Technical Assistant
UK

The median Technical Assistant salary in the UK is £27,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 838 994 1224
Rank change year-on-year +156 +230 -312
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Assistant 69 1 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.070% 0.001% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.001% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 45 1 4
10th Percentile £24,400 - £20,650
25th Percentile £25,750 £26,750 £20,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,000 £28,500 £22,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +26.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £32,328 £30,250 £40,500
90th Percentile £37,000 - £70,200
UK excluding London median annual salary £27,000 - £21,000

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 93,191 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 66,790 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Technical Assistant
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Technical Assistant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Assistant in the UK

Technical Assistant
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Assistant.

Salary trend for Technical Assistant in the UK

Technical Assistant
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Assistant over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Assistant in the UK

Technical Assistant
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Assistant within the UK over the 6 months to 7 May 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
England +157 68 £27,250 -4.39% 25
UK excluding London - 67 £27,000 - 28
South East - 24 £26,500 - 5
North of England - 19 £32,500 - 9
South West - 16 £26,500 - 3
Yorkshire - 10 £32,500 - 1
North West - 9 £30,500 - 7
Midlands - 5 £29,000 - 5
West Midlands - 5 £29,000 - 4
London +123 2 - - 3
East of England - 2 - - 3
Wales - 1 £25,000 - 2

Technical Assistant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Technical Assistant 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 Technical Assistant in the job title.

1 35 (50.72%) Social Skills
2 22 (31.88%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (27.54%) Legal
4 17 (24.64%) Microsoft
4 17 (24.64%) Customer Service
5 15 (21.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (21.74%) Agile
6 14 (20.29%) QA
6 14 (20.29%) Windows
7 12 (17.39%) SAP
7 12 (17.39%) HNC
7 12 (17.39%) HND
7 12 (17.39%) Adobe
7 12 (17.39%) AutoCAD
7 12 (17.39%) Time Management
7 12 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (17.39%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 12 (17.39%) Housing Association
7 12 (17.39%) Digital Signage
7 12 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (14.49%) ERP
8 10 (14.49%) Manufacturing
9 8 (11.59%) Content Management
9 8 (11.59%) Scala
9 8 (11.59%) Use Case
10 7 (10.14%) Data Centre
10 7 (10.14%) Finance
10 7 (10.14%) Wireless
10 7 (10.14%) SQL
10 7 (10.14%) Firmware

Technical Assistant 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.90%) CMS
Applications
1 12 (17.39%) AutoCAD
2 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 12 (17.39%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 2 (2.90%) Intacct
3 1 (1.45%) Azure
3 1 (1.45%) Entra ID
3 1 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.14%) Wireless
2 1 (1.45%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.90%) EDMS
General
1 35 (50.72%) Social Skills
2 22 (31.88%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (27.54%) Legal
4 15 (21.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (14.49%) Manufacturing
6 7 (10.14%) Finance
7 3 (4.35%) Electronics
8 2 (2.90%) Local Government
9 1 (1.45%) Law
9 1 (1.45%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.39%) Digital Signage
1 12 (17.39%) Housing Association
2 7 (10.14%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.45%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 14 (20.29%) Windows
2 1 (1.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (24.64%) Customer Service
2 15 (21.74%) Agile
3 12 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (17.39%) Time Management
4 10 (14.49%) ERP
5 8 (11.59%) Content Management
5 8 (11.59%) Use Case
6 7 (10.14%) Creative Thinking
6 7 (10.14%) Geotechnical Engineering
7 6 (8.70%) Internal Audit
8 5 (7.25%) Logistics
8 5 (7.25%) Mathematics
9 4 (5.80%) Project Management
10 3 (4.35%) Biomedicine
10 3 (4.35%) Biotechnology
10 3 (4.35%) CRM
11 2 (2.90%) Computer Science
11 2 (2.90%) Customer Requirements
11 2 (2.90%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.59%) Scala
2 7 (10.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (17.39%) HNC
1 12 (17.39%) HND
2 6 (8.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (20.29%) QA
2 4 (5.80%) GMP
3 2 (2.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.45%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (10.14%) Firmware
2 1 (1.45%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 17 (24.64%) Microsoft
2 12 (17.39%) Adobe
2 12 (17.39%) SAP
3 2 (2.90%) Sage
4 1 (1.45%) Polycom