Buckinghamshire Network Support Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Network Support role in IT jobs within the Buckinghamshire 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 Network Support in their job title over the 3 months to 23 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Network Support
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Amersham Andover Ashton-under-Lyne Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Billericay Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Cornwall Corsham Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Deeside Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dunstable East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Essex Farnham Feltham Flintshire Glasgow Gloucestershire Godalming Grimsby Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Hungerford Isleworth Keighley Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincolnshire London Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Renfrew Renfrewshire Rochdale Rotherham Rugby Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southport St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Thatcham Truro Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Woking Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 23 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	125	150
Rank change on same period last year	+25
Matching permanent IT job ads	30	19
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	0.935 %	0.463 %
Salaries quoted	29	18
Average minimum salary	£28,800	£26,053
Average salary	£30,567	£27,579
% change on same period last year	+10.83 %
Average maximum salary	£32,333	£29,105
UK excluding London average salary	£30,920	£29,783
% change on same period last year	+3.81 %
Job Titles Buckinghamshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	3207	4101
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.687 %	1.683 %
Salaries quoted	2755	3410
Average minimum salary	£34,543	£35,096
Average salary	£37,826	£38,064
% change on same period last year	-0.62 %
Average maximum salary	£41,109	£41,032
UK excluding London average salary	£38,210	£39,482
% change on same period last year	-3.22 %
Network Support South East

Network Support
Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Network Support across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 23 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Support within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 23 July 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
Milton Keynes	+7	14	£26,538	-7.24 %
High Wycombe	-1	4	£24,875	-7.87 %
Amersham	-	1	£27,000	-

Network Support South East

Network Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 July 2008, IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire region that cited Network 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 Network Support in their job title.

1 44 (48.89 %) Cisco 2 43 (47.78 %) Windows 3 35 (38.89 %) Cisco Certification 4 32 (35.56 %) WAN 5 30 (33.33 %) LAN 6 28 (31.11 %) Firewall 6 28 (31.11 %) Microsoft 7 26 (28.89 %) TCP/IP 8 24 (26.67 %) CCNA 9 21 (23.33 %) MS Exchange 10 18 (20.00 %) VPN 11 17 (18.89 %) CCNP 11 17 (18.89 %) Microsoft Certification 12 16 (17.78 %) Linux 12 16 (17.78 %) MS Excel

13 15 (16.67 %) MCSE 13 15 (16.67 %) MS Office 13 15 (16.67 %) VoIP 14 14 (15.56 %) UNIX 14 14 (15.56 %) Telecoms 15 13 (14.44 %) BGP 15 13 (14.44 %) SQL Server 15 13 (14.44 %) Solaris 16 12 (13.33 %) Windows NT 16 12 (13.33 %) Apache 16 12 (13.33 %) IIS 16 12 (13.33 %) Active Directory 16 12 (13.33 %) Red Hat 16 12 (13.33 %) OSPF 17 10 (11.11 %) OpenView

Network Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 July 2008, IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire region that cited Network 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 Network Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 9 (10.00 %) HTML 2 7 (7.778 %) ASP 3 5 (5.556 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 21 (23.33 %) MS Exchange 2 12 (13.33 %) IIS 2 12 (13.33 %) Apache 3 3 (3.333 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 2 (2.222 %) Lotus Notes 4 2 (2.222 %) GroupWise
Applications 1 16 (17.78 %) MS Excel 2 15 (16.67 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 32 (35.56 %) WAN 2 30 (33.33 %) LAN 3 28 (31.11 %) Firewall 4 26 (28.89 %) TCP/IP 5 18 (20.00 %) VPN 6 15 (16.67 %) VoIP 7 13 (14.44 %) BGP 8 12 (13.33 %) OSPF 9 8 (8.889 %) ADSL 9 8 (8.889 %) SSL 9 8 (8.889 %) MPLS 10 7 (7.778 %) ATM 11 5 (5.556 %) ISDN 11 5 (5.556 %) RIP 11 5 (5.556 %) Ethereal 11 5 (5.556 %) Network Security 12 3 (3.333 %) NetScreen 12 3 (3.333 %) DNS 13 2 (2.222 %) Internet 13 2 (2.222 %) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (14.44 %) SQL Server 2 1 (1.111 %) SQL Server 7 2 1 (1.111 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 1 (1.111 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 14 (15.56 %) Telecoms 2 6 (6.667 %) Finance 3 2 (2.222 %) Pensions 4 1 (1.111 %) Back Office 4 1 (1.111 %) Health 4 1 (1.111 %) Manufacturing	Miscellaneous 1 3 (3.333 %) Client/Server 1 3 (3.333 %) Statistics 2 2 (2.222 %) Blackberry 3 1 (1.111 %) Smartcard
Operating Systems 1 43 (47.78 %) Windows 2 16 (17.78 %) Linux 3 14 (15.56 %) UNIX 4 13 (14.44 %) Solaris 5 12 (13.33 %) Windows NT 6 4 (4.444 %) Windows XP 7 3 (3.333 %) Windows 2000 7 3 (3.333 %) Windows Server 2003 8 2 (2.222 %) NetWare 9 1 (1.111 %) Mac OS X	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (7.778 %) Network Design 2 6 (6.667 %) Project Management 3 4 (4.444 %) Security Cleared 4 3 (3.333 %) ITIL 5 1 (1.111 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (1.111 %) E-Commerce 5 1 (1.111 %) Data Security 5 1 (1.111 %) Data Management 5 1 (1.111 %) Load Balancing 5 1 (1.111 %) Problem Management 5 1 (1.111 %) Performance Management
Programming Languages 1 10 (11.11 %) SQL 2 8 (8.889 %) PHP 3 7 (7.778 %) Java 4 6 (6.667 %) C 5 2 (2.222 %) Perl	Qualifications 1 35 (38.89 %) Cisco Certification 2 24 (26.67 %) CCNA 3 17 (18.89 %) Microsoft Certification 3 17 (18.89 %) CCNP 4 15 (16.67 %) MCSE 5 7 (7.778 %) CCSP 6 6 (6.667 %) MCP 7 5 (5.556 %) MCSA 7 5 (5.556 %) CCIE 8 3 (3.333 %) Degree 9 2 (2.222 %) CCIP 9 2 (2.222 %) CNE 9 2 (2.222 %) Novell Certification 9 2 (2.222 %) CCA 9 2 (2.222 %) Citrix Certification 9 2 (2.222 %) CCEA 10 1 (1.111 %) CCVP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (3.333 %) SLA	System Software 1 12 (13.33 %) Active Directory 2 2 (2.222 %) ISA Server
Systems Management 1 10 (11.11 %) OpenView 2 2 (2.222 %) Netcool	Vendors 1 44 (48.89 %) Cisco 2 28 (31.11 %) Microsoft 3 12 (13.33 %) Red Hat 4 10 (11.11 %) HP 5 7 (7.778 %) Juniper 5 7 (7.778 %) Nokia 5 7 (7.778 %) SonicWALL 5 7 (7.778 %) Draytek 6 6 (6.667 %) Nortel 7 5 (5.556 %) CheckPoint 8 2 (2.222 %) Blue Coat 8 2 (2.222 %) Oracle 8 2 (2.222 %) Citrix 8 2 (2.222 %) Novell 8 2 (2.222 %) Lotus 9 1 (1.111 %) Lucent 9 1 (1.111 %) Ericsson