IT Support Job Trends in Leeds

IT Support
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median IT Support salary in Leeds is £29,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 94 95
Rank change year-on-year +43 +1 +87
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Support 25 19 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 2.74% 1.10% 1.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.86% 1.15% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 25 18 17
10th Percentile £22,500 - £26,250
25th Percentile £26,750 £14,000 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,000 £29,250 £33,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% -12.69% +17.54%
75th Percentile £33,750 £35,813 £34,500
90th Percentile - £37,000 £38,930
West Yorkshire median annual salary £32,500 £30,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 875 1,655 1,579
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.05% 96.00% 97.59%
Number of salaries quoted 591 1,094 1,197
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,663 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,210
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,125 £88,200
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

IT Support
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Support in Leeds

IT Support
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for IT Support job vacancies in Leeds.

Salary distribution trend for IT Support job vacancies in Leeds

IT Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, IT 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 Leeds region featuring IT Support in the job title.

1 18 (72.00%) Windows
2 16 (64.00%) Windows 10
3 14 (56.00%) Microsoft
4 13 (52.00%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (48.00%) Law
6 11 (44.00%) Active Directory
7 10 (40.00%) Linux
8 9 (36.00%) Legal
8 9 (36.00%) Finance
9 8 (32.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (32.00%) Customer Service
10 7 (28.00%) ITSM
10 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Office
10 7 (28.00%) SLA
11 6 (24.00%) HP
11 6 (24.00%) Dell
11 6 (24.00%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (24.00%) VoIP
11 6 (24.00%) Firewall
11 6 (24.00%) Clustering
11 6 (24.00%) SAN
11 6 (24.00%) Hyper-V
11 6 (24.00%) Azure
11 6 (24.00%) VLAN
11 6 (24.00%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (24.00%) SonicWALL
11 6 (24.00%) Entra ID
11 6 (24.00%) Supermicro
11 6 (24.00%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (16.00%) Cisco IOS

IT Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 6 (24.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (52.00%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (24.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (24.00%) Firewall
1 6 (24.00%) SAN
1 6 (24.00%) VLAN
1 6 (24.00%) VoIP
2 4 (16.00%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (8.00%) Wireless
4 1 (4.00%) WebEx
General
1 12 (48.00%) Law
2 9 (36.00%) Finance
2 9 (36.00%) Legal
3 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 18 (72.00%) Windows
2 16 (64.00%) Windows 10
3 10 (40.00%) Linux
4 6 (24.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (16.00%) Mac OS X
6 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) Customer Service
2 7 (28.00%) ITSM
3 2 (8.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (4.00%) Mathematics
4 1 (4.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) Python
2 2 (8.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (32.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (8.00%) CCNP
2 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (8.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (28.00%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (44.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (24.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 14 (56.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (24.00%) Dell
2 6 (24.00%) HP
2 6 (24.00%) SonicWALL
2 6 (24.00%) Supermicro
3 4 (16.00%) Cisco