The first table below looks at the demand for the 1st Line Support Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited 1st Line Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
First Line Support Engineer
Rank 134 117 -
Rank change year-on-year
-17 -
Permanent jobs requiring a 1st Line Support Engineer 4 7 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 0.196% 0.364% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.203% 0.384% -
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 0
Average salary £17,500 £17,500 -
UK excluding London average salary £19,000 £19,000 £21,000
% change year-on-year
- -9.52%
All Job Titles
Buckinghamshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1968 1823 1959
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 96.33% 94.85% 94.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1707 1547 1731
Average salary £40,500 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.00% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £22,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
1st Line Support Engineer
South East

1st Line Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing 1st Line Support Engineer across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Buckinghamshire 1st Line Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

1st Line Support Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing 1st Line Support Engineer across the Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire 1st Line Support Engineer Salary Trend

1st Line Support Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 1st Line Support Engineer within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Milton Keynes -21 1 £17,500 -
High Wycombe - 1 £23,000 -
1st Line Support Engineer
South East

1st Line Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire region that cited 1st Line 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 1st Line Support Engineer in their job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 3 (50.00%) Windows XP
3 2 (33.33%) MS Exchange
3 2 (33.33%) MS Office
3 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (33.33%) Degree
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Vista
3 2 (33.33%) Retail
4 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (16.67%) Firewall
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Backup Exec
4 1 (16.67%) BlackBerry Internet Service
4 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
4 1 (16.67%) Network Management
4 1 (16.67%) OpenView
4 1 (16.67%) Dell
4 1 (16.67%) Citrix
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (16.67%) Apple
4 1 (16.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (16.67%) UNIX
4 1 (16.67%) C
4 1 (16.67%) Java
4 1 (16.67%) CCNA
4 1 (16.67%) Linux
4 1 (16.67%) LAN

1st Line Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire region that cited 1st Line 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 1st Line Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) MS Exchange
2 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (16.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (33.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) LAN
1 1 (16.67%) VoIP
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
1 1 (16.67%) SNMP
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
General
1 2 (33.33%) Retail
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Windows XP
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Vista
4 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
4 1 (16.67%) UNIX
4 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Migration
1 1 (16.67%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C
1 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CCNA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) BlackBerry Internet Service
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Backup Exec
1 1 (16.67%) OpenView
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Dell
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix
2 1 (16.67%) Apple
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
Windows Server 2003, 2008 and 2008 R2... Symantec Backup Exec. ADSL. TCP/IP... Microsoft SharePoint. Microsoft OCS 2007 / Lync 2010. Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESX virtualisation products.
NS Consultants
Salary: From £16,000 to £18,000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013