Support Specialist Jobs in the South East

Support Specialist
England > South East

The median Support Specialist salary in the South East is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 313 389 434
Rank change year-on-year +76 +45 -79
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Specialist 74 20 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.44% 0.14% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.15% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 58 19 39
10th Percentile £32,525 £37,900 £26,500
25th Percentile £41,563 £41,250 £29,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% +12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile - £47,500 £43,500
90th Percentile £59,000 £49,000 £62,750
England median annual salary £38,000 £46,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -17.39% +15.00% +9.59%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 15,669 13,202 19,109
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.92% 90.39% 96.43%
Number of salaries quoted 11,272 8,288 12,502
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Support Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Specialist in the South East

Support Specialist
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Support Specialist in the South East.

Salary trend for Support Specialist in the South East

Support Specialist
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Support Specialist in the South East over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Support Specialist in the South East

Support Specialist
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Support Specialist within the South East region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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
Thames Valley +63 58 £55,000 +29.41% 15
Berkshire - 48 £55,000 - 6
Kent +5 9 £37,500 -13.29%
Buckinghamshire - 7 £31,500 - 9
Surrey +8 5 £37,500 -16.67% 4
Oxfordshire +10 3 £33,500 -21.18%
West Sussex +35 1 £32,000 -46.67% 1
Hampshire -20 1 £42,500 -10.53% 2
Support Specialist
England

Support Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 7 May 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 South East region featuring Support Specialist in the job title.

1 41 (55.41%) Security Cleared
2 39 (52.70%) Active Directory
3 36 (48.65%) ITIL
4 34 (45.95%) Microsoft
5 33 (44.59%) DV Cleared
6 32 (43.24%) Windows
7 31 (41.89%) Azure
8 30 (40.54%) SCCM
9 28 (37.84%) Windows Server
10 26 (35.14%) Service Management
11 25 (33.78%) SC Cleared
12 23 (31.08%) Windows Server 2016
12 23 (31.08%) Windows Server 2019
12 23 (31.08%) WSUS
13 22 (29.73%) Microsoft 365
14 20 (27.03%) Customer Service
15 19 (25.68%) Social Skills
15 19 (25.68%) Firewall
15 19 (25.68%) DNS
16 17 (22.97%) DHCP
16 17 (22.97%) Degree
16 17 (22.97%) Microsoft Intune
16 17 (22.97%) Entra ID
17 16 (21.62%) Microsoft Exchange
18 15 (20.27%) Linux
18 15 (20.27%) Agile
18 15 (20.27%) Virtual Machines
18 15 (20.27%) Virtual Desktop
18 15 (20.27%) Self-Motivation
19 14 (18.92%) Azure Storage

Support Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 16 (21.62%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (5.41%) NetSuite
2 3 (4.05%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 31 (41.89%) Azure
2 22 (29.73%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (22.97%) Entra ID
4 14 (18.92%) Azure Monitor
4 14 (18.92%) Azure Storage
5 1 (1.35%) AWS
5 1 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.35%) Azure Table
5 1 (1.35%) SaaS
5 1 (1.35%) Slack
5 1 (1.35%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 19 (25.68%) DNS
1 19 (25.68%) Firewall
2 17 (22.97%) DHCP
3 3 (4.05%) 5G
3 3 (4.05%) Broadband
3 3 (4.05%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.70%) SAN
4 2 (2.70%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.35%) 3G
5 1 (1.35%) 4G
5 1 (1.35%) ADSL
5 1 (1.35%) VDSL
5 1 (1.35%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (1.35%) JIRA
General
1 19 (25.68%) Social Skills
2 5 (6.76%) Finance
3 4 (5.41%) Legal
3 4 (5.41%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.70%) Law
5 1 (1.35%) German Language
5 1 (1.35%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.35%) Military
5 1 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (18.92%) ARM Templates
2 3 (4.05%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.27%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (18.92%) PKI
3 1 (1.35%) Digital Signage
3 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (1.35%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 32 (43.24%) Windows
2 28 (37.84%) Windows Server
3 23 (31.08%) Windows Server 2016
3 23 (31.08%) Windows Server 2019
4 15 (20.27%) Linux
5 12 (16.22%) Windows 10
6 9 (12.16%) Windows NT
6 9 (12.16%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.35%) CentOS
7 1 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.35%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (48.65%) ITIL
2 26 (35.14%) Service Management
3 20 (27.03%) Customer Service
4 15 (20.27%) Agile
5 14 (18.92%) Analytics
5 14 (18.92%) CI/CD
5 14 (18.92%) DevOps
5 14 (18.92%) Identity Management
5 14 (18.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (18.92%) Log Analytics
5 14 (18.92%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 14 (18.92%) Privileged Identity Management
5 14 (18.92%) RBAC
5 14 (18.92%) Release Management
6 10 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (12.16%) Deployment Automation
8 8 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (9.46%) ERP
9 7 (9.46%) Incident Management
10 4 (5.41%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 14 (18.92%) Bicep
1 14 (18.92%) C#
1 14 (18.92%) PowerShell
1 14 (18.92%) VB
1 14 (18.92%) VBScript
2 1 (1.35%) Perl
2 1 (1.35%) Python
2 1 (1.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (55.41%) Security Cleared
2 33 (44.59%) DV Cleared
3 25 (33.78%) SC Cleared
4 17 (22.97%) Degree
5 14 (18.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 5 (6.76%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.35%) QA
System Software
1 39 (52.70%) Active Directory
2 15 (20.27%) Virtual Desktop
2 15 (20.27%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (12.16%) Firmware
4 3 (4.05%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 30 (40.54%) SCCM
2 23 (31.08%) WSUS
3 17 (22.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (18.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 14 (18.92%) Kubernetes
4 14 (18.92%) SCOM
5 9 (12.16%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 34 (45.95%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.46%) Oracle
3 5 (6.76%) VMware
4 4 (5.41%) Cisco
5 3 (4.05%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.05%) Veeam
5 3 (4.05%) Virgin Media
6 2 (2.70%) Sage
7 1 (1.35%) Citrix