The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical 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 Technical Support 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 Bradford region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Support
Rank 41 47 35
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -12
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Support 4 5 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bradford 1.180% 1.188% 2.454%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.254% 1.225% 2.572%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 5
Average salary £17,000 £20,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-17.07% -45.33%
UK excluding London average salary £30,500 £30,000 £29,000
% change year-on-year
+1.66% +3.44%
All Job Titles
Bradford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
319 408 311
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bradford 94.10% 96.91% 95.40%
Number of salaries quoted 226 255 194
Average salary £33,500 £34,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.47% +4.61%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,000 £23,000 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,200 £47,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Technical Support
West Yorkshire

Technical Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bradford Technical Support Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Support
Salary Trend

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

Bradford Technical Support Salary Trend

Technical Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 10 (90.91%) Windows
1 10 (90.91%) Microsoft
2 6 (54.55%) Windows Vista
2 6 (54.55%) Windows 7
2 6 (54.55%) Windows 8
2 6 (54.55%) MS Excel
2 6 (54.55%) Windows XP
2 6 (54.55%) DNS
2 6 (54.55%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (36.36%) TCP/IP
4 3 (27.27%) Client/Server
4 3 (27.27%) IBM
4 3 (27.27%) SOA
4 3 (27.27%) FTP
4 3 (27.27%) HTTP
4 3 (27.27%) NetApp
4 3 (27.27%) Red Hat
4 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (27.27%) WebSphere MQ
4 3 (27.27%) Benchmarking
4 3 (27.27%) UNIX
4 3 (27.27%) AIX
4 3 (27.27%) Solaris
4 3 (27.27%) Linux
4 3 (27.27%) Apache
4 3 (27.27%) Tomcat
4 3 (27.27%) Java
4 3 (27.27%) VBScript
4 3 (27.27%) .NET
4 3 (27.27%) Oracle

Technical Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (27.27%) .NET
1 3 (27.27%) Web Services
1 3 (27.27%) XML
1 3 (27.27%) XSD
1 3 (27.27%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) WebSphere Application Server
1 3 (27.27%) IIS
1 3 (27.27%) Apache
1 3 (27.27%) Tomcat
1 3 (27.27%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (9.091%) SharePoint
2 1 (9.091%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 6 (54.55%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) DNS
2 4 (36.36%) TCP/IP
3 3 (27.27%) FTP
3 3 (27.27%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle 10g
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server 2005
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle 11g
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (9.091%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Client/Server
1 3 (27.27%) Open Source
2 1 (9.091%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Windows
2 6 (54.55%) Windows XP
2 6 (54.55%) Windows Vista
2 6 (54.55%) Windows 7
2 6 (54.55%) Windows 8
3 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (27.27%) SUSE
3 3 (27.27%) AIX
3 3 (27.27%) Solaris
3 3 (27.27%) Linux
3 3 (27.27%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) SOA
1 3 (27.27%) Benchmarking
1 3 (27.27%) Load Balancing
1 3 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
1 3 (27.27%) Integration Testing
1 3 (27.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (9.091%) ITIL
2 1 (9.091%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Java
1 3 (27.27%) VBScript
2 1 (9.091%) C
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (27.27%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) NetApp
2 3 (27.27%) Red Hat
2 3 (27.27%) VMware
2 3 (27.27%) F5
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle
2 3 (27.27%) IBM