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 11 October 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 620 541 570
Rank change year-on-year -79 +29 -40
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior IT Technician 56 11 53
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.065% 0.032% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.036% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 53 9 34
10th Percentile £32,750 £34,250 £24,000
25th Percentile - £40,500 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £41,000 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% +36.67% -12.41%
75th Percentile £40,750 £41,500 £36,061
90th Percentile £50,000 - £38,963
UK median annual salary £40,000 £41,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year -2.44% +36.67% -13.04%

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 80,228 30,943 48,641
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.60% 89.58% 95.39%
Number of salaries quoted 55,266 17,424 26,767
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,015 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.44% -2.73% -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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -51 18 £35,000 -
Yorkshire -30 15 £35,000 -
South East -46 9 £31,250 -23.78% 3
South West - 9 £50,000 -
East of England - 9 £40,000 - 2
West Midlands - 6 £40,000 -
Midlands - 6 £40,000 - 1
Scotland - 4 £35,000 - 1
North West - 3 £39,500 -
Wales -74 1 - -
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 11 October 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 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 13 (23.21%) Active Directory
2 13 (23.21%) Windows
3 12 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (21.43%) ITIL
3 12 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (16.07%) Collaborative Culture
4 9 (16.07%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (14.29%) Change Management
5 8 (14.29%) Identity Management
5 8 (14.29%) ITSM
5 8 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 8 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
6 6 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (10.71%) Entra ID
7 4 (7.14%) LAN
7 4 (7.14%) VMware
7 4 (7.14%) VPN
7 4 (7.14%) WAN
7 4 (7.14%) Windows Server
8 3 (5.36%) Azure
8 3 (5.36%) DHCP
8 3 (5.36%) DNS
8 3 (5.36%) Firewall
8 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (5.36%) TCP/IP
8 3 (5.36%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (5.36%) Wi-Fi

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 9 (16.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (10.71%) Entra ID
3 3 (5.36%) Azure
4 2 (3.57%) AWS
4 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (3.57%) SaaS
5 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (1.79%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.79%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.79%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.79%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.14%) LAN
1 4 (7.14%) VPN
1 4 (7.14%) WAN
2 3 (5.36%) DHCP
2 3 (5.36%) DNS
2 3 (5.36%) Firewall
2 3 (5.36%) TCP/IP
2 3 (5.36%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (3.57%) Network Security
4 1 (1.79%) VLAN
4 1 (1.79%) Wireless
General
1 10 (17.86%) Manufacturing
2 7 (12.50%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 13 (23.21%) Driving Licence
2 4 (7.14%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 13 (23.21%) Windows
2 4 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
1 12 (21.43%) ITIL
1 12 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (16.07%) Collaborative Culture
3 8 (14.29%) Change Management
3 8 (14.29%) Identity Management
3 8 (14.29%) ITSM
3 8 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 8 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
4 6 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (3.57%) Client Onboarding
5 2 (3.57%) Decision-Making
5 2 (3.57%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (3.57%) Incident Response
5 2 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (3.57%) Patch Management
5 2 (3.57%) RBAC
5 2 (3.57%) Service Delivery
5 2 (3.57%) Software Deployment
5 2 (3.57%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (3.57%) Degree
System Software
1 13 (23.21%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.36%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.79%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (1.79%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (3.57%) Proxmox
3 1 (1.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.79%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.14%) VMware
3 2 (3.57%) Cisco
3 2 (3.57%) Zoho
4 1 (1.79%) Aruba