Technical Support Jobs in Cheshire

Technical Support
North West > Cheshire

The median Technical Support salary in Cheshire is £37,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 70 89
Rank change year-on-year -2 +19 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Support 24 28 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 3.11% 1.81% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.10% 1.87% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 19 22 1
10th Percentile - £26,250 -
25th Percentile £36,250 £26,750 £23,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £30,000 £24,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +25.00% +100.00%
75th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £25,000
90th Percentile - £50,000 -
North West median annual salary £37,500 £32,500 £29,936
% change year-on-year +15.38% +8.56% +27.39%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 585 1,498 826
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 75.88% 96.90% 89.49%
Number of salaries quoted 264 1,124 484
10th Percentile - £25,000 £25,250
25th Percentile £23,504 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% - -
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,350 £72,500 £88,750
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Technical Support
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Support in Cheshire

Technical Support
Salary Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Support in Cheshire.

Salary trend for Technical Support in Cheshire

Technical Support
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Support in Cheshire over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Support in Cheshire

Technical Support
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Support within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 14 May 2025. 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
Macclesfield - 5 £42,500 -
Runcorn - 5 - -
Warrington +28 2 £30,500 +7.02% 1
Middlewich +1 2 £37,500 -6.25%
Knutsford +10 1 £80,000 -
Technical Support
North West

Technical Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 14 May 2025, Technical 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 Cheshire region featuring Technical Support in the job title.

1 14 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 13 (54.17%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (54.17%) Firewall
3 12 (50.00%) Azure
3 12 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
4 11 (45.83%) LAN
4 11 (45.83%) WAN
4 11 (45.83%) Cisco
4 11 (45.83%) Microsoft
4 11 (45.83%) Active Directory
5 9 (37.50%) Hyper-V
6 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (33.33%) VMware
7 6 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
7 6 (25.00%) Fortinet
7 6 (25.00%) WatchGuard
7 6 (25.00%) SonicWALL
7 6 (25.00%) Time Management
7 6 (25.00%) Meraki
7 6 (25.00%) DHCP
7 6 (25.00%) TCP/IP
7 6 (25.00%) DNS
7 6 (25.00%) Windows
8 5 (20.83%) ITIL
8 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (20.83%) Terminal Services
8 5 (20.83%) Internet
8 5 (20.83%) Change Management
8 5 (20.83%) Manufacturing

Technical Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (54.17%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (50.00%) Azure
3 1 (4.17%) AWS
3 1 (4.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (54.17%) Firewall
2 11 (45.83%) LAN
2 11 (45.83%) WAN
3 6 (25.00%) DHCP
3 6 (25.00%) DNS
3 6 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 5 (20.83%) Internet
4 5 (20.83%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Electronic Patient Records
General
1 14 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (20.83%) Aerospace
3 5 (20.83%) Automotive
3 5 (20.83%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.33%) Legal
5 1 (4.17%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Windows
2 5 (20.83%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.17%) Linux
3 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 6 (25.00%) Time Management
4 5 (20.83%) Change Management
4 5 (20.83%) ITIL
4 5 (20.83%) Preventative Maintenance
5 2 (8.33%) Customer Service
6 1 (4.17%) Application Security
6 1 (4.17%) CI/CD
6 1 (4.17%) Computer Science
6 1 (4.17%) DevOps
6 1 (4.17%) DevSecOps
6 1 (4.17%) Presales
6 1 (4.17%) Product Management
6 1 (4.17%) Product Roadmap
6 1 (4.17%) Roadmaps
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 11 (45.83%) Active Directory
2 9 (37.50%) Hyper-V
3 5 (20.83%) Terminal Services
4 3 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (45.83%) Cisco
1 11 (45.83%) Microsoft
2 8 (33.33%) VMware
3 6 (25.00%) Fortinet
3 6 (25.00%) Meraki
3 6 (25.00%) SonicWALL
3 6 (25.00%) WatchGuard
4 1 (4.17%) F5