
IT support · managed services · multi-sector specialist
IT support built on 20 years inside the industries we serve.
Construction, logistics, marketing agencies, charities, telecoms, law firms and professional services — twenty years of doing this means we've already seen the version of your problem that's specific to your industry. Talk to Alice, our senior IT support consultant, about your business.
AI IT support consultant · speaks & listens · knows every industry we work with
- 20 yrs
- Multi-sector experience
- 13
- Industries served
- UK
- Coverage
- 1 team
- Named engineer, no handoffs
Alice
Senior IT Support Consultant
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Trusted by construction, logistics, financial and professional services businesses across the UK
20+ yrs
Experience
50,000+
Tickets resolved
2 hrs
Severe issue response
Cyber Essentials
Ready
GDPR
Ready
London
Based engineers
Why this matters
Why do most businesses only think about IT support once something's gone wrong?
A server goes down, a phishing email gets through, someone's locked out of their email on a Monday morning — and suddenly IT support is urgent. The problem is that shopping for IT support under pressure means comparing quotes on price and availability, not on whether the provider actually understands your business. By the time the search starts, the damage is usually already done.
The businesses that get the most out of IT support treat it as ongoing infrastructure, not emergency cover. Patching happens before a vulnerability gets exploited, backups get tested before they're ever needed, and the engineer who picks up the phone already knows your network rather than reading it for the first time. We don't think reactive-only IT support is a bad model because it's unfashionable — we think it's expensive, because every hour of downtime and every unpatched system is a cost a managed relationship would usually have caught first.
What we do
IT support built around how your business actually runs.
Managed IT support
Proactive monitoring, patching and a named account manager, not a ticket queue.
Business IT support
Support built around how your company operates, not a generic template.
Cyber security
Endpoint protection, email security, MFA, GDPR-aligned controls.
Cloud & Microsoft 365
M365 deployment, identity management, Teams and SharePoint governance.
Backup & disaster recovery
Tested backup, not just backup software installed and forgotten.
IT infrastructure & networking
Cabling, switching, firewalls, Wi-Fi, built to the scale of the business.
What we mean by IT support
What does "IT support" actually mean?
For some providers, IT support is a helpdesk phone number and not much else. For us it covers the full stack a modern business actually depends on: the network and Wi-Fi routing traffic reliably, endpoints kept patched and monitored rather than left to update themselves, Microsoft 365 configured properly instead of left on default settings, and backups that are tested — not just scheduled and forgotten. Cyber security sits underneath all of it, because every UK business now receives phishing and ransomware attempts on a weekly basis whether they notice or not.
IT support that only covers one or two of those areas is only doing part of the job. A business can have a fast, well-monitored network and still get compromised through an unpatched laptop, or have excellent endpoint security and still lose a week of work because nobody actually tested the backup. Managed IT support done properly treats these as one connected system, with one team accountable for all of it — not a collection of point solutions from different suppliers who've never spoken to each other.
Everything underneath "IT support"
The technical capability behind the phrase.
"IT support" covers a lot of ground. Here's the actual capability underneath it — we're building dedicated pages for each of these individually, but every one of them is already something our engineers handle day to day.
Helpdesk & endpoint
Infrastructure & network
Cloud & Microsoft
Security & continuity
Our technology partners
Vendor-neutral, chosen on engineering merit.
The recommendation for any business comes from the survey, the budget and the operational fit — not from the discount we have this quarter.
Core infrastructure
Network & security
Cloud & productivity
Partner status accreditations are being established progressively under Pacific Technology Solutions Ltd. Listed vendors reflect technologies actively deployed across our client estate.
How we work
From first call to a named engineer who knows your setup.
Free IT Gap Analysis
A senior engineer reviews your current setup — on-site or remotely — no obligation.
A straight recommendation
What's wrong, what isn't, and roughly what it costs to fix.
Migration & handover plan
If you're switching provider, we run the transition so nothing drops in between.
Managed support or project delivery
A named engineer who already knows your setup, not someone reading it for the first time.
Industries we work in
Twenty years across industries that don't look like each other on paper.
The same senior-engineer approach has run across these industries for 20 years.
Based in or around London? See our dedicated IT support London page for same business day onsite response details.
Why choose us
Operational reasons, not marketing lines.
UK engineers only
No outsourced or offshore helpdesk — every engineer on your account is based in the UK.
20+ years experience
Two decades across genuinely different sectors, not two decades doing the same generic desktop support.
Direct access to senior engineers
You reach the person who knows your setup, not a first-line filter reading from a script.
Fast onsite response
Same business day response for issues that need someone physically present.
No outsourced helpdesk
One team, accountable end to end — not a call centre passing you between departments.
Multi-sector specialists
Construction, logistics, financial services, charities and more — not a one-size-fits-all template.
How we compare
Pacific Technologies vs. a typical MSP.
| Pacific Technologies | Typical MSP | |
|---|---|---|
| First point of contact | Senior engineer | First-line helpdesk |
| Sector experience | Construction, logistics, charities, hospitality and more | General IT, no sector depth |
| Scope | Infrastructure, cyber security and cloud, as one system | Mostly desktop support and ticket triage |
| Support location | UK-based engineers only | Often outsourced or offshore |
| Provider switching | Managed migration & handover plan | Left to figure out yourself |
Honest fit
Who this probably isn't for.
We're probably not the right IT provider if:
- You need home or personal PC support rather than business IT
- You're looking for the cheapest provider available, rather than the right fit
- You only need occasional ad hoc remote fixes with no ongoing relationship
- You need weekend-only or purely out-of-hours support with no daytime cover
If that sounds like you, we'd rather say so upfront than take you on as a client we can't serve properly.
FAQ
IT support — questions we get asked
20+ years supporting construction, logistics and freight, marketing and creative agencies, charities, telecoms, law firms, financial services, accounting, recruitment, healthcare and food businesses — each with genuinely different compliance, software and operational demands.
Both, and the majority of our clients end up with a mix of the two over time. Fully managed IT support is billed monthly and covers ongoing monitoring, patching, the helpdesk and a named account manager — the day-to-day running of your IT. Project work is scoped and billed separately: a Microsoft 365 migration, a new office fit-out, a network redesign, a cyber security review. Many clients start with a single project (often the free IT Gap Analysis leads directly into one), then move to managed support once we've proven the fit. Others only ever need project work and manage day-to-day support in-house. We scope whichever applies to you honestly, rather than pushing every enquiry toward a managed contract by default.
Most IT support companies can technically support any business, because the underlying technology — networks, Microsoft 365, backups, security — doesn't change much between sectors. What changes is the operational context around it: a charity's budget approval cycle, a construction site's patchy connectivity, a law firm's confidentiality requirements, an agency's deadline-driven workload. Twenty years across these specific named sectors means we've usually already seen your industry's particular version of a problem, rather than treating every client the same way a purely generalist provider often does. That's the practical difference — not a marketing claim, but the result of two decades of exposure to how different industries actually operate day to day.
Yes. The industries listed are where we have the deepest experience, but the same senior-engineer approach applies to any business — get in touch and we'll have a straight conversation about your situation.
We work on a quote basis, confirmed after the free IT Gap Analysis once we understand your actual setup — we don't publish a flat rate card because IT support pricing depends genuinely on your infrastructure and team size.
It starts with the free IT Gap Analysis, so we understand exactly what you currently have before anything moves. From there we build a migration and handover plan covering every system — email, backups, network devices, licensing, passwords and documentation — with an agreed cut-over date. Your current provider's notice period and contract terms are factored into the timeline, and we run the transition so your support is never interrupted; there's no gap where nobody is covering you. Once the handover is complete, you get a named engineer who already understands your setup from the Gap Analysis, not someone starting from zero on day one.
A senior engineer reviews your current IT setup — on-site or remotely, whichever suits — covering network and Wi-Fi, device and server health, backup and disaster recovery arrangements, Microsoft 365 configuration, and cyber security controls like MFA and endpoint protection. You get a straight written or verbal assessment of what's working, what needs attention, and roughly what any recommended fix would cost, with no obligation to proceed afterwards. It's the same starting point whether you're looking to switch provider, considering managed support for the first time, or just want an honest second opinion on your current setup.
Properly done, IT support covers the network and Wi-Fi that carries your traffic, endpoints (laptops, desktops, servers) kept patched and monitored, Microsoft 365 and cloud administration configured correctly rather than left on default settings, backup and disaster recovery that's actually tested, and cyber security — MFA, email security, endpoint protection — running underneath all of it. Some providers only cover one or two of these areas and call it IT support; we treat all of them as one connected system with a single team accountable for the whole thing, because a gap in any one area (an untested backup, an unpatched laptop) undermines the rest.
Yes — deployment, identity management, Teams and SharePoint governance, and ongoing administration are all part of our managed IT support.
Both. Most day-to-day support is remote and monitored, but we provide onsite engineers for anything that needs a physical presence — same business day for issues that require it.
Yes, multi-site support is something we handle regularly, with a consistent named team across every location rather than a different point of contact per site.
Severe issues are typically responded to within 2 hours. Response times for lower-priority tickets are agreed as part of your support plan.
Network and endpoint monitoring runs continuously — issues are frequently caught and resolved before a client notices anything was wrong.
Yes — endpoint protection, email security, multi-factor authentication and GDPR-aligned controls are core to every managed support arrangement, not an optional add-on.
Yes — hospitality is our deepest specialism, with dedicated hotel Wi-Fi, PMS integration, IPTV and infrastructure services alongside our wider business IT support.
No fixed minimum — we support small businesses through to larger multi-site organisations, and the free Gap Analysis is the same regardless of size.
Yes. Our day-to-day practices — MFA, endpoint protection, patch management, access control, secure configuration and firewalls — are built around the Cyber Essentials framework's five technical controls, and our approach to client data handling follows GDPR-aligned principles: data minimisation, documented retention and clear processing records. We're pursuing formal Cyber Essentials certification alongside this and will publish it once held, so we're deliberately not overstating our current position — 'ready' means the practices are in place, not that the certificate has been issued yet. If formal certification is a requirement for your business (some insurers and clients ask for it specifically), that's worth flagging early in the Gap Analysis conversation.
Yes — cloud-first setups, secure remote access and Microsoft 365 administration are all designed to work for hybrid and fully remote teams, not just office-based staff.
It can be scoped either way — as part of a full managed support agreement, or as a standalone project if that's all you need right now.
It starts with the Gap Analysis and a migration plan, then a handover on an agreed date — timelines depend on the size and complexity of your current setup, but you're never left without support during the switch.
Reviewed by
Zishan Ali Khan — Director
20+ years designing and supporting business IT infrastructure across hospitality, construction, logistics, financial services and professional services.
Last updated: July 2026
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