Support Engineer Jobs in the South East

Support Engineer
England > South East

The median Support Engineer salary in the South East is £34,500 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 63 80 137
Rank change year-on-year +17 +57 -27
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 648 529 517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.86% 3.63% 2.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.10% 4.02% 2.72%
Number of salaries quoted 623 423 473
10th Percentile £24,075 £24,575 £24,250
25th Percentile £27,000 £27,500 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,500 £31,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -3.08% -
75th Percentile £43,750 £37,500 £41,750
90th Percentile £50,000 £46,000 £47,500
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
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 15,797 13,155 19,019
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.98% 90.38% 96.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11,357 8,270 12,438
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in the South East

Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Support Engineer in the South East

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Support Engineer in the South East

Support Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Support Engineer within the South East 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
Thames Valley +26 240 £38,250 +21.43% 58
Hampshire -16 148 £35,000 +16.67% 24
Berkshire +40 90 £35,200 +10.00% 24
Buckinghamshire -14 80 £32,500 - 11
East Sussex +49 76 £25,760 -26.40% 3
Oxfordshire +23 70 £42,000 +33.33% 23
Surrey -4 65 £39,500 +16.61% 14
Kent -2 52 £28,000 -13.85% 20
West Sussex +48 42 £30,000 -6.25% 15
Sussex - 13 £30,000 -
Middlesex - 7 £60,000 -
Isle of Wight - 4 £42,500 - 1
Support Engineer
England

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

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 South East region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 327 (50.46%) Windows
2 304 (46.91%) Microsoft 365
3 278 (42.90%) Microsoft
4 217 (33.49%) Active Directory
5 203 (31.33%) Social Skills
6 196 (30.25%) Azure
7 175 (27.01%) Firewall
8 149 (22.99%) Windows Server
9 133 (20.52%) Customer Service
10 114 (17.59%) VMware
11 106 (16.36%) SQL
12 105 (16.20%) Microsoft Office
13 104 (16.05%) Degree
14 101 (15.59%) Microsoft Exchange
14 101 (15.59%) Problem-Solving
15 96 (14.81%) Windows 10
16 94 (14.51%) VMware Infrastructure
17 91 (14.04%) Linux
18 80 (12.35%) SharePoint
19 74 (11.42%) ITIL
19 74 (11.42%) Hyper-V
20 72 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
21 69 (10.65%) Entra ID
22 68 (10.49%) SQL Server
23 67 (10.34%) TCP/IP
24 66 (10.19%) Cisco
25 63 (9.72%) VPN
26 61 (9.41%) Citrix
27 59 (9.10%) Microsoft Intune
28 58 (8.95%) Driving Licence

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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
1 101 (15.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 80 (12.35%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.93%) Exchange Server 2000
4 5 (0.77%) Apache
4 5 (0.77%) IIS
5 4 (0.62%) Confluence
5 4 (0.62%) JBoss
5 4 (0.62%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.31%) CMS
8 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 105 (16.20%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (7.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.31%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.31%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (0.77%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.15%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Cloud Services
1 304 (46.91%) Microsoft 365
2 196 (30.25%) Azure
3 69 (10.65%) Entra ID
4 43 (6.64%) AWS
5 41 (6.33%) OneDrive
6 16 (2.47%) IaaS
7 12 (1.85%) Mimecast
8 11 (1.70%) SaaS
9 9 (1.39%) PaaS
10 7 (1.08%) Google Workspace
11 6 (0.93%) Azure Sentinel
11 6 (0.93%) GCP
12 5 (0.77%) iTunes
13 4 (0.62%) WhatsApp
14 2 (0.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 1 (0.15%) Azure Data Factory
15 1 (0.15%) Cloud Computing
15 1 (0.15%) Dynamics 365
15 1 (0.15%) Nutanix
15 1 (0.15%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 175 (27.01%) Firewall
2 67 (10.34%) TCP/IP
3 63 (9.72%) VPN
4 57 (8.80%) DNS
5 51 (7.87%) VLAN
6 50 (7.72%) DHCP
6 50 (7.72%) Wireless
7 45 (6.94%) Wi-Fi
8 42 (6.48%) LAN
9 41 (6.33%) VoIP
10 31 (4.78%) WAN
11 23 (3.55%) SAN
12 19 (2.93%) Remote Desktop
13 16 (2.47%) Network Security
14 14 (2.16%) SNMP
14 14 (2.16%) SSH
15 13 (2.01%) Internet
15 13 (2.01%) NAS
15 13 (2.01%) SSL
15 13 (2.01%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (10.49%) SQL Server
2 42 (6.48%) MySQL
3 15 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (2.16%) Relational Database
5 5 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.62%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.62%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.15%) GIS
7 1 (0.15%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 21 (3.24%) JIRA
2 14 (2.16%) Eclipse
3 2 (0.31%) Git
3 2 (0.31%) GitLab
3 2 (0.31%) Hudson
3 2 (0.31%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.15%) Gradle
4 1 (0.15%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.15%) JUnit
General
1 203 (31.33%) Social Skills
2 35 (5.40%) Telecoms
3 34 (5.25%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (5.09%) Finance
5 31 (4.78%) Documentation Skills
5 31 (4.78%) Manufacturing
6 29 (4.48%) Law
7 25 (3.86%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (2.31%) Legal
9 13 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (1.85%) Games
11 11 (1.70%) Back Office
12 6 (0.93%) Electronics
12 6 (0.93%) Military
12 6 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (0.93%) Retail
13 3 (0.46%) Marketing
14 2 (0.31%) Billing
14 2 (0.31%) Public Sector
15 1 (0.15%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.93%) HTML
2 17 (2.62%) REST
2 17 (2.62%) SOAP
2 17 (2.62%) Web Services
3 16 (2.47%) CSS
4 13 (2.01%) .NET
4 13 (2.01%) Ajax
4 13 (2.01%) AngularJS
4 13 (2.01%) JDBC
4 13 (2.01%) ODBC
4 13 (2.01%) XHTML
4 13 (2.01%) XML
5 6 (0.93%) Kafka
6 3 (0.46%) 802.1X
6 3 (0.46%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.31%) Spring
8 1 (0.15%) LAMP
8 1 (0.15%) LDAP
8 1 (0.15%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 58 (8.95%) Driving Licence
2 22 (3.40%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (2.93%) Replication
4 13 (2.01%) Clustering
4 13 (2.01%) CMDB
4 13 (2.01%) Management Information System
5 11 (1.70%) Data Centre
6 10 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (1.39%) PKI
8 8 (1.23%) Client/Server
9 7 (1.08%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.08%) Smartphone
10 6 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.62%) CCTV
11 4 (0.62%) Chip and PIN
11 4 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.62%) Mobile Payment
12 3 (0.46%) Apple TV
12 3 (0.46%) Video Conferencing
13 2 (0.31%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 327 (50.46%) Windows
2 149 (22.99%) Windows Server
3 96 (14.81%) Windows 10
4 91 (14.04%) Linux
5 32 (4.94%) Android
6 26 (4.01%) Windows Server 2012
7 20 (3.09%) Windows 7
7 20 (3.09%) Windows Server 2019
8 19 (2.93%) Windows Server 2016
9 16 (2.47%) Apple iOS
10 13 (2.01%) Unix
11 10 (1.54%) Windows Server 2008
12 8 (1.23%) VMS
13 6 (0.93%) Mac OS X
13 6 (0.93%) Ubuntu
14 4 (0.62%) AIX
14 4 (0.62%) Mac OS
15 3 (0.46%) Windows Server 2003
16 2 (0.31%) Windows Mobile
16 2 (0.31%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (20.52%) Customer Service
2 101 (15.59%) Problem-Solving
3 74 (11.42%) ITIL
4 72 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 49 (7.56%) Service Delivery
6 40 (6.17%) Cybersecurity
7 26 (4.01%) Customer Requirements
7 26 (4.01%) Mentoring
8 25 (3.86%) OO
9 24 (3.70%) Customer Experience
9 24 (3.70%) Project Management
10 22 (3.40%) ITSM
10 22 (3.40%) Problem Management
11 21 (3.24%) Incident Management
11 21 (3.24%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 20 (3.09%) Change Control
12 20 (3.09%) Network Management
13 19 (2.93%) Remote Monitoring and Management
14 18 (2.78%) Database Tuning
15 17 (2.62%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 106 (16.36%) SQL
2 50 (7.72%) PowerShell
3 31 (4.78%) Java
4 26 (4.01%) Python
5 16 (2.47%) Bash
6 14 (2.16%) JavaScript
7 13 (2.01%) Perl
7 13 (2.01%) PL/SQL
7 13 (2.01%) VB
8 10 (1.54%) C#
9 9 (1.39%) ActionScript
10 8 (1.23%) C
11 7 (1.08%) C++
12 2 (0.31%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.15%) PHP
Qualifications
1 104 (16.05%) Degree
2 39 (6.02%) Cisco Certification
3 36 (5.56%) CCNA
4 35 (5.40%) Security Cleared
5 29 (4.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (3.09%) Network+ Certification
7 17 (2.62%) DV Cleared
7 17 (2.62%) SC Cleared
8 11 (1.70%) MCSE
9 10 (1.54%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 9 (1.39%) MCP
11 8 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (0.93%) CCNP
13 6 (0.93%) GCSC
14 5 (0.77%) HNC
14 5 (0.77%) MCITP
15 4 (0.62%) HND
16 2 (0.31%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (8.33%) SLA
2 17 (2.62%) GDPR
3 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.31%) ISO 14001
3 2 (0.31%) ISO 9001
3 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.31%) NIST
4 1 (0.15%) QA
System Software
1 217 (33.49%) Active Directory
2 94 (14.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 74 (11.42%) Hyper-V
4 23 (3.55%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (2.16%) XenApp
6 12 (1.85%) vSphere
7 10 (1.54%) Firmware
8 9 (1.39%) Docker
8 9 (1.39%) OpenSSH
9 7 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.46%) GPFS
12 2 (0.31%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.15%) NFS
13 1 (0.15%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.15%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.15%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.15%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 59 (9.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (3.09%) SCCM
3 19 (2.93%) vCenter Server
4 13 (2.01%) Cisco CUCM
4 13 (2.01%) ServiceCenter
4 13 (2.01%) WMI
5 9 (1.39%) IBM BigFix
5 9 (1.39%) PowerCLI
6 7 (1.08%) Kubernetes
7 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 6 (0.93%) SCDPM
8 3 (0.46%) Backup Exec
8 3 (0.46%) Dell DRAC
8 3 (0.46%) NetCrunch
9 2 (0.31%) EMC NetWorker
9 2 (0.31%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.15%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 278 (42.90%) Microsoft
2 114 (17.59%) VMware
3 66 (10.19%) Cisco
4 61 (9.41%) Citrix
5 45 (6.94%) Veeam
6 37 (5.71%) HP
7 31 (4.78%) Apple
8 28 (4.32%) Meraki
9 27 (4.17%) Oracle
10 22 (3.40%) Barracuda Networks
11 18 (2.78%) Sophos
12 17 (2.62%) Fortinet
12 17 (2.62%) Palo Alto
13 16 (2.47%) Aruba
13 16 (2.47%) Splunk
14 15 (2.31%) Dell
15 14 (2.16%) Draytek
16 12 (1.85%) ConnectWise
17 9 (1.39%) IBM
18 8 (1.23%) Google