Support Specialist Jobs in the East of England

Support Specialist
England > East of England

The median Support Specialist salary in the East of England is £33,895 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 181 227 264
Rank change year-on-year +46 +37 -72
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Specialist 39 10 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.64% 0.18% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.22% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 37 7 8
10th Percentile £25,000 £38,448 £31,656
25th Percentile £26,250 £43,015 £36,618
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,895 £44,535 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.89% +11.34% +15.94%
75th Percentile £52,500 £46,054 £48,750
90th Percentile £55,000 £46,432 £51,375
England median annual salary £40,000 £46,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% +9.59%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the East of England. 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 East of England with a recognized job title 5,705 4,590 6,007
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.91% 84.19% 93.90%
Number of salaries quoted 4,352 2,290 2,894
10th Percentile £25,809 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,750 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £76,775
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Support Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Specialist in the East of England

Support Specialist
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Support Specialist in the East of England.

Salary trend for Support Specialist in the East of England

Support Specialist
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Support Specialist in the East of England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Support Specialist in the East of England

Support Specialist
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Support Specialist within the East of England region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Hertfordshire +33 23 £50,000 - 2
Cambridgeshire +28 6 £26,000 -21.67% 2
Norfolk - 4 £29,000 - 2
Bedfordshire - 3 £33,895 -
Suffolk - 2 £24,000 -
Essex +10 1 - - 2
Support Specialist
England

Support Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 5 May 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 East of England region featuring Support Specialist in the job title.

1 25 (64.10%) Windows
2 16 (41.03%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (35.90%) Linux
3 14 (35.90%) Social Skills
4 12 (30.77%) Power Platform
4 12 (30.77%) Relational Database
4 12 (30.77%) Presales
4 12 (30.77%) Power BI
4 12 (30.77%) Cognos
4 12 (30.77%) BusinessObjects
4 12 (30.77%) QlikView
5 9 (23.08%) Internet
5 9 (23.08%) HTML
6 8 (20.51%) Active Directory
6 8 (20.51%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (15.38%) Customer Service
8 6 (15.38%) Microsoft
9 5 (12.82%) Telecoms
9 5 (12.82%) Onboarding
9 5 (12.82%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (12.82%) GCP
9 5 (12.82%) Android
9 5 (12.82%) Mac OS
9 5 (12.82%) Azure
9 5 (12.82%) AWS
10 4 (10.26%) Unified Communications
10 4 (10.26%) VoIP
11 3 (7.69%) Firewall
11 3 (7.69%) Project Management

Support Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (30.77%) Power Platform
2 8 (20.51%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (12.82%) AWS
3 5 (12.82%) Azure
3 5 (12.82%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (23.08%) Internet
2 4 (10.26%) Unified Communications
2 4 (10.26%) VoIP
3 3 (7.69%) Firewall
3 3 (7.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (30.77%) BusinessObjects
1 12 (30.77%) Power BI
1 12 (30.77%) QlikView
1 12 (30.77%) Relational Database
General
1 14 (35.90%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.82%) Organisational Skills
2 5 (12.82%) Telecoms
3 3 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.13%) Finance
5 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (23.08%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Onboarding
2 3 (7.69%) Smartphone
3 2 (5.13%) Digital Media
3 2 (5.13%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.56%) BYOD
4 1 (2.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 25 (64.10%) Windows
2 14 (35.90%) Linux
3 5 (12.82%) Android
3 5 (12.82%) Mac OS
4 3 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (41.03%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (30.77%) Presales
3 7 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (15.38%) Customer Service
5 3 (7.69%) Project Management
6 2 (5.13%) Break/Fix
6 2 (5.13%) Incident Management
6 2 (5.13%) ITIL
6 2 (5.13%) Time Management
7 1 (2.56%) Fintech
7 1 (2.56%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
7 1 (2.56%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 3 (7.69%) Degree
2 2 (5.13%) Postgraduate
3 1 (2.56%) HND
System Software
1 8 (20.51%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.69%) Hyper-V
2 3 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 12 (30.77%) Cognos
2 6 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.69%) VMware