Support Engineer Job Trends in Yorkshire

Support Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Support Engineer salary in Yorkshire is £33,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 March 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 77 66
Rank change year-on-year +21 -11 +87
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 163 64 172
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 3.48% 2.87% 3.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.76% 3.02% 3.50%
Number of salaries quoted 112 55 134
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,750 £25,250
25th Percentile £29,750 £27,750 £27,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £32,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% - +10.17%
75th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £38,750
90th Percentile £55,000 £39,453 £66,778
England median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -2.99%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 4,337 2,121 4,918
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 95.20% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,745 1,151 3,921
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.90%
75th Percentile £66,750 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.19%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Support Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Support Engineer job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Support Engineer
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Salary distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 20 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Support Engineer in Yorkshire

Support Engineer
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Support Engineer within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 20 March 2026. 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
West Yorkshire -16 51 £33,500 +1.52% 9
East Yorkshire +9 40 £42,500 - 5
South Yorkshire -33 16 £30,000 -4.00% 1
North Yorkshire +5 8 £30,000 -20.00% 6
Support Engineer
England

Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 20 March 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 job ads across the Yorkshire region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 61 (37.42%) Microsoft
2 50 (30.67%) Windows
3 48 (29.45%) Microsoft 365
4 43 (26.38%) Active Directory
5 40 (24.54%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (17.18%) Customer Service
7 24 (14.72%) Windows Server
8 23 (14.11%) Azure
8 23 (14.11%) Firewall
9 21 (12.88%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (12.88%) DNS
10 19 (11.66%) LAN
10 19 (11.66%) WAN
11 18 (11.04%) DHCP
12 17 (10.43%) Microsoft Exchange
13 16 (9.82%) Degree
13 16 (9.82%) Hyper-V
13 16 (9.82%) SharePoint
13 16 (9.82%) VMware
13 16 (9.82%) VPN
14 15 (9.20%) Windows 10
15 14 (8.59%) Root Cause Analysis
15 14 (8.59%) VLAN
16 13 (7.98%) Android
16 13 (7.98%) Apple
16 13 (7.98%) Disaster Recovery
16 13 (7.98%) ITIL
16 13 (7.98%) VMware Infrastructure
16 13 (7.98%) VoIP
17 11 (6.75%) Infrastructure Engineering

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 17 (10.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (9.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (6.13%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.61%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 3 (1.84%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 48 (29.45%) Microsoft 365
2 23 (14.11%) Azure
3 8 (4.91%) AWS
3 8 (4.91%) SaaS
4 3 (1.84%) Entra ID
4 3 (1.84%) Google Workspace
4 3 (1.84%) Mimecast
5 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (1.23%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 23 (14.11%) Firewall
2 21 (12.88%) DNS
3 19 (11.66%) LAN
3 19 (11.66%) WAN
4 18 (11.04%) DHCP
5 16 (9.82%) VPN
6 14 (8.59%) VLAN
7 13 (7.98%) VoIP
8 11 (6.75%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (6.13%) TCP/IP
10 5 (3.07%) Wireless
11 4 (2.45%) Asterisk PBX
11 4 (2.45%) BGP
11 4 (2.45%) MPLS
11 4 (2.45%) Remote Desktop
11 4 (2.45%) SD-WAN
11 4 (2.45%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (2.45%) Unified Communications
11 4 (2.45%) VPLS
12 3 (1.84%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.52%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.23%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (2.45%) GitLab
General
1 33 (20.25%) Social Skills
2 16 (9.82%) Manufacturing
3 14 (8.59%) Organisational Skills
4 11 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.91%) Retail
6 7 (4.29%) Advertising
6 7 (4.29%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.07%) Electronics
7 5 (3.07%) Social Housing
8 3 (1.84%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.61%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.45%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (1.84%) .NET
2 3 (1.84%) AngularJS
2 3 (1.84%) CSS
2 3 (1.84%) HTML
2 3 (1.84%) HTML5
2 3 (1.84%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.04%) Driving Licence
2 13 (7.98%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (4.29%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.07%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.07%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.45%) CMDB
5 4 (2.45%) Life Science
5 4 (2.45%) PKI
6 3 (1.84%) e-Learning
6 3 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.61%) PDA
7 1 (0.61%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 50 (30.67%) Windows
2 24 (14.72%) Windows Server
3 15 (9.20%) Windows 10
4 13 (7.98%) Android
5 10 (6.13%) Linux
6 7 (4.29%) Mac OS
7 6 (3.68%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (2.45%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (1.84%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (1.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (24.54%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (17.18%) Customer Service
3 21 (12.88%) Continuous Improvement
4 14 (8.59%) Root Cause Analysis
5 13 (7.98%) Disaster Recovery
5 13 (7.98%) ITIL
6 11 (6.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 11 (6.75%) Mentoring
7 10 (6.13%) Coaching
7 10 (6.13%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (4.91%) Asset Management
8 8 (4.91%) CRM
8 8 (4.91%) Software Testing
9 7 (4.29%) User Experience
10 6 (3.68%) ERP
10 6 (3.68%) IT Asset Management
10 6 (3.68%) Process Improvement
11 5 (3.07%) Mathematics
11 5 (3.07%) Migration
11 5 (3.07%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 11 (6.75%) PowerShell
2 9 (5.52%) SQL
3 3 (1.84%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (9.82%) Degree
2 9 (5.52%) DV Cleared
2 9 (5.52%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.45%) CCNA
3 4 (2.45%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.23%) A+ Certification
4 2 (1.23%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (0.61%) ACSP
5 1 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.61%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.68%) GDPR
2 3 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 3 (1.84%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.84%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.23%) SLA
4 1 (0.61%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 43 (26.38%) Active Directory
2 16 (9.82%) Hyper-V
3 13 (7.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (3.07%) vSphere
5 4 (2.45%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (2.45%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.84%) Firmware
6 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (1.84%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.61%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (4.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 5 (3.07%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.45%) Ansible
3 4 (2.45%) WSUS
4 2 (1.23%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (1.23%) Plesk
5 1 (0.61%) SCCM
Vendors
1 61 (37.42%) Microsoft
2 16 (9.82%) VMware
3 13 (7.98%) Apple
4 6 (3.68%) Cisco
5 5 (3.07%) Citrix
5 5 (3.07%) Zoho
6 4 (2.45%) Adobe
6 4 (2.45%) Sage
6 4 (2.45%) SonicWALL
6 4 (2.45%) Splunk
7 3 (1.84%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.84%) Fujitsu
7 3 (1.84%) Google
7 3 (1.84%) IFS
7 3 (1.84%) Meraki
7 3 (1.84%) Mitel
7 3 (1.84%) Oracle
7 3 (1.84%) Virgin Media
8 2 (1.23%) Draytek
8 2 (1.23%) Veeam