Technical Support Jobs in the South East

Technical Support
England > South East

The median Technical Support salary in the South East is £36,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 172 278
Rank change year-on-year +48 +106 +89
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Support 225 292 104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.33% 1.54% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.64% 1.63% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 165 256 49
10th Percentile £26,500 £23,250 £22,750
25th Percentile £28,750 £28,750 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £34,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +11.89%
75th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £48,750
90th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £60,000
England median annual salary £34,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -1.43% - +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 8,536 17,935 11,693
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.44% 94.35% 89.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4,587 12,667 7,700
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,249
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.86% +0.42%

Technical Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Support in the South East

Technical Support
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Technical Support in the South East

Technical Support
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Support in the South East over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Support in the South East

Technical Support
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 Technical Support within the South East region over the 6 months to 22 June 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
Thames Valley +21 90 £37,500 -6.25% 43
Berkshire +51 50 £42,000 +5.00% 20
Hampshire +90 43 £29,500 -15.71% 28
Surrey +62 37 £31,500 -5.26% 21
Kent +42 32 £42,456 +41.52% 17
Buckinghamshire +20 32 £37,500 -16.67% 12
West Sussex +21 17 £30,000 +7.14% 4
Oxfordshire 0 8 £25,000 -38.65% 11
East Sussex +26 6 £26,500 -11.67% 1
Technical Support
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 June 2025, Technical 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 South East region featuring Technical Support in the job title.

1 75 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 61 (27.11%) Customer Service
3 58 (25.78%) Microsoft
4 56 (24.89%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (22.22%) Windows
6 38 (16.89%) Firewall
7 37 (16.44%) Degree
8 33 (14.67%) Driving Licence
9 32 (14.22%) Microsoft 365
9 32 (14.22%) CRM
10 30 (13.33%) SQL
10 30 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
11 29 (12.89%) Windows Server
12 28 (12.44%) Coaching
13 27 (12.00%) Active Directory
14 24 (10.67%) Microsoft Excel
15 22 (9.78%) Security Cleared
15 22 (9.78%) Retail
15 22 (9.78%) Continuous Improvement
16 21 (9.33%) Mac OS
16 21 (9.33%) SharePoint
17 20 (8.89%) Service Delivery
17 20 (8.89%) Manufacturing
18 19 (8.44%) Mentoring
19 18 (8.00%) VPN
19 18 (8.00%) SAP
20 17 (7.56%) Time Management
20 17 (7.56%) Customer Experience
21 16 (7.11%) Azure
21 16 (7.11%) Linux

Technical Support 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 21 (9.33%) SharePoint
2 16 (7.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 30 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (10.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.78%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.78%) Dynamics NAV
1 4 (1.78%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 32 (14.22%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (7.11%) Azure
3 11 (4.89%) Entra ID
4 7 (3.11%) AWS
5 3 (1.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (16.89%) Firewall
2 18 (8.00%) VPN
3 16 (7.11%) DNS
4 13 (5.78%) DHCP
5 11 (4.89%) IP Telephony
5 11 (4.89%) TCP/IP
6 8 (3.56%) Wireless
7 7 (3.11%) VSAT
8 6 (2.67%) VoIP
9 5 (2.22%) Internet
9 5 (2.22%) Remote Desktop
10 4 (1.78%) LAN
10 4 (1.78%) Network Security
10 4 (1.78%) SSL
10 4 (1.78%) WAN
11 3 (1.33%) VLAN
12 2 (0.89%) Broadband
12 2 (0.89%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.89%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (3.56%) MySQL
3 4 (1.78%) Metabase
3 4 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.44%) JIRA
1 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 75 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 22 (9.78%) Retail
3 20 (8.89%) Manufacturing
4 13 (5.78%) Telecoms
5 12 (5.33%) Finance
6 8 (3.56%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.56%) Marketing
7 7 (3.11%) Billing
7 7 (3.11%) Electronics
7 7 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.67%) Automotive
8 6 (2.67%) Back Office
8 6 (2.67%) German Language
9 4 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.44%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 33 (14.67%) Driving Licence
2 13 (5.78%) Onboarding
3 10 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (3.11%) Blog
5 6 (2.67%) Digital Signage
5 6 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (2.22%) Home Automation
6 5 (2.22%) Life Science
6 5 (2.22%) PMI
6 5 (2.22%) Smart Home
7 4 (1.78%) Client/Server
7 4 (1.78%) Robotics
8 2 (0.89%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.44%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 50 (22.22%) Windows
2 29 (12.89%) Windows Server
3 21 (9.33%) Mac OS
4 16 (7.11%) Linux
5 6 (2.67%) Unix
5 6 (2.67%) Windows 10
5 6 (2.67%) Windows 7
5 6 (2.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (27.11%) Customer Service
2 56 (24.89%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (14.22%) CRM
4 28 (12.44%) Coaching
5 22 (9.78%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (8.89%) Service Delivery
7 19 (8.44%) Mentoring
8 17 (7.56%) Customer Experience
8 17 (7.56%) Time Management
9 15 (6.67%) Data Analysis
9 15 (6.67%) Technical Analysis
10 13 (5.78%) Mathematics
11 11 (4.89%) Server Management
12 7 (3.11%) Asset Management
12 7 (3.11%) Commercial Awareness
12 7 (3.11%) Kalman Filter
12 7 (3.11%) Proactive Maintenance
12 7 (3.11%) Proactive Management
12 7 (3.11%) Project Delivery
12 7 (3.11%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 30 (13.33%) SQL
2 12 (5.33%) PowerShell
3 8 (3.56%) PL/SQL
4 6 (2.67%) Python
5 4 (1.78%) C++
6 2 (0.89%) Bash
6 2 (0.89%) Perl
6 2 (0.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 37 (16.44%) Degree
2 22 (9.78%) Security Cleared
3 15 (6.67%) NVQ Level 4
4 13 (5.78%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.56%) CCNA
5 8 (3.56%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (3.56%) JNCIA
6 6 (2.67%) A+ Certification
7 5 (2.22%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.78%) Dell Certification
8 4 (1.78%) MCP
8 4 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.44%) GDPR
2 7 (3.11%) COSHH
3 3 (1.33%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (12.00%) Active Directory
2 15 (6.67%) Hyper-V
3 11 (4.89%) Terminal Services
4 5 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (4.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (2.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 58 (25.78%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.00%) SAP
3 11 (4.89%) Apple
4 10 (4.44%) Siemens
5 5 (2.22%) HubSpot
5 5 (2.22%) Sage
5 5 (2.22%) Sophos
5 5 (2.22%) Ubiquiti
5 5 (2.22%) VMware
6 4 (1.78%) Dell
6 4 (1.78%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.44%) Freshdesk