Systems Support Jobs in the Midlands

Systems Support
England > Midlands

The median Systems Support salary in the Midlands is £47,500 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 232 292 304
Rank change year-on-year +60 +12 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Support 23 33 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.32% 0.27% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.29% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 19 23 13
10th Percentile £26,500 £24,750 £28,650
25th Percentile £31,250 - £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £30,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +58.33% -7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £58,750 £32,532 £43,750
90th Percentile - £48,250 £49,000
England median annual salary £41,408 £40,750 £35,000
% change year-on-year +1.61% +16.43% -6.67%

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%

Systems Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Support in the Midlands

Systems Support
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Systems Support in the Midlands

Systems Support
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Support in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Systems Support in the Midlands

Systems Support
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 Systems Support 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 +14 13 £32,500 +8.33% 6
West Midlands +44 10 £57,500 +35.29% 2
Systems Support
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 Midlands region featuring Systems Support in the job title.

1 14 (60.87%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (56.52%) Social Skills
3 9 (39.13%) Incident Management
4 8 (34.78%) Service Delivery
4 8 (34.78%) Change Management
4 8 (34.78%) Management Information System
4 8 (34.78%) SLA
5 5 (21.74%) ERP
5 5 (21.74%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (17.39%) SaaS
6 4 (17.39%) Data Centre
6 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
7 3 (13.04%) Games
7 3 (13.04%) SAP
7 3 (13.04%) Mentoring
7 3 (13.04%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
8 2 (8.70%) Azure
8 2 (8.70%) AWS
8 2 (8.70%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (8.70%) High Availability
8 2 (8.70%) Retail
8 2 (8.70%) Coaching
8 2 (8.70%) Driving Licence
8 2 (8.70%) Customer Service
8 2 (8.70%) SQL
8 2 (8.70%) EDI
8 2 (8.70%) JD Edwards
8 2 (8.70%) Scrum

Systems Support 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (17.39%) SaaS
3 3 (13.04%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (8.70%) AWS
4 2 (8.70%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
General
1 13 (56.52%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Games
3 2 (8.70%) Finance
3 2 (8.70%) Law
3 2 (8.70%) Manufacturing
3 2 (8.70%) Retail
4 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Management Information System
2 4 (17.39%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.70%) Driving Licence
4 1 (4.35%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
1 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (39.13%) Incident Management
3 8 (34.78%) Change Management
3 8 (34.78%) Service Delivery
4 5 (21.74%) ERP
5 3 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (13.04%) Mentoring
6 2 (8.70%) Coaching
6 2 (8.70%) Customer Service
6 2 (8.70%) High Availability
6 2 (8.70%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (8.70%) Scrum
7 1 (4.35%) Preventative Maintenance
7 1 (4.35%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (34.78%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) SAP
3 2 (8.70%) JD Edwards
4 1 (4.35%) VMware