Buckinghamshire Support Engineer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Support Engineer 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 Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Support Engineer
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Amersham Andover Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Billericay Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Castleford Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clapham Congleton Cornwall Corsham County Antrim County Armagh Coventry Cranleigh Crawley Croydon Dagenham Dartford Daventry Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dundee Dunstable Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gourock Grantham Great Yarmouth Greenford Guildford Gwent Hailsham Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Horley Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverclyde Inverness Ipswich Isle of Wight Isleworth Keighley Kent Kettering Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich 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 Orpington Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Retford Rickmansworth Ringwood Romford Romsey Royston Rugby Ryde Sale Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skipton Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South Coast South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stansted Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Teddington Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Thatcham Thurrock Towcester Tring Trowbridge Truro Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallington Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Drayton West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Witney Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	64	37
Rank change on same period last year	-27
Matching permanent IT job ads	103	197
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.054 %	0.081 %
As % of the category below	3.248 %	4.786 %
Salaries quoted	90	171
Average minimum salary	£27,394	£26,919
Average salary	£29,804	£29,292
% change on same period last year	+1.74 %
Average maximum salary	£32,214	£31,666
UK excluding London average salary	£29,999	£28,994
% change on same period last year	+3.46 %
Job Titles Buckinghamshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	3171	4116
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.674 %	1.685 %
Salaries quoted	2729	3428
Average minimum salary	£34,436	£35,132
Average salary	£37,705	£38,084
% change on same period last year	-0.99 %
Average maximum salary	£40,974	£41,035
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
Support Engineer South East

Support Engineer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Support Engineer across the Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Support Engineer across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 25 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 Support Engineer within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 25 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	-4	30	£32,679	+33.70 %
High Wycombe	-15	20	£27,944	+4.08 %
Marlow	+2	8	£20,188	-21.79 %
Aylesbury	-17	7	£25,443	-6.10 %
Amersham	-6	3	£24,000	-3.03 %
Beaconsfield	-	3	£26,100	-

Support Engineer South East

Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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.

1 149 (45.99 %) Windows 2 76 (23.46 %) Microsoft 3 71 (21.91 %) TCP/IP 4 69 (21.30 %) Cisco 5 65 (20.06 %) Microsoft Certification 5 65 (20.06 %) UNIX 6 64 (19.75 %) Active Directory 7 59 (18.21 %) Linux 8 51 (15.74 %) MS Exchange 9 48 (14.81 %) SQL Server 9 48 (14.81 %) Firewall 10 46 (14.20 %) Cisco Certification 11 41 (12.65 %) WAN 12 40 (12.35 %) MCSE 12 40 (12.35 %) Windows Server 2003

13 39 (12.04 %) VPN 14 38 (11.73 %) LAN 15 36 (11.11 %) SQL 15 36 (11.11 %) Telecoms 16 33 (10.19 %) Internet 17 32 (9.877 %) C 18 30 (9.259 %) CCNA 19 28 (8.642 %) DNS 19 28 (8.642 %) Solaris 19 28 (8.642 %) Windows XP 20 27 (8.333 %) MCP 21 25 (7.716 %) Windows 2000 21 25 (7.716 %) MS Excel 22 24 (7.407 %) ADSL 22 24 (7.407 %) Exchange Server 2003

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 9 (2.778 %) HTML 2 6 (1.852 %) .NET 3 5 (1.543 %) J2EE 4 4 (1.235 %) Spring 5 2 (0.617 %) AJAX 5 2 (0.617 %) Java EE 5 2 (0.617 %) WebServices 5 2 (0.617 %) XML 5 2 (0.617 %) LAMP 5 2 (0.617 %) Hibernate 5 2 (0.617 %) DCOM 5 2 (0.617 %) JSP 6 1 (0.309 %) Servlets 6 1 (0.309 %) EJB 6 1 (0.309 %) ASP 6 1 (0.309 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 51 (15.74 %) MS Exchange 2 24 (7.407 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 19 (5.864 %) Apache 4 15 (4.630 %) IIS 5 14 (4.321 %) Tomcat 6 7 (2.160 %) CMS 6 7 (2.160 %) LiveLink 7 6 (1.852 %) Exchange Server 2000 8 5 (1.543 %) SharePoint 9 4 (1.235 %) Lotus Notes 9 4 (1.235 %) Exchange Server 5.5 10 2 (0.617 %) GroupWise 11 1 (0.309 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 25 (7.716 %) MS Excel 2 22 (6.790 %) MS Office 3 1 (0.309 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 1 (0.309 %) GoldMine
Communications & Networking 1 71 (21.91 %) TCP/IP 2 48 (14.81 %) Firewall 3 41 (12.65 %) WAN 4 39 (12.04 %) VPN 5 38 (11.73 %) LAN 6 33 (10.19 %) Internet 7 28 (8.642 %) DNS 8 24 (7.407 %) ADSL 9 13 (4.012 %) Broadband 10 11 (3.395 %) ISDN 10 11 (3.395 %) BGP 10 11 (3.395 %) LLU 11 10 (3.086 %) Wireless 12 9 (2.778 %) VoIP 12 9 (2.778 %) DHCP 12 9 (2.778 %) MPLS 12 9 (2.778 %) OSPF 13 8 (2.469 %) SAN 13 8 (2.469 %) Network Security 14 6 (1.852 %) BSS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 48 (14.81 %) SQL Server 2 11 (3.395 %) RDBMS 3 5 (1.543 %) SQL Server 2000 3 5 (1.543 %) SQL Server 2005 4 4 (1.235 %) DTS 5 3 (0.926 %) DB2 6 2 (0.617 %) MySQL 6 2 (0.617 %) SQL Server 7
General 1 36 (11.11 %) Telecoms 2 15 (4.630 %) Electronics 3 10 (3.086 %) Retail 4 9 (2.778 %) Pensions 5 6 (1.852 %) Finance 6 5 (1.543 %) Health 7 4 (1.235 %) Billing 7 4 (1.235 %) Education 7 4 (1.235 %) Pharmaceutical 8 3 (0.926 %) Government 8 3 (0.926 %) Police 9 2 (0.617 %) Banking 9 2 (0.617 %) Manufacturing 9 2 (0.617 %) Financial Institution 10 1 (0.309 %) Back Office 10 1 (0.309 %) Electric 10 1 (0.309 %) Investment Banking 10 1 (0.309 %) Multimedia	Miscellaneous 1 9 (2.778 %) German Language 2 6 (1.852 %) French Language 2 6 (1.852 %) Client/Server 3 4 (1.235 %) Blackberry 3 4 (1.235 %) Replication 3 4 (1.235 %) VAX 3 4 (1.235 %) Computer Science 3 4 (1.235 %) Spanish Language 4 3 (0.926 %) Russian Language 5 2 (0.617 %) Japanese Language 5 2 (0.617 %) Dutch Language 5 2 (0.617 %) SCADA 5 2 (0.617 %) Clustering 6 1 (0.309 %) Mainframe 6 1 (0.309 %) EPoS 6 1 (0.309 %) Firmware 6 1 (0.309 %) Thin Client 6 1 (0.309 %) Italian Language 6 1 (0.309 %) IPTV 6 1 (0.309 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 149 (45.99 %) Windows 2 65 (20.06 %) UNIX 3 59 (18.21 %) Linux 4 40 (12.35 %) Windows Server 2003 5 28 (8.642 %) Solaris 5 28 (8.642 %) Windows XP 6 25 (7.716 %) Windows 2000 7 21 (6.481 %) Windows NT 8 19 (5.864 %) VxWorks 9 13 (4.012 %) FreeBSD 10 12 (3.704 %) HPUX 11 5 (1.543 %) Fedora 12 2 (0.617 %) SUSE 12 2 (0.617 %) Debian 12 2 (0.617 %) VMS 12 2 (0.617 %) NetWare 13 1 (0.309 %) Mac OS X	Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (5.247 %) ITIL 2 9 (2.778 %) Network Design 3 7 (2.160 %) Content Management 4 6 (1.852 %) Document Management 4 6 (1.852 %) Risk Management 5 5 (1.543 %) Project Management 6 3 (0.926 %) CRM 6 3 (0.926 %) Data Management 7 2 (0.617 %) Incident Management 7 2 (0.617 %) Web Development 7 2 (0.617 %) Service Delivery 7 2 (0.617 %) Disaster Recovery 7 2 (0.617 %) Six Sigma 7 2 (0.617 %) CAD 7 2 (0.617 %) Software Engineering 8 1 (0.309 %) Software Testing 8 1 (0.309 %) Migration 8 1 (0.309 %) Data Security 8 1 (0.309 %) ERP 8 1 (0.309 %) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages 1 36 (11.11 %) SQL 2 32 (9.877 %) C 3 22 (6.790 %) Java 4 16 (4.938 %) Perl 5 12 (3.704 %) Embedded C 5 12 (3.704 %) C++ 6 7 (2.160 %) VB 7 5 (1.543 %) Shell Script 8 4 (1.235 %) PHP 9 3 (0.926 %) PL/SQL 10 2 (0.617 %) VB.NET 10 2 (0.617 %) VBA 10 2 (0.617 %) JavaScript 11 1 (0.309 %) COBOL	Qualifications 1 65 (20.06 %) Microsoft Certification 2 46 (14.20 %) Cisco Certification 3 40 (12.35 %) MCSE 4 30 (9.259 %) CCNA 5 27 (8.333 %) MCP 6 20 (6.173 %) CCNP 7 7 (2.160 %) CCSP 7 7 (2.160 %) MCSA 8 6 (1.852 %) Degree 9 5 (1.543 %) CCIE 10 4 (1.235 %) CCVP 11 2 (0.617 %) CISSP 11 2 (0.617 %) A+ Certification 11 2 (0.617 %) CNE 11 2 (0.617 %) Novell Certification 12 1 (0.309 %) RHCE 12 1 (0.309 %) ITIL Certification 12 1 (0.309 %) CCIP 12 1 (0.309 %) CCA 12 1 (0.309 %) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 20 (6.173 %) SLA	System Software 1 64 (19.75 %) Active Directory 2 6 (1.852 %) Backup Exec 3 5 (1.543 %) Terminal Services 4 3 (0.926 %) ISA Server 4 3 (0.926 %) VMware Server 5 2 (0.617 %) NetBackup 6 1 (0.309 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 6 (1.852 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 2 (0.617 %) EMC NetWorker 3 1 (0.309 %) OpenView 3 1 (0.309 %) Legato 3 1 (0.309 %) Netcool	Vendors 1 76 (23.46 %) Microsoft 2 69 (21.30 %) Cisco 3 23 (7.099 %) Oracle 4 17 (5.247 %) VMware 5 16 (4.938 %) Citrix 6 13 (4.012 %) Red Hat 7 12 (3.704 %) Sybase 8 8 (2.469 %) SonicWALL 8 8 (2.469 %) Draytek 9 7 (2.160 %) Dell 9 7 (2.160 %) Open Text 9 7 (2.160 %) Symantec 10 6 (1.852 %) Altiris 10 6 (1.852 %) Sun 11 5 (1.543 %) TIBCO 11 5 (1.543 %) CheckPoint 12 4 (1.235 %) Apple 12 4 (1.235 %) Nokia 12 4 (1.235 %) Lotus 12 4 (1.235 %) HP