Support Engineer Jobs in the East Midlands

Support Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Support Engineer salary in the East Midlands is £30,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 81 69
Rank change year-on-year +30 -12 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 186 102 147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.14% 3.64% 4.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.37% 4.11% 4.45%
Number of salaries quoted 163 84 110
10th Percentile £23,500 £25,000 £22,500
25th Percentile £25,875 £26,188 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £27,750 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% +0.84%
75th Percentile £38,125 £39,781 £41,375
90th Percentile £47,500 £53,923 £47,500
England median annual salary £32,500 £33,500 £33,500
% change year-on-year -2.99% - -1.47%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 4,257 2,482 3,305
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 88.67% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3,068 1,323 2,137
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £56,000 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in the East Midlands

Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Support Engineer in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for Support Engineer in the East Midlands

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Support Engineer in the East Midlands

Support Engineer
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Support Engineer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
Leicestershire +19 52 £28,500 +1.79% 10
Northamptonshire +15 52 £30,500 +1.67% 10
Lincolnshire +18 32 £35,000 - 6
Nottinghamshire -18 28 £32,500 -18.55% 9
Derbyshire -7 22 £27,500 - 7
Support Engineer
England

Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, 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 East Midlands region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 74 (39.78%) Windows
2 67 (36.02%) Microsoft
3 60 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (27.42%) Azure
5 49 (26.34%) Active Directory
6 48 (25.81%) Microsoft 365
7 45 (24.19%) Customer Service
8 39 (20.97%) Analytical Skills
8 39 (20.97%) Windows Server
9 37 (19.89%) Social Skills
10 35 (18.82%) SQL
11 27 (14.52%) SLA
12 26 (13.98%) Microsoft Intune
13 25 (13.44%) Entra ID
13 25 (13.44%) Law
13 25 (13.44%) ITIL
14 23 (12.37%) VMware
14 23 (12.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 22 (11.83%) Degree
15 22 (11.83%) DHCP
15 22 (11.83%) DNS
16 21 (11.29%) VMware Infrastructure
17 20 (10.75%) Cybersecurity
17 20 (10.75%) SharePoint
18 18 (9.68%) Service Management
18 18 (9.68%) SQL Server
19 17 (9.14%) User Experience
19 17 (9.14%) User Acceptance Testing
19 17 (9.14%) Customer Requirements
20 16 (8.60%) Microsoft Exchange

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 20 (10.75%) SharePoint
2 16 (8.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (4.84%) IIS
4 2 (1.08%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (3.76%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.69%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 51 (27.42%) Azure
2 48 (25.81%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (13.44%) Entra ID
4 7 (3.76%) OneDrive
5 6 (3.23%) Mimecast
6 5 (2.69%) SaaS
7 4 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.08%) ClickUp
8 2 (1.08%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.54%) AWS
9 1 (0.54%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 22 (11.83%) DHCP
1 22 (11.83%) DNS
2 15 (8.06%) Firewall
3 13 (6.99%) SAN
4 11 (5.91%) TCP/IP
4 11 (5.91%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (4.84%) LAN
5 9 (4.84%) WAN
6 7 (3.76%) Network Security
6 7 (3.76%) VPN
7 4 (2.15%) Wireless
7 4 (2.15%) WLAN
8 2 (1.08%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (1.08%) Internet
8 2 (1.08%) VSAN
9 1 (0.54%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (9.68%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.76%) MySQL
3 2 (1.08%) MariaDB
3 2 (1.08%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 39 (20.97%) Analytical Skills
2 37 (19.89%) Social Skills
3 25 (13.44%) Law
4 7 (3.76%) Manufacturing
5 6 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (3.23%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.61%) Automotive
6 3 (1.61%) Finance
7 2 (1.08%) Games
8 1 (0.54%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.54%) Marketing
8 1 (0.54%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.76%) .NET
1 7 (3.76%) Web Services
2 5 (2.69%) CSS
2 5 (2.69%) CSS3
2 5 (2.69%) HTML
2 5 (2.69%) HTML5
2 5 (2.69%) jQuery
2 5 (2.69%) React
3 2 (1.08%) LAPP Stack
3 2 (1.08%) REST
3 2 (1.08%) SOAP
4 1 (0.54%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.45%) Driving Licence
2 7 (3.76%) Clustering
2 7 (3.76%) Data Centre
3 6 (3.23%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.23%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.54%) CCTV
6 1 (0.54%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 74 (39.78%) Windows
2 39 (20.97%) Windows Server
3 10 (5.38%) Linux
4 6 (3.23%) Mac OS
5 4 (2.15%) CentOS
5 4 (2.15%) SUSE
5 4 (2.15%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.15%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.61%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.08%) AIX
7 2 (1.08%) Debian
7 2 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (24.19%) Customer Service
3 25 (13.44%) ITIL
4 23 (12.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 20 (10.75%) Cybersecurity
6 18 (9.68%) Service Management
7 17 (9.14%) Customer Requirements
7 17 (9.14%) User Acceptance Testing
7 17 (9.14%) User Experience
8 12 (6.45%) Computer Science
9 10 (5.38%) Customer-Centricity
10 9 (4.84%) Agile
11 8 (4.30%) Migration
12 7 (3.76%) CRM
12 7 (3.76%) Disaster Recovery
12 7 (3.76%) High Availability
12 7 (3.76%) Mathematics
12 7 (3.76%) Patch Management
12 7 (3.76%) Proactive Maintenance
13 6 (3.23%) OO
Programming Languages
1 35 (18.82%) SQL
2 7 (3.76%) C#
3 5 (2.69%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.61%) Python
5 2 (1.08%) C
5 2 (1.08%) C++
5 2 (1.08%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.08%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.08%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.08%) VB
6 1 (0.54%) Perl
Qualifications
1 22 (11.83%) Degree
2 14 (7.53%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.23%) A+ Certification
4 6 (3.23%) DBS Check
4 6 (3.23%) MCP
5 5 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.69%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.61%) HNC
6 3 (1.61%) HND
7 2 (1.08%) Citrix Certification
7 2 (1.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.54%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.54%) CCA
8 1 (0.54%) CCDA
8 1 (0.54%) CCNA
8 1 (0.54%) CESG Certified Professional
8 1 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.54%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (14.52%) SLA
2 6 (3.23%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.08%) GDPR
3 2 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.08%) QA
System Software
1 49 (26.34%) Active Directory
2 21 (11.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (8.06%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.69%) KVM
4 5 (2.69%) vSphere
5 2 (1.08%) Terminal Services
5 2 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.54%) XenApp
6 1 (0.54%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 26 (13.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (3.76%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 67 (36.02%) Microsoft
2 23 (12.37%) VMware
3 6 (3.23%) Acronis
3 6 (3.23%) Dell
3 6 (3.23%) HP
4 5 (2.69%) Citrix
4 5 (2.69%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.15%) Oracle
5 4 (2.15%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.15%) Sophos
5 4 (2.15%) Veeam
6 3 (1.61%) Google
7 2 (1.08%) Apple
7 2 (1.08%) Cisco
7 2 (1.08%) HubSpot
7 2 (1.08%) Meraki
7 2 (1.08%) RedPrairie
8 1 (0.54%) Agilent
8 1 (0.54%) NetApp