Ascend Consulting
Application Support Analyst
Job Description
Salary: £35,000 - 40,000 per year
Requirements:- Previous experience within helpdesk support, an IT team, or experience using school administration software.
- Strong aptitude with IT systems and software.
- Excellent communication skills with customers of varying technical abilities.
- Effective written and verbal communication with colleagues.
- Methodical and disciplined approach to problem solving.
- Strong desire for continuous improvement and willingness to learn accounting concepts and terminology.
- Tertiary qualification in information technology or a related field is advantageous.
- Experience monitoring contractual SLAs and KPIs, preparing performance or governance reports, supporting service reviews, and maintaining audit-ready compliance records is advantageous.
- Experience within the UK school education sector and/or the Educational Technology sector is advantageous.
- Provide support to customers via the service desk system, email, and phone.
- Offer clear and concise guidance on product features and functionality.
- Ensure a high level of customer satisfaction through professional, courteous communication.
- Apply strong product knowledge to assist customers effectively.
- Where required, own SLA and KPI compliance monitoring for customer contracts, tracking performance against the targets and thresholds set out in the relevant contract schedules.
- Assess the nature and urgency of customer issues.
- Troubleshoot, investigate, diagnose, and resolve customer-reported issues.
- Analyse customer-reported problems to identify root causes.
- Utilise diagnostic tools, techniques, and methodologies to resolve technical issues.
- Create detailed bug reports and assist with software testing.
- Document identified bugs with comprehensive detail for the development team.
- Support
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We are an exciting software company based in Andover, Hampshire, offering a hybrid role with a salary of up to £40,000. This is a great opportunity for a Senior Application Support Analyst to join us on our growth journey and play a key role in delivering high-quality support to customers using our products. The role also contributes to the development of self-service resources and processes while building subject matter expertise in our product software solution.
last updated 36 week of 2026
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Ascend Consulting
Andover
IT
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£37,500
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£45,000
UK median
This salary is 17% below the UK median for Analysts (£45,000/yr).
Based on 2024–2025 UK technology sector benchmarks