Systems Support Engineer Jobs in England

System Support Engineer
UK > England

The median System Support Engineer salary in England is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 800 864 1140
Rank change year-on-year +64 +276 -246
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Support Engineer 63 30 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.066% 0.037% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.040% 0.033%
Number of salaries quoted 45 26 39
10th Percentile £26,000 £24,750 £33,700
25th Percentile £29,500 £25,750 £39,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £28,250 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +76.99% -33.53% +80.85%
75th Percentile £52,500 £37,813 £47,500
90th Percentile £55,000 £52,000 £55,000
UK median annual salary £49,250 £32,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +53.91% -24.71% +47.83%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 90,431 74,847 138,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.19% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 65,915 49,353 75,297
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
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 England

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Support Engineer in England

Systems Support Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Systems Support Engineer in England

Systems Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Support Engineer in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Systems Support Engineer in England

Systems Support Engineer
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 12 June 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 -25 15 £37,500 +41.51% 7
Midlands -25 14 £24,750 -19.51% 5
East Midlands - 14 £24,750 - 2
London +103 13 £55,000 -18.52%
South West -32 10 £50,000 +100.00% 1
North of England - 10 £50,000 - 1
North West - 9 £50,000 - 1
East of England -16 1 £48,500 +76.36%
Yorkshire - 1 £26,000 -
Systems Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 England region featuring Systems Support Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (30.16%) Microsoft
1 19 (30.16%) Active Directory
2 18 (28.57%) Azure
3 17 (26.98%) Windows
3 17 (26.98%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (22.22%) Linux
6 13 (20.63%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (20.63%) Social Skills
7 12 (19.05%) Project Management
7 12 (19.05%) Firewall
7 12 (19.05%) Degree
8 11 (17.46%) Mac OS
9 10 (15.87%) VMware
9 10 (15.87%) Cisco
10 9 (14.29%) Migration
10 9 (14.29%) Task Automation
10 9 (14.29%) Bash
10 9 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (12.70%) Mentoring
11 8 (12.70%) Fintech
11 8 (12.70%) Architectural Design
11 8 (12.70%) PowerShell
12 7 (11.11%) Computer Science
12 7 (11.11%) Atlassian
12 7 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (11.11%) JIRA
12 7 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)

Systems Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 13 (20.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (11.11%) Confluence
3 4 (6.35%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 18 (28.57%) Azure
2 17 (26.98%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (4.76%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.17%) AWS
5 1 (1.59%) Mimecast
5 1 (1.59%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.59%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 12 (19.05%) Firewall
2 7 (11.11%) PBX
3 6 (9.52%) 3G
3 6 (9.52%) 4G
3 6 (9.52%) LTE
3 6 (9.52%) VSAT
3 6 (9.52%) Wireless
4 4 (6.35%) DNS
5 3 (4.76%) DHCP
5 3 (4.76%) SSL
5 3 (4.76%) TCP/IP
6 2 (3.17%) VLAN
6 2 (3.17%) VPN
7 1 (1.59%) IMAP
7 1 (1.59%) NAS
7 1 (1.59%) Network Security
7 1 (1.59%) SSH
7 1 (1.59%) VoIP
7 1 (1.59%) WAN
7 1 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.11%) MySQL
1 7 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (11.11%) Bitbucket
1 7 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 7 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 13 (20.63%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.52%) Military
4 3 (4.76%) Finance
5 2 (3.17%) Banking
6 1 (1.59%) Advertising
6 1 (1.59%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.59%) Electronics
6 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.59%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.59%) Marketing
6 1 (1.59%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.17%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (1.59%) CSS
2 1 (1.59%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (7.94%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.76%) Clustering
4 2 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.17%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.17%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.59%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.59%) NHS
5 1 (1.59%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (26.98%) Windows
2 14 (22.22%) Linux
3 11 (17.46%) Mac OS
4 5 (7.94%) CentOS
4 5 (7.94%) SUSE
4 5 (7.94%) Ubuntu
4 5 (7.94%) Windows Server
5 3 (4.76%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (1.59%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (19.05%) Project Management
3 9 (14.29%) Migration
3 9 (14.29%) Task Automation
4 8 (12.70%) Architectural Design
4 8 (12.70%) Fintech
4 8 (12.70%) Mentoring
5 7 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 7 (11.11%) Computer Science
6 6 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (7.94%) Mathematics
7 5 (7.94%) Ticket Management
8 4 (6.35%) ITIL
8 4 (6.35%) Service Management
9 3 (4.76%) Customer Service
10 2 (3.17%) Analytical Modelling
10 2 (3.17%) Change Control
10 2 (3.17%) Customer Experience
10 2 (3.17%) Process Improvement
10 2 (3.17%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.29%) Bash
2 8 (12.70%) PowerShell
3 5 (7.94%) SQL
4 2 (3.17%) Python
5 1 (1.59%) C++
5 1 (1.59%) Korn
5 1 (1.59%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 12 (19.05%) Degree
2 7 (11.11%) CCNA
2 7 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (9.52%) GCSC
4 2 (3.17%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.11%) SLA
2 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 19 (30.16%) Active Directory
2 7 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (9.52%) Hyper-V
4 3 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (3.17%) NFS
6 1 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (4.76%) Backup Exec
1 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (3.17%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (1.59%) systemd
Vendors
1 19 (30.16%) Microsoft
2 10 (15.87%) Cisco
2 10 (15.87%) VMware
3 7 (11.11%) Atlassian
3 7 (11.11%) Palo Alto
4 6 (9.52%) HP
5 5 (7.94%) Red Hat
6 3 (4.76%) Aruba
6 3 (4.76%) Fortinet
6 3 (4.76%) Veritas
7 2 (3.17%) Bloomberg
7 2 (3.17%) MarketAxess
7 2 (3.17%) Murex
7 2 (3.17%) Oracle
7 2 (3.17%) PagerDuty
7 2 (3.17%) Sage
7 2 (3.17%) Tradeweb
8 1 (1.59%) SAP
8 1 (1.59%) SonicWALL
8 1 (1.59%) Veeam