Bristol Support Engineer Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT jobs within the Bristol 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 8 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Support Engineer
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Alfreton Amersham Andover Ashton-under-Lyne Avonmouth Aylesbury Banbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Billericay Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brierley Hill Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Caterham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Congleton Cornwall Corsham Coulsdon County Antrim Coventry Cranleigh Crawley Croydon Dagenham Dartford Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gourock Great Yarmouth Greenford Guildford Gwent Hailsham Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Haywards Heath Heanor Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Horley Horsham Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Inverclyde Ipswich Isleworth Kent Kettering Kidderminster Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lewisham Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Mansfield Marlow Matlock Melksham Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Neath Port Talbot New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne 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 Renfrewshire Retford Rickmansworth Romford Romsey Royston Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Spalding St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stansted Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke Mandeville Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Teddington Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Thatcham Thurrock Torfaen Towcester Tring Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Upminster 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 Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Witney Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	53	63
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching permanent IT job ads	105	67
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.058 %	0.028 %
As % of the category below	3.632 %	2.498 %
Salaries quoted	96	63
Average minimum salary	£24,385	£23,190
Average salary	£26,250	£24,829
% change on same period last year	+5.72 %
Average maximum salary	£28,115	£26,468
UK excluding London average salary	£29,691	£29,100
% change on same period last year	+2.03 %
Job Titles Bristol
Matching permanent IT job ads	2891	2682
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.605 %	1.130 %
Salaries quoted	2595	2366
Average minimum salary	£31,240	£30,690
Average salary	£34,483	£33,842
% change on same period last year	+1.89 %
Average maximum salary	£37,725	£36,993
UK excluding London average salary	£38,057	£39,434
% change on same period last year	-3.49 %
Support Engineer South West

Support Engineer
Demand Trend

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

Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Support Engineer across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 8 September 2008.

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Support Engineer within the Bristol region over the 3 months to 8 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Avonmouth	-	2	£24,250	-

Support Engineer South West

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT jobs across the Bristol 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 69 (32.70 %) Windows 2 63 (29.86 %) Microsoft 3 41 (19.43 %) SQL 4 40 (18.96 %) MS Excel 5 39 (18.48 %) Windows Server 2003 6 37 (17.54 %) Telecoms 6 37 (17.54 %) UNIX 7 33 (15.64 %) Cisco 8 32 (15.17 %) Active Directory 8 32 (15.17 %) Linux 9 30 (14.22 %) SQL Server 10 24 (11.37 %) TCP/IP 11 23 (10.90 %) Windows XP 11 23 (10.90 %) Cisco Certification 11 23 (10.90 %) Shell Script

12 22 (10.43 %) Microsoft Certification 12 22 (10.43 %) CCNA 13 21 (9.953 %) Lotus 13 21 (9.953 %) MS Exchange 14 19 (9.005 %) MCSE 14 19 (9.005 %) Lotus Notes 15 16 (7.583 %) LAN 15 16 (7.583 %) Degree 16 15 (7.109 %) Windows Vista 16 15 (7.109 %) WAN 16 15 (7.109 %) Java 17 14 (6.635 %) C 17 14 (6.635 %) J2EE 17 14 (6.635 %) Oracle 18 13 (6.161 %) Finance

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT jobs across the Bristol 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 14 (6.635 %) J2EE 2 5 (2.370 %) ODBC 3 2 (0.948 %) J2SE 3 2 (0.948 %) Hibernate 3 2 (0.948 %) Spring 3 2 (0.948 %) WebSphere 4 1 (0.474 %) WAP 4 1 (0.474 %) Middleware 4 1 (0.474 %) ASP.NET 4 1 (0.474 %) XML 4 1 (0.474 %) HTML 4 1 (0.474 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 21 (9.953 %) MS Exchange 2 19 (9.005 %) Lotus Notes 3 8 (3.791 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 8 (3.791 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 4 (1.896 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 3 (1.422 %) Lotus Domino 6 2 (0.948 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 40 (18.96 %) MS Excel 2 11 (5.213 %) MS Office 3 5 (2.370 %) MS Visio 3 5 (2.370 %) CATIA	Business Applications 1 4 (1.896 %) Metrica
Communications & Networking 1 24 (11.37 %) TCP/IP 2 16 (7.583 %) LAN 3 15 (7.109 %) WAN 4 13 (6.161 %) Firewall 5 11 (5.213 %) SAN 5 11 (5.213 %) SS7 5 11 (5.213 %) DNS 5 11 (5.213 %) GSM 6 10 (4.739 %) ISDN 6 10 (4.739 %) Ethernet 6 10 (4.739 %) SNMP 6 10 (4.739 %) VLAN 7 9 (4.265 %) Broadband 8 8 (3.791 %) LDAP 8 8 (3.791 %) SIGTRAN 8 8 (3.791 %) Wireless 9 7 (3.318 %) X.500 10 6 (2.844 %) DHCP 10 6 (2.844 %) VPN 11 5 (2.370 %) NetScreen	Database & Business Intelligence 1 30 (14.22 %) SQL Server 2 10 (4.739 %) BusinessObjects 3 5 (2.370 %) SQL Server 2005 3 5 (2.370 %) DB2 4 4 (1.896 %) GIS 5 2 (0.948 %) MySQL 5 2 (0.948 %) RDBMS 5 2 (0.948 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 1 (0.474 %) MS Access 6 1 (0.474 %) Data Mining 6 1 (0.474 %) Crystal Enterprise 6 1 (0.474 %) Informix
Development Applications 1 7 (3.318 %) JUnit	General 1 37 (17.54 %) Telecoms 2 13 (6.161 %) Finance 3 6 (2.844 %) Aerospace 3 6 (2.844 %) Pensions 3 6 (2.844 %) Marketing 4 5 (2.370 %) Automotive 4 5 (2.370 %) Electric 5 3 (1.422 %) Government 5 3 (1.422 %) Health 5 3 (1.422 %) Education 6 2 (0.948 %) Manufacturing 6 2 (0.948 %) Games 6 2 (0.948 %) Banking 6 2 (0.948 %) Retail 7 1 (0.474 %) Insurance 7 1 (0.474 %) Electronics 7 1 (0.474 %) Legal
Miscellaneous 1 5 (2.370 %) Computer Science 2 3 (1.422 %) Streaming Media 3 2 (0.948 %) PDA 3 2 (0.948 %) Dutch Language 3 2 (0.948 %) French Language 3 2 (0.948 %) German Language 3 2 (0.948 %) Spanish Language 3 2 (0.948 %) Blackberry 4 1 (0.474 %) Video Conferencing 4 1 (0.474 %) Mathematics 4 1 (0.474 %) Physics	Operating Systems 1 69 (32.70 %) Windows 2 39 (18.48 %) Windows Server 2003 3 37 (17.54 %) UNIX 4 32 (15.17 %) Linux 5 23 (10.90 %) Windows XP 6 15 (7.109 %) Windows Vista 7 12 (5.687 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 7 (3.318 %) HPUX 8 7 (3.318 %) Solaris 9 6 (2.844 %) Windows 2000 10 5 (2.370 %) Windows Server 2008 11 2 (0.948 %) Red Hat Linux 11 2 (0.948 %) SUSE 11 2 (0.948 %) Debian 11 2 (0.948 %) FreeBSD 11 2 (0.948 %) AIX 12 1 (0.474 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (5.687 %) OO 1 12 (5.687 %) Agile Software Development 2 9 (4.265 %) Service Delivery 2 9 (4.265 %) ITIL 3 7 (3.318 %) Software Engineering 4 6 (2.844 %) WFM 5 5 (2.370 %) Validation 5 5 (2.370 %) CAD 5 5 (2.370 %) Configuration Management 6 4 (1.896 %) Data Validation 7 2 (0.948 %) Security Cleared 7 2 (0.948 %) Project Management 8 1 (0.474 %) Service Management 8 1 (0.474 %) ERP 8 1 (0.474 %) Benchmarking 8 1 (0.474 %) Automated Testing 8 1 (0.474 %) Refactoring 8 1 (0.474 %) Unit Testing	Programming Languages 1 41 (19.43 %) SQL 2 23 (10.90 %) Shell Script 3 15 (7.109 %) Java 4 14 (6.635 %) C 5 11 (5.213 %) C++ 6 6 (2.844 %) Perl 7 1 (0.474 %) PL/SQL 7 1 (0.474 %) Delphi 7 1 (0.474 %) C#
Qualifications 1 23 (10.90 %) Cisco Certification 2 22 (10.43 %) Microsoft Certification 2 22 (10.43 %) CCNA 3 19 (9.005 %) MCSE 4 16 (7.583 %) Degree 5 7 (3.318 %) MCSA 5 7 (3.318 %) MCP 6 6 (2.844 %) CCNP 7 1 (0.474 %) PhD 7 1 (0.474 %) A+ Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (2.370 %) SLA
System Software 1 32 (15.17 %) Active Directory 2 2 (0.948 %) Terminal Server 3 1 (0.474 %) Citrix Presentation Server	Systems Management 1 1 (0.474 %) OpenView Configuration Management 1 1 (0.474 %) DameWare
Vendors 1 63 (29.86 %) Microsoft 2 33 (15.64 %) Cisco 3 21 (9.953 %) Lotus 4 14 (6.635 %) Oracle 5 12 (5.687 %) Genesys 6 10 (4.739 %) Business Objects 7 9 (4.265 %) Citrix 8 8 (3.791 %) HP 9 5 (2.370 %) Juniper 9 5 (2.370 %) VMware 9 5 (2.370 %) CheckPoint 9 5 (2.370 %) Mapinfo 9 5 (2.370 %) McAfee Security 9 5 (2.370 %) Crossbeam 10 3 (1.422 %) Dell 11 2 (0.948 %) Nortel 11 2 (0.948 %) Compaq 11 2 (0.948 %) Red Hat 11 2 (0.948 %) Sybase 11 2 (0.948 %) SAP