Support Analyst Job Trends in England

Support Analyst
UK > England

The median Support Analyst salary in England is £35,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 June 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 138 186
Rank change year-on-year -19 +48 +51
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Analyst 1,099 992 1,372
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.30% 2.47% 1.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.38% 2.74% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 898 843 1,097
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,000 £24,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £28,000 £27,473
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £33,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% +1.45%
75th Percentile £42,250 £46,250 £47,500
90th Percentile £47,500 £57,500 £62,350
UK median annual salary £35,000 £33,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% +2.94%

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 79,486 36,161 88,848
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 90.05% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 55,919 21,123 65,722
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

Support Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Support Analyst job vacancy trend in England

Support Analyst
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Support Analyst job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Support Analyst job vacancies in England

Support Analyst
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Support Analyst in England over the 6 months to 25 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Support Analyst in England

Support Analyst
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Support Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 25 June 2026. 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
South East +40 311 £32,500 -7.14% 37
North of England -8 216 £35,000 +22.81% 24
London -70 201 £41,000 -13.68% 26
Midlands -13 147 £33,500 +11.67% 16
South West -26 136 £32,500 +4.84% 15
Yorkshire -10 118 £35,000 +22.81% 9
North West +18 97 £37,000 +12.55% 13
East of England -22 88 £30,000 +1.69% 12
West Midlands -23 79 £35,000 +6.06% 4
East Midlands -29 68 £33,500 +13.56% 12
North East -64 1 £43,500 +27.94% 3
Support Analyst
UK

Support Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 25 June 2026, Support Analyst 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 Support Analyst in the job title.

1 394 (35.85%) Microsoft
2 342 (31.12%) Windows
3 319 (29.03%) Microsoft 365
4 252 (22.93%) Problem-Solving
5 225 (20.47%) Active Directory
6 222 (20.20%) SQL
7 174 (15.83%) ITIL
8 170 (15.47%) Azure
9 152 (13.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 151 (13.74%) Customer Service
11 127 (11.56%) ERP
12 122 (11.10%) Microsoft Office
13 107 (9.74%) ITSM
14 106 (9.65%) Degree
15 97 (8.83%) Windows Server
16 88 (8.01%) Windows 10
17 86 (7.83%) Entra ID
18 82 (7.46%) Service Management
19 80 (7.28%) SharePoint
20 78 (7.10%) Power Platform
20 78 (7.10%) Process Improvement
21 73 (6.64%) SQL Server
22 69 (6.28%) Microsoft Exchange
23 66 (6.01%) Business Intelligence
24 64 (5.82%) Change Management
25 61 (5.55%) Microsoft Excel
26 60 (5.46%) SLA
27 59 (5.37%) Microsoft Intune
28 54 (4.91%) Incident Management
29 53 (4.82%) JIRA

Support Analyst 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 80 (7.28%) SharePoint
2 69 (6.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (2.27%) IIS
4 12 (1.09%) Confluence
5 11 (1.00%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.45%) CMS
7 3 (0.27%) SAS
8 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 122 (11.10%) Microsoft Office
2 61 (5.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.27%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.091%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 20 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.18%) Oracle Retail
2 13 (1.18%) Unit4 Business World
3 12 (1.09%) Dynamics AX
3 12 (1.09%) NEC Housing
4 11 (1.00%) Visualfiles
5 10 (0.91%) Elite 3E
6 9 (0.82%) Oracle Financials
7 8 (0.73%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
9 6 (0.55%) Endur
10 5 (0.45%) Magento
10 5 (0.45%) Oracle Assets
10 5 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.45%) SAP Business One
11 4 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
11 4 (0.36%) Infor M3
11 4 (0.36%) JDE World
11 4 (0.36%) Primavera
11 4 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 319 (29.03%) Microsoft 365
2 170 (15.47%) Azure
3 86 (7.83%) Entra ID
4 78 (7.10%) Power Platform
5 50 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
6 48 (4.37%) SaaS
7 40 (3.64%) OneDrive
8 25 (2.27%) Power Automate
9 22 (2.00%) PowerApps
10 17 (1.55%) AWS
11 13 (1.18%) Microsoft Copilot
12 11 (1.00%) IaaS
12 11 (1.00%) PaaS
13 10 (0.91%) ClickUp
14 8 (0.73%) Boomi
14 8 (0.73%) dbt
14 8 (0.73%) GCP
14 8 (0.73%) Google Workspace
14 8 (0.73%) iPaaS
14 8 (0.73%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 50 (4.55%) DNS
2 45 (4.09%) DHCP
2 45 (4.09%) VPN
3 40 (3.64%) Firewall
4 32 (2.91%) TCP/IP
5 30 (2.73%) WAN
6 26 (2.37%) VoIP
7 21 (1.91%) Broadband
8 20 (1.82%) Unified Communications
9 19 (1.73%) LAN
9 19 (1.73%) Wi-Fi
10 17 (1.55%) 4G
11 15 (1.36%) VLAN
12 11 (1.00%) Skype
12 11 (1.00%) WebEx
13 9 (0.82%) Wireless
14 7 (0.64%) Network Security
15 6 (0.55%) Structured Cabling
16 5 (0.45%) SD-WAN
16 5 (0.45%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (6.64%) SQL Server
2 53 (4.82%) Power BI
3 22 (2.00%) Crystal Reports
4 18 (1.64%) Relational Database
5 14 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 14 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (0.91%) Metabase
7 9 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (0.64%) BusinessObjects
9 7 (0.64%) Power Query
10 5 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (0.36%) Db2
11 4 (0.36%) MySQL
12 3 (0.27%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
14 1 (0.091%) Qlik Sense
14 1 (0.091%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 1 (0.091%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 53 (4.82%) JIRA
2 10 (0.91%) Visual Studio
3 5 (0.45%) Git
4 4 (0.36%) Eclipse
5 3 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (0.27%) Toad
6 2 (0.18%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.091%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.091%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 317 (28.84%) Social Skills
2 170 (15.47%) Finance
3 121 (11.01%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (7.55%) Manufacturing
5 73 (6.64%) Legal
6 71 (6.46%) Law
7 57 (5.19%) Retail
8 47 (4.28%) Documentation Skills
8 47 (4.28%) Organisational Skills
9 26 (2.37%) Telecoms
10 21 (1.91%) Advertising
11 18 (1.64%) Banking
12 11 (1.00%) Local Government
13 10 (0.91%) Legal Technology
14 8 (0.73%) General Ledger
14 8 (0.73%) International Banking
15 7 (0.64%) Automotive
15 7 (0.64%) Back Office
15 7 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 7 (0.64%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (1.91%) .NET
2 18 (1.64%) Web Services
3 17 (1.55%) XML
4 13 (1.18%) Middleware
5 11 (1.00%) CSS
5 11 (1.00%) HTML
6 7 (0.64%) REST
7 5 (0.45%) .NET Framework
8 4 (0.36%) EDI
8 4 (0.36%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (0.36%) JSON
8 4 (0.36%) SOAP
9 3 (0.27%) Kafka
10 2 (0.18%) 802.1X
10 2 (0.18%) FIX Protocol
11 1 (0.091%) SAP CAF
11 1 (0.091%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 64 (5.82%) Onboarding
2 51 (4.64%) Driving Licence
3 38 (3.46%) Video Conferencing
4 26 (2.37%) Analytical Mindset
5 24 (2.18%) Management Information System
6 22 (2.00%) Client/Server
7 16 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
8 11 (1.00%) NHS
9 10 (0.91%) Low-Code
10 8 (0.73%) Housing Association
10 8 (0.73%) Renewable Energy
11 7 (0.64%) Data Structures
11 7 (0.64%) EPoS
12 6 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.55%) Manufacturing Execution System
12 6 (0.55%) Operational Technology
13 5 (0.45%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.45%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (0.36%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 342 (31.12%) Windows
2 97 (8.83%) Windows Server
3 88 (8.01%) Windows 10
4 38 (3.46%) Android
5 26 (2.37%) Linux
6 17 (1.55%) Windows Server 2019
7 10 (0.91%) Apple iOS
7 10 (0.91%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.27%) Unix
9 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (22.93%) Problem-Solving
2 174 (15.83%) ITIL
3 152 (13.83%) Continuous Improvement
4 151 (13.74%) Customer Service
5 127 (11.56%) ERP
6 107 (9.74%) ITSM
7 82 (7.46%) Service Management
8 78 (7.10%) Process Improvement
9 66 (6.01%) Business Intelligence
10 64 (5.82%) Change Management
11 54 (4.91%) Incident Management
12 46 (4.19%) CRM
13 44 (4.00%) Service Delivery
14 43 (3.91%) Cybersecurity
15 35 (3.18%) Data Analysis
15 35 (3.18%) Data Management
16 34 (3.09%) Workflow
17 33 (3.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 32 (2.91%) Computer Science
19 31 (2.82%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 222 (20.20%) SQL
2 34 (3.09%) PowerShell
3 24 (2.18%) C#
4 19 (1.73%) JavaScript
5 14 (1.27%) T-SQL
6 12 (1.09%) Python
7 11 (1.00%) PL/SQL
8 7 (0.64%) PHP
8 7 (0.64%) VB.NET
9 4 (0.36%) Delphi
9 4 (0.36%) Pascal
10 3 (0.27%) VBA
11 2 (0.18%) Java
11 2 (0.18%) Tcl
12 1 (0.091%) R
Qualifications
1 106 (9.65%) Degree
2 47 (4.28%) A+ Certification
3 45 (4.09%) Security Cleared
4 32 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
5 23 (2.09%) SC Cleared
6 14 (1.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 9 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (0.55%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.55%) HNC
8 6 (0.55%) MBCS
9 4 (0.36%) CCNA
9 4 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.27%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.18%) MCSA
11 2 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.091%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.091%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (5.46%) SLA
2 22 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
4 17 (1.55%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (0.55%) QA
7 5 (0.45%) GDPR
8 4 (0.36%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.18%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.091%) DICOM
10 1 (0.091%) PMO
System Software
1 225 (20.47%) Active Directory
2 17 (1.55%) Hyper-V
3 14 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.55%) Firmware
4 6 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.45%) XenApp
6 3 (0.27%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.27%) Docker
6 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.091%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 59 (5.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (2.09%) SCCM
3 7 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (0.55%) Kibana
5 2 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.091%) Autotask
6 1 (0.091%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.091%) Terraform
Vendors
1 394 (35.85%) Microsoft
2 42 (3.82%) ServiceNow
3 32 (2.91%) Oracle
4 25 (2.27%) iManage
5 20 (1.82%) VMware
6 19 (1.73%) SAP
7 17 (1.55%) Citrix
7 17 (1.55%) Starlink
8 14 (1.27%) Cisco
9 13 (1.18%) Apple
10 12 (1.09%) IBM
11 11 (1.00%) Google
11 11 (1.00%) Salesforce
12 10 (0.91%) IBM Sterling
12 10 (0.91%) IFS
12 10 (0.91%) Intapp
13 9 (0.82%) Aderant
13 9 (0.82%) HubSpot
13 9 (0.82%) SolarWinds
14 8 (0.73%) Sage