Junior IT Support Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Junior IT Support
UK > UK excluding London

The median Junior IT Support salary in the UK excluding London is £27,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 466 537 542
Rank change year-on-year +71 +5 +147
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior IT Support 40 35 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.095% 0.098% 0.072%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.11% 0.076%
Number of salaries quoted 36 23 24
10th Percentile £19,250 - £20,000
25th Percentile £24,500 £21,250 £20,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,000 £22,500 £24,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -6.25% +2.13%
75th Percentile £28,563 £23,750 £25,750
90th Percentile £37,500 £26,100 £29,100
UK median annual salary £27,000 £22,500 £24,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -6.25% +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 38,179 33,328 33,027
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.48% 92.91% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 23,318 16,178 25,075
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
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%

Junior IT Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Junior IT Support job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Junior IT Support
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Junior IT Support job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Junior IT Support job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Junior IT Support
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Junior IT Support in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Junior IT Support in the UK excluding London

Junior IT Support
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 Junior IT Support within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
South East +28 14 £26,875 +16.85%
Midlands - 13 £31,000 -
West Midlands - 8 £27,000 -
South West - 7 £25,400 -
North of England +27 5 £27,000 -10.00%
East Midlands - 5 £35,000 -
North West - 3 £27,000 -
Yorkshire -7 2 £24,500 -18.33%
East of England +4 1 - - 1
Junior IT Support
UK

Junior IT Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 13 January 2026, Junior IT Support 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 Junior IT Support in the job title.

1 24 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 23 (57.50%) Microsoft
3 22 (55.00%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (45.00%) Windows
5 13 (32.50%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (22.50%) Asset Management
6 9 (22.50%) ITSM
7 8 (20.00%) DNS
7 8 (20.00%) Mathematics
7 8 (20.00%) SharePoint
7 8 (20.00%) VPN
8 7 (17.50%) Degree
8 7 (17.50%) Firewall
9 6 (15.00%) Apple
9 6 (15.00%) JIRA
9 6 (15.00%) Logistics
9 6 (15.00%) Mac OS
9 6 (15.00%) Microsoft Office
9 6 (15.00%) SC Cleared
9 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
10 5 (12.50%) Customer Service
10 5 (12.50%) DHCP
10 5 (12.50%) ITIL
10 5 (12.50%) Mentoring
10 5 (12.50%) Network Management
10 5 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
10 5 (12.50%) Service Desk Management
10 5 (12.50%) SLA
11 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
11 4 (10.00%) Remote Monitoring and Management

Junior IT Support 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (15.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 22 (55.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (7.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (7.50%) AWS
2 3 (7.50%) Azure
2 3 (7.50%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (7.50%) Datadog
2 3 (7.50%) Entra ID
2 3 (7.50%) GCP
2 3 (7.50%) GitHub
2 3 (7.50%) IaaS
2 3 (7.50%) PaaS
2 3 (7.50%) SaaS
3 1 (2.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 8 (20.00%) DNS
1 8 (20.00%) VPN
2 7 (17.50%) Firewall
3 5 (12.50%) DHCP
4 3 (7.50%) Remote Desktop
4 3 (7.50%) Unified Communications
5 2 (5.00%) LAN
5 2 (5.00%) VLAN
5 2 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 6 (15.00%) JIRA
General
1 19 (47.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Manufacturing
3 5 (12.50%) Advertising
3 5 (12.50%) Automotive
4 3 (7.50%) Legal
4 3 (7.50%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) .NET
1 3 (7.50%) AngularJS
1 3 (7.50%) HTML
1 3 (7.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Driving Licence
2 6 (15.00%) Onboarding
3 3 (7.50%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 18 (45.00%) Windows
2 6 (15.00%) Mac OS
3 3 (7.50%) Android
4 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (32.50%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (22.50%) Asset Management
2 9 (22.50%) ITSM
3 8 (20.00%) Mathematics
4 6 (15.00%) Logistics
5 5 (12.50%) Customer Service
5 5 (12.50%) ITIL
5 5 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 5 (12.50%) Network Management
5 5 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
5 5 (12.50%) Service Desk Management
6 4 (10.00%) Remote Monitoring and Management
7 3 (7.50%) Business Continuity
7 3 (7.50%) Customer Experience
7 3 (7.50%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (7.50%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (7.50%) Incident Management
7 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (7.50%) Web Development
8 2 (5.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.50%) C#
1 3 (7.50%) JavaScript
1 3 (7.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (17.50%) Degree
2 6 (15.00%) SC Cleared
2 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 23 (57.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.00%) Apple
3 3 (7.50%) Google
3 3 (7.50%) ServiceNow