IT Support Job Trends in Colchester

IT Support
Essex > Colchester

The median IT Support salary in Colchester is £25,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 10 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Support 1 7 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Colchester 1.96% 8.75% -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.00% 8.86% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,500 £22,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% - -
Essex median annual salary £28,000 £22,500 £27,500
% change year-on-year +24.44% -18.18% -5.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Colchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Colchester. 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 Colchester with a recognized job title 50 79 58
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.04% 98.75% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 34 38 29
10th Percentile £26,500 £21,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £26,125 £56,701
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £50,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% -17.76% +1.33%
75th Percentile £56,875 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £100,000 £90,000
Essex median annual salary £41,000 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -25.45% +22.22% -5.26%

IT Support
Job Vacancy Trend in Colchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'IT Support' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Colchester.

IT Support job vacancy trend in Colchester

IT Support
Salary Trend in Colchester

Salary distribution trend for IT Support job vacancies in Colchester.

Salary distribution trend for IT Support job vacancies in Colchester

IT Support Skill Set
Top 20 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Colchester

For the 6 months to 31 October 2025, IT Support job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Colchester region featuring IT Support in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
1 1 (100.00%) VBScript
1 1 (100.00%) Windows

IT Support Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Colchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) VBScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft