Bedford Support Engineer Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT jobs within the Bedford 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 Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alfreton Altrincham Amersham Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Avonmouth Aylesbury Banbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Billericay Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brierley Hill Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckfastleigh Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Caterham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall Corsham Coulsdon County Antrim Coventry Cranleigh Crawley Croydon Dagenham Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dunstable Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gourock Greenford Guildford Hackney Hailsham Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Haslemere Havant Hayes Haywards Heath Heanor Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Heywood High Wycombe Hitchin Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverclyde Ipswich Isleworth Kent Kettering Kidderminster Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lewisham Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lutterworth Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Matlock Melksham Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Neath Neath Port Talbot Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Osterley Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Pontypool Poole Port Talbot Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Retford Romsey Royston Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark Spalding St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke Mandeville Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Tetbury Tewkesbury Thames Valley Thatcham Thurrock Torfaen Tring Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Wallington Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welwyn Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wetherby Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	42	29
Rank change on same period last year	-13
Matching permanent IT job ads	9	6
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	2.609 %	2.532 %
Salaries quoted	9	6
Average minimum salary	£27,333	£18,000
Average salary	£29,000	£22,500
% change on same period last year	+28.88 %
Average maximum salary	£30,667	£27,000
UK excluding London average salary	£29,497	£28,917
% change on same period last year	+2.00 %
Job Titles Bedford
Matching permanent IT job ads	345	237
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.200 %	0.102 %
Salaries quoted	324	209
Average minimum salary	£32,770	£33,008
Average salary	£35,565	£36,350
% change on same period last year	-2.15 %
Average maximum salary	£38,360	£39,691
UK excluding London average salary	£38,208	£39,261
% change on same period last year	-2.68 %
Support Engineer Bedfordshire

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Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Support Engineer across the Bedford region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Bedford region that cited Support Engineer 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 Support Engineer in their job title.

1 14 (66.67 %) Windows 2 12 (57.14 %) SQL Server 3 11 (52.38 %) SQL 3 11 (52.38 %) Microsoft Certification 4 9 (42.86 %) Windows Server 2003 5 8 (38.10 %) Active Directory 5 8 (38.10 %) MCSE 5 8 (38.10 %) MCSA 6 6 (28.57 %) VMware 6 6 (28.57 %) IIS 6 6 (28.57 %) Linux 6 6 (28.57 %) MS Exchange 7 5 (23.81 %) TCP/IP 7 5 (23.81 %) Cisco 7 5 (23.81 %) Microsoft

7 5 (23.81 %) Oracle 7 5 (23.81 %) ITIL 7 5 (23.81 %) Telecoms 8 3 (14.29 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 3 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2007 8 3 (14.29 %) Education 8 3 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 3 (14.29 %) MCP 8 3 (14.29 %) UNIX 8 3 (14.29 %) MS Excel 8 3 (14.29 %) Java 9 2 (9.524 %) .NET 9 2 (9.524 %) C 9 2 (9.524 %) C++ 9 2 (9.524 %) ASP.NET

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Bedford region that cited Support Engineer 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 Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (9.524 %) .NET 1 2 (9.524 %) ASP.NET 1 2 (9.524 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 6 (28.57 %) IIS 1 6 (28.57 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 3 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 1 (4.762 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 1 (4.762 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 3 (14.29 %) MS Excel 2 1 (4.762 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 5 (23.81 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (9.524 %) SAN 2 2 (9.524 %) Broadband 3 1 (4.762 %) Internet 3 1 (4.762 %) Firewall 3 1 (4.762 %) DNS 3 1 (4.762 %) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (57.14 %) SQL Server 2 2 (9.524 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (4.762 %) SQL Server 2005	General 1 5 (23.81 %) Telecoms 2 3 (14.29 %) Education
Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.762 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 14 (66.67 %) Windows 2 9 (42.86 %) Windows Server 2003 3 6 (28.57 %) Linux 4 3 (14.29 %) UNIX 4 3 (14.29 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 1 (4.762 %) Windows Vista 5 1 (4.762 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (4.762 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (23.81 %) ITIL 2 2 (9.524 %) Software Engineering	Programming Languages 1 11 (52.38 %) SQL 2 3 (14.29 %) Java 3 2 (9.524 %) Shell Script 3 2 (9.524 %) C 3 2 (9.524 %) C++
Qualifications 1 11 (52.38 %) Microsoft Certification 2 8 (38.10 %) MCSE 2 8 (38.10 %) MCSA 3 3 (14.29 %) MCP 4 1 (4.762 %) Degree	System Software 1 8 (38.10 %) Active Directory 2 2 (9.524 %) VMware ESX 2 2 (9.524 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 2 (9.524 %) MOM	Vendors 1 6 (28.57 %) VMware 2 5 (23.81 %) Oracle 2 5 (23.81 %) Cisco 2 5 (23.81 %) Microsoft 3 2 (9.524 %) HP 3 2 (9.524 %) Dell 3 2 (9.524 %) Citrix 4 1 (4.762 %) CheckPoint