Support Officer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Support Officer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Support Officer salary in the UK excluding London is £32,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 568 668 700
Rank change year-on-year +100 +32 +102
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Officer 18 91 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.045% 0.13% 0.086%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.050% 0.13% 0.097%
Number of salaries quoted 16 86 39
10th Percentile - £22,000 £19,851
25th Percentile £31,250 £26,250 £25,004
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £31,875 £29,936
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +6.48% -5.70%
75th Percentile £33,750 £37,714 £33,000
90th Percentile £37,406 £45,000 £43,450
UK median annual salary £32,500 £32,280 £29,936
% change year-on-year +0.68% +7.83% -7.49%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 35,898 67,972 52,779
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.59% 94.88% 89.24%
Number of salaries quoted 18,484 47,985 30,138
10th Percentile £26,951 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Support Officer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Support Officer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Support Officer in the UK excluding London

Support Officer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Support Officer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Support Officer in the UK excluding London

Support Officer
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 Support Officer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 May 2025. 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 +60 10 £32,500 +6.63% 7
West Midlands +58 10 £32,500 -1.16% 7
East of England +39 5 £32,500 +20.37% 2
South East +56 2 - - 5
North of England +16 1 £26,406 -33.99% 1
North West -18 1 £26,406 -41.32% 1
Support Officer
UK

Support Officer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 21 May 2025, Support Officer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Support Officer in the job title.

1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 9 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (50.00%) DHCP
2 9 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 9 (50.00%) VMware
2 9 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 9 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 9 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 3 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (16.67%) Manufacturing
4 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (16.67%) SQL
4 3 (16.67%) Project Management
4 3 (16.67%) CRM
4 3 (16.67%) EDI
4 3 (16.67%) ERP
4 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
4 3 (16.67%) DBS Check
4 3 (16.67%) Power BI
4 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
5 2 (11.11%) Environmental Health
5 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 2 (11.11%) Police
5 2 (11.11%) Case Management
5 2 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (11.11%) Customer Service
5 2 (11.11%) Service Delivery
5 2 (11.11%) Management Information System

Support Officer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 9 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) DHCP
1 9 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (11.11%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Power BI
General
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Manufacturing
3 2 (11.11%) Environmental Health
3 2 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (11.11%) Local Government
3 2 (11.11%) Police
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) CRM
1 3 (16.67%) ERP
1 3 (16.67%) Project Management
2 2 (11.11%) Case Management
2 2 (11.11%) Customer Service
2 2 (11.11%) Line Management
2 2 (11.11%) Migration
2 2 (11.11%) Performance Management
2 2 (11.11%) Service Delivery
3 1 (5.56%) Agile
3 1 (5.56%) Business Case
3 1 (5.56%) Mathematics
3 1 (5.56%) PRINCE2
3 1 (5.56%) Programme Governance
3 1 (5.56%) Risk Register
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) DBS Check
2 2 (11.11%) NVQ Level 4
3 1 (5.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 9 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 9 (50.00%) VMware
3 2 (11.11%) Northgate
4 1 (5.56%) Apple