Support Specialist Jobs in Reading

Support Specialist
Berkshire > Reading

The median Support Specialist salary in Reading is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 73 - 120
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Specialist 48 0 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 2.81% - 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.96% - 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 44 0 1
10th Percentile £45,000 - -
25th Percentile - - £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £42,500
75th Percentile £59,000 - £46,250
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median annual salary £55,000 £35,000 £41,250
% change year-on-year +57.14% -15.15% +17.86%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Reading

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 1,620 1,505 1,693
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.74% 93.59% 97.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,040 808 1,018
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £73,863
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £82,500
Berkshire median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +0.88% +3.64%

Support Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Specialist in Reading

Support Specialist
Salary Trend in Reading

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Support Specialist in Reading.

Salary trend for Support Specialist in Reading

Support Specialist
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Support Specialist in Reading over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Support Specialist in Reading

Support Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Support Specialist 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 Reading region featuring Support Specialist in the job title.

1 37 (77.08%) Security Cleared
2 34 (70.83%) Active Directory
3 32 (66.67%) SCCM
4 29 (60.42%) DV Cleared
5 25 (52.08%) Windows Server
5 25 (52.08%) Microsoft
5 25 (52.08%) ITIL
5 25 (52.08%) Windows
5 25 (52.08%) Service Management
5 25 (52.08%) WSUS
5 25 (52.08%) Windows Server 2016
5 25 (52.08%) Windows Server 2019
6 24 (50.00%) SC Cleared
7 23 (47.92%) Azure
8 15 (31.25%) Social Skills
9 14 (29.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 14 (29.17%) Bicep
9 14 (29.17%) ARM Templates
9 14 (29.17%) Log Analytics
9 14 (29.17%) Azure Monitor
9 14 (29.17%) RBAC
9 14 (29.17%) CI/CD
9 14 (29.17%) Customer Service
9 14 (29.17%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (29.17%) Azure Storage
9 14 (29.17%) Degree
9 14 (29.17%) SCOM
9 14 (29.17%) PowerShell
9 14 (29.17%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (29.17%) Microsoft Intune

Support Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (29.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 23 (47.92%) Azure
2 14 (29.17%) Azure Monitor
2 14 (29.17%) Azure Storage
2 14 (29.17%) Entra ID
2 14 (29.17%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (29.17%) DHCP
1 14 (29.17%) DNS
1 14 (29.17%) Firewall
2 3 (6.25%) 5G
2 3 (6.25%) Broadband
General
1 15 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.33%) Finance
3 3 (6.25%) Legal
4 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (29.17%) ARM Templates
2 3 (6.25%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 14 (29.17%) PKI
1 14 (29.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (52.08%) Windows
1 25 (52.08%) Windows Server
1 25 (52.08%) Windows Server 2016
1 25 (52.08%) Windows Server 2019
2 14 (29.17%) Linux
3 11 (22.92%) Windows 10
3 11 (22.92%) Windows NT
3 11 (22.92%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (52.08%) ITIL
1 25 (52.08%) Service Management
2 14 (29.17%) Agile
2 14 (29.17%) Analytics
2 14 (29.17%) CI/CD
2 14 (29.17%) Customer Service
2 14 (29.17%) DevOps
2 14 (29.17%) Identity Management
2 14 (29.17%) Infrastructure as Code
2 14 (29.17%) Log Analytics
2 14 (29.17%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 14 (29.17%) Privileged Identity Management
2 14 (29.17%) RBAC
2 14 (29.17%) Release Management
3 12 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 11 (22.92%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (6.25%) Collaborative Culture
5 3 (6.25%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (6.25%) Proactive Monitoring
5 3 (6.25%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (29.17%) Bicep
1 14 (29.17%) C#
1 14 (29.17%) PowerShell
1 14 (29.17%) VB
1 14 (29.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 37 (77.08%) Security Cleared
2 29 (60.42%) DV Cleared
3 24 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 14 (29.17%) Degree
4 14 (29.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 34 (70.83%) Active Directory
2 14 (29.17%) Virtual Desktop
2 14 (29.17%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (22.92%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 32 (66.67%) SCCM
2 25 (52.08%) WSUS
3 14 (29.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 14 (29.17%) Kubernetes
3 14 (29.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (29.17%) SCOM
4 11 (22.92%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 25 (52.08%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.25%) Oracle
2 3 (6.25%) Virgin Media