Support Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Support Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Support Engineer salary in Manchester is £30,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 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
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 151 158 182
Rank change year-on-year +7 +24 -50
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 72 79 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 1.20% 1.76% 1.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.27% 1.91% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 68 52 68
10th Percentile £23,800 £25,300 £22,750
25th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £33,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +3.08% -13.33%
75th Percentile £33,813 £41,375 £43,750
90th Percentile £47,625 £53,472 £52,500
North West median annual salary £28,000 £30,690 £31,200
% change year-on-year -8.77% -1.63% +0.65%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 5,681 4,133 5,641
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.00% 91.93% 96.84%
Number of salaries quoted 4,201 2,572 3,621
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £43,750 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,968 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in Manchester

Support Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Support Engineer in Manchester

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Support Engineer in Manchester

Support Engineer
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Support Engineer within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 13 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
Salford +15 5 £52,500 +75.00%
Wigan +3 5 £25,000 - 2
Stockport +19 4 £28,500 +3.64% 2
Altrincham -14 1 £27,000 -
Bury - 1 £16,700 -
Rochdale - 1 - -
Support Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 Manchester region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 38 (52.78%) Microsoft 365
2 34 (47.22%) Windows
3 33 (45.83%) Active Directory
4 30 (41.67%) Microsoft
5 29 (40.28%) Social Skills
6 18 (25.00%) Customer Service
6 18 (25.00%) Windows 10
7 17 (23.61%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (20.83%) Cisco
9 14 (19.44%) Wi-Fi
9 14 (19.44%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (19.44%) Azure
10 13 (18.06%) Analytical Skills
11 12 (16.67%) Firewall
11 12 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
12 11 (15.28%) VMware
12 11 (15.28%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (15.28%) Windows Server
13 10 (13.89%) Hyper-V
13 10 (13.89%) Finance
13 10 (13.89%) EPoS
14 9 (12.50%) Sophos
14 9 (12.50%) ITIL
14 9 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
15 8 (11.11%) Veeam
15 8 (11.11%) SQL
15 8 (11.11%) CRM
16 7 (9.72%) TCP/IP
16 7 (9.72%) SAN
16 7 (9.72%) Project Management

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 6 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.39%) Site Server
Applications
1 12 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.39%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 38 (52.78%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (19.44%) Azure
3 5 (6.94%) AWS
3 5 (6.94%) Entra ID
4 4 (5.56%) OneDrive
5 3 (4.17%) GCP
6 2 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.39%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.39%) Mimecast
7 1 (1.39%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (19.44%) Wi-Fi
2 12 (16.67%) Firewall
3 7 (9.72%) NAS
3 7 (9.72%) SAN
3 7 (9.72%) TCP/IP
4 6 (8.33%) DNS
4 6 (8.33%) Internet
4 6 (8.33%) WAN
4 6 (8.33%) Wireless
5 5 (6.94%) DHCP
5 5 (6.94%) LAN
6 4 (5.56%) BGP
6 4 (5.56%) DSL
6 4 (5.56%) Ethernet
6 4 (5.56%) MPLS
6 4 (5.56%) OSPF
6 4 (5.56%) Remote Desktop
6 4 (5.56%) VLAN
6 4 (5.56%) VSAN
7 3 (4.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (1.39%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 29 (40.28%) Social Skills
2 14 (19.44%) Organisational Skills
3 13 (18.06%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (13.89%) Finance
5 5 (6.94%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.17%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.78%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.39%) Banking
8 1 (1.39%) Marketing
8 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.39%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.89%) EPoS
2 6 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.56%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.17%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.39%) IoT
6 1 (1.39%) iPhone
6 1 (1.39%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.39%) Replication
6 1 (1.39%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 34 (47.22%) Windows
2 18 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 11 (15.28%) Windows Server
4 6 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (6.94%) Mac OS
6 4 (5.56%) VyOS
7 3 (4.17%) Linux
8 1 (1.39%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.39%) Windows 7
8 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 17 (23.61%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (12.50%) ITIL
4 8 (11.11%) CRM
5 7 (9.72%) Project Management
6 6 (8.33%) Antivirus Management
6 6 (8.33%) Server Management
6 6 (8.33%) Storage Management
7 4 (5.56%) Biometrics
7 4 (5.56%) Cloud Security
7 4 (5.56%) Coaching
7 4 (5.56%) Customer-Centricity
7 4 (5.56%) Data Collection
7 4 (5.56%) Email Filtering
7 4 (5.56%) Facial Recognition
7 4 (5.56%) Kalman Filter
7 4 (5.56%) Performance Monitoring
7 4 (5.56%) WFM
8 3 (4.17%) Data Protection
8 3 (4.17%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.11%) SQL
2 6 (8.33%) PHP
3 2 (2.78%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.39%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (6.94%) CCNA
1 5 (6.94%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (5.56%) JNCIA
3 3 (4.17%) DBS Check
3 3 (4.17%) Degree
4 2 (2.78%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.39%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.39%) CESG Certified Professional
5 1 (1.39%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (1.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.39%) MCITP
5 1 (1.39%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.39%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.39%) GDPR
1 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.39%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (45.83%) Active Directory
2 10 (13.89%) Hyper-V
3 9 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (8.33%) vSphere
5 1 (1.39%) XenApp
5 1 (1.39%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 11 (15.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.78%) Grafana
2 2 (2.78%) Prometheus
2 2 (2.78%) SCCM
3 1 (1.39%) Ansible
3 1 (1.39%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 15 (20.83%) Cisco
3 11 (15.28%) VMware
4 9 (12.50%) Sophos
5 8 (11.11%) Veeam
6 6 (8.33%) ESET
7 5 (6.94%) Dell
8 4 (5.56%) Fortinet
8 4 (5.56%) HP
8 4 (5.56%) Juniper
8 4 (5.56%) NetApp
8 4 (5.56%) Nokia
8 4 (5.56%) Ruckus Wireless
8 4 (5.56%) Vyatta
9 3 (4.17%) Citrix
10 2 (2.78%) Apple
10 2 (2.78%) Google
11 1 (1.39%) IBM
11 1 (1.39%) Meraki
11 1 (1.39%) SolarWinds