IT Support Specialist
UK
The median IT Support Specialist salary in the UK is £35,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2025.
The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 12 Jun 2025 |
Same period 2024 | Same period 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 608 | 742 | 887 |
| Rank change year-on-year | +134 | +145 | +331 |
| Permanent jobs requiring an IT Support Specialist | 106 | 168 | 49 |
| As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK | 0.19% | 0.15% | 0.053% |
| As % of the Job Titles category | 0.21% | 0.16% | 0.058% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 69 | 93 | 23 |
| 10th Percentile | £28,300 | £26,900 | £31,700 |
| 25th Percentile | £29,750 | £30,000 | £34,591 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £35,000 | £33,250 | £40,000 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +5.26% | -16.88% | +31.15% |
| 75th Percentile | £52,500 | £38,750 | £43,750 |
| 90th Percentile | £57,500 | £48,750 | £45,000 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary | £35,000 | £32,500 | £41,000 |
| % change year-on-year | +7.69% | -20.73% | +38.98% |
All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK
For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title | 50,220 | 103,726 | 84,723 |
| % of permanent jobs with a recognized job title | 90.02% | 94.76% | 91.22% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 26,439 | 73,309 | 55,187 |
| 10th Percentile | £28,000 | £28,500 | £32,500 |
| 25th Percentile | £40,000 | £38,605 | £45,000 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £55,000 | £52,500 | £60,000 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +4.76% | -12.50% | - |
| 75th Percentile | £73,750 | £70,000 | £80,000 |
| 90th Percentile | £95,000 | £90,000 | £100,000 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary | £50,055 | £50,000 | £53,500 |
| % change year-on-year | +0.11% | -6.54% | +6.37% |
IT Support Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings that featured IT Support Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
IT Support Specialist
Salary Trend
3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Support Specialist.
IT Support Specialist
Salary Histogram
Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Support Specialist over the 6 months to 12 June 2025.
IT Support Specialist
Top 13 Job Locations
The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Support Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| England | +108 | 105 | £35,000 | +5.26% | 54 |
| UK excluding London | +162 | 71 | £35,000 | +7.69% | 38 |
| Midlands | +95 | 42 | £31,500 | -3.08% | 3 |
| London | +68 | 34 | £50,000 | +5.26% | 30 |
| West Midlands | +72 | 31 | - | - | 3 |
| East Midlands | +67 | 11 | £31,500 | -5.97% | |
| East of England | +42 | 11 | £55,000 | +83.33% | |
| North of England | +57 | 8 | £35,000 | -6.67% | 8 |
| North West | +20 | 7 | £35,000 | -20.00% | 6 |
| South West | +114 | 5 | £29,000 | -2.04% | 5 |
| South East | +89 | 5 | £27,500 | -17.91% | 17 |
| Work from Home | +115 | 4 | £35,000 | +2.94% | 35 |
| North East | +49 | 1 | £60,000 | +84.62% |
IT Support Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities
For the 6 months to 12 June 2025, IT 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 featuring IT Support Specialist in the job title.
|
|
IT Support Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||