client/Server
5 5 (1.13%) Raspberry Pi
5 5 (1.13%) Reinsurance
5 5 (1.13%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (0.91%) CCTV
6 4 (0.91%) Cloud Native
6 4 (0.91%) Management Information System
6 4 (0.91%) Social Media
6 4 (0.91%) Solar Energy
7 3 (0.68%) CMDB
7 3 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (0.68%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.45%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.45%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.45%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (0.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 217 (49.21%) Windows
2 95 (21.54%) Windows 10
3 91 (20.63%) Windows Server
4 28 (6.35%) Mac OS
5 27 (6.12%) Linux
6 24 (5.44%) Windows Server 2016
7 23 (5.22%) Windows Server 2012
8 14 (3.17%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (2.27%) Windows Server 2008
10 8 (1.81%) Ubuntu
11 5 (1.13%) Debian
12 3 (0.68%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.68%) CentOS
12 3 (0.68%) SUSE
13 2 (0.45%) Android
13 2 (0.45%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.45%) Unix
13 2 (0.45%) VMS
14 1 (0.23%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (36.73%) Customer Service
2 150 (34.01%) Problem-Solving
3 125 (28.34%) ITIL
4 95 (21.54%) Cybersecurity
5 91 (20.63%) Continuous Improvement
6 69 (15.65%) Analytics
6 69 (15.65%) Customer Experience
7 68 (15.42%) Ticket Management
8 65 (14.74%) Software Deployment
9 61 (13.83%) Patch Management
10 59 (13.38%) Customer Acquisition
11 44 (9.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 37 (8.39%) Change Management
13 26 (5.90%) Root Cause Analysis
14 25 (5.67%) Collaborative Working
14 25 (5.67%) DevOps
14 25 (5.67%) Incident Management
15 24 (5.44%) People Management
15 24 (5.44%) Service Delivery
16 21 (4.76%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (13.38%) SQL
2 33 (7.48%) PowerShell
3 17 (3.85%) Python
4 15 (3.40%) R
5 12 (2.72%) JavaScript
6 10 (2.27%) Bash
7 7 (1.59%) C#
8 3 (0.68%) Google Apps Script
8 3 (0.68%) Java
9 2 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.45%) PHP
10 1 (0.23%) Bicep
10 1 (0.23%) Korn
10 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 101 (22.90%) Degree
2 77 (17.46%) Security Cleared
3 73 (16.55%) SC Cleared
4 59 (13.38%) CTC Cleared
5 23 (5.22%) DBS Check
6 19 (4.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (2.72%) Azure Certification
8 11 (2.49%) Network+ Certification
9 5 (1.13%) HNC
9 5 (1.13%) HND
9 5 (1.13%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.91%) CCNA
10 4 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.45%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.45%) MCSA
12 1 (0.23%) A+ Certification
12 1 (0.23%) ACSP
12 1 (0.23%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (19.50%) SLA
2 23 (5.22%) Cyber Essentials
3 20 (4.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.72%) QA
5 7 (1.59%) GDPR
6 4 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.68%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.68%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.45%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.23%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 142 (32.20%) Active Directory
2 44 (9.98%) Hyper-V
3 13 (2.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.36%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.13%) Terminal Services
5 5 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.13%) vSphere
6 4 (0.91%) Docker
7 3 (0.68%) BitLocker
7 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 78 (17.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (3.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 9 (2.04%) SCCM
4 6 (1.36%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (0.91%) Terraform
6 3 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.45%) Ansible
8 1 (0.23%) Autotask
8 1 (0.23%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 211 (47.85%) Microsoft
2 79 (17.91%) Cisco
3 30 (6.80%) Google
4 23 (5.22%) VMware
5 15 (3.40%) CrowdStrike
6 11 (2.49%) HP
6 11 (2.49%) Meraki
7 10 (2.27%) Dell
7 10 (2.27%) Veeam
8 9 (2.04%) Ubiquiti
9 8 (1.81%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.36%) Apple
10 6 (1.36%) Sophos
11 5 (1.13%) Freshdesk
11 5 (1.13%) Okta
11 5 (1.13%) Sage
11 5 (1.13%) Siemens
11 5 (1.13%) Synology
12 4 (0.91%) Ab Initio
12 4 (0.91%) Yealink