Support Engineer Jobs in Kent

Support Engineer
South East > Kent

The median Support Engineer salary in Kent is £28,000 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 52 63 85
Rank change year-on-year +11 +22 -47
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 59 29 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 3.59% 2.92% 3.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.78% 3.46% 3.26%
Number of salaries quoted 54 23 47
10th Percentile £23,000 - £29,150
25th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,000 £32,000 £32,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -1.54%
75th Percentile £38,750 £36,000 £41,750
90th Percentile £46,250 £42,100 £45,000
South East median annual salary £35,000 £31,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -3.08% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Kent

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Kent. 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 Kent with a recognized job title 1,559 838 1,443
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.95% 84.31% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,144 494 730
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,500 £33,875 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £46,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.60% +3.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,600 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in Kent

Support Engineer
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for Support Engineer in Kent

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in Kent

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

Salary histogram for Support Engineer in Kent

Support Engineer
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Support Engineer within the Kent 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
Dartford -3 12 £31,500 +34.04% 4
Sevenoaks -4 5 £70,000 +133.33%
Canterbury - 5 £24,000 -
Whitstable - 5 £28,000 -
Tonbridge - 3 £25,000 -
Folkestone - 3 £28,000 -
Maidstone +4 2 £25,250 -4.72% 2
Sandwich - 2 - -
Rochester -2 1 £21,000 -34.38% 1
Gravesend - 1 £42,000 -
Support Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 Kent region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (47.46%) Windows
2 22 (37.29%) Active Directory
3 21 (35.59%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (32.20%) Azure
5 18 (30.51%) Windows Server
6 17 (28.81%) Entra ID
7 16 (27.12%) Social Skills
7 16 (27.12%) Microsoft
7 16 (27.12%) SharePoint
8 15 (25.42%) Firewall
9 14 (23.73%) Cisco
10 12 (20.34%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (20.34%) AWS
10 12 (20.34%) VLAN
11 11 (18.64%) TCP/IP
11 11 (18.64%) Microsoft Office
12 10 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (15.25%) Hyper-V
13 9 (15.25%) Microsoft Exchange
13 9 (15.25%) ITIL
13 9 (15.25%) VPN
14 8 (13.56%) DNS
14 8 (13.56%) LAN
14 8 (13.56%) VoIP
14 8 (13.56%) WAN
14 8 (13.56%) DHCP
14 8 (13.56%) Android
14 8 (13.56%) Apple iOS
14 8 (13.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 8 (13.56%) Meraki

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 16 (27.12%) SharePoint
2 9 (15.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (18.64%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 21 (35.59%) Microsoft 365
2 19 (32.20%) Azure
3 17 (28.81%) Entra ID
4 12 (20.34%) AWS
5 1 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.69%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 15 (25.42%) Firewall
2 12 (20.34%) VLAN
2 12 (20.34%) Wi-Fi
3 11 (18.64%) TCP/IP
4 9 (15.25%) VPN
5 8 (13.56%) DHCP
5 8 (13.56%) DNS
5 8 (13.56%) LAN
5 8 (13.56%) VoIP
5 8 (13.56%) WAN
6 7 (11.86%) FTP
7 6 (10.17%) Internet
8 1 (1.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.86%) Amazon RDS
General
1 16 (27.12%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.17%) Finance
3 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.47%) .NET
1 5 (8.47%) CSS
1 5 (8.47%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.86%) Client/Server
2 6 (10.17%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (5.08%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.08%) Driving Licence
3 3 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.69%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 28 (47.46%) Windows
2 18 (30.51%) Windows Server
3 8 (13.56%) Android
3 8 (13.56%) Apple iOS
3 8 (13.56%) Windows 10
4 7 (11.86%) Linux
5 1 (1.69%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (15.25%) ITIL
3 8 (13.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (8.47%) Full Stack Development
4 5 (8.47%) Network Monitoring
5 3 (5.08%) Customer Service
6 2 (3.39%) DevOps
6 2 (3.39%) Mathematics
7 1 (1.69%) Client Onboarding
7 1 (1.69%) Converged Infrastructure
7 1 (1.69%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (1.69%) Hardware Maintenance
7 1 (1.69%) Mobile Device Management
7 1 (1.69%) Presales
7 1 (1.69%) Project Delivery
7 1 (1.69%) Service Delivery
7 1 (1.69%) Time Management
7 1 (1.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.47%) C#
1 5 (8.47%) SQL
1 5 (8.47%) T-SQL
2 1 (1.69%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (11.86%) Degree
2 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.69%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (1.69%) HNC
2 1 (1.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 22 (37.29%) Active Directory
2 9 (15.25%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (10.17%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 16 (27.12%) Microsoft
2 14 (23.73%) Cisco
3 8 (13.56%) Meraki
4 6 (10.17%) Progress
5 2 (3.39%) Cognizant
5 2 (3.39%) VMware
6 1 (1.69%) Dell
6 1 (1.69%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.69%) HP
6 1 (1.69%) SAP
6 1 (1.69%) Veeam