Senior IT Technician Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Senior IT Technician
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior IT Technician salary in the UK excluding London is £35,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 January 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 482 544 519
Rank change year-on-year +62 -25 +228
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior IT Technician 35 36 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.083% 0.097% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.092% 0.10% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 27 24 28
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,150 £26,999
25th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £28,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £33,750 £34,750
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -2.88% +10.32%
75th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £38,750
90th Percentile £41,500 - -
UK median annual salary £35,000 £33,750 £35,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +11.11%

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 37,897 34,703 29,304
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 93.14% 95.30%
Number of salaries quoted 22,949 17,250 22,189
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £34,750 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Senior IT Technician
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Senior IT Technician job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Senior IT Technician
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Senior IT Technician job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Senior IT Technician job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Senior IT Technician
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior IT Technician in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior IT Technician in the UK excluding London

Senior IT 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 Senior IT Technician within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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 +24 11 £34,000 -9.33% 8
Yorkshire +5 11 £34,000 -9.33% 2
South West +5 8 £35,000 +20.69%
East of England +24 7 £26,000 -20.00% 2
South East +30 5 £41,000 +19.48% 1
Wales - 4 - -
Senior IT Technician
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 January 2026, Senior IT 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 Senior IT Technician in the job title.

1 16 (45.71%) Microsoft
1 16 (45.71%) Windows
2 15 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 15 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (40.00%) Azure
3 14 (40.00%) Customer Service
3 14 (40.00%) SharePoint
4 13 (37.14%) Windows Server
5 12 (34.29%) VMware
5 12 (34.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 11 (31.43%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (22.86%) Hyper-V
7 8 (22.86%) ITIL
7 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (22.86%) TCP/IP
7 8 (22.86%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (20.00%) Android
8 7 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
8 7 (20.00%) LAN
8 7 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (20.00%) Service Delivery
8 7 (20.00%) Veeam
8 7 (20.00%) WAN
9 4 (11.43%) Data Protection
9 4 (11.43%) DHCP
9 4 (11.43%) DNS
9 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (11.43%) SCCM

Senior IT 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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (40.00%) SharePoint
2 7 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (40.00%) Azure
3 3 (8.57%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (22.86%) TCP/IP
1 8 (22.86%) Wi-Fi
2 7 (20.00%) LAN
2 7 (20.00%) WAN
3 4 (11.43%) DHCP
3 4 (11.43%) DNS
4 1 (2.86%) Firewall
4 1 (2.86%) Network Security
4 1 (2.86%) VLAN
4 1 (2.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) MySQL
1 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.43%) Aerospace
3 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.86%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Driving Licence
2 7 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 7 (20.00%) Replication
3 4 (11.43%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 16 (45.71%) Windows
2 13 (37.14%) Windows Server
3 7 (20.00%) Android
4 3 (8.57%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) Customer Service
2 11 (31.43%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (22.86%) ITIL
3 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 7 (20.00%) Service Delivery
5 4 (11.43%) Data Protection
6 1 (2.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (2.86%) Decision-Making
6 1 (2.86%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (2.86%) Patch Management
6 1 (2.86%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) GDPR
1 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 12 (34.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (22.86%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (11.43%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (45.71%) Microsoft
2 12 (34.29%) VMware
3 7 (20.00%) Veeam