The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical 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 Technical Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Support Engineer
Rank - 91 77
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Support Engineer 0 1 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham - 0.069% 1.278%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.071% 1.330%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 17
Average salary - £28,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -36.66%
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £34,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-4.41% +13.33%
All Job Titles
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1587 1402 1278
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 94.69% 96.49% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1333 1251 1113
Average salary £41,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.33% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Technical Support Engineer
West Midlands

Technical Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham Technical Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Birmingham Technical Support Engineer Salary Trend

Technical Support Engineer
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region that cited Technical 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 Technical Support Engineer in their job title.

1 6 (100.00%) CCNA
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (83.33%) IP Telephony
2 5 (83.33%) Nortel Meridian
2 5 (83.33%) Telecoms
2 5 (83.33%) Avaya
2 5 (83.33%) C
2 5 (83.33%) LAN
2 5 (83.33%) VoIP
2 5 (83.33%) WAN
2 5 (83.33%) Unified Communications
2 5 (83.33%) R
2 5 (83.33%) Nortel
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) MS Office
3 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (16.67%) MCDST
3 1 (16.67%) MCTS

Technical Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region that cited Technical 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 Technical Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) LAN
1 5 (83.33%) VoIP
1 5 (83.33%) WAN
1 5 (83.33%) IP Telephony
1 5 (83.33%) Nortel Meridian
1 5 (83.33%) Unified Communications
General
1 5 (83.33%) Telecoms
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) C
1 5 (83.33%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) CCNA
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) MCDST
2 1 (16.67%) MCTS
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Nortel
1 5 (83.33%) Avaya
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Extensive Networking Knowledge(Routing Protocols, DNS, DHCP,TCP/IP, VLAN) Experience with Network Security. Enterprise Directory Solutions(Microsoft Active Directory, Novell, Open Directory) Virtualised Environments with specific experience...
Bloxx Ltd
Salary: Dependent on experience - Company Car will be provided
Posted: 7 May 2013