IT Technician Jobs in the East of England

IT Technician
England > East of England

The median IT Technician salary in the East of England is £26,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 60 189
Rank change year-on-year -85 +129 +58
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Technician 35 208 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 1.08% 3.40% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.18% 3.62% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 23 192 39
10th Percentile £24,600 £23,500 £21,250
25th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £25,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,500 £26,372 £27,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -4.10% +12.24%
75th Percentile £33,750 £28,750 £30,625
90th Percentile £34,000 £34,500 £33,750
England median annual salary £30,000 £27,000 £27,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -1.82% +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East of 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 the East of England with a recognized job title 2,968 5,749 4,509
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 93.94% 84.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,555 4,391 2,263
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,809 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,200 £63,142 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,750 £75,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

IT Technician
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Technician in the East of England

IT Technician
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Technician in the East of England.

Salary trend for IT Technician in the East of England

IT Technician
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Technician within the East of England region over the 6 months to 9 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
Cambridgeshire +12 12 £32,225 +5.66% 5
Norfolk -2 10 £32,000 +16.36% 2
Hertfordshire -39 8 £26,000 +0.74% 1
Essex -7 2 £21,350 -20.93% 4
Suffolk -28 2 £27,000 -6.90% 2
Bedfordshire -10 1 £26,000 -38.10% 2
IT Technician
England

IT Technician Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, IT Technician 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 East of England region featuring IT Technician in the job title.

1 21 (60.00%) Windows
2 19 (54.29%) Microsoft
3 18 (51.43%) Active Directory
3 18 (51.43%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (42.86%) SharePoint
5 10 (28.57%) Azure
5 10 (28.57%) Entra ID
5 10 (28.57%) DBS Check
5 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
5 10 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (28.57%) VPN
5 10 (28.57%) DNS
6 8 (22.86%) Firewall
6 8 (22.86%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
7 7 (20.00%) Driving Licence
7 7 (20.00%) Windows Server
7 7 (20.00%) Line Management
7 7 (20.00%) Mathematics
8 5 (14.29%) Project Management
8 5 (14.29%) HTML
8 5 (14.29%) CSS
8 5 (14.29%) Degree
8 5 (14.29%) Power Platform
8 5 (14.29%) PowerApps
9 4 (11.43%) Customer Service
10 3 (8.57%) Apple
10 3 (8.57%) Power Automate
11 2 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity

IT Technician Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of 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 15 (42.86%) SharePoint
2 10 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 18 (51.43%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (28.57%) Azure
2 10 (28.57%) Entra ID
3 5 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 5 (14.29%) PowerApps
4 3 (8.57%) Power Automate
5 2 (5.71%) Mimecast
5 2 (5.71%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.86%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (28.57%) DNS
1 10 (28.57%) VPN
2 8 (22.86%) Firewall
3 2 (5.71%) DHCP
3 2 (5.71%) IPv4
3 2 (5.71%) VLAN
4 1 (2.86%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
General
1 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.86%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (5.71%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.29%) CSS
1 5 (14.29%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (60.00%) Windows
2 7 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.71%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
2 7 (20.00%) Line Management
2 7 (20.00%) Mathematics
3 5 (14.29%) Project Management
4 4 (11.43%) Customer Service
5 2 (5.71%) ERP
5 2 (5.71%) Service Delivery
6 1 (2.86%) Coaching
6 1 (2.86%) Network Design
6 1 (2.86%) Proactive Monitoring
6 1 (2.86%) Problem Management
6 1 (2.86%) Server Management
6 1 (2.86%) Server Virtualisation
6 1 (2.86%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.71%) SQL
2 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (28.57%) DBS Check
2 5 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (2.86%) MCP
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 18 (51.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 19 (54.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.57%) Apple
3 1 (2.86%) Cisco