Support Specialist Jobs in Kent

Support Specialist
South East > Kent

The median Support Specialist salary in Kent is £37,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 99 118
Rank change year-on-year +2 +19 -57
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Specialist 9 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 0.61% 0.17% 0.078%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.20% 0.082%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £28,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £30,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +31.15% +24.49%
75th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £32,750
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +22.22% +5.88% +21.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Kent

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Kent. 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 Kent with a recognized job title 1,369 999 1,214
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.00% 85.60% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,022 555 722
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,850 £26,275
25th Percentile £30,813 £33,500 £33,469
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.05% +5.00% +12.50%
75th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Support Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Specialist in Kent

Support Specialist
Salary Trend in Kent

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Support Specialist in Kent.

Salary trend for Support Specialist in Kent

Support Specialist Skill Set
Top 19 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent

For the 6 months to 23 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 Kent region featuring Support Specialist in the job title.

1 5 (55.56%) Windows
1 5 (55.56%) Firewall
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
1 5 (55.56%) Windows Server
2 4 (44.44%) Oracle
2 4 (44.44%) NetSuite
2 4 (44.44%) Migration
2 4 (44.44%) ERP
3 3 (33.33%) VMware
3 3 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 3 (33.33%) Veeam
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (22.22%) ITIL
4 2 (22.22%) DHCP
4 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
4 2 (22.22%) DNS
4 2 (22.22%) Cisco
4 2 (22.22%) Active Directory

Support Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (44.44%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) Firewall
2 2 (22.22%) DHCP
2 2 (22.22%) DNS
2 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Windows
1 5 (55.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) ERP
1 4 (44.44%) Migration
2 2 (22.22%) ITIL
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Oracle
2 3 (33.33%) Veeam
2 3 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (22.22%) Cisco
12 Support Specialist jobs in the South East