Support Engineer Jobs in the South West

Support Engineer
England > South West

The median Support Engineer salary in the South West is £32,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 85 151
Rank change year-on-year +23 +66 -31
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 370 243 189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 3.71% 3.69% 2.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.86% 4.15% 2.34%
Number of salaries quoted 331 205 172
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,166 £23,325
25th Percentile £27,875 £26,250 £27,469
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £32,000 £34,050
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -6.02% +21.61%
75th Percentile £39,750 £37,000 £41,063
90th Percentile £51,750 £43,375 £52,500
England median annual salary £32,500 £33,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% -2.94% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 9,582 5,850 8,093
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.16% 88.91% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 7,009 3,668 5,118
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £29,150
25th Percentile £36,750 £37,879 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,050 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in the South West

Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Support Engineer in the South West.

Salary trend for Support Engineer in the South West

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Support Engineer in the South West

Support Engineer
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Gloucestershire +38 95 £32,000 +6.67% 14
Bristol +25 72 £34,000 +9.68% 14
Somerset +23 55 £30,000 -10.45% 13
Wiltshire -19 52 £35,000 +5.26% 13
Devon -9 44 £29,500 +7.27% 3
Dorset -20 39 £37,000 - 10
Cornwall -7 7 £27,500 -20.86% 1
Support Engineer
England

Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 West region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 168 (45.41%) Windows
2 146 (39.46%) Microsoft
3 145 (39.19%) Microsoft 365
4 140 (37.84%) Active Directory
5 96 (25.95%) Azure
6 83 (22.43%) Security Cleared
6 83 (22.43%) Social Skills
7 79 (21.35%) Customer Service
8 65 (17.57%) Firewall
9 64 (17.30%) SC Cleared
10 63 (17.03%) Microsoft Exchange
10 63 (17.03%) Windows 10
11 59 (15.95%) Windows Server
12 53 (14.32%) Problem-Solving
12 53 (14.32%) VMware
13 52 (14.05%) ITIL
14 50 (13.51%) Microsoft Office
15 43 (11.62%) WAN
16 42 (11.35%) SQL
16 42 (11.35%) SharePoint
16 42 (11.35%) VMware Infrastructure
16 42 (11.35%) Degree
17 40 (10.81%) Finance
18 39 (10.54%) Hyper-V
19 37 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
20 36 (9.73%) Time Management
21 35 (9.46%) Driving Licence
22 34 (9.19%) SCCM
23 33 (8.92%) Organisational Skills
23 33 (8.92%) Wireless

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 63 (17.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 42 (11.35%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.89%) SharePoint 2010
3 7 (1.89%) SharePoint 2013
4 6 (1.62%) Confluence
5 2 (0.54%) Apache
6 1 (0.27%) IIS
Applications
1 50 (13.51%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 145 (39.19%) Microsoft 365
2 96 (25.95%) Azure
3 23 (6.22%) Entra ID
4 21 (5.68%) AWS
5 18 (4.86%) GCP
6 13 (3.51%) SaaS
7 12 (3.24%) IaaS
8 11 (2.97%) PaaS
8 11 (2.97%) Power Platform
9 7 (1.89%) OneDrive
10 4 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (0.81%) WhatsApp
12 2 (0.54%) Power Automate
13 1 (0.27%) Google Workspace
13 1 (0.27%) Mimecast
13 1 (0.27%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 65 (17.57%) Firewall
2 43 (11.62%) WAN
3 33 (8.92%) Wireless
4 31 (8.38%) LAN
5 29 (7.84%) DNS
6 26 (7.03%) VPN
7 19 (5.14%) SAN
8 18 (4.86%) DHCP
9 15 (4.05%) Wi-Fi
10 11 (2.97%) SD-WAN
11 10 (2.70%) Network Security
12 8 (2.16%) SDH
13 7 (1.89%) TCP/IP
13 7 (1.89%) VLAN
14 6 (1.62%) Remote Desktop
15 5 (1.35%) Cisco Nexus
15 5 (1.35%) NetScaler
15 5 (1.35%) VoIP
16 4 (1.08%) Broadband
16 4 (1.08%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.97%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.54%) Crystal Reports
2 2 (0.54%) MongoDB
2 2 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 12 (3.24%) JIRA
2 2 (0.54%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.27%) GitLab
General
1 83 (22.43%) Social Skills
2 40 (10.81%) Finance
3 33 (8.92%) Organisational Skills
4 31 (8.38%) Telecoms
5 20 (5.41%) Military
6 18 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (3.78%) Manufacturing
8 13 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.43%) Automotive
9 9 (2.43%) Legal
10 6 (1.62%) Marketing
11 4 (1.08%) Banking
11 4 (1.08%) Law
11 4 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.08%) Public Sector
12 3 (0.81%) Advertising
12 3 (0.81%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.81%) Electronics
13 2 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.54%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.08%) 802.1X
2 3 (0.81%) .NET
3 2 (0.54%) LAPP Stack
3 2 (0.54%) REST
3 2 (0.54%) SOAP
3 2 (0.54%) Web Services
4 1 (0.27%) CSS
4 1 (0.27%) RESTEasy
Miscellaneous
1 35 (9.46%) Driving Licence
2 16 (4.32%) iPhone
3 15 (4.05%) Onboarding
4 13 (3.51%) Smartphone
5 12 (3.24%) Clustering
6 8 (2.16%) CCTV
7 7 (1.89%) Fibre Optics
7 7 (1.89%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.62%) Replication
9 4 (1.08%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.54%) Augmented Reality
10 2 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.54%) Virtual Reality
11 1 (0.27%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.27%) PKI
11 1 (0.27%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.27%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 168 (45.41%) Windows
2 63 (17.03%) Windows 10
3 59 (15.95%) Windows Server
4 28 (7.57%) Linux
5 26 (7.03%) Mac OS
6 16 (4.32%) Windows 7
7 14 (3.78%) AIX
8 11 (2.97%) Android
8 11 (2.97%) Unix
9 9 (2.43%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (1.62%) Apple iOS
11 5 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.81%) Windows XP
13 2 (0.54%) Solaris
13 2 (0.54%) Windows 2000
13 2 (0.54%) Windows 8
14 1 (0.27%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (21.35%) Customer Service
2 53 (14.32%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (14.05%) ITIL
4 36 (9.73%) Time Management
5 28 (7.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 23 (6.22%) Customer Requirements
6 23 (6.22%) Mobile Device Management
7 21 (5.68%) Continuous Improvement
7 21 (5.68%) Customer Experience
8 16 (4.32%) Change Management
8 16 (4.32%) Project Delivery
9 15 (4.05%) B2B
9 15 (4.05%) Computer Science
9 15 (4.05%) Incident Management
10 13 (3.51%) Cybersecurity
11 12 (3.24%) Break/Fix
12 11 (2.97%) Coaching
12 11 (2.97%) Fault Analysis
13 10 (2.70%) Migration
14 9 (2.43%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (11.35%) SQL
2 19 (5.14%) C#
3 18 (4.86%) PowerShell
4 14 (3.78%) Java
5 9 (2.43%) Python
6 5 (1.35%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.54%) C
7 2 (0.54%) C++
7 2 (0.54%) VB
Qualifications
1 83 (22.43%) Security Cleared
2 64 (17.30%) SC Cleared
3 42 (11.35%) Degree
4 28 (7.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 25 (6.76%) DBS Check
6 22 (5.95%) DV Cleared
7 20 (5.41%) ITIL Certification
8 15 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (3.78%) MCP
10 13 (3.51%) A+ Certification
11 9 (2.43%) MCITP
11 9 (2.43%) MCSE
12 8 (2.16%) HNC
13 6 (1.62%) CCNA
13 6 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (1.08%) HND
15 2 (0.54%) MCDST
15 2 (0.54%) MCSA
15 2 (0.54%) Network+ Certification
16 1 (0.27%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.03%) SLA
2 19 (5.14%) GDPR
3 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 140 (37.84%) Active Directory
2 42 (11.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (10.54%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.89%) XenDesktop
5 5 (1.35%) Firmware
6 4 (1.08%) XenApp
7 2 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.27%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 37 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 34 (9.19%) SCCM
3 12 (3.24%) Backup Exec
3 12 (3.24%) NetBackup
4 6 (1.62%) Opsgenie
5 4 (1.08%) WSUS
6 2 (0.54%) McAfee ePO
6 2 (0.54%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 146 (39.46%) Microsoft
2 53 (14.32%) VMware
3 24 (6.49%) Citrix
4 19 (5.14%) Cisco
4 19 (5.14%) Google
5 16 (4.32%) Oracle
6 15 (4.05%) Dell
7 13 (3.51%) NetApp
8 12 (3.24%) Hitachi
8 12 (3.24%) HP
8 12 (3.24%) McAfee
8 12 (3.24%) MobileIron
8 12 (3.24%) Snow
8 12 (3.24%) Veritas
9 9 (2.43%) IBM
9 9 (2.43%) ServiceNow
10 8 (2.16%) AppDynamics
11 7 (1.89%) Draytek
11 7 (1.89%) Symantec
12 6 (1.62%) Sophos