Systems Support Jobs in the UK excluding London

Systems Support
UK > UK excluding London

The median Systems Support salary in the UK excluding London is £34,385 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 635 672 687
Rank change year-on-year +37 +15 -62
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Support 123 92 164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.15% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.17% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 100 81 135
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,385 £33,444 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.81% -4.45% -
75th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,125
90th Percentile £60,000 £54,250 £53,550
UK median annual salary £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 66,438 55,416 67,544
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.30% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,143 31,373 42,828
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,368
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,725 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%

Systems Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Support in the UK excluding London

Systems Support
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Systems Support in the UK excluding London

Systems Support
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Support in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Systems Support in the UK excluding London

Systems 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 Systems Support within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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 +68 33 £31,000 -8.15% 7
Midlands +26 30 £30,000 -8.40% 9
North West +38 27 £34,250 -14.38% 6
South East +12 26 £37,500 +35.14% 6
East Midlands +6 23 £30,000 -20.00% 5
East of England +22 13 £27,500 -15.38% 2
South West -25 10 £50,000 +38.89% 1
West Midlands +15 7 £47,500 +43.93% 4
Scotland -57 6 £28,000 -30.00%
Yorkshire +87 5 £31,000 +12.73%
Wales +8 5 £27,000 -28.00%
North East - 1 £30,000 - 1
Systems Support
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Systems Support 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 Systems Support in the job title.

1 37 (30.08%) Microsoft
1 37 (30.08%) Social Skills
2 28 (22.76%) Project Management
3 22 (17.89%) Azure
4 21 (17.07%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (14.63%) Customer Service
6 16 (13.01%) Windows
6 16 (13.01%) ERP
6 16 (13.01%) Microsoft Exchange
6 16 (13.01%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (12.20%) ITIL
7 15 (12.20%) Finance
8 13 (10.57%) SQL
9 12 (9.76%) Active Directory
9 12 (9.76%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (9.76%) Retail
9 12 (9.76%) Service Delivery
9 12 (9.76%) Degree
10 10 (8.13%) Migration
11 9 (7.32%) SharePoint
11 9 (7.32%) SaaS
11 9 (7.32%) Hyper-V
12 8 (6.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (6.50%) VMware Infrastructure
12 8 (6.50%) Windows Server
12 8 (6.50%) Linux
12 8 (6.50%) VMware
12 8 (6.50%) Firewall
12 8 (6.50%) Management Information System

Systems Support 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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (13.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (7.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (5.69%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (1.63%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.81%) Epicor Tropos
2 1 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 22 (17.89%) Azure
2 21 (17.07%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (7.32%) SaaS
4 4 (3.25%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.44%) Entra ID
5 3 (2.44%) IaaS
5 3 (2.44%) PaaS
6 2 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.81%) AWS
7 1 (0.81%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.81%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.81%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.50%) Firewall
2 5 (4.07%) DNS
2 5 (4.07%) LAN
2 5 (4.07%) TCP/IP
2 5 (4.07%) WAN
3 4 (3.25%) DHCP
3 4 (3.25%) Internet
4 3 (2.44%) SSL
5 2 (1.63%) Intranet
5 2 (1.63%) VLAN
5 2 (1.63%) VPN
5 2 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.81%) HTTP
6 1 (0.81%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.81%) IMAP
6 1 (0.81%) NAS
6 1 (0.81%) Network Security
6 1 (0.81%) SAN
6 1 (0.81%) SMTP
6 1 (0.81%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.88%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.25%) Power BI
3 3 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.63%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.63%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (0.81%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
General
1 37 (30.08%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.01%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (12.20%) Finance
4 12 (9.76%) Retail
5 7 (5.69%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (3.25%) Legal
6 4 (3.25%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.44%) Law
7 3 (2.44%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.44%) Welsh Language
8 2 (1.63%) Marketing
8 2 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.81%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.81%) Games
9 1 (0.81%) Local Government
9 1 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.63%) XML
2 1 (0.81%) .NET
2 1 (0.81%) .NET Core
2 1 (0.81%) .NET Framework
2 1 (0.81%) ASP.NET
2 1 (0.81%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (0.81%) Entity Framework
2 1 (0.81%) LDAP
2 1 (0.81%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.50%) Management Information System
2 7 (5.69%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (2.44%) Clustering
3 3 (2.44%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.44%) Driving Licence
3 3 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.63%) EPoS
4 2 (1.63%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.63%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.81%) PMI
5 1 (0.81%) SCADA
5 1 (0.81%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (0.81%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.01%) Windows
2 8 (6.50%) Linux
2 8 (6.50%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.07%) CentOS
4 4 (3.25%) SUSE
4 4 (3.25%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.44%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (1.63%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.63%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.63%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (22.76%) Project Management
2 21 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (14.63%) Customer Service
4 16 (13.01%) ERP
5 15 (12.20%) ITIL
6 12 (9.76%) Service Delivery
7 10 (8.13%) Migration
8 8 (6.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (5.69%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (4.88%) Change Management
10 6 (4.88%) Computer Science
10 6 (4.88%) Data Analysis
10 6 (4.88%) Decision-Making
10 6 (4.88%) Mathematics
11 5 (4.07%) Technical Leadership
12 4 (3.25%) Ticket Management
12 4 (3.25%) User Acceptance Testing
13 3 (2.44%) Facilities Management
13 3 (2.44%) Integration Testing
13 3 (2.44%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (10.57%) SQL
2 3 (2.44%) C#
2 3 (2.44%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.63%) T-SQL
3 2 (1.63%) VB
4 1 (0.81%) Perl
4 1 (0.81%) PHP
4 1 (0.81%) Python
4 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (9.76%) Degree
1 12 (9.76%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (2.44%) CCNA
2 3 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (2.44%) DBS Check
2 3 (2.44%) SC Cleared
2 3 (2.44%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (1.63%) Master's Degree
3 2 (1.63%) MCP
4 1 (0.81%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.69%) PMO
2 5 (4.07%) SLA
3 4 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.63%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.63%) QA
6 1 (0.81%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (9.76%) Active Directory
2 9 (7.32%) Hyper-V
3 8 (6.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.81%) NFS
4 1 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.81%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (2.44%) Backup Exec
1 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.63%) SCCM
Vendors
1 37 (30.08%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.50%) VMware
3 5 (4.07%) Cisco
4 4 (3.25%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.44%) Aruba
5 3 (2.44%) Fortinet
5 3 (2.44%) Oracle
5 3 (2.44%) Veritas
6 2 (1.63%) Sage
7 1 (0.81%) Citrix
7 1 (0.81%) Epicor
7 1 (0.81%) Liquidlogic
7 1 (0.81%) Meraki
7 1 (0.81%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.81%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.81%) SonicWALL
7 1 (0.81%) Veeam
7 1 (0.81%) Xero