Support Specialist Jobs in the Thames Valley

Support Specialist
South East > Thames Valley

The median Support Specialist salary in the Thames Valley is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 182 244 272
Rank change year-on-year +62 +28 -38
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Specialist 69 3 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.93% 0.054% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% 0.060% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 58 3 8
10th Percentile £27,250 - £29,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £41,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% +41.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £57,650 £43,750 £35,938
90th Percentile £59,000 - £47,000
South East median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £35,750
% change year-on-year - +25.87% +2.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 7,014 4,983 7,202
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 89.46% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 4,713 3,046 4,156
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £41,132
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £64,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,750 £87,500 £81,250
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Support Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings that featured Support Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Support Specialist in the Thames Valley

Support Specialist
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Support Specialist in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Support Specialist in the Thames Valley

Support Specialist
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Support Specialist in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 26 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Support Specialist in the Thames Valley

Support Specialist
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Support Specialist within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 26 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
Berkshire - 53 £55,000 - 5
Buckinghamshire - 9 £30,000 -
Oxfordshire -4 7 £24,000 -43.53% 4
Support Specialist
South East

Support Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 26 June 2024, 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 Thames Valley region featuring Support Specialist in the job title.

1 41 (59.42%) Security Cleared
2 38 (55.07%) Active Directory
3 35 (50.72%) Azure
4 33 (47.83%) SC Cleared
5 30 (43.48%) SCCM
6 27 (39.13%) DV Cleared
7 26 (37.68%) Microsoft
8 25 (36.23%) ITIL
8 25 (36.23%) Agile
9 24 (34.78%) Service Management
10 23 (33.33%) Social Skills
11 22 (31.88%) Windows Server 2016
11 22 (31.88%) Windows Server 2019
11 22 (31.88%) Windows Server
11 22 (31.88%) Windows
11 22 (31.88%) Degree
11 22 (31.88%) WSUS
12 21 (30.43%) Microsoft Exchange
12 21 (30.43%) DNS
12 21 (30.43%) Entra ID
12 21 (30.43%) Microsoft 365
13 20 (28.99%) Self-Motivation
13 20 (28.99%) PowerShell
14 19 (27.54%) Release Management
14 19 (27.54%) SCOM
14 19 (27.54%) PKI
14 19 (27.54%) Firewall
14 19 (27.54%) Identity Management
14 19 (27.54%) DHCP
14 19 (27.54%) C#

Support Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 21 (30.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 35 (50.72%) Azure
2 21 (30.43%) Entra ID
2 21 (30.43%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (27.54%) Azure Monitor
3 19 (27.54%) Azure Storage
4 1 (1.45%) SaaS
4 1 (1.45%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 21 (30.43%) DNS
2 19 (27.54%) DHCP
2 19 (27.54%) Firewall
3 3 (4.35%) 5G
3 3 (4.35%) Broadband
4 2 (2.90%) SAN
4 2 (2.90%) SD-WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (1.45%) JIRA
General
1 23 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (4.35%) Finance
2 3 (4.35%) Legal
3 1 (1.45%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (1.45%) French Language
3 1 (1.45%) Marketing
3 1 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (27.54%) ARM Templates
2 3 (4.35%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 20 (28.99%) Self-Motivation
2 19 (27.54%) PKI
3 1 (1.45%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 22 (31.88%) Windows
1 22 (31.88%) Windows Server
1 22 (31.88%) Windows Server 2016
1 22 (31.88%) Windows Server 2019
2 19 (27.54%) Linux
3 3 (4.35%) Windows 10
3 3 (4.35%) Windows NT
3 3 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (36.23%) Agile
1 25 (36.23%) ITIL
2 24 (34.78%) Service Management
3 19 (27.54%) Analytics
3 19 (27.54%) CI/CD
3 19 (27.54%) DevOps
3 19 (27.54%) Identity Management
3 19 (27.54%) Infrastructure as Code
3 19 (27.54%) Log Analytics
3 19 (27.54%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 19 (27.54%) Privileged Identity Management
3 19 (27.54%) RBAC
3 19 (27.54%) Release Management
4 8 (11.59%) Customer Service
5 5 (7.25%) Collaborative Working
5 5 (7.25%) Incident Management
6 4 (5.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (4.35%) Collaborative Culture
7 3 (4.35%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (4.35%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (28.99%) PowerShell
2 19 (27.54%) Bicep
2 19 (27.54%) C#
2 19 (27.54%) VB
2 19 (27.54%) VBScript
3 1 (1.45%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 41 (59.42%) Security Cleared
2 33 (47.83%) SC Cleared
3 27 (39.13%) DV Cleared
4 22 (31.88%) Degree
5 19 (27.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.45%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.45%) QA
System Software
1 38 (55.07%) Active Directory
2 19 (27.54%) Virtual Desktop
2 19 (27.54%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (4.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 30 (43.48%) SCCM
2 22 (31.88%) WSUS
3 19 (27.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 19 (27.54%) Kubernetes
3 19 (27.54%) Microsoft Intune
3 19 (27.54%) SCOM
4 3 (4.35%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 26 (37.68%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.35%) Oracle
2 3 (4.35%) Virgin Media
3 2 (2.90%) Sage
3 2 (2.90%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.90%) VMware