Support Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Support Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Support Engineer salary in the Midlands is £30,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 132 147
Rank change year-on-year +65 +15 -40
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 413 218 260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.48% 2.35% 2.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.69% 2.62% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 350 189 217
10th Percentile £23,950 £24,900 £22,500
25th Percentile £26,000 £26,000 £24,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £37,500 £41,409 £39,500
90th Percentile £44,070 £53,923 £46,250
England median annual salary £32,500 £33,500 £33,000
% change year-on-year -2.99% +1.52% -2.94%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 11,193 8,307 10,306
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.26% 89.68% 95.03%
Number of salaries quoted 8,338 4,661 7,022
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,741 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in the Midlands

Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Support Engineer in the Midlands

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Support Engineer in the Midlands

Support Engineer
Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 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
West Midlands +75 230 £30,000 -7.69% 48
East Midlands +32 178 £30,000 +8.11% 46
Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 Midlands region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 195 (47.22%) Windows
2 162 (39.23%) Active Directory
3 160 (38.74%) Microsoft
4 151 (36.56%) Microsoft 365
5 133 (32.20%) Azure
6 117 (28.33%) Windows Server
7 104 (25.18%) Problem-Solving
8 98 (23.73%) Social Skills
9 93 (22.52%) VMware
10 79 (19.13%) Entra ID
11 75 (18.16%) Customer Service
11 75 (18.16%) VMware Infrastructure
12 67 (16.22%) Microsoft Intune
13 61 (14.77%) Firewall
14 58 (14.04%) Hyper-V
15 54 (13.08%) ITIL
16 53 (12.83%) DNS
17 52 (12.59%) DHCP
18 49 (11.86%) Microsoft Exchange
19 48 (11.62%) SLA
20 46 (11.14%) Windows 10
21 43 (10.41%) Analytical Skills
21 43 (10.41%) SQL
21 43 (10.41%) Law
22 42 (10.17%) Veeam
23 41 (9.93%) SharePoint
24 36 (8.72%) WAN
24 36 (8.72%) SCCM
24 36 (8.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
25 35 (8.47%) Windows Server 2012

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 49 (11.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 41 (9.93%) SharePoint
3 13 (3.15%) IIS
4 2 (0.48%) Apache
4 2 (0.48%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.24%) IBM Notes
5 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 34 (8.23%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.97%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 151 (36.56%) Microsoft 365
2 133 (32.20%) Azure
3 79 (19.13%) Entra ID
4 22 (5.33%) OneDrive
5 13 (3.15%) AWS
6 11 (2.66%) SaaS
7 8 (1.94%) Mimecast
8 7 (1.69%) Google Workspace
9 6 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (0.97%) GCP
11 3 (0.73%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (0.48%) Amazon S3
12 2 (0.48%) ClickUp
12 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (0.48%) OpenDNS
12 2 (0.48%) WhatsApp
13 1 (0.24%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 61 (14.77%) Firewall
2 53 (12.83%) DNS
3 52 (12.59%) DHCP
4 36 (8.72%) WAN
5 31 (7.51%) SAN
6 27 (6.54%) TCP/IP
7 24 (5.81%) LAN
8 19 (4.60%) VoIP
8 19 (4.60%) Wi-Fi
9 18 (4.36%) VLAN
10 15 (3.63%) PBX
11 12 (2.91%) VPN
11 12 (2.91%) Wireless
12 9 (2.18%) WLAN
13 7 (1.69%) iSCSI
13 7 (1.69%) Network Security
14 5 (1.21%) Broadband
15 3 (0.73%) Ethernet
15 3 (0.73%) Internet
15 3 (0.73%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (6.78%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (1.45%) MySQL
4 2 (0.48%) MariaDB
4 2 (0.48%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (0.48%) JIRA
General
1 98 (23.73%) Social Skills
2 43 (10.41%) Analytical Skills
2 43 (10.41%) Law
3 32 (7.75%) Telecoms
4 19 (4.60%) Finance
5 16 (3.87%) Manufacturing
6 15 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (1.69%) Retail
8 4 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (0.97%) Legal
9 3 (0.73%) Automotive
9 3 (0.73%) Electronics
10 2 (0.48%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.48%) Back Office
10 2 (0.48%) Games
10 2 (0.48%) Marketing
10 2 (0.48%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.24%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.24%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.69%) REST
2 6 (1.45%) .NET
2 6 (1.45%) Web Services
3 5 (1.21%) WebRTC
4 4 (0.97%) CSS
4 4 (0.97%) CSS3
4 4 (0.97%) HTML
4 4 (0.97%) HTML5
4 4 (0.97%) jQuery
4 4 (0.97%) React
5 3 (0.73%) EDI
6 2 (0.48%) LAMP
6 2 (0.48%) LAPP Stack
6 2 (0.48%) SOAP
6 2 (0.48%) V-Ray
7 1 (0.24%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.26%) Driving Licence
2 21 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (4.84%) Replication
4 15 (3.63%) Clustering
5 11 (2.66%) Fat Client
5 11 (2.66%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.66%) Thin Client
6 10 (2.42%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.69%) Management Information System
8 4 (0.97%) CCTV
8 4 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.73%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.48%) PKI
11 1 (0.24%) Fixed Income
11 1 (0.24%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.24%) iPhone
11 1 (0.24%) Legacy Code
11 1 (0.24%) Robotics
11 1 (0.24%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.24%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 195 (47.22%) Windows
2 117 (28.33%) Windows Server
3 46 (11.14%) Windows 10
4 35 (8.47%) Windows Server 2012
5 26 (6.30%) Mac OS
6 22 (5.33%) Linux
7 15 (3.63%) Windows Server 2016
8 14 (3.39%) Windows Server 2019
9 12 (2.91%) CentOS
10 4 (0.97%) SUSE
10 4 (0.97%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.73%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.48%) AIX
12 2 (0.48%) Debian
12 2 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.48%) Unix
13 1 (0.24%) Android
13 1 (0.24%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.24%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (25.18%) Problem-Solving
2 75 (18.16%) Customer Service
3 54 (13.08%) ITIL
4 36 (8.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 28 (6.78%) Service Management
6 26 (6.30%) Customer Requirements
7 25 (6.05%) Cybersecurity
8 23 (5.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (5.33%) Agile
10 18 (4.36%) High Availability
11 17 (4.12%) Proactive Monitoring
11 17 (4.12%) User Experience
12 16 (3.87%) Computer Science
13 15 (3.63%) User Acceptance Testing
14 14 (3.39%) Asset Management
15 13 (3.15%) Break/Fix
15 13 (3.15%) Migration
16 11 (2.66%) Change Management
16 11 (2.66%) Root Cause Analysis
16 11 (2.66%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 43 (10.41%) SQL
2 12 (2.91%) PowerShell
3 6 (1.45%) C#
4 4 (0.97%) JavaScript
4 4 (0.97%) Python
5 3 (0.73%) Shell Script
5 3 (0.73%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.48%) C
6 2 (0.48%) C++
6 2 (0.48%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.48%) VB
7 1 (0.24%) Perl
Qualifications
1 33 (7.99%) Degree
2 28 (6.78%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (3.87%) DBS Check
4 12 (2.91%) HNC
5 11 (2.66%) A+ Certification
6 10 (2.42%) Security Cleared
7 8 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.45%) HND
8 6 (1.45%) MCP
9 5 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.21%) Network+ Certification
9 5 (1.21%) SC Cleared
10 3 (0.73%) Citrix Certification
10 3 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.48%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.48%) CCNA
11 2 (0.48%) CESG Certified Professional
11 2 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.48%) MCITP
12 1 (0.24%) CCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (11.62%) SLA
2 11 (2.66%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (1.45%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.21%) QA
5 3 (0.73%) GDPR
6 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 162 (39.23%) Active Directory
2 75 (18.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 58 (14.04%) Hyper-V
4 21 (5.08%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (1.94%) vSphere
7 7 (1.69%) VMware Workstation
8 5 (1.21%) KVM
8 5 (1.21%) NFS
8 5 (1.21%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.97%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.48%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.48%) Docker
10 2 (0.48%) pfSense
10 2 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.48%) XenApp
10 2 (0.48%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 67 (16.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 36 (8.72%) SCCM
3 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Clustering
4 4 (0.97%) Autotask
4 4 (0.97%) Failover Clustering
4 4 (0.97%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (0.73%) Cisco Prime
5 3 (0.73%) McAfee ePO
5 3 (0.73%) SCOM
6 2 (0.48%) Backup Exec
7 1 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.24%) Ansible
7 1 (0.24%) WSUS
Vendors
1 160 (38.74%) Microsoft
2 93 (22.52%) VMware
3 42 (10.17%) Veeam
4 34 (8.23%) Cisco
5 31 (7.51%) Citrix
6 27 (6.54%) HP
7 14 (3.39%) Dell
7 14 (3.39%) Sophos
8 10 (2.42%) Acronis
8 10 (2.42%) Apple
9 8 (1.94%) Nimble Storage
10 7 (1.69%) Meraki
10 7 (1.69%) Remedy
10 7 (1.69%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.45%) Aruba
11 6 (1.45%) Google
11 6 (1.45%) Siemens
12 5 (1.21%) ConnectWise
12 5 (1.21%) Mitel
12 5 (1.21%) Zerto