Senior Technician Job Trends in England

Senior Technician
UK > England

The median Senior Technician salary in England is £36,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 December 2025.

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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 558 601 625
Rank change year-on-year +43 +24 +306
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Technician 54 79 35
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.10% 0.16% 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.17% 0.081%
Number of salaries quoted 49 37 30
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,800 £26,999
25th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £29,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,500 £37,158 £35,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.77% +4.67% +7.00%
75th Percentile £41,500 £40,000 £43,000
90th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £47,500
UK median annual salary £36,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year -2.67% - +13.03%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 47,143 46,289 42,955
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.66% 92.98% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 29,526 24,707 33,707
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,000 £79,875
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Senior Technician
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Senior Technician job vacancy trend in England

Senior Technician
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Senior Technician job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Technician job vacancies in England

Senior Technician
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Technician in England over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Technician in England

Senior Technician
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Technician within the England region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Yorkshire +9 15 £35,000 -6.67% 2
North of England +8 15 £35,000 -6.67% 8
South East +32 12 £41,750 +21.67% 1
South West +9 9 £35,000 +20.69%
East of England +21 7 £26,000 -20.00% 1
Midlands +29 6 £37,500 +17.19% 3
London +45 5 £39,000 -29.09% 5
East Midlands -5 5 £37,500 +17.19% 2
West Midlands +30 1 £45,000 - 1
Senior Technician
UK

Senior Technician Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 31 December 2025, Senior Technician 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 England region featuring Senior Technician in the job title.

1 34 (62.96%) Microsoft
2 33 (61.11%) Azure
3 31 (57.41%) Windows
4 29 (53.70%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (42.59%) Active Directory
6 21 (38.89%) Windows Server
7 20 (37.04%) Customer Service
7 20 (37.04%) Hyper-V
7 20 (37.04%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (35.19%) SharePoint
9 16 (29.63%) Microsoft Intune
10 15 (27.78%) VMware
10 15 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
11 14 (25.93%) Service Delivery
12 12 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
12 12 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
13 11 (20.37%) ITIL
14 10 (18.52%) Firewall
14 10 (18.52%) VLAN
14 10 (18.52%) VoIP
15 9 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
15 9 (16.67%) SonicWALL
16 8 (14.81%) Entra ID
16 8 (14.81%) TCP/IP
16 8 (14.81%) Windows 10
17 7 (12.96%) Android
17 7 (12.96%) ITIL Certification
17 7 (12.96%) Knowledge Transfer
17 7 (12.96%) LAN
17 7 (12.96%) Veeam

Senior Technician Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 19 (35.19%) SharePoint
2 12 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (7.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (7.41%) CATIA
2 1 (1.85%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (1.85%) Blender
Cloud Services
1 33 (61.11%) Azure
2 29 (53.70%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (14.81%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.85%) AWS
4 1 (1.85%) Google Workspace
4 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (18.52%) Firewall
1 10 (18.52%) VLAN
1 10 (18.52%) VoIP
2 8 (14.81%) TCP/IP
3 7 (12.96%) LAN
3 7 (12.96%) WAN
3 7 (12.96%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (9.26%) SAN
5 4 (7.41%) DHCP
5 4 (7.41%) DNS
6 1 (1.85%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (1.85%) VPN
Development Applications
1 4 (7.41%) JIRA
General
1 7 (12.96%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.56%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.85%) Games
4 1 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.85%) Unity (Game Engine)
1 1 (1.85%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.37%) Driving Licence
2 7 (12.96%) Data Centre
2 7 (12.96%) Replication
3 5 (9.26%) Clustering
3 5 (9.26%) Onboarding
4 4 (7.41%) NHS
5 1 (1.85%) Acoustics
5 1 (1.85%) CMDB
5 1 (1.85%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 31 (57.41%) Windows
2 21 (38.89%) Windows Server
3 8 (14.81%) Windows 10
4 7 (12.96%) Android
5 6 (11.11%) Linux
6 5 (9.26%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.85%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (37.04%) Customer Service
1 20 (37.04%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (25.93%) Service Delivery
3 12 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
4 11 (20.37%) ITIL
5 7 (12.96%) Knowledge Transfer
6 5 (9.26%) Business Development
6 5 (9.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (7.41%) Data Protection
7 4 (7.41%) Mentoring
7 4 (7.41%) Project Management
8 3 (5.56%) Computer Science
8 3 (5.56%) Inventory Management
8 3 (5.56%) Service Management
8 3 (5.56%) Software Licensing
9 1 (1.85%) Capacity Management
9 1 (1.85%) Incident Management
9 1 (1.85%) Process Improvement
9 1 (1.85%) QMS
9 1 (1.85%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 9 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (12.96%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (5.56%) Degree
3 3 (5.56%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.11%) SLA
2 5 (9.26%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 23 (42.59%) Active Directory
2 20 (37.04%) Hyper-V
3 15 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (7.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (29.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (7.41%) SCCM
3 1 (1.85%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 34 (62.96%) Microsoft
2 15 (27.78%) VMware
3 9 (16.67%) SonicWALL
4 7 (12.96%) Veeam
5 5 (9.26%) Dell
5 5 (9.26%) HP
5 5 (9.26%) Supermicro
6 4 (7.41%) Cisco
7 1 (1.85%) Adobe
7 1 (1.85%) Citrix
7 1 (1.85%) Google