The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. 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 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Bedfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Engineer
Rank 67 67 65
Rank change year-on-year
0 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 28 17 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 2.583% 1.722% 1.535%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.721% 1.793% 1.601%
Number of salaries quoted 25 11 13
Average salary £27,000 £35,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-23.94% -11.25%
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
All Job Titles
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1029 948 812
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 94.93% 96.05% 95.87%
Number of salaries quoted 911 805 767
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £58,000 £56,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Support Engineer
East of England

Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Support Engineer across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Bedfordshire Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Bedfordshire Support Engineer Salary Trend

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Support Engineer across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Bedfordshire Support Engineer Salary Histogram

Support Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Support Engineer within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Dunstable - 10 £42,500 -
Luton +3 9 £24,000 -36.00%
Bedford -4 7 £24,000 +20.00%
Support Engineer
East of England

Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 32 (53.33%) Windows
2 25 (41.67%) Cisco
3 21 (35.00%) Finance
4 20 (33.33%) VMware
4 20 (33.33%) TCP/IP
5 19 (31.67%) Microsoft
6 15 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (25.00%) Oracle
7 14 (23.33%) CCNA
7 14 (23.33%) Active Directory
7 14 (23.33%) Degree
8 13 (21.67%) HP
8 13 (21.67%) CCNP
8 13 (21.67%) Linux
9 12 (20.00%) UNIX
9 12 (20.00%) SAN
10 11 (18.33%) MS Exchange
11 10 (16.67%) Solaris
11 10 (16.67%) CheckPoint
11 10 (16.67%) Red Hat
11 10 (16.67%) CCSP
11 10 (16.67%) DNS
11 10 (16.67%) Computer Science
11 10 (16.67%) Network Security
12 9 (15.00%) Windows 7
12 9 (15.00%) LAN
12 9 (15.00%) VoIP
12 9 (15.00%) Python
12 9 (15.00%) SQL
13 8 (13.33%) MS Office

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 3 (5.000%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 11 (18.33%) MS Exchange
2 8 (13.33%) Exchange Server 2010
3 5 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2003
4 3 (5.000%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (1.667%) Office Communications Server
5 1 (1.667%) Amazon AWS
5 1 (1.667%) Lync
5 1 (1.667%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (1.667%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (1.667%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.667%) IIS
5 1 (1.667%) Apache
5 1 (1.667%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (13.33%) MS Office
2 3 (5.000%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.667%) Dynamics GP
Communications & Networking
1 20 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 12 (20.00%) SAN
3 10 (16.67%) DNS
3 10 (16.67%) Network Security
4 9 (15.00%) LAN
4 9 (15.00%) VoIP
5 8 (13.33%) DHCP
5 8 (13.33%) SS7
5 8 (13.33%) IP Telephony
5 8 (13.33%) Cisco PIX
6 7 (11.67%) Fibre Channel
6 7 (11.67%) WAN
7 4 (6.667%) LDAP
7 4 (6.667%) Firewall
7 4 (6.667%) SSH
7 4 (6.667%) VLAN
8 3 (5.000%) Wireless
8 3 (5.000%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (5.000%) NAS
8 3 (5.000%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.000%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (3.333%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 21 (35.00%) Finance
2 3 (5.000%) Banking
3 1 (1.667%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 5 (8.333%) Replication
3 1 (1.667%) PKI
3 1 (1.667%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 32 (53.33%) Windows
2 13 (21.67%) Linux
3 12 (20.00%) UNIX
4 10 (16.67%) Solaris
5 9 (15.00%) Windows 7
6 8 (13.33%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (11.67%) Windows XP
7 7 (11.67%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (1.667%) Windows Vista
8 1 (1.667%) AIX
8 1 (1.667%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (13.33%) Software Engineering
2 7 (11.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (8.333%) Change Management
4 3 (5.000%) ITIL
4 3 (5.000%) Configuration Management
5 2 (3.333%) Migration
5 2 (3.333%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (1.667%) Network Management
6 1 (1.667%) Network Load Balancing
6 1 (1.667%) Data Protection
6 1 (1.667%) Product Management
6 1 (1.667%) Data Security
6 1 (1.667%) Service Delivery
6 1 (1.667%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 9 (15.00%) Python
1 9 (15.00%) SQL
2 8 (13.33%) C
2 8 (13.33%) C#
2 8 (13.33%) C++
2 8 (13.33%) Java
3 1 (1.667%) Perl
3 1 (1.667%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.667%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.667%) Bourne shell
3 1 (1.667%) C-shell
3 1 (1.667%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 15 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (23.33%) CCNA
2 14 (23.33%) Degree
3 13 (21.67%) CCNP
4 10 (16.67%) CCSP
5 8 (13.33%) CCIE
5 8 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (13.33%) CCSA
5 8 (13.33%) CCSE
6 6 (10.00%) MCSE
7 5 (8.333%) MCP
7 5 (8.333%) MCITP
8 4 (6.667%) MCTS
9 3 (5.000%) MCSA
9 3 (5.000%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (5.000%) A+ Certification
9 3 (5.000%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (3.333%) CCIP
11 1 (1.667%) CCVP
11 1 (1.667%) VCP4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.667%) SLA
2 3 (5.000%) QA
2 3 (5.000%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (23.33%) Active Directory
2 8 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (13.33%) vSphere
3 5 (8.333%) Hyper-V
4 4 (6.667%) XenApp
4 4 (6.667%) XenServer
5 3 (5.000%) VMware ESX
6 2 (3.333%) Terminal Server
6 2 (3.333%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.667%) NFS
7 1 (1.667%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (1.667%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (1.667%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (10.00%) WSUS
2 1 (1.667%) Cisco UCCX
2 1 (1.667%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 1 (1.667%) BMC PATROL
2 1 (1.667%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 25 (41.67%) Cisco
2 20 (33.33%) VMware
3 19 (31.67%) Microsoft
4 15 (25.00%) Oracle
5 13 (21.67%) HP
6 10 (16.67%) Red Hat
6 10 (16.67%) CheckPoint
7 8 (13.33%) Citrix
8 7 (11.67%) CommVault
9 6 (10.00%) FalconStor
10 5 (8.333%) LANDesk
10 5 (8.333%) EMC
10 5 (8.333%) Sun
11 4 (6.667%) Twitter
12 2 (3.333%) Avaya
12 2 (3.333%) Juniper
13 1 (1.667%) BMC
13 1 (1.667%) Nortel
13 1 (1.667%) SolarWinds
13 1 (1.667%) Symantec
Bedfordshire, South East
Skills essential:* Solaris 8,9,10* Redhat and or OEL* HP Chassis/Blade based server technology * Cisco UCS Server Platform* TCP, IP, DNS, SSH, DNS, LDAP,* Sun/Oracle...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 25 April 2013