Technical Support Specialist Jobs in the UK excluding London

Technical Support Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Technical Support Specialist salary in the UK excluding London is £32,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 688 719 829
Rank change year-on-year +31 +110 -122
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Support Specialist 82 14 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.025% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.028% 0.048%
Number of salaries quoted 61 10 23
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,285 -
25th Percentile £28,500 £37,500 £21,806
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £43,250 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% +44.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £45,000 £47,250 £42,875
90th Percentile £50,000 £52,040 £48,500
UK median annual salary £32,500 £46,500 £38,750
% change year-on-year -30.11% +20.00% +3.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 72,397 50,271 70,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.93% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,949 29,577 42,673
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Technical Support Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Technical Support Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Support Specialist in the UK excluding London

Technical Support Specialist
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Support Specialist in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Technical Support Specialist in the UK excluding London

Technical Support Specialist
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Support Specialist in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Support Specialist in the UK excluding London

Technical Support Specialist
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Support Specialist within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
North of England +75 43 £32,500 - 6
North West +9 22 £32,500 - 3
Yorkshire - 18 £50,000 - 3
Midlands +3 16 £28,500 -37.04% 5
East of England - 11 £30,000 - 1
East Midlands - 10 £28,500 - 1
West Midlands -6 6 £24,500 -45.88% 4
South East -11 6 £40,000 -13.98% 5
South West - 3 £45,000 - 1
North East - 3 £45,000 -
Scotland -69 2 £31,000 +14.09%
Wales +5 1 £30,000 -
Technical Support Specialist
UK

Technical Support Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Technical 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Technical Support Specialist in the job title.

1 22 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (25.61%) Customer Service
3 19 (23.17%) Social Skills
4 18 (21.95%) Windows
4 18 (21.95%) Degree
5 15 (18.29%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (17.07%) Active Directory
7 13 (15.85%) HNC
7 13 (15.85%) Onboarding
8 9 (10.98%) Driving Licence
8 9 (10.98%) Microsoft
9 8 (9.76%) QlikView
9 8 (9.76%) Data Centre
10 7 (8.54%) Games
10 7 (8.54%) User Experience
10 7 (8.54%) Azure
10 7 (8.54%) Ethernet
10 7 (8.54%) Retail
11 6 (7.32%) Law
11 6 (7.32%) Management Information System
11 6 (7.32%) HND
11 6 (7.32%) LAN
11 6 (7.32%) Proactive Management
11 6 (7.32%) Collaborative Culture
12 5 (6.10%) VPN
12 5 (6.10%) DNS
12 5 (6.10%) SSL
12 5 (6.10%) Manufacturing
12 5 (6.10%) IPsec
12 5 (6.10%) AWS

Technical Support Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (18.29%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (8.54%) Azure
3 5 (6.10%) AWS
3 5 (6.10%) GCP
4 2 (2.44%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.54%) Ethernet
2 6 (7.32%) LAN
3 5 (6.10%) DNS
3 5 (6.10%) IPsec
3 5 (6.10%) SSL
3 5 (6.10%) VPN
4 3 (3.66%) Firewall
4 3 (3.66%) Wireless
5 2 (2.44%) Internet
6 1 (1.22%) SMS
6 1 (1.22%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.76%) QlikView
2 2 (2.44%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (2.44%) Power BI
2 2 (2.44%) Relational Database
General
1 19 (23.17%) Social Skills
2 7 (8.54%) Games
2 7 (8.54%) Retail
3 6 (7.32%) Law
4 5 (6.10%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.66%) Marketing
6 2 (2.44%) Agriculture
6 2 (2.44%) French Language
6 2 (2.44%) German Language
6 2 (2.44%) Italian Language
6 2 (2.44%) Spanish Language
7 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.22%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.44%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.85%) Onboarding
2 9 (10.98%) Driving Licence
3 8 (9.76%) Data Centre
4 6 (7.32%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.66%) CCTV
6 2 (2.44%) Life Science
6 2 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (21.95%) Windows
2 5 (6.10%) Android
2 5 (6.10%) Mac OS
3 3 (3.66%) Linux
3 3 (3.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (25.61%) Customer Service
3 7 (8.54%) User Experience
4 6 (7.32%) Collaborative Culture
4 6 (7.32%) Proactive Management
5 5 (6.10%) Computer Science
6 3 (3.66%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (3.66%) CRM
7 2 (2.44%) Commercial Awareness
7 2 (2.44%) Incident Response
7 2 (2.44%) Presales
7 2 (2.44%) Technical Leadership
8 1 (1.22%) Fintech
8 1 (1.22%) Scenario Testing
8 1 (1.22%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 18 (21.95%) Degree
2 13 (15.85%) HNC
3 6 (7.32%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.44%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (17.07%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.44%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (10.98%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.44%) Cognos
2 2 (2.44%) Datto
2 2 (2.44%) Veeam