The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Support Specialist role in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Technical Support Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Support Specialist
Rank 212 211 201
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -10
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Support Specialist 7 11 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.134% 0.179% 0.173%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.143% 0.189% 0.184%
Number of salaries quoted 4 10 9
Average salary £36,500 £47,500 £24,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-23.15% +93.87%
UK excluding London average salary £37,250 £33,500 £31,000
% change year-on-year
+11.19% +8.06%
All Job Titles
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
4901 5818 4903
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 94.07% 94.43% 94.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3900 4958 4077
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +1.19%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Technical Support Specialist
South East

Technical Support Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Technical Support Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Support Specialist
Salary Trend

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

Berkshire Technical Support Specialist Salary Trend

Technical Support Specialist
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Support Specialist within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Reading -4 6 £36,500 -23.15%
Bracknell -26 1 - -
Technical Support Specialist
South East

Technical Support Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Technical Support Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title.

1 20 (90.91%) UNIX
1 20 (90.91%) AIX
1 20 (90.91%) HPUX
1 20 (90.91%) Solaris
1 20 (90.91%) Linux
2 19 (86.36%) SAN
3 14 (63.64%) Windows
4 8 (36.36%) Red Hat
4 8 (36.36%) SUSE
4 8 (36.36%) Clustering
4 8 (36.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (31.82%) Replication
5 7 (31.82%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (31.82%) Hitachi
5 7 (31.82%) Sun
5 7 (31.82%) EMC
6 3 (13.64%) German Language
7 2 (9.091%) French Language
7 2 (9.091%) HTML
7 2 (9.091%) XML
7 2 (9.091%) SQL
8 1 (4.545%) J2EE
8 1 (4.545%) Oracle
8 1 (4.545%) SQL Server
8 1 (4.545%) Sybase
8 1 (4.545%) DB2
8 1 (4.545%) CSS
8 1 (4.545%) JSP
8 1 (4.545%) OOP
8 1 (4.545%) Windows XP

Technical Support Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Technical Support Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (9.091%) HTML
1 2 (9.091%) XML
2 1 (4.545%) J2EE
2 1 (4.545%) CSS
2 1 (4.545%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.545%) MS Exchange
1 1 (4.545%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (4.545%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (4.545%) Live Communications Server
1 1 (4.545%) Exchange Server 2003
Communications & Networking
1 19 (86.36%) SAN
2 1 (4.545%) HTTP
2 1 (4.545%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.545%) Internet
2 1 (4.545%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.545%) SQL Server
1 1 (4.545%) DB2
1 1 (4.545%) RDBMS
1 1 (4.545%) DB2 UDB
General
1 3 (13.64%) German Language
2 2 (9.091%) French Language
3 1 (4.545%) Italian Language
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) Clustering
2 7 (31.82%) Replication
3 1 (4.545%) Blackberry
3 1 (4.545%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 20 (90.91%) UNIX
1 20 (90.91%) AIX
1 20 (90.91%) HPUX
1 20 (90.91%) Solaris
1 20 (90.91%) Linux
2 14 (63.64%) Windows
3 8 (36.36%) SUSE
3 8 (36.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.545%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (4.545%) OOP
2 1 (4.545%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (4.545%) ITIL
2 1 (4.545%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.091%) SQL
2 1 (4.545%) Java
2 1 (4.545%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Red Hat
2 7 (31.82%) Hitachi
2 7 (31.82%) Sun
2 7 (31.82%) EMC
3 1 (4.545%) Oracle
3 1 (4.545%) Sybase
3 1 (4.545%) Microsoft
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Posted: 25 May 2013