IT Technician Jobs in the UK excluding London

IT Technician
UK > UK excluding London

The median IT Technician salary in the UK excluding London is £27,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 177 451 231
Rank change year-on-year +274 -220 +274
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Technician 1,176 305 1,282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.49% 0.55% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.57% 0.62% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 999 202 368
10th Percentile £22,000 £21,250 £17,143
25th Percentile £24,250 £23,500 £21,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,000 £27,500 £25,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £30,750 £33,250 £28,750
90th Percentile £36,415 £36,963 £33,250
UK median annual salary £27,000 £27,500 £25,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +10.00% -

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 74,776 49,490 72,464
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.01% 88.82% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 52,251 29,308 43,150
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 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +5.94% +6.32%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
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%

IT Technician
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Technician in the UK excluding London

IT Technician
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Technician in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for IT Technician in the UK excluding London

IT Technician
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Technician in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Technician in the UK excluding London

IT Technician
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 IT Technician within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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 +154 279 £27,500 +1.85% 50
South East +176 248 £27,000 +1.89% 36
East of England +95 216 £26,372 -4.10% 12
Midlands +107 204 £26,750 +7.00% 41
South West +42 138 £28,000 -1.75% 31
North West +49 127 £27,500 +1.97% 21
Yorkshire +150 109 £27,000 +5.88% 17
West Midlands +69 101 £28,000 +9.80% 20
East Midlands +49 97 £26,000 +13.04% 21
Wales +51 51 £26,000 -10.34% 6
North East +19 43 £27,500 -32.40% 12
Scotland -41 34 £24,000 -20.00% 5
Northern Ireland +25 6 £29,500 - 1
IT Technician
UK

IT Technician Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 8 June 2024, IT Technician 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 IT Technician in the job title.

1 520 (44.22%) Windows
2 506 (43.03%) Microsoft 365
3 441 (37.50%) Microsoft
4 341 (29.00%) Active Directory
5 338 (28.74%) Social Skills
6 298 (25.34%) Customer Service
7 294 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 218 (18.54%) Windows Server
9 155 (13.18%) Microsoft Office
10 154 (13.10%) Windows 10
11 150 (12.76%) Azure
12 105 (8.93%) Driving Licence
13 94 (7.99%) DNS
14 91 (7.74%) Google
15 90 (7.65%) ITIL
16 89 (7.57%) Microsoft Exchange
17 82 (6.97%) Firewall
17 82 (6.97%) Entra ID
18 81 (6.89%) Manufacturing
19 79 (6.72%) Degree
20 75 (6.38%) DHCP
20 75 (6.38%) TCP/IP
21 73 (6.21%) Wireless
21 73 (6.21%) VMware
22 63 (5.36%) SharePoint
23 62 (5.27%) SLA
24 57 (4.85%) Line Management
24 57 (4.85%) Microsoft Intune
25 56 (4.76%) Law
25 56 (4.76%) Apple

IT Technician 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:

Application Platforms
1 89 (7.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 63 (5.36%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.02%) Confluence
4 6 (0.51%) Exchange Server 2007
4 6 (0.51%) Exchange Server 2010
4 6 (0.51%) Exchange Server 2013
5 3 (0.26%) IIS
6 2 (0.17%) Resin
6 2 (0.17%) SAS
7 1 (0.085%) Apache
7 1 (0.085%) Site Server
Applications
1 155 (13.18%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.17%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.085%) Blender
4 1 (0.085%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.085%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.085%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 506 (43.03%) Microsoft 365
2 150 (12.76%) Azure
3 82 (6.97%) Entra ID
4 42 (3.57%) Google Workspace
5 29 (2.47%) AWS
6 20 (1.70%) OneDrive
7 14 (1.19%) SaaS
8 10 (0.85%) Power Platform
8 10 (0.85%) WhatsApp
9 5 (0.43%) ChatGPT
10 4 (0.34%) IaaS
11 3 (0.26%) Dropbox
11 3 (0.26%) PaaS
12 2 (0.17%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (0.17%) Dynamics 365
13 1 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 1 (0.085%) Google Drive
13 1 (0.085%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 94 (7.99%) DNS
2 82 (6.97%) Firewall
3 75 (6.38%) DHCP
3 75 (6.38%) TCP/IP
4 73 (6.21%) Wireless
5 51 (4.34%) Wi-Fi
6 48 (4.08%) LAN
7 43 (3.66%) VLAN
8 36 (3.06%) VoIP
8 36 (3.06%) VPN
9 30 (2.55%) WAN
10 22 (1.87%) Internet
10 22 (1.87%) Network Security
11 16 (1.36%) Broadband
12 12 (1.02%) NAS
12 12 (1.02%) SAN
13 10 (0.85%) FTP
13 10 (0.85%) MPLS
14 6 (0.51%) IMAP
14 6 (0.51%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (1.79%) SQL Server
2 10 (0.85%) Power BI
3 6 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.085%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.085%) MySQL
4 1 (0.085%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (1.53%) JIRA
2 6 (0.51%) Eclipse
3 3 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 338 (28.74%) Social Skills
2 81 (6.89%) Manufacturing
3 56 (4.76%) Law
4 55 (4.68%) Finance
5 48 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
6 40 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
7 27 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 26 (2.21%) Local Government
8 26 (2.21%) Retail
8 26 (2.21%) Telecoms
9 16 (1.36%) Public Sector
10 14 (1.19%) Legal
11 13 (1.11%) Marketing
12 7 (0.60%) Advertising
13 5 (0.43%) Automotive
13 5 (0.43%) Electronics
14 4 (0.34%) Back Office
14 4 (0.34%) Military
14 4 (0.34%) Multimedia
15 3 (0.26%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (0.51%) CSS
1 6 (0.51%) HTML
2 5 (0.43%) .NET
3 3 (0.26%) ASP.NET
3 3 (0.26%) EDI
3 3 (0.26%) jQuery
4 2 (0.17%) Web Services
5 1 (0.085%) Classic ASP
Miscellaneous
1 105 (8.93%) Driving Licence
2 48 (4.08%) Housing Association
3 41 (3.49%) Onboarding
4 39 (3.32%) Self-Motivation
5 26 (2.21%) Management Information System
6 24 (2.04%) CCTV
6 24 (2.04%) Educational Technology
7 8 (0.68%) Data Centre
7 8 (0.68%) LIMS
7 8 (0.68%) NHS
8 7 (0.60%) EPoS
9 6 (0.51%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.34%) iPad
11 4 (0.34%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.34%) Video Conferencing
12 3 (0.26%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.26%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.26%) Renewable Energy
13 2 (0.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 520 (44.22%) Windows
2 218 (18.54%) Windows Server
3 154 (13.10%) Windows 10
4 44 (3.74%) Linux
5 42 (3.57%) Apple iOS
5 42 (3.57%) Mac OS
6 33 (2.81%) Windows Server 2012
7 30 (2.55%) Windows Server 2016
8 24 (2.04%) Android
9 19 (1.62%) Windows Server 2019
10 18 (1.53%) Windows 8
10 18 (1.53%) Windows Server 2008
11 17 (1.45%) Windows 7
12 5 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 4 (0.34%) Unix
14 2 (0.17%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.17%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.085%) Windows Phone
15 1 (0.085%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (25.34%) Customer Service
2 294 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 90 (7.65%) ITIL
4 57 (4.85%) Line Management
5 52 (4.42%) Cybersecurity
6 50 (4.25%) ITSM
7 42 (3.57%) Time Management
8 37 (3.15%) Project Management
9 36 (3.06%) Mathematics
9 36 (3.06%) Service Management
10 32 (2.72%) Collaborative Working
10 32 (2.72%) Service Delivery
11 28 (2.38%) Asset Management
11 28 (2.38%) Coaching
12 25 (2.13%) Disaster Recovery
12 25 (2.13%) Mobile Device Management
13 22 (1.87%) Migration
14 19 (1.62%) Preventative Maintenance
15 18 (1.53%) Mentoring
15 18 (1.53%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 48 (4.08%) SQL
2 29 (2.47%) PowerShell
3 14 (1.19%) VB
4 12 (1.02%) C#
5 7 (0.60%) Java
6 6 (0.51%) Python
7 3 (0.26%) C++
7 3 (0.26%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.26%) VB.NET
8 2 (0.17%) Bash
9 1 (0.085%) Swift
Qualifications
1 79 (6.72%) Degree
2 54 (4.59%) DBS Check
3 46 (3.91%) Microsoft Certification
4 42 (3.57%) A+ Certification
5 27 (2.30%) Security Cleared
6 26 (2.21%) SC Cleared
7 24 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
8 20 (1.70%) CCNA
9 17 (1.45%) MCSE
10 13 (1.11%) MCP
11 10 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
11 10 (0.85%) MCITP
12 9 (0.77%) Network+ Certification
13 8 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
14 7 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 6 (0.51%) MCSA
16 5 (0.43%) HNC
17 4 (0.34%) Azure Certification
18 3 (0.26%) HND
19 2 (0.17%) GNVQ
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (5.27%) SLA
2 15 (1.28%) GDPR
3 12 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
3 12 (1.02%) QA
4 10 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 8 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.34%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.17%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.17%) DICOM
8 1 (0.085%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 341 (29.00%) Active Directory
2 54 (4.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 51 (4.34%) Hyper-V
4 16 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.68%) Terminal Services
6 5 (0.43%) vSphere
7 4 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.17%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.17%) Firmware
9 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.085%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 57 (4.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (1.87%) SCCM
3 6 (0.51%) PaperCut
4 5 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (0.34%) AirWatch
5 4 (0.34%) SmoothWall
6 3 (0.26%) Autotask
6 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 3 (0.26%) NetCrunch
6 3 (0.26%) SCDPM
7 2 (0.17%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.085%) Graylog
8 1 (0.085%) WSUS
Vendors
1 441 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 91 (7.74%) Google
3 73 (6.21%) VMware
4 56 (4.76%) Apple
5 42 (3.57%) Cisco
6 14 (1.19%) Veeam
7 10 (0.85%) Meraki
8 9 (0.77%) Citrix
8 9 (0.77%) Dell
8 9 (0.77%) Sage
9 8 (0.68%) Ubiquiti
10 7 (0.60%) Atlassian
10 7 (0.60%) Sophos
11 6 (0.51%) Avaya
11 6 (0.51%) ESET
12 5 (0.43%) Datto
12 5 (0.43%) Red Hat
13 4 (0.34%) Oracle
13 4 (0.34%) WatchGuard
14 3 (0.26%) Draytek