PaperCut Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring PaperCut skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 499 571 551
Rank change year-on-year +72 -20 +211
Permanent jobs citing PaperCut 7 1 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.017% 0.003% 0.046%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.30% 0.032% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 13
10th Percentile £28,000 - -
25th Percentile £29,000 - £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 - £35,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +47.37%
75th Percentile £33,625 - £47,500
90th Percentile £33,750 - £49,500
UK median annual salary £31,000 £33,750 £35,000
% change year-on-year -8.15% -3.57% +6.06%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

PaperCut falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,305 3,161 4,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.46% 8.81% 12.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,596 1,794 3,454
10th Percentile £30,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,283 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.20% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £69,404 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.95% +6.78% -3.70%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PaperCut relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

PaperCut job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

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Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing PaperCut.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing PaperCut

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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 PaperCut 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
North of England +29 2 £32,500 -
Yorkshire - 2 £32,500 -
South West - 2 £31,000 -
East of England - 2 £28,000 -
East Midlands - 1 £33,000 -
Midlands - 1 £33,000 -
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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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
2 2 (28.57%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DHCP
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) NAS
1 2 (28.57%) VLAN
1 2 (28.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
3 1 (14.29%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) 1st/2nd Line Support
1 2 (28.57%) 2nd Line Support
1 2 (28.57%) Administrator
1 2 (28.57%) IT Administrator
1 2 (28.57%) IT Support
1 2 (28.57%) Service Desk Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Windows 10
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Commercial Awareness
2 3 (42.86%) Document Management
2 3 (42.86%) Workflow
3 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
3 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
3 2 (28.57%) Service Desk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (28.57%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (28.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Canon
2 3 (42.86%) HP
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco
3 2 (28.57%) Datto
3 2 (28.57%) Google
3 2 (28.57%) Sophos
3 2 (28.57%) VMware