Senior Technician Job Trends in the North of England

Senior Technician
England > North of England

The median Senior Technician salary in the North of England is £35,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 261 279
Rank change year-on-year +6 +18 +132
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Technician 18 20 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.17% 0.22% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.23% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 14 12 12
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £28,100
25th Percentile £33,000 £35,313 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £37,500 £36,149
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.74% +24.74%
75th Percentile £36,688 £39,063 £40,000
90th Percentile £37,250 £52,375 £43,750
England median annual salary £35,000 £37,500 £36,899
% change year-on-year -6.67% +1.63% +13.54%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 9,556 8,552 8,148
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.69% 94.06% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5,571 4,030 6,496
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,309 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% +0.62% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £66,778
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £80,435
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.50%

Senior Technician
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Technician' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Senior Technician job vacancy trend in the North of England

Senior Technician
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for Senior Technician job vacancies in the North of England.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Technician job vacancies in the North of England

Senior Technician
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Technician within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Yorkshire +4 18 £35,000 -6.67% 1
Senior Technician
England

Senior Technician Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, Senior Technician 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 North of England region featuring Senior Technician in the job title.

1 13 (72.22%) Hyper-V
1 13 (72.22%) Microsoft
1 13 (72.22%) Microsoft 365
1 13 (72.22%) Windows
2 11 (61.11%) Azure
2 11 (61.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 9 (50.00%) ITIL
3 9 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 9 (50.00%) VMware
3 9 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
3 9 (50.00%) Windows Server
4 8 (44.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (38.89%) Android
5 7 (38.89%) Customer Service
5 7 (38.89%) ITIL Certification
5 7 (38.89%) Knowledge Transfer
5 7 (38.89%) LAN
5 7 (38.89%) Service Delivery
5 7 (38.89%) SharePoint
5 7 (38.89%) Veeam
5 7 (38.89%) WAN
6 6 (33.33%) Firewall
6 6 (33.33%) Linux
6 6 (33.33%) VLAN
7 4 (22.22%) Dell
7 4 (22.22%) Entra ID
7 4 (22.22%) HP

Senior Technician Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 11 (61.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (38.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (72.22%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (61.11%) Azure
3 4 (22.22%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 9 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 7 (38.89%) LAN
2 7 (38.89%) WAN
3 6 (33.33%) Firewall
3 6 (33.33%) VLAN
4 4 (22.22%) SAN
4 4 (22.22%) VoIP
5 2 (11.11%) DHCP
5 2 (11.11%) DNS
5 2 (11.11%) Network Security
5 2 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) MySQL
1 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (38.89%) Aerospace
2 2 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 2 (11.11%) Retail
2 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) Driving Licence
2 7 (38.89%) Data Centre
2 7 (38.89%) Replication
3 4 (22.22%) Clustering
3 4 (22.22%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 13 (72.22%) Windows
2 9 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 7 (38.89%) Android
4 6 (33.33%) Linux
5 4 (22.22%) Windows 10
5 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) ITIL
1 9 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (38.89%) Customer Service
2 7 (38.89%) Knowledge Transfer
2 7 (38.89%) Service Delivery
3 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (11.11%) Decision-Making
3 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (11.11%) Patch Management
3 2 (11.11%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (38.89%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) GDPR
1 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (72.22%) Hyper-V
2 9 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (72.22%) Microsoft
2 9 (50.00%) VMware
3 7 (38.89%) Veeam
4 4 (22.22%) Dell
4 4 (22.22%) HP
4 4 (22.22%) SonicWALL
4 4 (22.22%) Supermicro