Systems Support Jobs in England

Systems Support
UK > England

The median Systems Support salary in England is £41,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 665 814 932
Rank change year-on-year +149 +118 -142
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Support 158 127 200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.14% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.15% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 135 108 172
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £27,375 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £35,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.57% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £55,000 £47,000 £49,063
90th Percentile £65,000 £54,475 £57,500
UK median annual salary £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in 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 England with a recognized job title 80,251 85,470 125,579
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.57% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,137 54,051 75,614
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,626 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%

Systems Support
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Support in England

Systems Support
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Systems Support in England.

Salary trend for Systems Support in England

Systems Support
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Support in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Systems Support in England

Systems Support
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Support within the England region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
London +150 45 £55,000 +19.57% 9
North of England +71 33 £31,000 -8.15% 5
Midlands +25 30 £30,000 -8.40% 9
North West +33 27 £34,250 -14.38% 5
South East +20 26 £37,500 +35.14% 3
East Midlands +4 23 £30,000 -20.00% 5
East of England +18 13 £27,500 -15.38% 1
South West -28 10 £50,000 +38.89% 1
West Midlands +23 7 £47,500 +43.93% 4
Yorkshire +96 5 £31,000 +12.73%
North East - 1 £30,000 -
Systems Support
UK

Systems Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Systems Support 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 England region featuring Systems Support in the job title.

1 62 (39.24%) Social Skills
2 42 (26.58%) Project Management
3 41 (25.95%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (24.68%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (24.05%) Microsoft
6 37 (23.42%) Finance
7 32 (20.25%) Windows
8 31 (19.62%) Active Directory
9 28 (17.72%) Degree
10 24 (15.19%) SQL
10 24 (15.19%) VMware
11 22 (13.92%) Linux
11 22 (13.92%) Azure
11 22 (13.92%) Customer Service
12 21 (13.29%) Firewall
13 20 (12.66%) Mentoring
14 19 (12.03%) PowerShell
14 19 (12.03%) Task Automation
15 18 (11.39%) Microsoft 365
15 18 (11.39%) Mac OS
15 18 (11.39%) Microsoft Exchange
16 17 (10.76%) ITIL
16 17 (10.76%) Law
16 17 (10.76%) Bash
16 17 (10.76%) Fintech
17 16 (10.13%) Palo Alto
17 16 (10.13%) CI/CD
17 16 (10.13%) JIRA
17 16 (10.13%) Atlassian
17 16 (10.13%) Confluence

Systems Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 18 (11.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (10.13%) Confluence
3 11 (6.96%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (4.43%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (6.96%) Elite 3E
2 2 (1.27%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (1.27%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.27%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.63%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.63%) Epicor Tropos
3 1 (0.63%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 22 (13.92%) Azure
2 18 (11.39%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (5.70%) SaaS
4 3 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (1.90%) Entra ID
4 3 (1.90%) IaaS
4 3 (1.90%) PaaS
5 1 (0.63%) AWS
5 1 (0.63%) Mimecast
5 1 (0.63%) OneDrive
5 1 (0.63%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.63%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 21 (13.29%) Firewall
2 16 (10.13%) PBX
3 6 (3.80%) DNS
4 5 (3.16%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.53%) DHCP
5 4 (2.53%) Intranet
6 3 (1.90%) SSL
7 2 (1.27%) Internet
7 2 (1.27%) LAN
7 2 (1.27%) VLAN
7 2 (1.27%) VPN
7 2 (1.27%) WAN
7 2 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.63%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.63%) IMAP
8 1 (0.63%) NAS
8 1 (0.63%) Network Security
8 1 (0.63%) SAN
8 1 (0.63%) SSH
8 1 (0.63%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.13%) MySQL
1 16 (10.13%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.43%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.63%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.63%) Power BI
4 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (10.13%) Bitbucket
1 16 (10.13%) Jenkins
1 16 (10.13%) JIRA
2 1 (0.63%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.63%) Toad
General
1 62 (39.24%) Social Skills
2 39 (24.68%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (23.42%) Finance
4 17 (10.76%) Law
5 14 (8.86%) Legal
6 12 (7.59%) Retail
7 7 (4.43%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.16%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.90%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.90%) Marketing
10 2 (1.27%) Banking
10 2 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.63%) Billing
11 1 (0.63%) Electronics
11 1 (0.63%) Games
11 1 (0.63%) Local Government
11 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.27%) FIX Protocol
1 2 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (1.27%) XML
2 1 (0.63%) .NET
2 1 (0.63%) .NET Core
2 1 (0.63%) .NET Framework
2 1 (0.63%) ASP.NET
2 1 (0.63%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (0.63%) CSS
2 1 (0.63%) Entity Framework
2 1 (0.63%) LDAP
2 1 (0.63%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.70%) Management Information System
2 7 (4.43%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.53%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.90%) Clustering
4 3 (1.90%) Driving Licence
4 3 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.27%) EPoS
5 2 (1.27%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.63%) Housing Association
6 1 (0.63%) PMI
6 1 (0.63%) SCADA
6 1 (0.63%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.63%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 32 (20.25%) Windows
2 22 (13.92%) Linux
3 18 (11.39%) Mac OS
4 10 (6.33%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.16%) CentOS
6 4 (2.53%) SUSE
6 4 (2.53%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.90%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (1.27%) Windows 10
8 2 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (26.58%) Project Management
2 41 (25.95%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (13.92%) Customer Service
4 20 (12.66%) Mentoring
5 19 (12.03%) Task Automation
6 17 (10.76%) Fintech
6 17 (10.76%) ITIL
7 16 (10.13%) CI/CD
8 13 (8.23%) ERP
8 13 (8.23%) Migration
9 12 (7.59%) Decision-Making
10 9 (5.70%) Incident Management
10 9 (5.70%) Service Delivery
11 8 (5.06%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (5.06%) Financial Modelling
11 8 (5.06%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (4.43%) Data Analysis
12 7 (4.43%) Mathematics
13 6 (3.80%) Computer Science
13 6 (3.80%) Financial Analysis
Programming Languages
1 24 (15.19%) SQL
2 19 (12.03%) PowerShell
3 17 (10.76%) Bash
4 9 (5.70%) T-SQL
5 3 (1.90%) C#
5 3 (1.90%) Python
6 2 (1.27%) VB
7 1 (0.63%) Korn
7 1 (0.63%) Perl
7 1 (0.63%) PHP
7 1 (0.63%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.63%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 28 (17.72%) Degree
2 16 (10.13%) CCNA
2 16 (10.13%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (5.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.90%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.90%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.90%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (1.27%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.27%) MCP
6 1 (0.63%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.43%) PMO
2 4 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.27%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.27%) SLA
5 1 (0.63%) GDPR
5 1 (0.63%) QA
System Software
1 31 (19.62%) Active Directory
2 16 (10.13%) VMware ESXi
3 9 (5.70%) Hyper-V
4 8 (5.06%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.27%) NFS
6 1 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (2.53%) SCCM
2 3 (1.90%) Backup Exec
2 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.27%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.63%) systemd
Vendors
1 38 (24.05%) Microsoft
2 24 (15.19%) VMware
3 16 (10.13%) Atlassian
3 16 (10.13%) Palo Alto
4 5 (3.16%) Cisco
5 4 (2.53%) Oracle
5 4 (2.53%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.90%) Aruba
6 3 (1.90%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.90%) Veritas
7 2 (1.27%) Aderant
7 2 (1.27%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.27%) iManage
7 2 (1.27%) MarketAxess
7 2 (1.27%) Murex
7 2 (1.27%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.27%) Sage
7 2 (1.27%) Tradeweb
8 1 (0.63%) Liquidlogic
8 1 (0.63%) Workday