Basingstoke Technical Support Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Technical Support role in IT jobs within the Basingstoke region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Technical Support in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Technical Support
Location Abingdon Aldershot Alfreton Amersham Andover Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blandford Forum Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Coulsdon Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Daresbury Darlington Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gourock Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Hungerford Inverclyde Ipswich Isle of Man Keighley Kent Kidderminster Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrew Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Ringwood Rochdale Romford Rotherham Royston Ruislip Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Smethwick Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Telford Thame Thames Valley Tring Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welling Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Widnes Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	82	67
Rank change on same period last year	-15
Matching permanent IT job ads	25	7
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	1.767 %	0.777 %
Salaries quoted	17	5
Average minimum salary	£28,176	£33,800
Average salary	£32,147	£35,300
% change on same period last year	-8.93 %
Average maximum salary	£36,118	£36,800
UK excluding London average salary	£29,801	£27,977
% change on same period last year	+6.51 %
Job Titles Basingstoke
Matching permanent IT job ads	1415	901
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.747 %	0.369 %
Salaries quoted	1082	699
Average minimum salary	£35,106	£36,085
Average salary	£38,343	£38,443
% change on same period last year	-0.25 %
Average maximum salary	£41,581	£40,801
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
Technical Support Hampshire

Technical Support
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Technical Support across the Basingstoke region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Technical Support
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Technical Support across the Basingstoke region.

Technical Support
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Technical Support across the Basingstoke region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Technical Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Basingstoke region that cited Technical Support in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Technical Support in their job title.

1 10 (30.30 %) Windows 2 8 (24.24 %) SQL Server 2 8 (24.24 %) Health 3 7 (21.21 %) Oracle 4 6 (18.18 %) VMware 4 6 (18.18 %) Degree 4 6 (18.18 %) Pensions 4 6 (18.18 %) Windows 2000 4 6 (18.18 %) MS Excel 4 6 (18.18 %) Finance 5 5 (15.15 %) UNIX 5 5 (15.15 %) Cisco 5 5 (15.15 %) Microsoft 5 5 (15.15 %) Active Directory 6 4 (12.12 %) LAN

6 4 (12.12 %) TCP/IP 6 4 (12.12 %) C 6 4 (12.12 %) SQL 6 4 (12.12 %) CRM 6 4 (12.12 %) Solaris 6 4 (12.12 %) Electronics 6 4 (12.12 %) Pharmaceutical 6 4 (12.12 %) Citrix 6 4 (12.12 %) SAN 7 3 (9.091 %) ISA Server 7 3 (9.091 %) Symantec 7 3 (9.091 %) Microsoft Certification 7 3 (9.091 %) Telecoms 7 3 (9.091 %) Linux 7 3 (9.091 %) MCSE

Technical Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Basingstoke region that cited Technical Support in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Technical Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 3 (9.091 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (6.061 %) IIS 2 2 (6.061 %) Lotus Domino 2 2 (6.061 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 2 (6.061 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (3.030 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 1 (3.030 %) Live Communications Server	Applications 1 6 (18.18 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 4 (12.12 %) LAN 1 4 (12.12 %) TCP/IP 1 4 (12.12 %) SAN 2 2 (6.061 %) NGN 2 2 (6.061 %) DSL 2 2 (6.061 %) NetScreen 2 2 (6.061 %) Firewall 2 2 (6.061 %) UMTS 2 2 (6.061 %) LDAP 2 2 (6.061 %) Broadband 2 2 (6.061 %) CDMA 2 2 (6.061 %) GPRS 2 2 (6.061 %) GSM 2 2 (6.061 %) Cisco PIX 3 1 (3.030 %) VoIP 3 1 (3.030 %) DNS 3 1 (3.030 %) Wireless 3 1 (3.030 %) MD110 3 1 (3.030 %) Nortel Meridian 3 1 (3.030 %) GGSN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (24.24 %) SQL Server 2 1 (3.030 %) SQL Server 2000
General 1 8 (24.24 %) Health 2 6 (18.18 %) Pensions 2 6 (18.18 %) Finance 3 4 (12.12 %) Pharmaceutical 3 4 (12.12 %) Electronics 4 3 (9.091 %) Telecoms 5 2 (6.061 %) Education 5 2 (6.061 %) Marketing 5 2 (6.061 %) Banking	Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.061 %) Computer Science 1 2 (6.061 %) German Language 1 2 (6.061 %) CMDB
Operating Systems 1 10 (30.30 %) Windows 2 6 (18.18 %) Windows 2000 3 5 (15.15 %) UNIX 4 4 (12.12 %) Solaris 5 3 (9.091 %) Linux 6 2 (6.061 %) AIX 6 2 (6.061 %) Windows NT 7 1 (3.030 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (12.12 %) CRM 2 2 (6.061 %) Information Security 3 1 (3.030 %) Release Management 3 1 (3.030 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 4 (12.12 %) C 1 4 (12.12 %) SQL 2 2 (6.061 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 6 (18.18 %) Degree 2 3 (9.091 %) MCSE 2 3 (9.091 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (3.030 %) JNCIA 3 1 (3.030 %) CCNA 3 1 (3.030 %) Cisco Certification 3 1 (3.030 %) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (3.030 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 5 (15.15 %) Active Directory 2 3 (9.091 %) ISA Server 3 2 (6.061 %) Squid 4 1 (3.030 %) VMware ESX 4 1 (3.030 %) Backup Exec 4 1 (3.030 %) MetaFrame
Systems Management 1 1 (3.030 %) MOM 1 1 (3.030 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 1 (3.030 %) SCOM	Vendors 1 7 (21.21 %) Oracle 2 6 (18.18 %) VMware 3 5 (15.15 %) Cisco 3 5 (15.15 %) Microsoft 4 4 (12.12 %) Citrix 5 3 (9.091 %) IBM 5 3 (9.091 %) Symantec 6 2 (6.061 %) Novell 6 2 (6.061 %) Lotus 6 2 (6.061 %) CheckPoint 6 2 (6.061 %) Sun 7 1 (3.030 %) HP 7 1 (3.030 %) Dell 7 1 (3.030 %) Intel 7 1 (3.030 %) Nortel 7 1 (3.030 %) Ericsson 7 1 (3.030 %) Siemens