Support Technician Jobs in the Midlands

Support Technician
England > Midlands

The median Support Technician salary in the Midlands is £28,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 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
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 232 180 290
Rank change year-on-year -52 +110 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Technician 23 154 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.32% 1.28% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 1.35% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 18 128 27
10th Percentile £26,250 £23,000 £20,500
25th Percentile £26,750 £24,000 £22,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,000 £26,000 £25,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% +1.65%
75th Percentile £33,750 £28,750 £28,750
90th Percentile - £30,000 £33,450
England median annual salary £30,500 £27,000 £29,000
% change year-on-year +12.96% -6.90% +13.73%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 6,603 11,402 8,135
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.40% 94.43% 89.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,808 8,441 4,565
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,741 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £56,000 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +5.66% -12.83% +1.33%

Support Technician
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Technician in the Midlands

Support Technician
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Support Technician in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Support Technician in the Midlands

Support Technician
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Support Technician within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 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
East Midlands -39 17 £27,500 +6.80% 8
West Midlands -14 6 £28,500 +8.57% 9
Support Technician
England

Support Technician Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 19 May 2025, Support Technician 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 Midlands region featuring Support Technician in the job title.

1 21 (91.30%) Active Directory
2 16 (69.57%) Windows
3 13 (56.52%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (52.17%) Windows Server
5 11 (47.83%) Microsoft
6 10 (43.48%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (43.48%) Driving Licence
7 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
7 7 (30.43%) Customer Service
8 6 (26.09%) SQL
9 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Office
9 5 (21.74%) Linux
9 5 (21.74%) Asset Management
9 5 (21.74%) Windows 10
9 5 (21.74%) VMware
9 5 (21.74%) Windows 7
10 4 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
11 3 (13.04%) 4G
11 3 (13.04%) 3G
11 3 (13.04%) ADSL
11 3 (13.04%) TCP/IP
12 1 (4.35%) DNS
12 1 (4.35%) SLA
12 1 (4.35%) DHCP
12 1 (4.35%) Legal
12 1 (4.35%) Incident Management
12 1 (4.35%) SCADA
12 1 (4.35%) Data Protection
12 1 (4.35%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (4.35%) GDPR

Support Technician Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (43.48%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) 3G
1 3 (13.04%) 4G
1 3 (13.04%) ADSL
1 3 (13.04%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.35%) DHCP
2 1 (4.35%) DNS
2 1 (4.35%) Remote Desktop
General
1 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 10 (43.48%) Driving Licence
2 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.35%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 16 (69.57%) Windows
2 12 (52.17%) Windows Server
3 5 (21.74%) Linux
3 5 (21.74%) Windows 10
3 5 (21.74%) Windows 7
4 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (30.43%) Customer Service
3 5 (21.74%) Asset Management
4 1 (4.35%) Case Management
4 1 (4.35%) Data Protection
4 1 (4.35%) Incident Management
4 1 (4.35%) Mentoring
4 1 (4.35%) Mobile Device Management
4 1 (4.35%) Patch Management
4 1 (4.35%) Preventative Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) GDPR
1 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (91.30%) Active Directory
2 4 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 11 (47.83%) Microsoft
2 5 (21.74%) VMware