Systems Support Engineer Jobs in the South East

System Support Engineer
England > South East

The median System Support Engineer salary in the South East is £37,500 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 389 364 496
Rank change year-on-year -25 +132 -96
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Support Engineer 15 13 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.080% 0.098% 0.047%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.11% 0.049%
Number of salaries quoted 15 13 9
10th Percentile - - £30,800
25th Percentile £29,500 £25,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £26,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +41.51% -37.65% -
75th Percentile £46,250 £38,750 £43,750
90th Percentile £54,500 £42,750 £44,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £28,250 £42,500
% change year-on-year +76.99% -33.53% +80.85%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 17,582 11,899 20,479
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.31% 89.64% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 12,383 7,812 12,372
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £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 £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

Systems Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Support Engineer in the South East

Systems Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Systems Support Engineer in the South East

Systems Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Systems Support Engineer in the South East

Systems 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 Systems Support Engineer within the South East 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
Thames Valley +1 6 £40,000 +23.08% 3
Surrey -12 6 £31,000 -23.46% 1
Berkshire +14 5 £40,000 +23.08% 1
Hampshire -34 3 £55,000 +46.67% 1
Oxfordshire - 1 £40,000 -
Systems Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Systems 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 Systems Support Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (60.00%) Cisco
2 6 (40.00%) LTE
2 6 (40.00%) VSAT
2 6 (40.00%) GCSC
2 6 (40.00%) 4G
2 6 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (40.00%) Wireless
2 6 (40.00%) Military
2 6 (40.00%) HP
2 6 (40.00%) SLA
2 6 (40.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (40.00%) 3G
3 5 (33.33%) Project Management
4 4 (26.67%) Firewall
4 4 (26.67%) Windows
4 4 (26.67%) Hyper-V
5 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (20.00%) Fortinet
5 3 (20.00%) Windows Server
5 3 (20.00%) Aruba
5 3 (20.00%) SSL
5 3 (20.00%) Clustering
5 3 (20.00%) Backup Exec
5 3 (20.00%) Veritas
6 2 (13.33%) Sage
6 2 (13.33%) SQL
6 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
6 2 (13.33%) ERP

Systems 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 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) 3G
1 6 (40.00%) 4G
1 6 (40.00%) LTE
1 6 (40.00%) VSAT
1 6 (40.00%) Wireless
2 4 (26.67%) Firewall
3 3 (20.00%) SSL
4 1 (6.67%) DHCP
4 1 (6.67%) DNS
4 1 (6.67%) HTTPS
4 1 (6.67%) IMAP
4 1 (6.67%) LAN
4 1 (6.67%) NAS
4 1 (6.67%) SAN
4 1 (6.67%) SMTP
4 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (6.67%) VoIP
4 1 (6.67%) VPN
4 1 (6.67%) WAN
4 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
General
1 6 (40.00%) Military
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (20.00%) Clustering
3 1 (6.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 3 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (6.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Project Management
2 2 (13.33%) Architectural Design
2 2 (13.33%) Data Integration
2 2 (13.33%) ERP
2 2 (13.33%) Visualisation
3 1 (6.67%) Customer Service
3 1 (6.67%) Issue Tracking
3 1 (6.67%) Migration
3 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (6.67%) Threat Detection
3 1 (6.67%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) GCSC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) NFS
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Backup Exec
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Cisco
2 6 (40.00%) HP
2 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (20.00%) Aruba
3 3 (20.00%) Fortinet
3 3 (20.00%) Veritas
4 2 (13.33%) Sage
5 1 (6.67%) VMware