Systems Support Engineer Jobs

System Support Engineer
UK

The median System Support Engineer salary in the UK is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 829 942 1187
Rank change year-on-year +113 +245 -277
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Support Engineer 67 33 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.068% 0.033% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.071% 0.036% 0.033%
Number of salaries quoted 53 30 40
10th Percentile £26,200 £25,625 £31,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £25,750 £36,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £32,250 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year +55.04% -25.00% +32.31%
75th Percentile £55,000 £41,563 £55,000
90th Percentile - £53,450 £55,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £39,500 £29,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +36.21% -31.76% +30.77%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,739 91,836 153,630
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 91.52% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 67,104 57,926 84,939
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Systems Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Support Engineer in the UK

Systems Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Systems Support Engineer in the UK

Systems Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Support Engineer over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Systems Support Engineer in the UK

Systems Support Engineer
Top 12 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 14 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
England +119 67 £50,000 +72.41% 12
UK excluding London +7 47 £39,500 +36.21% 10
Work from Home +79 21 £31,000 -17.33% 6
London +143 20 £55,000 -18.52% 3
South East +12 16 £37,500 +41.51% 1
Midlands +15 13 £24,750 -14.66% 3
East Midlands - 13 £24,750 - 2
North of England - 11 £50,000 - 3
North West - 9 £50,000 - 3
South West -20 6 £50,000 +100.00% 2
Yorkshire - 2 £26,000 -
East of England -2 1 £48,500 +76.36%

Systems Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 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 featuring Systems Support Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (37.31%) Windows
2 24 (35.82%) Active Directory
3 22 (32.84%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (31.34%) Linux
5 19 (28.36%) Project Management
5 19 (28.36%) Firewall
6 18 (26.87%) Microsoft
6 18 (26.87%) VMware
6 18 (26.87%) Mac OS
6 18 (26.87%) Social Skills
7 17 (25.37%) Azure
7 17 (25.37%) Degree
8 16 (23.88%) PowerShell
8 16 (23.88%) Task Automation
8 16 (23.88%) Bash
8 16 (23.88%) Analytical Skills
9 15 (22.39%) Mentoring
9 15 (22.39%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (22.39%) Fintech
10 14 (20.90%) Cisco Certification
10 14 (20.90%) CCNA
10 14 (20.90%) PBX
10 14 (20.90%) MySQL
10 14 (20.90%) PostgreSQL
10 14 (20.90%) JIRA
10 14 (20.90%) Atlassian
10 14 (20.90%) Palo Alto
10 14 (20.90%) CI/CD
10 14 (20.90%) VMware ESXi
10 14 (20.90%) Confluence

Systems Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 14 (20.90%) Confluence
2 12 (17.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (5.97%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 17 (25.37%) Azure
2 15 (22.39%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (4.48%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.99%) AWS
5 1 (1.49%) Mimecast
5 1 (1.49%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.49%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 19 (28.36%) Firewall
2 14 (20.90%) PBX
3 6 (8.96%) 3G
3 6 (8.96%) 4G
3 6 (8.96%) LTE
3 6 (8.96%) VSAT
3 6 (8.96%) Wireless
4 5 (7.46%) TCP/IP
5 4 (5.97%) DNS
6 3 (4.48%) DHCP
6 3 (4.48%) SSL
7 2 (2.99%) VLAN
7 2 (2.99%) VPN
7 2 (2.99%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.49%) HTTPS
8 1 (1.49%) IMAP
8 1 (1.49%) NAS
8 1 (1.49%) Network Security
8 1 (1.49%) SAN
8 1 (1.49%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.90%) MySQL
1 14 (20.90%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (20.90%) Bitbucket
1 14 (20.90%) Jenkins
1 14 (20.90%) JIRA
General
1 18 (26.87%) Social Skills
2 16 (23.88%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.96%) Military
4 3 (4.48%) Finance
5 2 (2.99%) Banking
5 2 (2.99%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.49%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.49%) Electronics
6 1 (1.49%) Marketing
6 1 (1.49%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.49%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.99%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (1.49%) CSS
2 1 (1.49%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (5.97%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.48%) Clustering
4 2 (2.99%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.99%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.99%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.99%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.99%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.49%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 25 (37.31%) Windows
2 21 (31.34%) Linux
3 18 (26.87%) Mac OS
4 5 (7.46%) Windows Server
5 4 (5.97%) CentOS
5 4 (5.97%) SUSE
5 4 (5.97%) Ubuntu
6 3 (4.48%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (2.99%) Windows 10
7 2 (2.99%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (32.84%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (28.36%) Project Management
3 16 (23.88%) Task Automation
4 15 (22.39%) Fintech
4 15 (22.39%) Mentoring
5 14 (20.90%) CI/CD
6 9 (13.43%) Migration
7 8 (11.94%) Architectural Design
8 6 (8.96%) Computer Science
9 5 (7.46%) Technical Leadership
10 4 (5.97%) Customer Service
10 4 (5.97%) ITIL
10 4 (5.97%) Mathematics
10 4 (5.97%) Service Management
10 4 (5.97%) Ticket Management
11 2 (2.99%) Data Analysis
11 2 (2.99%) ERP
11 2 (2.99%) Informatics
11 2 (2.99%) ITSM
11 2 (2.99%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 16 (23.88%) Bash
1 16 (23.88%) PowerShell
2 3 (4.48%) SQL
3 2 (2.99%) Python
4 1 (1.49%) C++
4 1 (1.49%) Korn
4 1 (1.49%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 17 (25.37%) Degree
2 14 (20.90%) CCNA
2 14 (20.90%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (10.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (8.96%) GCSC
5 2 (2.99%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.45%) SLA
2 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 24 (35.82%) Active Directory
2 14 (20.90%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (10.45%) Hyper-V
4 4 (5.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (2.99%) NFS
6 1 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.49%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (4.48%) Backup Exec
1 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.99%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (1.49%) systemd
Vendors
1 18 (26.87%) Microsoft
1 18 (26.87%) VMware
2 14 (20.90%) Atlassian
2 14 (20.90%) Palo Alto
3 11 (16.42%) Cisco
4 6 (8.96%) HP
5 4 (5.97%) Red Hat
6 3 (4.48%) Aruba
6 3 (4.48%) Fortinet
6 3 (4.48%) Veritas
7 2 (2.99%) Bloomberg
7 2 (2.99%) MarketAxess
7 2 (2.99%) Murex
7 2 (2.99%) PagerDuty
7 2 (2.99%) Sage
7 2 (2.99%) Tradeweb
7 2 (2.99%) Veeam
8 1 (1.49%) SAP
8 1 (1.49%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.49%) Synology