Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Support Technician role in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Support Technician in their job title over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Berkshire region.

 Support Technician
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank156154252
Rank change year-on-year
Down-2Up+98
Matching permanent IT job ads51128
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire0.127 %0.237 %0.237 %
As % of the Job Titles category0.136 %0.256 %0.251 %
Salaries quoted5923
Average salary£20,000£22,000£26,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.090 %-16.98 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£19,000£20,000£18,253
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£23,200£30,000£34,200
UK excluding London average salary£23,250£22,000£22,500
% change year-on-year
+5.680 %-2.220 %
Berkshire IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
3676429811144
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire93.32 %92.43 %94.32 %
Salaries quoted308834959178
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£25,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£60,000£60,000£62,500
UK excluding London average salary£35,556£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+1.580 %-
Support Technician South EastSupport Technician
South East

Support Technician
Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Support Technician Demand Trend

Support Technician
Salary Trend

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

Berkshire Support Technician Salary Trend

Support Technician
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Support Technician within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
ReadingUp+161£22,000-26.66 %
NewburyDown-91£19,000-19.14 %
WindsorNew entry-1£24,000-
Support Technician South EastSupport Technician
South East

Support Technician
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Support Technician 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 Technician in their job title.

19 (100.00 %)Windows
24 (44.44 %)Active Directory
24 (44.44 %)Windows XP
24 (44.44 %)MS Office
33 (33.33 %)Microsoft
33 (33.33 %)Windows Vista
42 (22.22 %)Exchange Server 2003
42 (22.22 %)MS Exchange
42 (22.22 %)MS Excel
51 (11.11 %)SharePoint
51 (11.11 %)HP
51 (11.11 %)Blackberry
51 (11.11 %)LAN
51 (11.11 %)DHCP
51 (11.11 %)DNS
51 (11.11 %)SLA
51 (11.11 %)Visual Studio
51 (11.11 %)ASP.NET
51 (11.11 %)ITIL
51 (11.11 %)HTML
51 (11.11 %)JavaScript
51 (11.11 %)SQL
51 (11.11 %)T-SQL
51 (11.11 %).NET
51 (11.11 %)IIS
51 (11.11 %)Windows Mobile
51 (11.11 %)Wireless

Support Technician
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Support Technician 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 Technician in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Berkshire IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11 (11.11 %)HTML
11 (11.11 %).NET
11 (11.11 %)ASP.NET
Berkshire IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
12 (22.22 %)MS Exchange
12 (22.22 %)Exchange Server 2003
21 (11.11 %)IIS
21 (11.11 %)SharePoint
Berkshire IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
14 (44.44 %)MS Office
22 (22.22 %)MS Excel
Berkshire IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11 (11.11 %)LAN
11 (11.11 %)DHCP
11 (11.11 %)DNS
11 (11.11 %)Wireless
Berkshire IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11 (11.11 %)Visual Studio
Berkshire IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11 (11.11 %)Blackberry
Berkshire IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
19 (100.00 %)Windows
24 (44.44 %)Windows XP
33 (33.33 %)Windows Vista
41 (11.11 %)Windows Mobile
Berkshire IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11 (11.11 %)ITIL
Berkshire IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11 (11.11 %)JavaScript
11 (11.11 %)SQL
11 (11.11 %)T-SQL
Berkshire IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (11.11 %)SLA
Berkshire IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
14 (44.44 %)Active Directory
Berkshire IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
13 (33.33 %)Microsoft
21 (11.11 %)HP