Systems Support Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

System Support Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median System Support Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £40,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 728 725 838
Rank change year-on-year -3 +113 -162
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Support Engineer 47 29 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.064% 0.050% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.056% 0.048%
Number of salaries quoted 37 27 29
10th Percentile £25,200 £24,800 £30,900
25th Percentile £29,500 £25,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £29,000 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year +37.93% -30.12% +27.69%
75th Percentile £50,000 £38,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £52,500 £42,750 -
UK median annual salary £50,000 £32,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +56.25% -24.71% +30.77%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 70,239 51,739 70,521
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.92% 89.07% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 49,597 29,705 42,866
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Systems Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Systems Support Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Systems Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Systems Support Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Systems Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Systems Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Support Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Systems Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Systems Support Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Support Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
South East +4 15 £37,500 +41.51% 3
Midlands +6 14 £24,750 -14.66% 1
East Midlands - 14 £24,750 -
North of England - 11 £50,000 - 4
North West - 9 £50,000 - 4
South West -22 6 £50,000 +100.00% 1
Yorkshire - 2 £26,000 -
East of England -10 1 £48,500 +76.36%
Systems Support Engineer
UK

Systems Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Systems 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 UK excluding London region featuring Systems Support Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (38.30%) Microsoft
2 17 (36.17%) Azure
3 15 (31.91%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (25.53%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (23.40%) Cisco
6 10 (21.28%) Active Directory
6 10 (21.28%) Windows
7 9 (19.15%) Migration
8 8 (17.02%) Architectural Design
9 7 (14.89%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (14.89%) SLA
9 7 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (14.89%) Hyper-V
10 6 (12.77%) LTE
10 6 (12.77%) VSAT
10 6 (12.77%) 4G
10 6 (12.77%) HP
10 6 (12.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (12.77%) Military
10 6 (12.77%) Wireless
10 6 (12.77%) 3G
10 6 (12.77%) GCSC
11 5 (10.64%) Ubuntu
11 5 (10.64%) Project Management
11 5 (10.64%) Firewall
11 5 (10.64%) Management Information System
11 5 (10.64%) SUSE
11 5 (10.64%) Red Hat
11 5 (10.64%) Linux
11 5 (10.64%) Technical Leadership

Systems Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (25.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (8.51%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 17 (36.17%) Azure
2 15 (31.91%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (6.38%) Entra ID
4 2 (4.26%) AWS
5 1 (2.13%) Mimecast
5 1 (2.13%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.13%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.77%) 3G
1 6 (12.77%) 4G
1 6 (12.77%) LTE
1 6 (12.77%) VSAT
1 6 (12.77%) Wireless
2 5 (10.64%) Firewall
3 4 (8.51%) TCP/IP
4 3 (6.38%) DHCP
4 3 (6.38%) DNS
4 3 (6.38%) SSL
5 2 (4.26%) VLAN
5 2 (4.26%) VPN
6 1 (2.13%) HTTPS
6 1 (2.13%) LAN
6 1 (2.13%) NAS
6 1 (2.13%) SAN
6 1 (2.13%) SMTP
6 1 (2.13%) VoIP
6 1 (2.13%) WAN
6 1 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (12.77%) Military
2 2 (4.26%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.13%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.13%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (10.64%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.38%) Clustering
4 2 (4.26%) Private Cloud
4 2 (4.26%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.28%) Windows
2 5 (10.64%) CentOS
2 5 (10.64%) Linux
2 5 (10.64%) SUSE
2 5 (10.64%) Ubuntu
3 4 (8.51%) Mac OS
3 4 (8.51%) Windows Server
4 3 (6.38%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (2.13%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (19.15%) Migration
2 8 (17.02%) Architectural Design
3 7 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (10.64%) Computer Science
4 5 (10.64%) Mathematics
4 5 (10.64%) Project Management
4 5 (10.64%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (10.64%) Ticket Management
5 4 (8.51%) Customer Service
6 2 (4.26%) Data Integration
6 2 (4.26%) ERP
6 2 (4.26%) ITIL
6 2 (4.26%) Service Management
6 2 (4.26%) Visualisation
7 1 (2.13%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1 (2.13%) Biomedicine
7 1 (2.13%) Issue Tracking
7 1 (2.13%) Systems Engineering
7 1 (2.13%) Threat Detection
7 1 (2.13%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.26%) SQL
2 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (14.89%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (12.77%) GCSC
3 1 (2.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.89%) SLA
2 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (21.28%) Active Directory
2 7 (14.89%) Hyper-V
3 4 (8.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.13%) NFS
4 1 (2.13%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (6.38%) Backup Exec
1 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 18 (38.30%) Microsoft
2 11 (23.40%) Cisco
3 6 (12.77%) HP
4 5 (10.64%) Red Hat
5 4 (8.51%) VMware
6 3 (6.38%) Aruba
6 3 (6.38%) Fortinet
6 3 (6.38%) Veritas
7 2 (4.26%) Sage
8 1 (2.13%) Meraki
8 1 (2.13%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.13%) SonicWALL
8 1 (2.13%) Veeam