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 £39,500 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 729 701 837
Rank change year-on-year -28 +136 -145
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Support Engineer 51 27 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.064% 0.049% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.055% 0.051%
Number of salaries quoted 38 25 30
10th Percentile £25,275 £24,700 £31,000
25th Percentile £29,500 £25,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,500 £27,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +43.64% -35.29% +55.96%
75th Percentile £50,000 £38,750 £53,125
90th Percentile £52,500 £42,650 £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
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
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 12 June 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 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
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%
Northern Ireland - 1 £30,000 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £26,000 -
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 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 UK excluding London region featuring Systems Support Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (37.25%) Microsoft
2 18 (35.29%) Azure
3 17 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (25.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (23.53%) Active Directory
6 10 (19.61%) Cisco
6 10 (19.61%) Windows
7 9 (17.65%) Migration
8 8 (15.69%) Architectural Design
9 7 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (13.73%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (13.73%) SLA
10 6 (11.76%) HP
10 6 (11.76%) 3G
10 6 (11.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (11.76%) GCSC
10 6 (11.76%) Military
10 6 (11.76%) Wireless
10 6 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (11.76%) 4G
10 6 (11.76%) Hyper-V
10 6 (11.76%) LTE
10 6 (11.76%) VSAT
11 5 (9.80%) Mathematics
11 5 (9.80%) Computer Science
11 5 (9.80%) CentOS
11 5 (9.80%) Ticket Management
11 5 (9.80%) Windows Server
11 5 (9.80%) Firewall
11 5 (9.80%) Management Information System

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 13 (25.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (7.84%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 18 (35.29%) Azure
2 17 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (5.88%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.92%) AWS
5 1 (1.96%) Mimecast
5 1 (1.96%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.96%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.76%) 3G
1 6 (11.76%) 4G
1 6 (11.76%) LTE
1 6 (11.76%) VSAT
1 6 (11.76%) Wireless
2 5 (9.80%) Firewall
3 3 (5.88%) DHCP
3 3 (5.88%) DNS
3 3 (5.88%) SSL
3 3 (5.88%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.92%) VLAN
4 2 (3.92%) VPN
5 1 (1.96%) HTTPS
5 1 (1.96%) IMAP
5 1 (1.96%) LAN
5 1 (1.96%) NAS
5 1 (1.96%) Network Security
5 1 (1.96%) SSH
5 1 (1.96%) VoIP
5 1 (1.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (11.76%) Military
2 4 (7.84%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.96%) Advertising
3 1 (1.96%) Aerospace
3 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.96%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (9.80%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.88%) Clustering
4 2 (3.92%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.96%) NHS
5 1 (1.96%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (19.61%) Windows
2 5 (9.80%) CentOS
2 5 (9.80%) Linux
2 5 (9.80%) SUSE
2 5 (9.80%) Ubuntu
2 5 (9.80%) Windows Server
3 4 (7.84%) Mac OS
4 3 (5.88%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (1.96%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (17.65%) Migration
2 8 (15.69%) Architectural Design
3 7 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (9.80%) Computer Science
5 5 (9.80%) Mathematics
5 5 (9.80%) Project Management
5 5 (9.80%) Ticket Management
6 3 (5.88%) Customer Service
7 2 (3.92%) Data Integration
7 2 (3.92%) ERP
7 2 (3.92%) ITIL
7 2 (3.92%) Project Delivery
7 2 (3.92%) Service Management
7 2 (3.92%) Visualisation
8 1 (1.96%) Functional Testing
8 1 (1.96%) Issue Tracking
8 1 (1.96%) Root Cause Analysis
8 1 (1.96%) Systems Engineering
8 1 (1.96%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.84%) SQL
2 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (13.73%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (11.76%) GCSC
3 2 (3.92%) Degree
4 1 (1.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.73%) SLA
2 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (23.53%) Active Directory
2 6 (11.76%) Hyper-V
3 3 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.96%) NFS
4 1 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (5.88%) Backup Exec
1 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 19 (37.25%) Microsoft
2 10 (19.61%) Cisco
3 6 (11.76%) HP
4 5 (9.80%) Red Hat
5 3 (5.88%) Aruba
5 3 (5.88%) Fortinet
5 3 (5.88%) Veritas
5 3 (5.88%) VMware
6 2 (3.92%) Oracle
6 2 (3.92%) Sage
7 1 (1.96%) Meraki
7 1 (1.96%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.96%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.96%) SonicWALL
7 1 (1.96%) Veeam