1st Line Support Technician Job Trends in the UK excluding London

First Line Support Technician
UK > UK excluding London

The median First Line Support Technician salary in the UK excluding London is £25,500 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 474 538 556
Rank change year-on-year +64 +18 +187
Permanent jobs requiring a 1st Line Support Technician 35 28 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.083% 0.078% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.091% 0.084% 0.052%
Number of salaries quoted 35 9 16
10th Percentile £24,000 £24,400 -
25th Percentile £24,500 £25,000 £22,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,500 £26,000 £24,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +8.33% +2.13%
75th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £25,563
90th Percentile £28,550 - £26,500
UK median annual salary £25,768 £26,000 £24,000
% change year-on-year -0.89% +8.33% +2.13%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 38,388 33,377 32,893
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.52% 92.91% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 23,454 16,215 24,936
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,609 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% +5.22% -5.25%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

1st Line Support Technician
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring '1st Line Support Technician' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

1st Line Support Technician job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

1st Line Support Technician
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for 1st Line Support Technician job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for 1st Line Support Technician job vacancies in the UK excluding London

1st Line Support Technician
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 1st Line Support Technician within the UK excluding London 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
Midlands +27 12 £25,500 - 1
South East +44 9 £26,000 -7.14% 3
East Midlands -6 8 £24,000 -
North of England +8 6 £24,750 - 3
South West - 6 £25,384 - 1
North West - 6 £24,750 - 2
West Midlands - 4 £25,500 - 1
East of England +14 1 £27,000 +3.85% 2
Wales - 1 £33,178 -
1st Line Support Technician
UK

1st Line Support Technician Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, 1st Line 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 UK excluding London region featuring 1st Line Support Technician in the job title.

1 24 (68.57%) Customer Service
2 18 (51.43%) Microsoft
3 12 (34.29%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (31.43%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (25.71%) Time Management
6 8 (22.86%) Windows
7 7 (20.00%) Customer-Centricity
7 7 (20.00%) Mathematics
8 6 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (17.14%) Microsoft Office
9 5 (14.29%) CRM
9 5 (14.29%) ITIL
9 5 (14.29%) Service Delivery
10 4 (11.43%) Active Directory
10 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Excel
10 4 (11.43%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (8.57%) Collaborative Working
11 3 (8.57%) Data Cleansing
11 3 (8.57%) ECDL
11 3 (8.57%) Information Management
11 3 (8.57%) Process Improvement
11 3 (8.57%) SLA
11 3 (8.57%) Windows Server
12 2 (5.71%) Change Control
12 2 (5.71%) Customer Experience
12 2 (5.71%) Customer-Centric Approach
12 2 (5.71%) Cybersecurity
12 2 (5.71%) Degree
12 2 (5.71%) DHCP
12 2 (5.71%) DNS

1st Line Support Technician Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 6 (17.14%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (31.43%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
2 1 (2.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (5.71%) DHCP
2 2 (5.71%) DNS
3 1 (2.86%) Firewall
3 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
General
1 21 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (8.57%) Law
3 3 (8.57%) Legal
3 3 (8.57%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Retail
5 1 (2.86%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Driving Licence
1 6 (17.14%) Onboarding
2 5 (14.29%) EPoS
3 3 (8.57%) LIMS
3 3 (8.57%) Management Information System
3 3 (8.57%) NHS
3 3 (8.57%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.86%) Windows
2 3 (8.57%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.86%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (68.57%) Customer Service
2 12 (34.29%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (25.71%) Time Management
4 7 (20.00%) Customer-Centricity
4 7 (20.00%) Mathematics
5 6 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (14.29%) CRM
6 5 (14.29%) ITIL
6 5 (14.29%) Service Delivery
7 3 (8.57%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (8.57%) Data Cleansing
7 3 (8.57%) Information Management
7 3 (8.57%) Process Improvement
8 2 (5.71%) Change Control
8 2 (5.71%) Customer Experience
8 2 (5.71%) Customer-Centric Approach
8 2 (5.71%) Cybersecurity
9 1 (2.86%) Software Testing
9 1 (2.86%) Stakeholder Management
9 1 (2.86%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 3 (8.57%) ECDL
2 2 (5.71%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) SLA
2 2 (5.71%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 18 (51.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.86%) Freshdesk
2 1 (2.86%) Google
2 1 (2.86%) VMware