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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham 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 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 Birmingham region.

 Support Engineer
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank6384100
Rank change year-on-year
Up+21Up+16
Matching permanent IT job ads161342
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham1.508 %0.895 %1.299 %
As % of the Job Titles category1.570 %0.935 %1.365 %
Salaries quoted121333
Average salary£25,500£20,500£25,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+24.39 %-19.60 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£19,550£17,500£22,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£34,750£29,400£30,000
UK excluding London average salary£27,500£27,500£28,500
% change year-on-year
--3.500 %
Birmingham IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
101913913077
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham96.04 %95.80 %95.17 %
Salaries quoted88711902688
Average salary£35,000£34,000£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.940 %-15.00 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£22,500£23,000£24,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£52,500£70,000£55,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,556£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+1.580 %-
Support Engineer West MidlandsSupport Engineer
West Midlands

Support Engineer
Demand Trend

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

Birmingham Support Engineer Demand Trend

Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Birmingham Support Engineer Salary Trend

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Support Engineer across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Birmingham Support Engineer Salary Histogram

Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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.

121 (61.76 %)Windows
210 (29.41 %)MS Office
38 (23.53 %)Microsoft
38 (23.53 %)Active Directory
38 (23.53 %)Windows Vista
47 (20.59 %)Microsoft Certification
56 (17.65 %)Windows Server 2003
56 (17.65 %)MS Excel
56 (17.65 %)SLA
56 (17.65 %)Cisco
65 (14.71 %)Firewall
65 (14.71 %)Finance
65 (14.71 %)Windows Server 2008
65 (14.71 %)LAN
65 (14.71 %)SQL
65 (14.71 %)MCP
74 (11.76 %)ITIL
74 (11.76 %)VoIP
74 (11.76 %)Windows XP
74 (11.76 %)WAN
83 (8.824 %)DNS
83 (8.824 %)MS Exchange
83 (8.824 %)SQL Server
83 (8.824 %)Perl
83 (8.824 %)MCSE
83 (8.824 %)Linux
83 (8.824 %)SAN
83 (8.824 %)Remedy
83 (8.824 %)Cisco Certification
83 (8.824 %)CCNA

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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.

Birmingham IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
13 (8.824 %)MS Exchange
22 (5.882 %)Oracle Application Server
22 (5.882 %)Exchange Server 2003
22 (5.882 %)Exchange Server 2007
31 (2.941 %)IIS
31 (2.941 %)Lotus Domino
31 (2.941 %)SharePoint
Birmingham IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
110 (29.41 %)MS Office
26 (17.65 %)MS Excel
32 (5.882 %)AutoCAD
32 (5.882 %)MicroStation
32 (5.882 %)ProjectWise
Birmingham IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
12 (5.882 %)Oracle 11i
Birmingham IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
15 (14.71 %)LAN
15 (14.71 %)Firewall
24 (11.76 %)VoIP
24 (11.76 %)WAN
33 (8.824 %)DNS
33 (8.824 %)SAN
42 (5.882 %)SMTP
51 (2.941 %)SNMP
51 (2.941 %)VPN
51 (2.941 %)MPLS
51 (2.941 %)OSPF
51 (2.941 %)BGP
51 (2.941 %)EIGRP
51 (2.941 %)TACACS
51 (2.941 %)WLAN
51 (2.941 %)VLAN
51 (2.941 %)Cisco ASA
Birmingham IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
13 (8.824 %)SQL Server
22 (5.882 %)Oracle Reports
22 (5.882 %)Oracle 8/8i
22 (5.882 %)Oracle Discoverer
22 (5.882 %)Oracle 10g
22 (5.882 %)SQL Server 2005
31 (2.941 %)SQL Server 2000
31 (2.941 %)MS Access
Birmingham IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
15 (14.71 %)Finance
23 (8.824 %)Banking
23 (8.824 %)Marketing
31 (2.941 %)Government
31 (2.941 %)Telecoms
Birmingham IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
13 (8.824 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
21 (2.941 %)Clustering
21 (2.941 %)PDA
Birmingham IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
121 (61.76 %)Windows
28 (23.53 %)Windows Vista
36 (17.65 %)Windows Server 2003
45 (14.71 %)Windows Server 2008
54 (11.76 %)Windows XP
63 (8.824 %)Linux
72 (5.882 %)Windows 2000
72 (5.882 %)Windows 7
Birmingham IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
14 (11.76 %)ITIL
22 (5.882 %)CAD
22 (5.882 %)Service Delivery
22 (5.882 %)Change Management
31 (2.941 %)Incident Management
31 (2.941 %)Network Architecture
Birmingham IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
15 (14.71 %)SQL
23 (8.824 %)Perl
32 (5.882 %)Python
41 (2.941 %)C
Birmingham IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
17 (20.59 %)Microsoft Certification
25 (14.71 %)MCP
33 (8.824 %)MCSE
33 (8.824 %)CCNA
33 (8.824 %)Cisco Certification
42 (5.882 %)MOS
42 (5.882 %)ITIL Certification
51 (2.941 %)CCSA
51 (2.941 %)CCDP
51 (2.941 %)MCSA
51 (2.941 %)CCSP
51 (2.941 %)CCNP
51 (2.941 %)Degree
51 (2.941 %)Security Cleared
Birmingham IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
16 (17.65 %)SLA
21 (2.941 %)ISO9001
Birmingham IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
18 (23.53 %)Active Directory
22 (5.882 %)Citrix Presentation Server
22 (5.882 %)VMware Infrastructure
31 (2.941 %)vSphere
Birmingham IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
18 (23.53 %)Microsoft
26 (17.65 %)Cisco
33 (8.824 %)Remedy
33 (8.824 %)VMware
33 (8.824 %)Mitel
42 (5.882 %)Citrix
42 (5.882 %)Oracle
51 (2.941 %)CommVault
51 (2.941 %)IBM
51 (2.941 %)Nortel