Support Specialist Jobs in the South East

Support Specialist
England > South East

The median Support Specialist salary in the South East is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 319 390 433
Rank change year-on-year +71 +43 -91
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Specialist 82 20 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.49% 0.13% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.15% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 64 19 37
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £27,100
25th Percentile £42,188 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% +5.88% +21.43%
75th Percentile - £47,500 £46,250
90th Percentile £59,000 £49,000 £63,000
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
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 15,633 13,568 19,141
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.86% 90.53% 96.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11,320 8,524 12,657
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%

Support Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Specialist in the South East

Support Specialist
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Support Specialist in the South East

Support Specialist
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Support Specialist in the South East over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Support Specialist in the South East

Support Specialist
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Support Specialist within the South East region over the 6 months to 29 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
Thames Valley +79 64 £55,000 +29.41% 7
Berkshire +75 51 £55,000 +57.14% 3
Kent +7 9 £37,500 -6.25% 1
Buckinghamshire - 9 £31,500 - 3
Surrey +11 7 £45,000 - 1
Oxfordshire +18 4 £33,500 -21.18% 1
West Sussex +42 1 £32,000 -46.67% 2
Hampshire -16 1 £42,500 -10.53% 3
Support Specialist
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 South East region featuring Support Specialist in the job title.

1 45 (54.88%) Security Cleared
2 44 (53.66%) Active Directory
3 39 (47.56%) ITIL
4 37 (45.12%) Microsoft
5 36 (43.90%) DV Cleared
6 34 (41.46%) Windows
7 32 (39.02%) SCCM
8 31 (37.80%) Azure
9 30 (36.59%) Windows Server
10 29 (35.37%) Service Management
11 27 (32.93%) SC Cleared
12 25 (30.49%) WSUS
12 25 (30.49%) Windows Server 2016
12 25 (30.49%) Windows Server 2019
13 23 (28.05%) Customer Service
14 22 (26.83%) Microsoft 365
15 19 (23.17%) Degree
15 19 (23.17%) Firewall
15 19 (23.17%) DNS
15 19 (23.17%) Social Skills
16 18 (21.95%) Microsoft Exchange
17 17 (20.73%) Linux
17 17 (20.73%) DHCP
17 17 (20.73%) Entra ID
17 17 (20.73%) Microsoft Intune
18 16 (19.51%) DevOps
18 16 (19.51%) PowerShell
18 16 (19.51%) Agile
19 15 (18.29%) Virtual Machines
19 15 (18.29%) Virtual Desktop

Support Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (21.95%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (4.88%) NetSuite
2 3 (3.66%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 31 (37.80%) Azure
2 22 (26.83%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (20.73%) Entra ID
4 14 (17.07%) Azure Monitor
4 14 (17.07%) Azure Storage
5 3 (3.66%) AWS
6 1 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.22%) Azure Table
6 1 (1.22%) SaaS
6 1 (1.22%) Slack
6 1 (1.22%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 19 (23.17%) DNS
1 19 (23.17%) Firewall
2 17 (20.73%) DHCP
3 3 (3.66%) 5G
3 3 (3.66%) Broadband
3 3 (3.66%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.44%) SAN
4 2 (2.44%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.22%) 3G
5 1 (1.22%) 4G
5 1 (1.22%) ADSL
5 1 (1.22%) VDSL
5 1 (1.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.44%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (1.22%) JIRA
General
1 19 (23.17%) Social Skills
2 5 (6.10%) Finance
3 4 (4.88%) Legal
3 4 (4.88%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.44%) Law
5 1 (1.22%) German Language
5 1 (1.22%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.22%) Military
5 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.07%) ARM Templates
2 3 (3.66%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.29%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (17.07%) PKI
3 3 (3.66%) Video\Live Streaming
4 2 (2.44%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.44%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.22%) Digital Signage
5 1 (1.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 34 (41.46%) Windows
2 30 (36.59%) Windows Server
3 25 (30.49%) Windows Server 2016
3 25 (30.49%) Windows Server 2019
4 17 (20.73%) Linux
5 14 (17.07%) Windows 10
6 11 (13.41%) Windows NT
6 11 (13.41%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (3.66%) CentOS
7 3 (3.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.22%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (47.56%) ITIL
2 29 (35.37%) Service Management
3 23 (28.05%) Customer Service
4 16 (19.51%) Agile
4 16 (19.51%) DevOps
5 14 (17.07%) Analytics
5 14 (17.07%) CI/CD
5 14 (17.07%) Identity Management
5 14 (17.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (17.07%) Log Analytics
5 14 (17.07%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 14 (17.07%) Privileged Identity Management
5 14 (17.07%) RBAC
5 14 (17.07%) Release Management
6 12 (14.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (13.41%) Deployment Automation
8 8 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (8.54%) ERP
9 7 (8.54%) Incident Management
10 5 (6.10%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 16 (19.51%) PowerShell
2 14 (17.07%) Bicep
2 14 (17.07%) C#
2 14 (17.07%) VB
2 14 (17.07%) VBScript
3 5 (6.10%) Python
4 3 (3.66%) Perl
4 3 (3.66%) SQL
5 2 (2.44%) Bash
Qualifications
1 45 (54.88%) Security Cleared
2 36 (43.90%) DV Cleared
3 27 (32.93%) SC Cleared
4 19 (23.17%) Degree
5 14 (17.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 5 (6.10%) NVQ Level 3
7 2 (2.44%) CCNA
7 2 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.22%) QA
System Software
1 44 (53.66%) Active Directory
2 15 (18.29%) Virtual Desktop
2 15 (18.29%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (13.41%) Firmware
4 3 (3.66%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 32 (39.02%) SCCM
2 25 (30.49%) WSUS
3 17 (20.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (17.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 14 (17.07%) Kubernetes
4 14 (17.07%) SCOM
5 11 (13.41%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 37 (45.12%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.54%) Oracle
3 6 (7.32%) Cisco
4 5 (6.10%) VMware
5 4 (4.88%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.66%) Veeam
6 3 (3.66%) Virgin Media
7 2 (2.44%) Sage
8 1 (1.22%) Citrix