Support Specialist Jobs in the City of London

Support Specialist
Central London > City of London

The median Support Specialist salary in the City of London is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 161 224 238
Rank change year-on-year +63 +14 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Specialist 15 11 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.45% 0.23% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.24% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 14 10 17
10th Percentile - £35,775 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £37,938 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £46,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -22.50% +20.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,938 -
90th Percentile £65,500 £63,375 £80,000
Central London median annual salary £47,500 £40,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +18.01% -32.92% +20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 City of London with a recognized job title 3,226 4,579 6,746
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.90% 96.44% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,578 3,850 5,624
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

Support Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Support Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Support Specialist in the City of London

Support Specialist
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Support Specialist in the City of London.

Salary trend for Support Specialist in the City of London

Support Specialist
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Support Specialist in the City of London over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Support Specialist in the City of London

Support Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, Support Specialist 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 City of London region featuring Support Specialist in the job title.

1 12 (80.00%) ITIL
2 11 (73.33%) Windows
3 10 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (60.00%) Microsoft
4 9 (60.00%) Law
5 8 (53.33%) Legal
6 6 (40.00%) Video Conferencing
7 5 (33.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 5 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (33.33%) Degree
7 5 (33.33%) Telecoms
7 5 (33.33%) Cisco
7 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
7 5 (33.33%) WebEx
7 5 (33.33%) Telepresence
7 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (33.33%) Windows 10
8 4 (26.67%) iManage
8 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
8 4 (26.67%) Customer Service
8 4 (26.67%) SharePoint
8 4 (26.67%) Citrix
8 4 (26.67%) A+ Certification
8 4 (26.67%) Blackberry
8 4 (26.67%) XMPP
8 4 (26.67%) Multimedia
8 4 (26.67%) Data Management
8 4 (26.67%) Document Management
9 3 (20.00%) Finance
9 3 (20.00%) Apple

Support Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 4 (26.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (13.33%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 10 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.67%) Datadog
2 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (6.67%) IaaS
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) Telepresence
1 5 (33.33%) WebEx
2 2 (13.33%) Skype
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (6.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (60.00%) Law
2 8 (53.33%) Legal
3 5 (33.33%) Telecoms
4 4 (26.67%) Multimedia
4 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
5 3 (20.00%) Finance
6 1 (6.67%) Automotive
6 1 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) XMPP
2 1 (6.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Video Conferencing
2 4 (26.67%) Blackberry
3 1 (6.67%) CMDB
3 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (73.33%) Windows
2 5 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 2 (13.33%) Mac OS
4 1 (6.67%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) ITIL
2 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (26.67%) Customer Service
3 4 (26.67%) Data Management
3 4 (26.67%) Document Management
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Investment Management
5 1 (6.67%) Agile
5 1 (6.67%) Budget Management
5 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
5 1 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (6.67%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (6.67%) Incident Management
5 1 (6.67%) ISMS
5 1 (6.67%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (6.67%) Preventative Maintenance
5 1 (6.67%) Product Management
5 1 (6.67%) SDLC
5 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (6.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
1 5 (33.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 4 (26.67%) A+ Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
3 1 (6.67%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Packer
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (33.33%) Cisco
3 4 (26.67%) Citrix
3 4 (26.67%) iManage
4 3 (20.00%) Apple
5 2 (13.33%) Polycom
6 1 (6.67%) Guidewire
6 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
6 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
6 1 (6.67%) Snow