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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 85 130
Rank change year-on-year +21 +45 -22
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 635 509 535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.76% 3.55% 2.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.00% 3.93% 2.75%
Number of salaries quoted 609 405 492
10th Percentile £24,375 £25,000 £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 £42,500
90th Percentile £50,000 £46,000 £47,500
England median annual salary £32,500 £33,500 £33,500
% change year-on-year -2.99% - -1.47%

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 15,876 12,953 19,459
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.03% 90.33% 96.43%
Number of salaries quoted 11,350 8,186 12,492
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,032 £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 £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +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 20 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 20 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 +30 234 £38,500 +22.22% 73
Hampshire -14 147 £35,000 +14.75% 34
Berkshire +37 82 £36,450 +13.02% 36
Buckinghamshire -12 80 £32,500 +7.44% 11
East Sussex +44 76 £25,760 -26.40% 5
Oxfordshire +29 72 £42,000 +33.33% 27
Surrey -16 60 £40,000 +14.29% 18
Kent +3 52 £28,000 -10.40% 20
West Sussex +44 41 £30,000 -6.25% 12
Sussex - 13 £30,000 - 1
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 20 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.

1 320 (50.39%) Windows
2 297 (46.77%) Microsoft 365
3 272 (42.83%) Microsoft
4 214 (33.70%) Active Directory
5 201 (31.65%) Social Skills
6 197 (31.02%) Azure
7 178 (28.03%) Firewall
8 148 (23.31%) Windows Server
9 128 (20.16%) Customer Service
10 111 (17.48%) VMware
11 108 (17.01%) Degree
12 105 (16.54%) SQL
13 102 (16.06%) Microsoft Exchange
14 100 (15.75%) Problem-Solving
15 98 (15.43%) Microsoft Office
16 91 (14.33%) Windows 10
17 90 (14.17%) VMware Infrastructure
18 87 (13.70%) Linux
19 81 (12.76%) SharePoint
20 75 (11.81%) Hyper-V
21 72 (11.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
22 71 (11.18%) ITIL
23 69 (10.87%) Entra ID
24 68 (10.71%) SQL Server
25 67 (10.55%) TCP/IP
26 66 (10.39%) Cisco
27 65 (10.24%) VPN
28 63 (9.92%) Citrix
29 59 (9.29%) Microsoft Intune
30 58 (9.13%) 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
1 102 (16.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 81 (12.76%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.94%) Exchange Server 2000
4 5 (0.79%) Apache
4 5 (0.79%) IIS
5 4 (0.63%) Confluence
5 4 (0.63%) JBoss
5 4 (0.63%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 98 (15.43%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (7.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.31%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.31%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (0.79%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.16%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Cloud Services
1 297 (46.77%) Microsoft 365
2 197 (31.02%) Azure
3 69 (10.87%) Entra ID
4 42 (6.61%) AWS
4 42 (6.61%) OneDrive
5 16 (2.52%) IaaS
6 11 (1.73%) Mimecast
6 11 (1.73%) SaaS
7 9 (1.42%) PaaS
8 6 (0.94%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (0.79%) GCP
9 5 (0.79%) Google Workspace
9 5 (0.79%) iTunes
10 4 (0.63%) WhatsApp
11 2 (0.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (0.31%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.16%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (0.16%) Nutanix
12 1 (0.16%) OCI
12 1 (0.16%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 178 (28.03%) Firewall
2 67 (10.55%) TCP/IP
3 65 (10.24%) VPN
4 56 (8.82%) DNS
5 50 (7.87%) VLAN
6 48 (7.56%) DHCP
6 48 (7.56%) Wireless
7 46 (7.24%) Wi-Fi
8 42 (6.61%) VoIP
9 34 (5.35%) LAN
10 25 (3.94%) WAN
11 23 (3.62%) SAN
12 18 (2.83%) Remote Desktop
13 17 (2.68%) Network Security
14 14 (2.20%) Internet
14 14 (2.20%) SNMP
14 14 (2.20%) SSH
15 13 (2.05%) NAS
15 13 (2.05%) SSL
15 13 (2.05%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (10.71%) SQL Server
2 42 (6.61%) MySQL
3 16 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (2.20%) Relational Database
5 5 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.63%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.63%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.16%) GIS
7 1 (0.16%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 21 (3.31%) JIRA
2 14 (2.20%) Eclipse
3 2 (0.31%) Git
3 2 (0.31%) GitLab
3 2 (0.31%) Hudson
3 2 (0.31%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.16%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.16%) Gradle
4 1 (0.16%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.16%) JUnit
General
1 201 (31.65%) Social Skills
2 34 (5.35%) Manufacturing
3 33 (5.20%) Finance
3 33 (5.20%) Telecoms
4 31 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
5 28 (4.41%) Law
6 23 (3.62%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (2.20%) Legal
8 13 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.89%) Games
10 11 (1.73%) Back Office
11 7 (1.10%) Electronics
12 6 (0.94%) Military
12 6 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (0.94%) Retail
13 3 (0.47%) Marketing
14 2 (0.31%) Billing
14 2 (0.31%) Public Sector
15 1 (0.16%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.15%) HTML
2 17 (2.68%) CSS
2 17 (2.68%) REST
2 17 (2.68%) SOAP
2 17 (2.68%) Web Services
3 14 (2.20%) .NET
4 13 (2.05%) Ajax
4 13 (2.05%) AngularJS
4 13 (2.05%) JDBC
4 13 (2.05%) ODBC
4 13 (2.05%) XHTML
4 13 (2.05%) XML
5 5 (0.79%) Kafka
6 3 (0.47%) 802.1X
7 2 (0.31%) Spring
7 2 (0.31%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.16%) LAMP
8 1 (0.16%) LDAP
8 1 (0.16%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 58 (9.13%) Driving Licence
2 22 (3.46%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (2.99%) Replication
4 14 (2.20%) Clustering
5 13 (2.05%) CMDB
6 12 (1.89%) Management Information System
7 11 (1.73%) Data Centre
7 11 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
8 10 (1.57%) PKI
9 8 (1.26%) Client/Server
9 8 (1.26%) Smartphone
10 7 (1.10%) Public Cloud
11 6 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (0.63%) Chip and PIN
12 4 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.63%) Mobile Payment
13 3 (0.47%) Apple TV
13 3 (0.47%) CCTV
13 3 (0.47%) Video Conferencing
14 2 (0.31%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 320 (50.39%) Windows
2 148 (23.31%) Windows Server
3 91 (14.33%) Windows 10
4 87 (13.70%) Linux
5 33 (5.20%) Android
6 28 (4.41%) Windows Server 2012
7 20 (3.15%) Windows Server 2016
7 20 (3.15%) Windows Server 2019
8 17 (2.68%) Apple iOS
8 17 (2.68%) Windows 7
9 13 (2.05%) Unix
10 10 (1.57%) Windows Server 2008
11 8 (1.26%) VMS
12 7 (1.10%) Mac OS X
13 6 (0.94%) Ubuntu
14 4 (0.63%) AIX
14 4 (0.63%) Mac OS
15 3 (0.47%) Windows Server 2003
16 2 (0.31%) Windows Mobile
17 1 (0.16%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (20.16%) Customer Service
2 100 (15.75%) Problem-Solving
3 72 (11.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 71 (11.18%) ITIL
5 47 (7.40%) Service Delivery
6 40 (6.30%) Cybersecurity
7 26 (4.09%) Mentoring
8 25 (3.94%) Customer Experience
8 25 (3.94%) Customer Requirements
8 25 (3.94%) OO
9 24 (3.78%) Project Management
10 21 (3.31%) Change Control
10 21 (3.31%) ITSM
10 21 (3.31%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 20 (3.15%) Problem Management
12 19 (2.99%) Network Management
12 19 (2.99%) Remote Monitoring and Management
13 17 (2.68%) Database Tuning
13 17 (2.68%) Incident Management
13 17 (2.68%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 105 (16.54%) SQL
2 50 (7.87%) PowerShell
3 29 (4.57%) Java
4 25 (3.94%) Python
5 15 (2.36%) Bash
5 15 (2.36%) JavaScript
6 14 (2.20%) VB
7 13 (2.05%) Perl
8 12 (1.89%) PL/SQL
9 11 (1.73%) C#
10 10 (1.57%) ActionScript
11 8 (1.26%) C
12 6 (0.94%) C++
13 2 (0.31%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.16%) PHP
Qualifications
1 108 (17.01%) Degree
2 38 (5.98%) Cisco Certification
3 35 (5.51%) CCNA
4 29 (4.57%) Security Cleared
5 25 (3.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (2.83%) Network+ Certification
7 14 (2.20%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.73%) MCSE
8 11 (1.73%) SC Cleared
9 10 (1.57%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 9 (1.42%) MCP
11 8 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (1.10%) CCNP
13 6 (0.94%) GCSC
14 5 (0.79%) HNC
15 4 (0.63%) HND
16 2 (0.31%) AWS Certification
16 2 (0.31%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (8.66%) SLA
2 17 (2.68%) 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 (0.16%) QA
System Software
1 214 (33.70%) Active Directory
2 90 (14.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 75 (11.81%) Hyper-V
4 20 (3.15%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (2.36%) XenApp
6 13 (2.05%) vSphere
7 10 (1.57%) OpenSSH
8 9 (1.42%) Firmware
9 8 (1.26%) Docker
10 6 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
11 4 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.31%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.31%) GPFS
13 1 (0.16%) NFS
13 1 (0.16%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.16%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.16%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 59 (9.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (2.83%) SCCM
3 17 (2.68%) vCenter Server
4 13 (2.05%) Cisco CUCM
4 13 (2.05%) ServiceCenter
4 13 (2.05%) WMI
5 10 (1.57%) IBM BigFix
5 10 (1.57%) PowerCLI
6 6 (0.94%) Kubernetes
6 6 (0.94%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 6 (0.94%) SCDPM
7 3 (0.47%) Backup Exec
7 3 (0.47%) Dell DRAC
7 3 (0.47%) NetCrunch
8 2 (0.31%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (0.31%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.16%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.16%) SCOM
9 1 (0.16%) WSUS
Vendors
1 272 (42.83%) Microsoft
2 111 (17.48%) VMware
3 66 (10.39%) Cisco
4 63 (9.92%) Citrix
5 46 (7.24%) Veeam
6 34 (5.35%) HP
7 29 (4.57%) Apple
8 28 (4.41%) Meraki
9 27 (4.25%) Oracle
10 22 (3.46%) Barracuda Networks
11 19 (2.99%) Fortinet
12 18 (2.83%) Palo Alto
13 17 (2.68%) Aruba
13 17 (2.68%) Sophos
14 16 (2.52%) Splunk
15 15 (2.36%) Dell
16 14 (2.20%) Draytek
17 11 (1.73%) ConnectWise
18 10 (1.57%) IBM
19 8 (1.26%) Juniper