Technical Support Specialist Jobs in the UK excluding London

Technical Support Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Technical Support Specialist salary in the UK excluding London is £32,500 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 700 753 833
Rank change year-on-year +53 +80 -162
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Support Specialist 58 11 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.083% 0.018% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.087% 0.020% 0.027%
Number of salaries quoted 43 8 17
10th Percentile £25,000 £29,744 -
25th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £21,806
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £39,820 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.38% +22.52% +8.33%
75th Percentile £50,000 £43,688 £47,500
90th Percentile £52,000 £48,630 £48,750
UK median annual salary £32,500 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -18.75% -11.11% +28.57%

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%

Technical Support Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Support Specialist in the UK excluding London

Technical Support Specialist
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Technical Support Specialist in the UK excluding London

Technical Support Specialist
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Technical Support Specialist in the UK excluding London

Technical Support Specialist
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 Technical Support Specialist 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 +70 30 £40,000 - 5
Yorkshire - 16 £50,000 - 1
North West +24 13 £32,500 - 3
Midlands +17 11 £28,500 -37.04% 1
East Midlands - 10 £28,500 - 1
East of England - 9 £26,000 - 1
South East +23 5 £40,000 - 4
Scotland -61 2 £31,000 +17.16% 1
West Midlands +18 1 £27,000 -40.36%
South West -21 1 £31,000 -4.62% 2
North East - 1 £25,000 - 1
Technical Support Specialist
UK

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

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

1 18 (31.03%) Degree
2 17 (29.31%) Active Directory
2 17 (29.31%) Social Skills
3 16 (27.59%) Customer Service
3 16 (27.59%) Windows
4 15 (25.86%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (22.41%) Onboarding
7 11 (18.97%) HNC
8 10 (17.24%) Microsoft
9 9 (15.52%) Driving Licence
10 8 (13.79%) Data Centre
10 8 (13.79%) Azure
11 7 (12.07%) Ethernet
11 7 (12.07%) Retail
11 7 (12.07%) Games
11 7 (12.07%) User Experience
12 6 (10.34%) Proactive Management
12 6 (10.34%) QlikView
12 6 (10.34%) Management Information System
13 5 (8.62%) IPsec
13 5 (8.62%) SSL
13 5 (8.62%) VPN
13 5 (8.62%) DNS
13 5 (8.62%) AWS
13 5 (8.62%) Computer Science
13 5 (8.62%) Android
13 5 (8.62%) Mac OS
13 5 (8.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 5 (8.62%) GCP

Technical Support Specialist 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 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (25.86%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (13.79%) Azure
3 5 (8.62%) AWS
3 5 (8.62%) GCP
4 2 (3.45%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.45%) SaaS
5 1 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.72%) Azure Table
5 1 (1.72%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.07%) Ethernet
2 5 (8.62%) DNS
2 5 (8.62%) IPsec
2 5 (8.62%) SSL
2 5 (8.62%) VPN
3 4 (6.90%) LAN
4 3 (5.17%) Firewall
4 3 (5.17%) Wireless
5 2 (3.45%) Internet
6 1 (1.72%) SMS
6 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.72%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.34%) QlikView
2 2 (3.45%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (3.45%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.45%) Power BI
2 2 (3.45%) Relational Database
General
1 17 (29.31%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.07%) Games
2 7 (12.07%) Retail
3 4 (6.90%) Law
4 2 (3.45%) French Language
4 2 (3.45%) German Language
4 2 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.45%) Italian Language
4 2 (3.45%) Spanish Language
5 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.45%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (22.41%) Onboarding
2 9 (15.52%) Driving Licence
3 8 (13.79%) Data Centre
4 6 (10.34%) Management Information System
5 3 (5.17%) CCTV
6 2 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (27.59%) Windows
2 5 (8.62%) Android
2 5 (8.62%) Mac OS
3 3 (5.17%) Linux
3 3 (5.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (27.59%) Customer Service
2 14 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (12.07%) User Experience
4 6 (10.34%) Proactive Management
5 5 (8.62%) Computer Science
6 4 (6.90%) Collaborative Culture
7 3 (5.17%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (3.45%) DevOps
8 2 (3.45%) Impact Assessments
8 2 (3.45%) Incident Response
8 2 (3.45%) Presales
8 2 (3.45%) Problem Management
8 2 (3.45%) Technical Leadership
9 1 (1.72%) Cost Management
9 1 (1.72%) CRM
9 1 (1.72%) Fintech
9 1 (1.72%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.45%) Bash
1 2 (3.45%) PowerShell
1 2 (3.45%) Python
1 2 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (31.03%) Degree
2 11 (18.97%) HNC
3 4 (6.90%) HND
4 2 (3.45%) CCNA
4 2 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (29.31%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.45%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.72%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.45%) Cisco
2 2 (3.45%) Cognos
2 2 (3.45%) Datto
2 2 (3.45%) Veeam