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 20 July 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 40 39
Rank change year-on-year +8 -1 +83
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Support 267 186 245
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 3.84% 5.37% 4.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.06% 6.26% 4.51%
Number of salaries quoted 238 184 193
10th Percentile £25,500 £23,500 £16,000
25th Percentile £27,125 £25,750 £22,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £30,000 £27,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
90th Percentile £42,500 £43,250 £38,750
England median annual salary £32,500 £31,500 £29,000
% change year-on-year +3.17% +8.62% -9.38%

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 6,578 2,969 5,428
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 85.71% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 4,585 1,597 4,003
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £35,665
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,250 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £79,200
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,399
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.11% -9.34%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -2 73 £32,500 -2.99% 7
East Yorkshire -16 45 £28,000 -12.50% 4
South Yorkshire -27 40 £28,000 +3.70% 11
North Yorkshire +26 31 £31,000 -8.82% 3
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 20 July 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.

1 146 (54.68%) Microsoft
2 141 (52.81%) Microsoft 365
3 127 (47.57%) Windows
4 102 (38.20%) Active Directory
5 86 (32.21%) Problem-Solving
6 68 (25.47%) Azure
7 58 (21.72%) Customer Service
7 58 (21.72%) Windows Server
8 43 (16.10%) DHCP
8 43 (16.10%) DNS
9 41 (15.36%) SharePoint
10 34 (12.73%) Continuous Improvement
11 32 (11.99%) Microsoft Exchange
11 32 (11.99%) Microsoft Intune
12 30 (11.24%) Microsoft Office
13 27 (10.11%) ERP
13 27 (10.11%) LAN
13 27 (10.11%) WAN
14 26 (9.74%) Cybersecurity
14 26 (9.74%) Degree
15 25 (9.36%) TCP/IP
16 24 (8.99%) Firewall
16 24 (8.99%) Windows 10
17 23 (8.61%) Cyber Essentials
17 23 (8.61%) ITIL
18 22 (8.24%) Entra ID
18 22 (8.24%) VMware
19 21 (7.87%) Hyper-V
19 21 (7.87%) Wireless
20 20 (7.49%) ITSM

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 41 (15.36%) SharePoint
2 32 (11.99%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 30 (11.24%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.50%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 141 (52.81%) Microsoft 365
2 68 (25.47%) Azure
3 22 (8.24%) Entra ID
4 13 (4.87%) Power Platform
5 5 (1.87%) AWS
5 5 (1.87%) Microsoft Copilot
5 5 (1.87%) OneDrive
6 4 (1.50%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.37%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.37%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 43 (16.10%) DHCP
1 43 (16.10%) DNS
2 27 (10.11%) LAN
2 27 (10.11%) WAN
3 25 (9.36%) TCP/IP
4 24 (8.99%) Firewall
5 21 (7.87%) Wireless
6 16 (5.99%) Wi-Fi
7 11 (4.12%) VoIP
8 9 (3.37%) VPN
9 7 (2.62%) VLAN
10 4 (1.50%) WLAN
11 3 (1.12%) Asterisk PBX
11 3 (1.12%) BGP
11 3 (1.12%) IP Telephony
11 3 (1.12%) MPLS
11 3 (1.12%) SD-WAN
11 3 (1.12%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (1.12%) VPLS
12 1 (0.37%) VDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.37%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (3.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (2.25%) JIRA
2 3 (1.12%) GitLab
General
1 79 (29.59%) Social Skills
2 37 (13.86%) Organisational Skills
3 19 (7.12%) Manufacturing
4 17 (6.37%) Advertising
5 10 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.00%) Law
7 5 (1.87%) Agriculture
8 4 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.50%) Finance
8 4 (1.50%) Legal
8 4 (1.50%) Social Housing
8 4 (1.50%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.37%) Marketing
9 1 (0.37%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.37%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.50%) HTML
1 4 (1.50%) JSON
2 3 (1.12%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 38 (14.23%) Driving Licence
2 17 (6.37%) Onboarding
3 15 (5.62%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (2.25%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 6 (2.25%) Operational Technology
4 6 (2.25%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (1.12%) CMDB
5 3 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.12%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.12%) PKI
6 2 (0.75%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.37%) CCTV
7 1 (0.37%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (0.37%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 127 (47.57%) Windows
2 58 (21.72%) Windows Server
3 24 (8.99%) Windows 10
4 14 (5.24%) Windows Server 2019
5 12 (4.49%) Android
6 7 (2.62%) Linux
6 7 (2.62%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.12%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.75%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (32.21%) Problem-Solving
2 58 (21.72%) Customer Service
3 34 (12.73%) Continuous Improvement
4 27 (10.11%) ERP
5 26 (9.74%) Cybersecurity
6 23 (8.61%) ITIL
7 20 (7.49%) ITSM
8 17 (6.37%) Incident Management
8 17 (6.37%) Service Management
9 16 (5.99%) Service Delivery
10 14 (5.24%) Disaster Recovery
11 13 (4.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 12 (4.49%) Mentoring
13 11 (4.12%) Root Cause Analysis
14 10 (3.75%) Patch Management
14 10 (3.75%) Process Improvement
15 8 (3.00%) Analytics
15 8 (3.00%) Data Analytics
15 8 (3.00%) Knowledge Transfer
15 8 (3.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (7.12%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 26 (9.74%) Degree
2 16 (5.99%) A+ Certification
3 14 (5.24%) Security Cleared
4 11 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (4.12%) Network+ Certification
5 8 (3.00%) CCNA
5 8 (3.00%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (3.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 7 (2.62%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.62%) SC Cleared
7 5 (1.87%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.37%) ACSP
9 1 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.61%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (3.37%) SLA
3 8 (3.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 5 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.12%) PMO
5 3 (1.12%) QA
6 2 (0.75%) GDPR
7 1 (0.37%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 102 (38.20%) Active Directory
2 21 (7.87%) Hyper-V
3 7 (2.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.25%) Firmware
5 3 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.12%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.12%) vSphere
6 2 (0.75%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 32 (11.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (1.87%) SCCM
3 4 (1.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (1.12%) Ansible
4 3 (1.12%) WSUS
5 2 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 146 (54.68%) Microsoft
2 22 (8.24%) VMware
3 19 (7.12%) Cisco
4 17 (6.37%) Meraki
5 11 (4.12%) Apple
5 11 (4.12%) Citrix
6 8 (3.00%) Freshdesk
7 6 (2.25%) Veeam
8 5 (1.87%) HubSpot
9 4 (1.50%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.50%) iManage
10 3 (1.12%) Mitel
10 3 (1.12%) Splunk
11 2 (0.75%) Draytek
12 1 (0.37%) Google
12 1 (0.37%) Infor
12 1 (0.37%) Sage
12 1 (0.37%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.37%) SonicWALL
12 1 (0.37%) WatchGuard