Support Technician Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Support Technician
South East > Oxfordshire

The median Support Technician salary in Oxfordshire is £41,500 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 49 60 52
Rank change year-on-year +11 -8 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Technician 10 17 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 1.36% 2.17% 2.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.43% 2.41% 2.35%
Number of salaries quoted 10 2 17
10th Percentile £29,650 £31,750 £23,500
25th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £35,000 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.57% -14.63% +30.16%
75th Percentile £44,563 £37,500 £45,500
90th Percentile £45,000 £38,250 -
South East median annual salary £30,000 £30,500 £29,500
% change year-on-year -1.64% +3.39% +7.27%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Oxfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Oxfordshire. 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 Oxfordshire with a recognized job title 697 706 724
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 90.05% 94.39%
Number of salaries quoted 489 376 601
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,645 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £75,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -4.55%

Support Technician
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Support Technician job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Support Technician
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution trend for Support Technician job vacancies in Oxfordshire.

Salary distribution trend for Support Technician job vacancies in Oxfordshire

Support Technician
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Support Technician in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Support Technician in Oxfordshire

Support Technician
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Support Technician within the Oxfordshire 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
Woodstock 0 8 £41,500 -
Oxford 0 1 £31,000 -11.43%
Witney - 1 £30,000 -
Faringdon - 1 £27,000 -
Support Technician
South East

Support Technician Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, Support 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 Oxfordshire region featuring Support Technician in the job title.

1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
2 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (50.00%) Business Continuity
3 5 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 5 (50.00%) Hyper-V
3 5 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (50.00%) ITIL
3 5 (50.00%) ITSM
3 5 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 5 (50.00%) SAN
3 5 (50.00%) VMware
3 5 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (40.00%) Entra ID
5 3 (30.00%) Agile
5 3 (30.00%) arcserve
5 3 (30.00%) AWS
5 3 (30.00%) Azure
5 3 (30.00%) Change Control
5 3 (30.00%) Customer Service
5 3 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2013
5 3 (30.00%) Firewall
5 3 (30.00%) Information Security
5 3 (30.00%) LAN
5 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (30.00%) Migration

Support Technician Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 3 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2013
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 3 (30.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) SAN
2 3 (30.00%) Firewall
2 3 (30.00%) LAN
2 3 (30.00%) VLAN
2 3 (30.00%) WAN
2 3 (30.00%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (20.00%) DHCP
3 2 (20.00%) DNS
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
2 6 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (20.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 5 (50.00%) ITIL
1 5 (50.00%) ITSM
1 5 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Change Control
2 3 (30.00%) Customer Service
2 3 (30.00%) Information Security
2 3 (30.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (20.00%) Ticket Management
4 1 (10.00%) Scorecard
4 1 (10.00%) Service Management
4 1 (10.00%) Software Testing
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 5 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 5 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (30.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (50.00%) VMware
3 3 (30.00%) arcserve
4 1 (10.00%) Google