Berkshire Support Engineer Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT jobs within the Berkshire 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 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Support Engineer
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Alfreton Altrincham Amersham Ascot Avonmouth Aylesbury Barnet Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexley Billericay Birmingham Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brierley Hill Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckfastleigh Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Caterham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Corsham Coulsdon County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Cranleigh Crawley Croydon Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dunstable Durham East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edenbridge Edinburgh Egham Elland Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Flintshire Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gourock Greenford Guildford Gwent Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Havant Hayes Haywards Heath Heanor Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Heywood High Wycombe Hitchin Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverclyde Inverurie Ipswich Isle of Wight Isleworth Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewisham Lincoln Lincolnshire Liphook Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Market Harborough Matlock Melksham Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Neath Neath Port Talbot Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Ongar Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Ringwood Rochdale Rochester Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Neots Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke Mandeville Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Tetbury Tewkesbury Thames Valley Thurrock Tonbridge Torfaen Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welwyn Garden City 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 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	50	36
Rank change on same period last year	-14
Matching permanent IT job ads	307	564
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.198 %	0.252 %
As % of the category below	4.034 %	4.942 %
Salaries quoted	270	510
Average minimum salary	£29,747	£30,019
Average salary	£32,139	£32,871
% change on same period last year	-2.22 %
Average maximum salary	£34,531	£35,724
UK excluding London average salary	£29,306	£28,835
% change on same period last year	+1.63 %
Job Titles Berkshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	7610	11412
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	4.910 %	5.108 %
Salaries quoted	6369	9337
Average minimum salary	£38,871	£38,405
Average salary	£42,272	£42,054
% change on same period last year	+0.51 %
Average maximum salary	£45,673	£45,703
UK excluding London average salary	£38,468	£39,125
% change on same period last year	-1.68 %
Support Engineer South East

Support Engineer
Demand Trend

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

Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Support Engineer across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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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 Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 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
Reading	+19	121	£32,125	+0.66 %
Bracknell	+10	51	£31,696	+4.60 %
Slough	-20	28	£29,074	-8.78 %
Maidenhead	+6	18	£31,667	-4.22 %
Newbury	-27	13	£24,885	-10.74 %
Wokingham	-2	9	£22,375	-29.80 %
Windsor	-8	8	£35,071	+24.26 %
Ascot	-12	1	£30,000	+1.69 %

Support Engineer South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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.

1 415 (52.66 %) Windows 2 242 (30.71 %) TCP/IP 3 207 (26.27 %) UNIX 4 167 (21.19 %) Microsoft 5 158 (20.05 %) Cisco 5 158 (20.05 %) Active Directory 6 155 (19.67 %) Firewall 7 153 (19.42 %) Windows Server 2003 8 122 (15.48 %) German Language 9 116 (14.72 %) Linux 10 115 (14.59 %) Cisco Certification 11 108 (13.71 %) LAN 12 107 (13.58 %) MS Excel 13 106 (13.45 %) Microsoft Certification 14 97 (12.31 %) CCNA

15 91 (11.55 %) DNS 16 84 (10.66 %) MCSE 17 82 (10.41 %) SQL 18 80 (10.15 %) MS Exchange 18 80 (10.15 %) Degree 19 78 (9.898 %) WAN 19 78 (9.898 %) Windows 2000 20 77 (9.772 %) Internet 21 74 (9.391 %) SQL Server 22 73 (9.264 %) French Language 23 71 (9.010 %) Solaris 24 70 (8.883 %) Oracle 25 68 (8.629 %) VPN 26 65 (8.249 %) Windows XP 27 64 (8.122 %) MS Office

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 33 (4.188 %) J2EE 2 27 (3.426 %) XML 3 26 (3.299 %) HTML 4 19 (2.411 %) .NET 5 17 (2.157 %) WebSphere 6 13 (1.650 %) WebServices 6 13 (1.650 %) CSS 7 6 (0.761 %) ASP 7 6 (0.761 %) J2SE 8 5 (0.635 %) JSP 8 5 (0.635 %) Hibernate 8 5 (0.635 %) Spring 9 4 (0.508 %) AJAX 9 4 (0.508 %) LAMP 9 4 (0.508 %) SOAP 9 4 (0.508 %) CGI 10 3 (0.381 %) XSLT 11 2 (0.254 %) Middleware 11 2 (0.254 %) COM 12 1 (0.127 %) COM+	Application Platforms 1 80 (10.15 %) MS Exchange 2 51 (6.472 %) Apache 3 50 (6.345 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 42 (5.330 %) Tomcat 5 40 (5.076 %) IIS 6 24 (3.046 %) WebLogic 7 21 (2.665 %) Lotus Notes 8 20 (2.538 %) Exchange Server 2007 9 12 (1.523 %) Exchange Server 2000 10 7 (0.888 %) JBoss 10 7 (0.888 %) SharePoint 11 6 (0.761 %) CMS 12 5 (0.635 %) GroupWise 12 5 (0.635 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 12 5 (0.635 %) Oracle HTTP Server 13 4 (0.508 %) WebSphere MQ 13 4 (0.508 %) IBM HTTP Server 13 4 (0.508 %) Exchange Server 5.5 14 2 (0.254 %) SAS 14 2 (0.254 %) WebSphere Application Server
Applications 1 107 (13.58 %) MS Excel 2 64 (8.122 %) MS Office 3 7 (0.888 %) MS Visio 4 1 (0.127 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 21 (2.665 %) Teamcenter 2 5 (0.635 %) SalesLogix 3 2 (0.254 %) SoftGrid 4 1 (0.127 %) GoldMine 4 1 (0.127 %) Applix TM1
Communications & Networking 1 242 (30.71 %) TCP/IP 2 155 (19.67 %) Firewall 3 108 (13.71 %) LAN 4 91 (11.55 %) DNS 5 78 (9.898 %) WAN 6 77 (9.772 %) Internet 7 68 (8.629 %) VPN 8 61 (7.741 %) DHCP 9 46 (5.838 %) VoIP 9 46 (5.838 %) Network Security 10 35 (4.442 %) Ethernet 10 35 (4.442 %) SAN 10 35 (4.442 %) Wireless 11 25 (3.173 %) OSPF 11 25 (3.173 %) BGP 12 22 (2.792 %) Cisco IOS 13 19 (2.411 %) MPLS 13 19 (2.411 %) SMTP 13 19 (2.411 %) LDAP 14 18 (2.284 %) ATM	Database & Business Intelligence 1 74 (9.391 %) SQL Server 2 17 (2.157 %) MySQL 3 15 (1.904 %) DB2 4 14 (1.777 %) RDBMS 5 7 (0.888 %) SQL Server 2005 5 7 (0.888 %) Oracle 9i 6 6 (0.761 %) Oracle 10g 7 5 (0.635 %) SQL Server 2000 8 4 (0.508 %) BusinessObjects 8 4 (0.508 %) Datawarehouse 8 4 (0.508 %) ETL 9 3 (0.381 %) SQL Server 2008 10 2 (0.254 %) GIS 10 2 (0.254 %) Oracle 8/8i 11 1 (0.127 %) MS Access 11 1 (0.127 %) OLAP 11 1 (0.127 %) Crystal Reports 11 1 (0.127 %) Informix 11 1 (0.127 %) Oracle OLAP 11 1 (0.127 %) Oracle 11g
Development Applications 1 8 (1.015 %) MSI 2 1 (0.127 %) ClearCase 2 1 (0.127 %) OpenDeploy 2 1 (0.127 %) RequisitePro 2 1 (0.127 %) ClearQuest	General 1 50 (6.345 %) Telecoms 2 39 (4.949 %) Pensions 3 29 (3.680 %) Manufacturing 4 21 (2.665 %) Health 4 21 (2.665 %) Education 5 20 (2.538 %) Finance 6 15 (1.904 %) Retail 7 12 (1.523 %) Electronics 8 10 (1.269 %) Government 9 6 (0.761 %) Pharmaceutical 10 5 (0.635 %) Electric 10 5 (0.635 %) Legal 10 5 (0.635 %) Military 10 5 (0.635 %) Auditing 11 4 (0.508 %) Insurance 12 3 (0.381 %) Law 12 3 (0.381 %) Financial Institution 12 3 (0.381 %) Back Office 13 2 (0.254 %) Publishing 13 2 (0.254 %) Billing
Miscellaneous 1 122 (15.48 %) German Language 2 73 (9.264 %) French Language 3 35 (4.442 %) Computer Science 4 24 (3.046 %) Clustering 5 22 (2.792 %) Blackberry 6 17 (2.157 %) Spanish Language 7 14 (1.777 %) Italian Language 8 11 (1.396 %) Speech Recognition 9 10 (1.269 %) Client/Server 10 9 (1.142 %) Video Conferencing 11 6 (0.761 %) Dutch Language 11 6 (0.761 %) Portuguese Language 11 6 (0.761 %) Replication 11 6 (0.761 %) Artificial Intelligence 12 4 (0.508 %) PDA 12 4 (0.508 %) Statistics 12 4 (0.508 %) IVR 13 3 (0.381 %) STB 13 3 (0.381 %) Danish Language 13 3 (0.381 %) Russian Language	Operating Systems 1 415 (52.66 %) Windows 2 207 (26.27 %) UNIX 3 153 (19.42 %) Windows Server 2003 4 116 (14.72 %) Linux 5 78 (9.898 %) Windows 2000 6 71 (9.010 %) Solaris 7 65 (8.249 %) Windows XP 8 45 (5.711 %) Windows Vista 9 29 (3.680 %) Red Hat Linux 10 27 (3.426 %) Windows 2000 Server 11 26 (3.299 %) Windows NT 12 24 (3.046 %) HPUX 13 19 (2.411 %) AIX 14 14 (1.777 %) SUSE 15 11 (1.396 %) Windows Server 2008 16 7 (0.888 %) NetWare 17 5 (0.635 %) Debian 18 4 (0.508 %) VMS 18 4 (0.508 %) FreeBSD 19 3 (0.381 %) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies 1 26 (3.299 %) ITIL 2 21 (2.665 %) CAD 3 20 (2.538 %) Data Management 3 20 (2.538 %) PLM 3 20 (2.538 %) PDM 4 14 (1.777 %) Security Cleared 5 13 (1.650 %) Business Intelligence 6 10 (1.269 %) Service Delivery 7 9 (1.142 %) Web Development 8 8 (1.015 %) Validation 8 8 (1.015 %) Content Management 9 7 (0.888 %) Disaster Recovery 10 6 (0.761 %) Document Management 10 6 (0.761 %) Network Design 10 6 (0.761 %) Time Management 11 5 (0.635 %) Requirements Analysis 11 5 (0.635 %) Process Management 11 5 (0.635 %) Data Security 12 4 (0.508 %) Project Management 12 4 (0.508 %) SC Cleared	Programming Languages 1 82 (10.41 %) SQL 2 61 (7.741 %) Java 3 32 (4.061 %) C 4 29 (3.680 %) Perl 5 15 (1.904 %) JavaScript 6 13 (1.650 %) VB 6 13 (1.650 %) Shell Script 7 11 (1.396 %) VB.NET 8 7 (0.888 %) C++ 9 6 (0.761 %) PHP 9 6 (0.761 %) VBScript 9 6 (0.761 %) Python 10 5 (0.635 %) Korn 11 4 (0.508 %) Jython 12 3 (0.381 %) Transact-SQL 13 2 (0.254 %) VBA 13 2 (0.254 %) C# 14 1 (0.127 %) COBOL 14 1 (0.127 %) DHTML 14 1 (0.127 %) PL/SQL
Qualifications 1 115 (14.59 %) Cisco Certification 2 106 (13.45 %) Microsoft Certification 3 97 (12.31 %) CCNA 4 84 (10.66 %) MCSE 5 80 (10.15 %) Degree 6 63 (7.995 %) CCNP 7 45 (5.711 %) MCP 8 25 (3.173 %) MCSA 9 16 (2.030 %) CCVP 10 15 (1.904 %) CCIP 11 13 (1.650 %) CCSA 12 11 (1.396 %) Network+ Certification 13 10 (1.269 %) Novell Certification 14 9 (1.142 %) A+ Certification 14 9 (1.142 %) CCDP 15 8 (1.015 %) CNA 15 8 (1.015 %) MCDST 16 7 (0.888 %) CCSE 16 7 (0.888 %) CCIE 17 5 (0.635 %) JNCIS	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 23 (2.919 %) SLA 2 19 (2.411 %) QA 3 1 (0.127 %) GAMP
System Software 1 158 (20.05 %) Active Directory 2 25 (3.173 %) Backup Exec 3 19 (2.411 %) NFS 4 13 (1.650 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 13 (1.650 %) Nmap 5 10 (1.269 %) Terminal Services 6 4 (0.508 %) Citrix Presentation Server 6 4 (0.508 %) NetBackup 7 3 (0.381 %) MetaFrame 7 3 (0.381 %) Squid 8 2 (0.254 %) Xen 8 2 (0.254 %) ISA Server 9 1 (0.127 %) VMware ESX 9 1 (0.127 %) Microsoft Virtual Server	Systems Management 1 13 (1.650 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 11 (1.396 %) CiscoWorks 3 8 (1.015 %) Nessus 4 6 (0.761 %) WSUS 4 6 (0.761 %) SCCM 4 6 (0.761 %) MOM 4 6 (0.761 %) Netcool 5 5 (0.635 %) ZENworks 6 3 (0.381 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 7 2 (0.254 %) OpenView 7 2 (0.254 %) Tivoli 7 2 (0.254 %) Netcool/Proviso 8 1 (0.127 %) MIMEsweeper 8 1 (0.127 %) HP Data Protector 8 1 (0.127 %) OpenView Configuration Management 8 1 (0.127 %) ARCserve
Vendors 1 167 (21.19 %) Microsoft 2 158 (20.05 %) Cisco 3 70 (8.883 %) Oracle 4 51 (6.472 %) CheckPoint 5 50 (6.345 %) Citrix 6 35 (4.442 %) Juniper 7 32 (4.061 %) Red Hat 8 30 (3.807 %) Blue Coat 9 27 (3.426 %) Siemens 9 27 (3.426 %) HP 10 24 (3.046 %) VMware 11 23 (2.919 %) Sun 12 22 (2.792 %) Nokia 13 21 (2.665 %) Lotus 14 16 (2.030 %) Novell 14 16 (2.030 %) VERITAS 14 16 (2.030 %) Sybase 15 14 (1.777 %) Ericsson 16 11 (1.396 %) Nortel 16 11 (1.396 %) Avaya