Field Support Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Field Support Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Field Support Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £29,000 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 726 702 804
Rank change year-on-year -24 +102 -105
Permanent jobs requiring a Field Support Engineer 54 26 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.067% 0.047% 0.092%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.071% 0.053% 0.096%
Number of salaries quoted 53 22 68
10th Percentile £25,800 £24,179 £27,540
25th Percentile £28,500 £27,125 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,000 £32,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.77% - +1.56%
75th Percentile £33,750 £35,375 £33,750
90th Percentile £34,750 £35,500 £35,000
UK median annual salary £29,000 £33,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year -12.12% +1.54% +1.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Field Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Field Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Field Support Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Field Support Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Field Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Field Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Field Support Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Field Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Field Support Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
South West - 16 £29,000 - 1
North of England +20 12 £29,250 +8.33% 6
East of England -10 10 £27,500 -6.78% 6
East Midlands -22 8 £32,500 -
South East -26 8 £32,500 - 5
Midlands -36 8 £32,500 +20.37% 1
Yorkshire +69 6 £32,500 +20.37% 2
North West - 6 £25,500 - 4
Field Support Engineer
UK

Field Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Field Support Engineer in the job title.

1 42 (77.78%) Active Directory
2 38 (70.37%) Windows
3 33 (61.11%) Microsoft
4 28 (51.85%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (46.30%) Customer Service
6 24 (44.44%) Social Skills
7 23 (42.59%) Degree
8 22 (40.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (40.74%) Microsoft Office
8 22 (40.74%) Onboarding
9 21 (38.89%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (38.89%) DBS Check
9 21 (38.89%) MCP
9 21 (38.89%) A+ Certification
9 21 (38.89%) Computer Science
9 21 (38.89%) Mac OS
9 21 (38.89%) Network Security
10 13 (24.07%) Firewall
10 13 (24.07%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (20.37%) DNS
12 8 (14.81%) SharePoint
12 8 (14.81%) LAN
12 8 (14.81%) WAN
12 8 (14.81%) Windows Server
13 7 (12.96%) DHCP
13 7 (12.96%) Wireless
13 7 (12.96%) Azure
14 6 (11.11%) Incident Management
14 6 (11.11%) Service Delivery
14 6 (11.11%) ITIL

Field Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (14.81%) SharePoint
2 6 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.70%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 22 (40.74%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 13 (24.07%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (12.96%) Azure
3 6 (11.11%) OneDrive
4 4 (7.41%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.85%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (38.89%) Network Security
2 13 (24.07%) Firewall
3 11 (20.37%) DNS
4 8 (14.81%) LAN
4 8 (14.81%) WAN
5 7 (12.96%) DHCP
5 7 (12.96%) Wireless
6 6 (11.11%) VPN
7 5 (9.26%) VLAN
8 4 (7.41%) TCP/IP
9 3 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
General
1 24 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.56%) Electronics
3 2 (3.70%) Legal
3 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.70%) Publishing
4 1 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.85%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 22 (40.74%) Onboarding
2 4 (7.41%) Replication
3 3 (5.56%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 38 (70.37%) Windows
2 21 (38.89%) Mac OS
3 8 (14.81%) Windows Server
4 6 (11.11%) Windows 10
5 5 (9.26%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.85%) Android
7 1 (1.85%) Windows Mobile
7 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (51.85%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (46.30%) Customer Service
3 21 (38.89%) Computer Science
4 6 (11.11%) Incident Management
4 6 (11.11%) ITIL
4 6 (11.11%) Service Delivery
5 4 (7.41%) Customer Engagement
5 4 (7.41%) Email Filtering
5 4 (7.41%) Kalman Filter
5 4 (7.41%) Project Delivery
5 4 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (3.70%) Change Management
6 2 (3.70%) Coaching
6 2 (3.70%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (3.70%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (3.70%) Line Management
6 2 (3.70%) Server Management
6 2 (3.70%) Service Management
7 1 (1.85%) Mobile Device Management
Qualifications
1 23 (42.59%) Degree
2 22 (40.74%) Microsoft Certification
3 21 (38.89%) A+ Certification
3 21 (38.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (38.89%) DBS Check
3 21 (38.89%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.41%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (77.78%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.41%) Hyper-V
2 4 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (7.41%) WSUS
2 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 33 (61.11%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.26%) Apple
2 5 (9.26%) VMware
3 4 (7.41%) Sophos
3 4 (7.41%) Veeam
4 2 (3.70%) HP
5 1 (1.85%) Aruba
5 1 (1.85%) Cisco
5 1 (1.85%) Citrix
5 1 (1.85%) Google
5 1 (1.85%) Samsung
5 1 (1.85%) SonicWALL