The first table below looks at the demand for the 2nd Line Support role in IT jobs advertised for the Bradford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited 2nd Line Support in their job title over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Bradford region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Second Line Support
Rank 43 47 43
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a 2nd Line Support 3 3 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bradford 0.920% 0.794% 1.309%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.007% 0.824% 1.362%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 5
Average salary £25,500 £25,000 £21,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.00% +19.04%
UK excluding London average salary £25,000 £25,000 £24,000
% change year-on-year
- +4.16%
All Job Titles
Bradford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
298 364 367
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bradford 91.41% 96.30% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 204 283 228
Average salary £34,000 £34,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +4.61%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £23,500 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
2nd Line Support
West Yorkshire

2nd Line Support
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing 2nd Line Support across the Bradford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Bradford 2nd Line Support Jobs Demand Trend

2nd Line Support
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing 2nd Line Support across the Bradford region.

Bradford 2nd Line Support Salary Trend

2nd Line Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bradford region that cited 2nd Line Support 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 2nd Line Support in their job title.

1 8 (80.00%) Windows
2 7 (70.00%) Windows XP
2 7 (70.00%) DNS
2 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (70.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (60.00%) MS Excel
3 6 (60.00%) Windows Vista
3 6 (60.00%) Windows 7
3 6 (60.00%) Windows 8
4 2 (20.00%) CheckPoint
4 2 (20.00%) Juniper
4 2 (20.00%) VPN
4 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (20.00%) CCNA
4 2 (20.00%) SQL
4 2 (20.00%) CCSA
4 2 (20.00%) Network Security
4 2 (20.00%) Blue Coat
4 2 (20.00%) CCSE
4 2 (20.00%) JNCIA
4 2 (20.00%) JNCIS
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
5 1 (10.00%) VB.NET
5 1 (10.00%) .NET
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (10.00%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (10.00%) MS Office
5 1 (10.00%) SAP

2nd Line Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bradford region that cited 2nd Line Support 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 2nd Line Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
Applications
1 6 (60.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (10.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) DNS
2 2 (20.00%) VPN
2 2 (20.00%) Network Security
3 1 (10.00%) DHCP
3 1 (10.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (10.00%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (10.00%) DTS
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
2 7 (70.00%) Windows XP
3 6 (60.00%) Windows Vista
3 6 (60.00%) Windows 7
3 6 (60.00%) Windows 8
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (10.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (20.00%) CCSA
2 2 (20.00%) CCSE
2 2 (20.00%) JNCIA
2 2 (20.00%) JNCIS
2 2 (20.00%) CCNA
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (10.00%) MCP
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Juniper
2 2 (20.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (20.00%) Blue Coat
3 1 (10.00%) SAP
3 1 (10.00%) VMware