Technical Specialist Jobs in England

Technical Specialist
UK > England

The median Technical Specialist salary in England is £51,930 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 634 489 855
Rank change year-on-year -145 +366 +120
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Specialist 57 381 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.44% 0.067%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.47% 0.073%
Number of salaries quoted 39 121 46
10th Percentile £28,125 £28,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,930 £50,000 £50,950
Median % change year-on-year +3.86% -1.86% +7.26%
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £67,070
90th Percentile £78,150 £65,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% +7.37%

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 44,665 81,175 81,176
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 94.55% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 24,293 60,496 51,517
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,519 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Technical Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Specialist in England

Technical Specialist
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Specialist in England.

Salary trend for Technical Specialist in England

Technical Specialist
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Specialist in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Specialist in England

Technical Specialist
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Specialist within the England region over the 6 months to 16 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
North of England +20 21 £43,000 -9.47% 32
North West -2 14 £37,500 +15.38% 12
London -52 12 £57,500 +43.75% 36
South East +29 8 £31,750 -44.78% 27
South West +106 5 £46,000 -8.00% 15
Yorkshire +53 5 £78,500 +57.00% 14
Midlands +38 5 £31,000 -11.43% 23
East of England +14 5 £45,625 -23.96% 16
West Midlands +47 3 £31,000 -52.31% 11
North East +37 2 £60,000 +20.00% 6
East Midlands +17 2 - - 11
Technical Specialist
UK

Technical Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, Technical Specialist 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 Technical Specialist in the job title.

1 31 (54.39%) Social Skills
2 23 (40.35%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (40.35%) Azure
3 21 (36.84%) Microsoft
4 14 (24.56%) Windows
4 14 (24.56%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (22.81%) Active Directory
5 13 (22.81%) Degree
6 12 (21.05%) Time Management
7 11 (19.30%) Linux
8 10 (17.54%) Cisco
8 10 (17.54%) Firewall
8 10 (17.54%) Hyper-V
8 10 (17.54%) Customer Service
9 9 (15.79%) AWS
9 9 (15.79%) Fortinet
9 9 (15.79%) Microsoft Office
10 8 (14.04%) SQL
10 8 (14.04%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (14.04%) PowerShell
10 8 (14.04%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (12.28%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (12.28%) CRM
12 6 (10.53%) VoIP
12 6 (10.53%) SCCM
12 6 (10.53%) WatchGuard
12 6 (10.53%) SonicWALL
12 6 (10.53%) Infrastructure Management
12 6 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
12 6 (10.53%) Meraki

Technical Specialist 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 2 (3.51%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (15.79%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (3.51%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 23 (40.35%) Azure
2 14 (24.56%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (15.79%) AWS
4 6 (10.53%) Entra ID
4 6 (10.53%) Power Platform
5 4 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (7.02%) Power Automate
5 4 (7.02%) PowerApps
6 2 (3.51%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (3.51%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (3.51%) Nutanix
6 2 (3.51%) Rubrik
6 2 (3.51%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.75%) GitHub
7 1 (1.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (17.54%) Firewall
2 6 (10.53%) VoIP
3 4 (7.02%) DNS
3 4 (7.02%) TCP/IP
3 4 (7.02%) VPN
4 3 (5.26%) SD-WAN
4 3 (5.26%) WAN
4 3 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (3.51%) Broadband
5 2 (3.51%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.02%) Power BI
2 3 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (5.26%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (3.51%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (3.51%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (7.02%) JIRA
2 3 (5.26%) Git
3 2 (3.51%) ERwin
4 1 (1.75%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 31 (54.39%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.04%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (7.02%) Finance
3 4 (7.02%) German Language
4 3 (5.26%) Aerospace
4 3 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.26%) Automotive
4 3 (5.26%) Electronics
4 3 (5.26%) Local Government
4 3 (5.26%) Manufacturing
4 3 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.75%) Games
5 1 (1.75%) Legal
5 1 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.26%) REST
2 2 (3.51%) .NET
2 2 (3.51%) .NET Core
2 2 (3.51%) .NET Framework
2 2 (3.51%) Angular 2
2 2 (3.51%) AngularJS
2 2 (3.51%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (3.51%) CSS
2 2 (3.51%) CSS3
2 2 (3.51%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (3.51%) Entity Framework
2 2 (3.51%) HTML
2 2 (3.51%) HTML5
2 2 (3.51%) JSON
2 2 (3.51%) OAuth
2 2 (3.51%) OpenID
2 2 (3.51%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (3.51%) ServiceStack
2 2 (3.51%) XML
3 1 (1.75%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.02%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (7.02%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (5.26%) Client/Server
2 3 (5.26%) e-Learning
2 3 (5.26%) FMCG
2 3 (5.26%) IoT
2 3 (5.26%) Operational Technology
2 3 (5.26%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (5.26%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (3.51%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.51%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (3.51%) Low-Code
3 2 (3.51%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.75%) Housing Association
4 1 (1.75%) Life Science
4 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (24.56%) Windows
2 11 (19.30%) Linux
3 5 (8.77%) Mac OS
4 2 (3.51%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.75%) Android
5 1 (1.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (40.35%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (21.05%) Time Management
3 10 (17.54%) Customer Service
4 7 (12.28%) CRM
5 6 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (10.53%) Infrastructure Management
6 5 (8.77%) Agile
6 5 (8.77%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (8.77%) ITIL
6 5 (8.77%) Preventative Maintenance
7 4 (7.02%) Critical Thinking
7 4 (7.02%) Decision Tree
7 4 (7.02%) DevOps
7 4 (7.02%) Workflow
8 3 (5.26%) API Integration
8 3 (5.26%) CI/CD
8 3 (5.26%) Decision-Making
8 3 (5.26%) Enterprise Architecture
8 3 (5.26%) Migration
8 3 (5.26%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 8 (14.04%) PowerShell
1 8 (14.04%) SQL
2 4 (7.02%) Python
3 2 (3.51%) C#
3 2 (3.51%) C++
3 2 (3.51%) Delphi
3 2 (3.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (22.81%) Degree
2 8 (14.04%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (8.77%) A+ Certification
4 3 (5.26%) MCSE
4 3 (5.26%) Security Cleared
5 2 (3.51%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.51%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.51%) MCP
5 2 (3.51%) MCSA
5 2 (3.51%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (3.51%) PhD
6 1 (1.75%) CCDA
6 1 (1.75%) CCNA
6 1 (1.75%) CCNP
6 1 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.75%) MCSD
6 1 (1.75%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.51%) SLA
2 1 (1.75%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (22.81%) Active Directory
2 10 (17.54%) Hyper-V
3 3 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (3.51%) Docker
4 2 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (12.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (10.53%) SCCM
3 2 (3.51%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.51%) MIIS
3 2 (3.51%) NetBackup
3 2 (3.51%) PaperCut
4 1 (1.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 10 (17.54%) Cisco
3 9 (15.79%) Fortinet
4 6 (10.53%) Meraki
4 6 (10.53%) SonicWALL
4 6 (10.53%) WatchGuard
5 3 (5.26%) Aruba
5 3 (5.26%) Okta
5 3 (5.26%) VMware
5 3 (5.26%) Zscaler
6 2 (3.51%) Atlassian
6 2 (3.51%) BiZZdesign
6 2 (3.51%) Commvault
6 2 (3.51%) Freshdesk
6 2 (3.51%) Google
6 2 (3.51%) Sparx
6 2 (3.51%) Zerto
7 1 (1.75%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.75%) IBM
7 1 (1.75%) ServiceNow