Birmingham Support Engineer Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT jobs within the Birmingham 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 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Alfreton Altrincham Amersham Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Avonmouth Aylesbury Banbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Billericay Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brierley Hill Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckfastleigh Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Caterham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall Corsham Coulsdon County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Cranleigh Crawley Croydon Dagenham Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dunstable Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gourock Greenford Guildford Hackney Hailsham Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Haslemere Havant Hayes Haywards Heath Heanor Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Heywood High Wycombe Hitchin Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverclyde Ipswich Isleworth Kent Kettering Kidderminster Kidlington King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lewisham Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lutterworth Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Matlock Melksham Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Neath Neath Port Talbot Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Osterley Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Pontypool Poole Port Talbot Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Retford Romsey Royston Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark Spalding St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke Mandeville Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Tetbury Tewkesbury Thames Valley Thatcham Thurrock Torfaen Tring Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Wallington Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welwyn Welwyn Garden City Wembley 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 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	89	61
Rank change on same period last year	-28
Matching permanent IT job ads	33	74
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.032 %
As % of the category below	1.509 %	2.597 %
Salaries quoted	32	53
Average minimum salary	£23,500	£24,174
Average salary	£25,469	£26,166
% change on same period last year	-2.66 %
Average maximum salary	£27,438	£28,158
UK excluding London average salary	£29,521	£28,970
% change on same period last year	+1.90 %
Job Titles Birmingham
Matching permanent IT job ads	2187	2849
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.270 %	1.226 %
Salaries quoted	1954	2407
Average minimum salary	£35,998	£35,711
Average salary	£39,588	£39,230
% change on same period last year	+0.91 %
Average maximum salary	£43,178	£42,750
UK excluding London average salary	£38,156	£39,208
% change on same period last year	-2.68 %
Support Engineer West Midlands

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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.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Support Engineer across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, 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.

1 47 (55.29 %) Windows 2 38 (44.71 %) WAN 2 38 (44.71 %) TCP/IP 3 36 (42.35 %) LAN 4 33 (38.82 %) Microsoft Certification 5 31 (36.47 %) MCSE 6 25 (29.41 %) Cisco Certification 6 25 (29.41 %) Microsoft 7 24 (28.24 %) SQL Server 8 23 (27.06 %) Windows XP 8 23 (27.06 %) Cisco 8 23 (27.06 %) CCNA 8 23 (27.06 %) Windows Server 2003 9 21 (24.71 %) Active Directory 10 19 (22.35 %) Telecoms

11 18 (21.18 %) UNIX 12 16 (18.82 %) SQL 13 15 (17.65 %) Oracle 13 15 (17.65 %) Linux 14 14 (16.47 %) MS Office 14 14 (16.47 %) MCP 14 14 (16.47 %) IBM 15 13 (15.29 %) MS Excel 15 13 (15.29 %) MS Exchange 15 13 (15.29 %) Exchange Server 2003 16 11 (12.94 %) DB2 16 11 (12.94 %) HP 17 9 (10.59 %) CCNP 17 9 (10.59 %) VoIP 17 9 (10.59 %) Client/Server

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, 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.

Application Development 1 6 (7.059 %) HTML 1 6 (7.059 %) .NET 2 5 (5.882 %) XML 3 1 (1.176 %) .NET Framework 3 1 (1.176 %) ASP 3 1 (1.176 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 13 (15.29 %) MS Exchange 1 13 (15.29 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 9 (10.59 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 7 (8.235 %) SharePoint 4 4 (4.706 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 2 (2.353 %) IIS 5 2 (2.353 %) Lotus Notes 6 1 (1.176 %) Apache 6 1 (1.176 %) CMS
Applications 1 14 (16.47 %) MS Office 2 13 (15.29 %) MS Excel 3 2 (2.353 %) MS PowerPoint	Communications & Networking 1 38 (44.71 %) WAN 1 38 (44.71 %) TCP/IP 2 36 (42.35 %) LAN 3 9 (10.59 %) VoIP 4 8 (9.412 %) Firewall 5 7 (8.235 %) Cisco PIX 6 6 (7.059 %) VPN 7 4 (4.706 %) ISDN 7 4 (4.706 %) Internet 7 4 (4.706 %) SS7 8 3 (3.529 %) OSPF 8 3 (3.529 %) DNS 9 2 (2.353 %) SAN 9 2 (2.353 %) MPLS 9 2 (2.353 %) SMTP 9 2 (2.353 %) Wireless 9 2 (2.353 %) Cisco IOS 9 2 (2.353 %) Network Security 10 1 (1.176 %) Cisco ASA 10 1 (1.176 %) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence 1 24 (28.24 %) SQL Server 2 11 (12.94 %) DB2 3 1 (1.176 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (1.176 %) SQL Server 2008	General 1 19 (22.35 %) Telecoms 2 9 (10.59 %) Marketing 3 6 (7.059 %) Pensions 3 6 (7.059 %) Health 4 5 (5.882 %) Finance 5 1 (1.176 %) Automotive 5 1 (1.176 %) Education 5 1 (1.176 %) Law 5 1 (1.176 %) Retail 5 1 (1.176 %) Insurance 5 1 (1.176 %) Back Office
Miscellaneous 1 9 (10.59 %) Client/Server 2 5 (5.882 %) Blackberry 3 3 (3.529 %) SCADA 4 2 (2.353 %) Fat Client 4 2 (2.353 %) Thin Client 5 1 (1.176 %) EPoS 5 1 (1.176 %) Replication 5 1 (1.176 %) e-Health 5 1 (1.176 %) SecurID 5 1 (1.176 %) VAX	Operating Systems 1 47 (55.29 %) Windows 2 23 (27.06 %) Windows XP 2 23 (27.06 %) Windows Server 2003 3 18 (21.18 %) UNIX 4 15 (17.65 %) Linux 5 9 (10.59 %) Windows 2000 5 9 (10.59 %) Windows Vista 5 9 (10.59 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 7 (8.235 %) HPUX 7 6 (7.059 %) AIX 8 1 (1.176 %) Solaris 8 1 (1.176 %) VMS 8 1 (1.176 %) Red Hat Linux 8 1 (1.176 %) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (3.529 %) Data Management 1 3 (3.529 %) Direct Marketing 2 2 (2.353 %) Time Management 3 1 (1.176 %) System Testing 3 1 (1.176 %) Service Delivery 3 1 (1.176 %) Practice Management	Programming Languages 1 16 (18.82 %) SQL 2 5 (5.882 %) C 2 5 (5.882 %) C# 3 4 (4.706 %) JavaScript 4 1 (1.176 %) VB.NET 4 1 (1.176 %) VBA
Qualifications 1 33 (38.82 %) Microsoft Certification 2 31 (36.47 %) MCSE 3 25 (29.41 %) Cisco Certification 4 23 (27.06 %) CCNA 5 14 (16.47 %) MCP 6 9 (10.59 %) CCNP 7 7 (8.235 %) Degree 8 3 (3.529 %) MCSA 9 1 (1.176 %) CCSP 9 1 (1.176 %) CCSA 9 1 (1.176 %) CCVP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (4.706 %) SLA
System Software 1 21 (24.71 %) Active Directory 2 7 (8.235 %) Backup Exec 3 5 (5.882 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 2 (2.353 %) Terminal Services 5 1 (1.176 %) ISA Server 5 1 (1.176 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 2 (2.353 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 1 (1.176 %) NNM 2 1 (1.176 %) OpenView
Vendors 1 25 (29.41 %) Microsoft 2 23 (27.06 %) Cisco 3 15 (17.65 %) Oracle 4 14 (16.47 %) IBM 5 11 (12.94 %) HP 6 8 (9.412 %) Citrix 7 7 (8.235 %) Symantec 8 6 (7.059 %) CheckPoint 8 6 (7.059 %) VERITAS 9 3 (3.529 %) VMware 9 3 (3.529 %) Avaya 9 3 (3.529 %) Nokia 9 3 (3.529 %) Remedy 10 2 (2.353 %) Alcatel 10 2 (2.353 %) Lotus 11 1 (1.176 %) Red Hat 11 1 (1.176 %) Mitel 11 1 (1.176 %) Altiris 11 1 (1.176 %) Concord 11 1 (1.176 %) CA