IT Support Job Trends in Yorkshire

IT Support
England > Yorkshire

The median IT Support salary in Yorkshire is £32,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 February 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 31 54
Rank change year-on-year +1 +23 +80
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Support 230 163 185
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 5.56% 6.60% 4.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.01% 6.91% 4.28%
Number of salaries quoted 177 41 167
10th Percentile £25,375 £24,500 £21,250
25th Percentile £28,000 £27,500 £25,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £30,000 £29,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +1.69% +9.26%
75th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £33,750
90th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £40,950
England median annual salary £31,000 £32,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year -4.62% +8.33% -0.95%

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 3,824 2,359 4,326
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 95.47% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,377 1,066 3,491
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,125 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £35,540
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,105 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.37% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £73,886 £66,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £89,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 -40 71 £32,500 +8.33% 10
South Yorkshire +10 42 £30,500 +1.67% 10
East Yorkshire +10 35 £31,000 +24.00% 3
North Yorkshire +5 15 £28,000 -7.44% 9
Humberside - 4 £24,500 - 4
IT Support
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 February 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.

1 131 (56.96%) Microsoft
2 112 (48.70%) Windows
3 104 (45.22%) Microsoft 365
4 91 (39.57%) Active Directory
5 84 (36.52%) Problem-Solving
6 58 (25.22%) Azure
6 58 (25.22%) Windows Server
7 52 (22.61%) Microsoft Office
8 49 (21.30%) ITIL
9 48 (20.87%) VMware
10 45 (19.57%) Customer Service
11 39 (16.96%) DNS
11 39 (16.96%) Microsoft Exchange
12 35 (15.22%) DHCP
13 34 (14.78%) TCP/IP
14 30 (13.04%) Firewall
15 29 (12.61%) Degree
16 28 (12.17%) Continuous Improvement
16 28 (12.17%) Hyper-V
17 26 (11.30%) Citrix
18 25 (10.87%) VMware Infrastructure
19 24 (10.43%) Security Cleared
19 24 (10.43%) Wi-Fi
20 22 (9.57%) Android
20 22 (9.57%) LAN
20 22 (9.57%) VPN
20 22 (9.57%) WAN
21 21 (9.13%) SharePoint
21 21 (9.13%) Windows 10
22 18 (7.83%) Mentoring

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 39 (16.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (9.13%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.43%) CMS
3 1 (0.43%) IIS
3 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 52 (22.61%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.87%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 104 (45.22%) Microsoft 365
2 58 (25.22%) Azure
3 11 (4.78%) Entra ID
4 8 (3.48%) AWS
5 6 (2.61%) SaaS
6 3 (1.30%) Google Workspace
6 3 (1.30%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (0.43%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 39 (16.96%) DNS
2 35 (15.22%) DHCP
3 34 (14.78%) TCP/IP
4 30 (13.04%) Firewall
5 24 (10.43%) Wi-Fi
6 22 (9.57%) LAN
6 22 (9.57%) VPN
6 22 (9.57%) WAN
7 14 (6.09%) VLAN
8 10 (4.35%) Network Security
9 9 (3.91%) VoIP
10 5 (2.17%) SAN
11 4 (1.74%) Asterisk PBX
11 4 (1.74%) BGP
11 4 (1.74%) MPLS
11 4 (1.74%) SD-WAN
11 4 (1.74%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (1.74%) VPLS
11 4 (1.74%) WLAN
12 1 (0.43%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.78%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.30%) MySQL
4 1 (0.43%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (1.74%) GitLab
General
1 92 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 51 (22.17%) Organisational Skills
3 40 (17.39%) Manufacturing
4 13 (5.65%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (4.78%) Legal
6 10 (4.35%) Finance
6 10 (4.35%) Law
7 9 (3.91%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (3.48%) Aerospace
8 8 (3.48%) Retail
9 6 (2.61%) Advertising
10 5 (2.17%) Agriculture
10 5 (2.17%) Social Housing
11 4 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.30%) Multimedia
12 3 (1.30%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.43%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.74%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (0.43%) CSS
2 1 (0.43%) HTML
2 1 (0.43%) JSON
2 1 (0.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (20.87%) Driving Licence
2 17 (7.39%) Management Information System
3 14 (6.09%) Renewable Energy
4 12 (5.22%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (4.78%) Data Centre
6 10 (4.35%) Onboarding
7 8 (3.48%) NHS
8 7 (3.04%) Replication
9 5 (2.17%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.74%) EPoS
10 4 (1.74%) Life Science
10 4 (1.74%) PKI
11 1 (0.43%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 112 (48.70%) Windows
2 58 (25.22%) Windows Server
3 22 (9.57%) Android
4 21 (9.13%) Windows 10
5 11 (4.78%) Linux
6 5 (2.17%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.74%) Unix
7 4 (1.74%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (1.74%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.30%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (36.52%) Problem-Solving
2 49 (21.30%) ITIL
3 45 (19.57%) Customer Service
4 28 (12.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 18 (7.83%) Mentoring
5 18 (7.83%) Process Improvement
6 16 (6.96%) Incident Management
6 16 (6.96%) ITSM
7 14 (6.09%) Disaster Recovery
7 14 (6.09%) User Experience
8 13 (5.65%) Asset Management
8 13 (5.65%) Service Delivery
9 12 (5.22%) Project Delivery
9 12 (5.22%) Systems Analysis
10 11 (4.78%) Data Security
10 11 (4.78%) IT Asset Management
10 11 (4.78%) Service Management
11 10 (4.35%) Time Management
12 9 (3.91%) Resource Management
13 8 (3.48%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (3.91%) PowerShell
2 7 (3.04%) SQL
3 4 (1.74%) VBA
4 1 (0.43%) Java
Qualifications
1 29 (12.61%) Degree
2 24 (10.43%) Security Cleared
3 15 (6.52%) SC Cleared
4 12 (5.22%) A+ Certification
5 11 (4.78%) ITIL Certification
5 11 (4.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 9 (3.91%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.74%) CCNA
7 4 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.74%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.43%) ACSP
8 1 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.48%) SLA
2 6 (2.61%) GDPR
3 4 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.74%) QA
4 1 (0.43%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 91 (39.57%) Active Directory
2 28 (12.17%) Hyper-V
3 25 (10.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.61%) vSphere
5 4 (1.74%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.74%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.30%) Firmware
7 2 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.87%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 10 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (3.91%) SCCM
3 7 (3.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (1.74%) Ansible
4 4 (1.74%) WSUS
5 1 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 131 (56.96%) Microsoft
2 48 (20.87%) VMware
3 26 (11.30%) Citrix
4 11 (4.78%) Apple
5 9 (3.91%) Adobe
5 9 (3.91%) Veeam
6 5 (2.17%) HubSpot
6 5 (2.17%) Zoho
7 4 (1.74%) Splunk
8 3 (1.30%) Cisco
8 3 (1.30%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.30%) Fujitsu
8 3 (1.30%) Google
8 3 (1.30%) Virgin Media
9 2 (0.87%) Dell
9 2 (0.87%) Meraki
10 1 (0.43%) Infor
10 1 (0.43%) Sage
10 1 (0.43%) SAP
10 1 (0.43%) WatchGuard