Field Support Engineer Jobs

Field Support Engineer
UK

The median Field Support Engineer salary in the UK is £29,000 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 854 911 1178
Rank change year-on-year +57 +267 -261
Permanent jobs requiring a Field Support Engineer 53 36 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.050% 0.038% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.053% 0.042% 0.051%
Number of salaries quoted 53 31 80
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,000 £33,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% +1.54% +14.04%
75th Percentile £33,750 £38,125 £33,750
90th Percentile £34,750 £45,000 £37,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £29,500 £32,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year -9.23% - +14.04%

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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

Field Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Field Support Engineer in the UK

Field Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Field Support Engineer in the UK

Field Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Field Support Engineer in the UK

Field 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 Field Support Engineer within the UK 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
England +58 53 £29,000 -13.26% 14
UK excluding London -4 52 £29,500 -9.23% 17
South West -11 16 £29,000 -10.77%
North of England +41 11 £32,500 +20.37% 4
East of England +1 9 £27,500 -12.70% 4
South East -5 8 £32,500 - 5
East Midlands -11 8 £32,500 -
Midlands -12 8 £32,500 +20.37% 2
Yorkshire +66 6 £32,500 +20.37% 2
North West - 5 £25,500 - 1
Work from Home +42 3 £42,000 +26.81% 3
London +105 1 £26,500 -33.75%

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Field 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 Field Support Engineer in the job title.

1 41 (77.36%) Active Directory
2 38 (71.70%) Windows
3 33 (62.26%) Microsoft
4 28 (52.83%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (47.17%) Customer Service
6 23 (43.40%) Social Skills
6 23 (43.40%) Microsoft Office
6 23 (43.40%) Degree
7 22 (41.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 22 (41.51%) Onboarding
8 21 (39.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 21 (39.62%) DBS Check
8 21 (39.62%) A+ Certification
8 21 (39.62%) MCP
8 21 (39.62%) Mac OS
8 21 (39.62%) Computer Science
8 21 (39.62%) Network Security
9 13 (24.53%) Firewall
10 12 (22.64%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (20.75%) DNS
12 8 (15.09%) LAN
12 8 (15.09%) WAN
13 7 (13.21%) DHCP
13 7 (13.21%) SharePoint
13 7 (13.21%) Wireless
13 7 (13.21%) Azure
13 7 (13.21%) Windows Server
14 6 (11.32%) Windows 10
14 6 (11.32%) Incident Management
14 6 (11.32%) Service Delivery

Field 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 7 (13.21%) SharePoint
2 5 (9.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.89%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 23 (43.40%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 12 (22.64%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (13.21%) Azure
3 5 (9.43%) OneDrive
4 3 (5.66%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.89%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (39.62%) Network Security
2 13 (24.53%) Firewall
3 11 (20.75%) DNS
4 8 (15.09%) LAN
4 8 (15.09%) WAN
5 7 (13.21%) DHCP
5 7 (13.21%) Wireless
6 6 (11.32%) VPN
7 5 (9.43%) VLAN
8 4 (7.55%) TCP/IP
9 3 (5.66%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
General
1 23 (43.40%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.66%) Electronics
3 2 (3.77%) Legal
3 2 (3.77%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.77%) Publishing
4 1 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.89%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 22 (41.51%) Onboarding
2 4 (7.55%) Replication
3 3 (5.66%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 38 (71.70%) Windows
2 21 (39.62%) Mac OS
3 7 (13.21%) Windows Server
4 6 (11.32%) Windows 10
5 5 (9.43%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (3.77%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.89%) Android
7 1 (1.89%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.89%) Windows Mobile
7 1 (1.89%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (52.83%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (47.17%) Customer Service
3 21 (39.62%) Computer Science
4 6 (11.32%) Incident Management
4 6 (11.32%) ITIL
4 6 (11.32%) Service Delivery
5 4 (7.55%) Customer Engagement
5 4 (7.55%) Email Filtering
5 4 (7.55%) Kalman Filter
5 4 (7.55%) Project Delivery
5 4 (7.55%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (3.77%) Change Management
6 2 (3.77%) Coaching
6 2 (3.77%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (3.77%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (3.77%) Line Management
6 2 (3.77%) Service Management
7 1 (1.89%) Mobile Device Management
7 1 (1.89%) Server Management
Qualifications
1 23 (43.40%) Degree
2 22 (41.51%) Microsoft Certification
3 21 (39.62%) A+ Certification
3 21 (39.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (39.62%) DBS Check
3 21 (39.62%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.55%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (77.36%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.66%) Hyper-V
2 3 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.89%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (7.55%) WSUS
2 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 33 (62.26%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.55%) Apple
2 4 (7.55%) Sophos
2 4 (7.55%) Veeam
2 4 (7.55%) VMware
3 2 (3.77%) HP
4 1 (1.89%) Aruba
4 1 (1.89%) Cisco
4 1 (1.89%) Citrix
4 1 (1.89%) Google
4 1 (1.89%) Samsung
4 1 (1.89%) SonicWALL