Service Engineer Skills and Job Description (October 2026)

Electrical Engineering is asked for by 16% of Service Engineer employers, the most common requirement across 300 live postings read in October 2026. Then Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Project Management.

Median posted pay is $110,900, most postings between $82,770 and $145,600 — from 198 postings that disclosed it, across 96 companies.

Posted pay is up 18.5% since 2026-09-07 ($93,575 → $110,900).

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These are ranges employers published in their own job postings — not salaries people typed into a form years ago.

What Service Engineer postings actually ask for

Ranked by how many of the 300 posting descriptions mention them.

Electrical Engineering 16%
Civil Engineering 14%
Mechanical Engineering 13%
Project Management 12%
Professional Engineer 12%
Security Clearance 7%
Data Analysis 6%
Bachelor's Degree In Engineering 6%
Python 6%
Science Degree 6%
U.S. Citizenship 6%
Work Environment 5%
Technical Reports 5%
Microsoft Word 4%
Department Of Transportation 4%
Six Sigma 4%
Lean Manufacturing 4%
Field Service 4%
Compensation Range 4%
Engineering Projects 4%
Agile 4%
Chemical Engineering 4%

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15 companies in this sample have Service Engineer postings open right now.

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Who is hiring Service Engineers

15 companies with open postings in this sample.

Shield AI
$290,000 3
Apple
$254,750 5
CDM Smith
$190,112 6
Los Alamos National Laboratory
$161,150 8
Raytheon
$156,000 23
Pratt & Whitney
$156,000 13
PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
$154,512 3
Chewy
$124,500 13
Northrop Grumman
$116,600 3
Collins Aerospace
$100,000 5

Also hiring: Deloitte, M.C. Dean, Inc., Grambling State University, AMD, Sierra Pacific Industries, Nunez Community College, Kleinfelder, Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson.

What Service Engineers earn

10th $60K 25th $83K median $111K 75th $146K 90th $175K
$47K $192K

Each bar is a pay band. Height is how many of the 96 employers who published a salary fall in it, counted once each.

Pay bands in numbers
Employer median pay by band
Pay band Employers
$46,800–$61,360 10
$61,360–$75,920 10
$75,920–$90,480 11
$90,480–$105,040 11
$105,040–$119,600 14
$119,600–$134,160 8
$134,160–$148,720 9
$148,720–$163,280 9
$163,280–$177,840 6
$177,840–$192,400 8
Total 96

Service Engineer vs adjacent roles

Roles people compare this one against, taken from what they search.

  • service technician
  • maintenance engineer
  • software engineer
  • support engineer
  • desktop support
  • application engineer

Pay by experience level

Level is taken from the posting title, so only postings that state one are counted.

Mid
$124,500 22
Senior
$134,606 39
Lead / Manager
$145,600 19
Principal / Staff
$156,000 26

Pay by location

Metros with at least three salaried postings.

Tucson, AZ
$156,000 19
Los Alamos, NM
$161,150 8
Jupiter, FL
$126,000 6
Denver, CO
$95,122 6
Middletown, CT
$156,000 5
CA, US
$154,512 5
Remote, US
$123,250 4
Colorado Springs, CO
$153,400 4
Austin, TX
$254,750 4
Houston, TX
$97,760 3
Boise, ID
$106,792 3
Medford, WI
$92,500 3

Remote vs onsite pay

Median of remote-eligible postings against the rest.

Remote-eligible
$126,000
Onsite
$124,500

72 remote-eligible postings against 132 onsite. Remote pays 1.2% more in this sample.

Where this data comes from

  • 300 live postings analysed
  • 198 (66%) published a salary range
  • 79 (26%) were remote-eligible
  • 138 distinct employers
  • Requirements read from 300 full posting descriptions
  • Each employer gets one vote in the median, so a company running a large hiring campaign cannot move it
  • Ranges are converted to annual figures; hourly and contract postings are normalised before comparison

How the requirements were read

Requirements are not keyword counts. Each posting is read by our extraction engine, which works out what the employer is actually asking for and separates a requirement from a section heading or a line of boilerplate. Two postings asking for the same thing in different words are counted once, because our skills graph knows which phrasings mean the same thing and which imply others.

The share beside each requirement is the percentage of distinct EMPLOYERS in that sample who asked for it, counted one vote per company so a firm posting the same role many times cannot inflate its own requirements. Measured, not estimated, and read from the posting text rather than counted as keywords.

Because every reading is dated, the movement figures above are real month-over-month change. Sites built on self-reported salaries cannot produce that number: their data has no posting date.