IT Support Job Trends in Leeds

IT Support
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median IT Support salary in Leeds is £32,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 December 2025.

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

 6 months to
17 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 64 81
Rank change year-on-year +3 +17 +71
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Support 42 31 29
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 3.35% 2.75% 2.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.59% 2.87% 2.36%
Number of salaries quoted 38 19 28
10th Percentile £26,700 £24,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £28,625 £27,250 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £30,000 £34,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.76% +30.77%
75th Percentile £34,500 £36,875 £43,750
90th Percentile £44,875 £48,000 £52,375
West Yorkshire median annual salary £32,500 £30,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - +13.21%

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 1,170 1,079 1,228
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 95.74% 97.00%
Number of salaries quoted 786 622 900
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,763 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,750 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% -4.44% +2.27%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,233 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.21% -4.55% -

IT Support
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

IT Support job vacancy trend 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
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Support in Leeds over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Salary histogram for IT Support in Leeds

IT Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 17 December 2025, IT Support 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 Leeds region featuring IT Support in the job title.

1 35 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 29 (69.05%) Windows
3 28 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (61.90%) Active Directory
5 19 (45.24%) Windows 10
6 16 (38.10%) Customer Service
7 15 (35.71%) Azure
8 14 (33.33%) Firewall
8 14 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
8 14 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (30.95%) Hyper-V
9 13 (30.95%) Microsoft Exchange
10 11 (26.19%) Citrix
11 10 (23.81%) VMware
11 10 (23.81%) Windows Server
12 9 (21.43%) Asset Management
12 9 (21.43%) Entra ID
12 9 (21.43%) IT Asset Management
12 9 (21.43%) TCP/IP
13 8 (19.05%) Data Security
13 8 (19.05%) ITSM
13 8 (19.05%) SharePoint
13 8 (19.05%) SLA
14 7 (16.67%) ITIL
14 7 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
15 6 (14.29%) DHCP
15 6 (14.29%) DNS
15 6 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
15 6 (14.29%) VoIP

IT Support Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 13 (30.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (19.05%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 28 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (35.71%) Azure
3 9 (21.43%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 14 (33.33%) Firewall
2 9 (21.43%) TCP/IP
3 6 (14.29%) DHCP
3 6 (14.29%) DNS
3 6 (14.29%) VoIP
4 5 (11.90%) SAN
4 5 (11.90%) VLAN
5 4 (9.52%) Network Security
5 4 (9.52%) VPN
6 3 (7.14%) LAN
6 3 (7.14%) WAN
6 3 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (2.38%) WebEx
General
1 14 (33.33%) Legal
2 11 (26.19%) Social Skills
3 10 (23.81%) Finance
4 9 (21.43%) Law
5 2 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 12 (28.57%) Driving Licence
2 7 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 5 (11.90%) Clustering
4 4 (9.52%) Management Information System
5 3 (7.14%) Life Science
5 3 (7.14%) Replication
6 1 (2.38%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 29 (69.05%) Windows
2 19 (45.24%) Windows 10
3 10 (23.81%) Windows Server
4 5 (11.90%) Linux
4 5 (11.90%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (7.14%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (38.10%) Customer Service
2 14 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (21.43%) Asset Management
3 9 (21.43%) IT Asset Management
4 8 (19.05%) Data Security
4 8 (19.05%) ITSM
5 7 (16.67%) ITIL
6 4 (9.52%) Case Management
6 4 (9.52%) Mentoring
6 4 (9.52%) Project Delivery
6 4 (9.52%) Server Management
7 3 (7.14%) Database Migration
7 3 (7.14%) Knowledge Transfer
7 3 (7.14%) Service Delivery
7 3 (7.14%) Software Engineering
7 3 (7.14%) Software Testing
8 2 (4.76%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.52%) VBA
2 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (11.90%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (9.52%) Degree
4 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (19.05%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (61.90%) Active Directory
2 13 (30.95%) Hyper-V
3 7 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 35 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 11 (26.19%) Citrix
3 10 (23.81%) VMware
4 5 (11.90%) Dell
4 5 (11.90%) HP
4 5 (11.90%) SonicWALL
4 5 (11.90%) Supermicro
5 4 (9.52%) Adobe
5 4 (9.52%) Veeam
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