Support Technician Jobs in the Thames Valley

Support Technician
South East > Thames Valley

The median Support Technician salary in the Thames Valley is £37,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 May 2025.

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

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 135 222
Rank change year-on-year -12 +87 +28
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Technician 33 115 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.98% 1.71% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.18% 1.81% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 11 94 40
10th Percentile £31,250 £23,500 £21,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £25,500 £26,224
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £27,000 £31,500
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £43,250 £33,000 £32,250
90th Percentile - £35,000 -
South East median annual salary £32,500 £27,000 £27,500
% change year-on-year +20.37% -1.82% +3.77%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,802 6,361 5,387
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 83.57% 94.69% 89.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,268 4,463 3,154
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Support Technician
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings that featured Support Technician in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Support Technician in the Thames Valley

Support Technician
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Support Technician in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Support Technician in the Thames Valley

Support Technician
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Support Technician within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Oxfordshire +9 13 £41,500 +52.29% 1
Berkshire +26 12 £32,500 +20.37%
Buckinghamshire +1 8 £37,500 +25.00% 3
Support Technician
South East

Support Technician Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, Support Technician 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 Thames Valley region featuring Support Technician in the job title.

1 20 (60.61%) Service Delivery
1 20 (60.61%) Customer Service
2 19 (57.58%) Customer Experience
2 19 (57.58%) Manufacturing
2 19 (57.58%) NVQ Level 4
2 19 (57.58%) Technical Analysis
2 19 (57.58%) Coaching
3 11 (33.33%) Windows
3 11 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 9 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (27.27%) Windows Server
4 9 (27.27%) Azure
5 8 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (24.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (24.24%) Firewall
5 8 (24.24%) Social Skills
6 5 (15.15%) Exchange Server 2013
6 5 (15.15%) SharePoint
6 5 (15.15%) ITIL
6 5 (15.15%) Active Directory
6 5 (15.15%) LAN
6 5 (15.15%) WAN
6 5 (15.15%) PowerShell
6 5 (15.15%) Mac OS
6 5 (15.15%) Hyper-V
7 4 (12.12%) AWS
7 4 (12.12%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (12.12%) arcserve
7 4 (12.12%) SCCM

Support Technician Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 9 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (15.15%) Exchange Server 2013
2 5 (15.15%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.03%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (3.03%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (3.03%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (27.27%) Azure
1 9 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (12.12%) AWS
2 4 (12.12%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (24.24%) Firewall
2 5 (15.15%) LAN
2 5 (15.15%) WAN
3 4 (12.12%) IP Telephony
3 4 (12.12%) SAN
3 4 (12.12%) VLAN
3 4 (12.12%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (3.03%) ADSL
4 1 (3.03%) DHCP
4 1 (3.03%) DNS
4 1 (3.03%) Internet
4 1 (3.03%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (57.58%) Manufacturing
2 8 (24.24%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Onboarding
1 4 (12.12%) Replication
2 3 (9.09%) Digital Signage
3 1 (3.03%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 11 (33.33%) Windows
2 9 (27.27%) Windows Server
3 5 (15.15%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.03%) OpenBSD
4 1 (3.03%) Windows 7
4 1 (3.03%) Windows Vista
4 1 (3.03%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (60.61%) Customer Service
1 20 (60.61%) Service Delivery
2 19 (57.58%) Coaching
2 19 (57.58%) Customer Experience
2 19 (57.58%) Technical Analysis
3 8 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (15.15%) ITIL
5 4 (12.12%) Agile
5 4 (12.12%) Business Continuity
5 4 (12.12%) Information Security
5 4 (12.12%) Knowledge Transfer
5 4 (12.12%) Migration
5 4 (12.12%) Server Management
6 1 (3.03%) DevOps
6 1 (3.03%) Logistics
6 1 (3.03%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.15%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (57.58%) NVQ Level 4
2 1 (3.03%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (12.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 4 (12.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (15.15%) Active Directory
1 5 (15.15%) Hyper-V
2 4 (12.12%) Terminal Services
2 4 (12.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (24.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (12.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.12%) Apple
2 4 (12.12%) arcserve
2 4 (12.12%) VMware
3 1 (3.03%) Cisco
3 1 (3.03%) Freshdesk