Systems Support Jobs in England

Systems Support
UK > England

The median Systems Support salary in England is £41,408 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 593 671 806
Rank change year-on-year +78 +135 +124
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Support 96 160 130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.19% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.20% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 86 137 112
10th Percentile £25,875 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £28,038 £30,000 £28,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,408 £41,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.22% +18.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £56,144 £55,000 £47,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £66,000 £55,675
UK median annual salary £41,408 £40,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year +3.52% +14.29% -6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 44,309 80,989 82,470
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 94.48% 91.56%
Number of salaries quoted 24,260 60,410 52,484
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,613 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -

Systems Support
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Support in England

Systems Support
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Systems Support in England.

Salary trend for Systems Support in England

Systems Support
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Systems Support in England

Systems Support
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Support within the England 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
London +99 30 £52,500 -4.55% 15
Midlands +52 22 £47,500 +58.33% 8
South East +92 16 £27,000 -28.00% 17
North of England +33 16 £27,000 -12.90% 8
North West -10 13 £27,000 -21.17% 7
East of England +45 12 £45,000 +63.64% 5
East Midlands +22 12 £36,250 +20.83% 6
West Midlands +56 10 £57,500 +27.78% 1
Yorkshire +73 3 £24,500 -20.97%
Systems Support
UK

Systems Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

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

1 36 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 35 (36.46%) Social Skills
3 32 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (23.96%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (23.96%) Power Platform
5 16 (16.67%) SQL
5 16 (16.67%) Windows
6 15 (15.63%) Finance
7 14 (14.58%) Management Information System
8 13 (13.54%) Azure
9 12 (12.50%) Project Management
9 12 (12.50%) Change Management
9 12 (12.50%) LAN
9 12 (12.50%) Degree
10 11 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
10 11 (11.46%) PowerApps
11 10 (10.42%) Reinsurance
11 10 (10.42%) E-Commerce
11 10 (10.42%) Service Delivery
11 10 (10.42%) ERP
12 9 (9.38%) SQL Server
12 9 (9.38%) Incident Management
12 9 (9.38%) Driving Licence
12 9 (9.38%) PowerShell
13 8 (8.33%) Network Security
13 8 (8.33%) Windows Server
13 8 (8.33%) Customer Service
13 8 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
13 8 (8.33%) ITIL
13 8 (8.33%) CRM

Systems Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 8 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (7.29%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (5.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.08%) Infor M3
3 1 (1.04%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 32 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 23 (23.96%) Power Platform
3 13 (13.54%) Azure
4 11 (11.46%) PowerApps
5 7 (7.29%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (6.25%) Azure Storage
7 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Copilot
7 5 (5.21%) Power Automate
8 4 (4.17%) SaaS
9 3 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.08%) AWS
11 1 (1.04%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.50%) LAN
2 8 (8.33%) Network Security
3 7 (7.29%) VoIP
3 7 (7.29%) WAN
3 7 (7.29%) Wireless
4 6 (6.25%) DHCP
4 6 (6.25%) DNS
4 6 (6.25%) TCP/IP
4 6 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (6.25%) Wireless Security
5 2 (2.08%) FTP
5 2 (2.08%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.38%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.21%) Metadata
2 5 (5.21%) Power BI
3 3 (3.13%) Big Data
3 3 (3.13%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (2.08%) MySQL
5 1 (1.04%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.04%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (1.04%) ClearCase
1 1 (1.04%) ClearQuest
1 1 (1.04%) JIRA
1 1 (1.04%) Rational DOORS
General
1 35 (36.46%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.63%) Finance
3 11 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.29%) Retail
5 5 (5.21%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (4.17%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.13%) Banking
7 3 (3.13%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.13%) Publishing
8 2 (2.08%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.08%) Environmental Health
8 2 (2.08%) Games
8 2 (2.08%) Law
8 2 (2.08%) Local Government
8 2 (2.08%) Police
9 1 (1.04%) Aviation
9 1 (1.04%) Back Office
9 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.08%) EDI
1 2 (2.08%) HTML
1 2 (2.08%) JSON
1 2 (2.08%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (2.08%) REST
1 2 (2.08%) SOAP
1 2 (2.08%) Web Services
1 2 (2.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.58%) Management Information System
2 10 (10.42%) Reinsurance
3 9 (9.38%) Driving Licence
4 7 (7.29%) Client/Server
5 4 (4.17%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (3.13%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.13%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (3.13%) Solar Panel
7 1 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.04%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 16 (16.67%) Windows
2 8 (8.33%) Windows Server
3 6 (6.25%) VMS
4 4 (4.17%) Linux
5 2 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.04%) Unix
6 1 (1.04%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (23.96%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (12.50%) Change Management
2 12 (12.50%) Project Management
3 10 (10.42%) E-Commerce
3 10 (10.42%) ERP
3 10 (10.42%) Service Delivery
4 9 (9.38%) Incident Management
5 8 (8.33%) CRM
5 8 (8.33%) Customer Service
5 8 (8.33%) ITIL
5 8 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (7.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (6.25%) Network Virtualisation
7 6 (6.25%) Storage Management
8 5 (5.21%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (5.21%) Decision-Making
8 5 (5.21%) DevOps
8 5 (5.21%) Scrum
9 4 (4.17%) Mentoring
9 4 (4.17%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 16 (16.67%) SQL
2 9 (9.38%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.08%) Bash
Qualifications
1 12 (12.50%) Degree
2 7 (7.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 4 (4.17%) DBS Check
4 2 (2.08%) NVQ Level 4
4 2 (2.08%) RHCSA
5 1 (1.04%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.33%) SLA
2 4 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.04%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.08%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.04%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.04%) VirtualBox
4 1 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (7.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.08%) Nagios
3 1 (1.04%) SCCM
Vendors
1 36 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.17%) Oracle
2 4 (4.17%) VMware
3 3 (3.13%) Ariba
3 3 (3.13%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.13%) SAP
4 2 (2.08%) IBM
4 2 (2.08%) JD Edwards
4 2 (2.08%) Northgate
4 2 (2.08%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.08%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.04%) Adaptive Insights
5 1 (1.04%) Apple
5 1 (1.04%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (1.04%) Workday
5 1 (1.04%) Yardi