Bedfordshire Technical Support Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Technical Support role in IT jobs within the Bedfordshire 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 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Technical Support
Location Abingdon Aldershot Alfreton Amersham Andover Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blandford Forum Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley 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 Cranleigh Crawley Crewe Croydon Darlington Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dunbar Durham East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Feltham Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gourock Grays Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hull Inverclyde Ipswich Isle of Man Keighley Kent Kidderminster Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesbrough 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 Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Smethwick Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Tilbury Tring Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welling Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	53	55
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching permanent IT job ads	25	13
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	2.750 %	1.564 %
Salaries quoted	21	13
Average minimum salary	£46,429	£31,538
Average salary	£47,310	£34,538
% change on same period last year	+36.97 %
Average maximum salary	£48,190	£37,538
UK excluding London average salary	£29,916	£29,436
% change on same period last year	+1.63 %
Job Titles Bedfordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	909	831
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.496 %	0.349 %
Salaries quoted	750	723
Average minimum salary	£34,659	£33,062
Average salary	£37,457	£35,518
% change on same period last year	+5.45 %
Average maximum salary	£40,255	£37,974
UK excluding London average salary	£38,060	£39,458
% change on same period last year	-3.54 %
Technical Support East of England

Technical Support
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Technical Support across the Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region.

Technical Support
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Technical Support across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

Technical Support
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Support within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Bedford	-18	1	£32,000	-3.39 %
Leighton Buzzard	-	1	£20,000	-

Technical Support East of England

Technical Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 27 (55.10 %) Cisco 2 23 (46.94 %) IP Telephony 2 23 (46.94 %) Logistics 3 18 (36.73 %) Windows 4 11 (22.45 %) Oracle 5 9 (18.37 %) SQL Server 6 8 (16.33 %) IIS 7 7 (14.29 %) Microsoft 8 6 (12.24 %) MS Excel 8 6 (12.24 %) SQL Server 2005 9 5 (10.20 %) TCP/IP 9 5 (10.20 %) Windows Server 2003 10 4 (8.163 %) Microsoft Certification 10 4 (8.163 %) Active Directory 10 4 (8.163 %) Oracle 10g

10 4 (8.163 %) MCSE 10 4 (8.163 %) AS400 10 4 (8.163 %) Oracle 9i 10 4 (8.163 %) WFM 10 4 (8.163 %) Windows 2000 Server 11 3 (6.122 %) Degree 11 3 (6.122 %) Education 11 3 (6.122 %) UNIX 12 2 (4.082 %) SQL 12 2 (4.082 %) .NET 12 2 (4.082 %) MS Office 12 2 (4.082 %) Linux 12 2 (4.082 %) Windows XP 12 2 (4.082 %) MS Exchange 12 2 (4.082 %) LAN

Technical Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 Development 1 2 (4.082 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 8 (16.33 %) IIS 2 2 (4.082 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (2.041 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 1 (2.041 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 1 (2.041 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 6 (12.24 %) MS Excel 2 2 (4.082 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (2.041 %) Retail-J
Communications & Networking 1 23 (46.94 %) IP Telephony 2 5 (10.20 %) TCP/IP 3 2 (4.082 %) DNS 3 2 (4.082 %) Firewall 3 2 (4.082 %) LAN 3 2 (4.082 %) WAN 4 1 (2.041 %) DHCP 4 1 (2.041 %) Wireless	Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (18.37 %) SQL Server 2 6 (12.24 %) SQL Server 2005 3 4 (8.163 %) Oracle 9i 3 4 (8.163 %) Oracle 10g 4 2 (4.082 %) GIS 5 1 (2.041 %) SQL Server 2000
General 1 3 (6.122 %) Education 2 1 (2.041 %) Manufacturing 2 1 (2.041 %) Retail	Miscellaneous 1 4 (8.163 %) AS400 2 1 (2.041 %) EPoS
Operating Systems 1 18 (36.73 %) Windows 2 5 (10.20 %) Windows Server 2003 3 4 (8.163 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 3 (6.122 %) UNIX 5 2 (4.082 %) Linux 5 2 (4.082 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 23 (46.94 %) Logistics 2 4 (8.163 %) WFM 3 2 (4.082 %) Asset Management 4 1 (2.041 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 2 (4.082 %) SQL 2 1 (2.041 %) Java	Qualifications 1 4 (8.163 %) MCSE 1 4 (8.163 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (6.122 %) Degree 3 1 (2.041 %) MCP 3 1 (2.041 %) MCSA 3 1 (2.041 %) CCNP 3 1 (2.041 %) CCNA 3 1 (2.041 %) Cisco Certification
System Software 1 4 (8.163 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 27 (55.10 %) Cisco 2 11 (22.45 %) Oracle 3 7 (14.29 %) Microsoft 4 2 (4.082 %) IBM 5 1 (2.041 %) Citrix 5 1 (2.041 %) Sage 5 1 (2.041 %) VMware