IT Support Job Trends in Yorkshire

IT Support
England > Yorkshire

The median IT Support salary in Yorkshire is £30,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 May 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 19 42
Rank change year-on-year -22 +23 +97
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Support 250 231 244
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.12% 9.66% 4.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.40% 10.30% 4.60%
Number of salaries quoted 208 126 217
10th Percentile £25,500 £23,750 £21,000
25th Percentile £27,000 £25,750 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £29,500 £28,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +5.36% +1.82%
75th Percentile £35,000 £33,500 £32,500
90th Percentile £43,750 £36,750 £38,750
England median annual salary £31,000 £31,500 £29,000
% change year-on-year -1.59% +8.62% -6.83%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 5,677 2,243 5,309
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.63% 93.77% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3,636 1,282 4,232
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,313 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% -10.72%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -11.18%

IT Support
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'IT Support' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

IT Support job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

IT Support
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for IT Support job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Salary distribution trend for IT Support job vacancies in Yorkshire

IT Support
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Support in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 3 May 2026.

Salary histogram for IT Support in Yorkshire

IT Support
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Support within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 May 2026. 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
West Yorkshire -63 60 £32,500 +11.11% 9
East Yorkshire -13 53 £29,500 -7.81% 3
South Yorkshire -19 38 £30,000 +25.00% 6
North Yorkshire -1 16 £30,000 -11.76% 6
Humberside - 5 £24,500 - 1
IT Support
England

IT Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 3 May 2026, IT Support job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Yorkshire region featuring IT Support in the job title.

1 130 (52.00%) Microsoft
2 120 (48.00%) Windows
3 113 (45.20%) Microsoft 365
4 99 (39.60%) Active Directory
5 78 (31.20%) Problem-Solving
6 58 (23.20%) Windows Server
7 57 (22.80%) Azure
8 52 (20.80%) DHCP
8 52 (20.80%) DNS
9 46 (18.40%) Customer Service
9 46 (18.40%) Microsoft Office
10 44 (17.60%) VMware
11 37 (14.80%) ITIL
12 36 (14.40%) Microsoft Exchange
13 30 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 30 (12.00%) LAN
13 30 (12.00%) TCP/IP
13 30 (12.00%) WAN
14 27 (10.80%) SharePoint
15 26 (10.40%) Degree
16 24 (9.60%) Citrix
16 24 (9.60%) Firewall
16 24 (9.60%) Security Cleared
17 23 (9.20%) Windows 10
18 21 (8.40%) Android
19 20 (8.00%) Hyper-V
20 19 (7.60%) Process Improvement
20 19 (7.60%) VMware Infrastructure
21 18 (7.20%) Incident Management
22 17 (6.80%) A+ Certification

IT Support Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 36 (14.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (10.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 46 (18.40%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.40%) Acrobat
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.40%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 113 (45.20%) Microsoft 365
2 57 (22.80%) Azure
3 9 (3.60%) AWS
4 8 (3.20%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.00%) Entra ID
6 4 (1.60%) SaaS
7 3 (1.20%) Google Workspace
8 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (0.80%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 52 (20.80%) DHCP
1 52 (20.80%) DNS
2 30 (12.00%) LAN
2 30 (12.00%) TCP/IP
2 30 (12.00%) WAN
3 24 (9.60%) Firewall
4 17 (6.80%) Wi-Fi
5 15 (6.00%) VPN
6 14 (5.60%) VLAN
7 8 (3.20%) VoIP
8 5 (2.00%) SAN
9 4 (1.60%) Asterisk PBX
9 4 (1.60%) BGP
9 4 (1.60%) MPLS
9 4 (1.60%) Network Security
9 4 (1.60%) SD-WAN
9 4 (1.60%) Software-Defined Networking
9 4 (1.60%) VPLS
9 4 (1.60%) Wireless
9 4 (1.60%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.40%) SQL Server
2 11 (4.40%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (3.20%) Power BI
4 3 (1.20%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (2.40%) JIRA
2 4 (1.60%) GitLab
General
1 81 (32.40%) Social Skills
2 46 (18.40%) Organisational Skills
3 35 (14.00%) Manufacturing
4 18 (7.20%) Advertising
5 13 (5.20%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (4.80%) Law
7 8 (3.20%) Aerospace
7 8 (3.20%) Retail
8 5 (2.00%) Agriculture
8 5 (2.00%) Finance
8 5 (2.00%) Social Housing
9 4 (1.60%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.60%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.20%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.40%) Games
11 1 (0.40%) Legal
11 1 (0.40%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.60%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 48 (19.20%) Driving Licence
2 17 (6.80%) Onboarding
3 16 (6.40%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (4.80%) Management Information System
4 12 (4.80%) Renewable Energy
5 6 (2.40%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.60%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.60%) NHS
6 4 (1.60%) PKI
7 3 (1.20%) Replication
8 2 (0.80%) Life Science
9 1 (0.40%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 120 (48.00%) Windows
2 58 (23.20%) Windows Server
3 23 (9.20%) Windows 10
4 21 (8.40%) Android
5 11 (4.40%) Linux
6 5 (2.00%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.60%) Unix
7 4 (1.60%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (1.60%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.80%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (31.20%) Problem-Solving
2 46 (18.40%) Customer Service
3 37 (14.80%) ITIL
4 30 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 19 (7.60%) Process Improvement
6 18 (7.20%) Incident Management
7 17 (6.80%) ERP
8 16 (6.40%) ITSM
8 16 (6.40%) Service Delivery
9 14 (5.60%) Cybersecurity
9 14 (5.60%) Mentoring
10 12 (4.80%) Patch Management
10 12 (4.80%) Root Cause Analysis
10 12 (4.80%) Service Management
10 12 (4.80%) Systems Analysis
11 11 (4.40%) Disaster Recovery
11 11 (4.40%) Knowledge Transfer
11 11 (4.40%) Time Management
12 9 (3.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 9 (3.60%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 15 (6.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (2.40%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (10.40%) Degree
2 24 (9.60%) Security Cleared
3 17 (6.80%) A+ Certification
4 15 (6.00%) SC Cleared
5 11 (4.40%) Network+ Certification
6 10 (4.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 9 (3.60%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.60%) CCNA
8 4 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.40%) ACSP
9 1 (0.40%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.80%) Cyber Essentials
1 7 (2.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 4 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.60%) QA
3 3 (1.20%) GDPR
3 3 (1.20%) SLA
4 1 (0.40%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 99 (39.60%) Active Directory
2 20 (8.00%) Hyper-V
3 19 (7.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.00%) vSphere
5 4 (1.60%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.60%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.40%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.40%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (2.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 7 (2.80%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (2.00%) SCCM
3 4 (1.60%) Ansible
3 4 (1.60%) WSUS
4 2 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 130 (52.00%) Microsoft
2 44 (17.60%) VMware
3 24 (9.60%) Citrix
4 11 (4.40%) Apple
5 9 (3.60%) Meraki
6 8 (3.20%) Cisco
7 6 (2.40%) HubSpot
8 5 (2.00%) Veeam
9 4 (1.60%) Splunk
9 4 (1.60%) Zoho
10 3 (1.20%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.20%) Fujitsu
10 3 (1.20%) Google
10 3 (1.20%) Mitel
10 3 (1.20%) Virgin Media
11 2 (0.80%) Adobe
12 1 (0.40%) Dell
12 1 (0.40%) Sage
12 1 (0.40%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.40%) SAP