Buckinghamshire Support Technician Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Support Technician 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 Technician in their job title over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Support Technician
Location Alfreton Andover Ashby-de-la-Zouch Avon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Daresbury Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Elland England Essex Exeter Farnborough Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrow Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hoddesdon Hull Ipswich Keighley Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Lingfield Liverpool London Lothian Maidenhead Maidstone Maldon Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northolt Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redruth Reigate Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stansted Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Tamworth UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Whitstable Wigan Wiltshire Woking Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	116	159
Rank change on same period last year	+43
Matching permanent IT job ads	32	11
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	1.013 %	0.268 %
Salaries quoted	31	10
Average minimum salary	£20,452	£21,545
Average salary	£26,839	£22,545
% change on same period last year	+19.04 %
Average maximum salary	£33,226	£23,545
UK excluding London average salary	£23,128	£22,920
% change on same period last year	+0.90 %
Job Titles Buckinghamshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	3159	4109
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.748 %	1.723 %
Salaries quoted	2789	3486
Average minimum salary	£34,702	£35,322
Average salary	£37,842	£38,251
% change on same period last year	-1.06 %
Average maximum salary	£40,981	£41,179
UK excluding London average salary	£38,058	£39,448
% change on same period last year	-3.52 %
Support Technician South East

Support Technician
Demand Trend

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

Support Technician
Salary Trend

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

Support Technician
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Support Technician across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 5 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 Technician within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 5 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
Milton Keynes	0	5	£24,125	-
High Wycombe	0	2	£28,250	+117.30 %
Marlow	-	1	£19,000	-

Support Technician South East

Support Technician
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire region that cited Support Technician 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 Technician in their job title.

1 40 (62.50 %) SQL 2 37 (57.81 %) Retail 3 35 (54.69 %) SLA 4 10 (15.63 %) Windows 5 5 (7.813 %) SQL Server 5 5 (7.813 %) Finance 6 4 (6.250 %) Linux 6 4 (6.250 %) Microsoft 6 4 (6.250 %) Active Directory 7 3 (4.688 %) VPN 7 3 (4.688 %) HTML 7 3 (4.688 %) Firewall 7 3 (4.688 %) Windows Server 2003 7 3 (4.688 %) Norton AntiVirus 8 2 (3.125 %) Pensions

8 2 (3.125 %) Internet 8 2 (3.125 %) MS Office 8 2 (3.125 %) Lotus Notes 8 2 (3.125 %) MCSE 8 2 (3.125 %) MS Excel 8 2 (3.125 %) Windows XP 8 2 (3.125 %) PHP 8 2 (3.125 %) MySQL 8 2 (3.125 %) Lotus 8 2 (3.125 %) Microsoft Certification 9 1 (1.563 %) FrontPage 9 1 (1.563 %) MCDST 9 1 (1.563 %) Altiris 9 1 (1.563 %) A+ Certification 9 1 (1.563 %) Avaya

Support Technician
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire region that cited Support Technician 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 Technician in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (4.688 %) HTML 2 1 (1.563 %) ASP 2 1 (1.563 %) XML 2 1 (1.563 %) Software Packaging	Application Platforms 1 2 (3.125 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (1.563 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (1.563 %) Exchange Server 5.5 2 1 (1.563 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 2 (3.125 %) MS Office 1 2 (3.125 %) MS Excel 2 1 (1.563 %) Acrobat	Communications & Networking 1 3 (4.688 %) VPN 1 3 (4.688 %) Firewall 2 2 (3.125 %) Internet 3 1 (1.563 %) SAN 3 1 (1.563 %) Intranet 3 1 (1.563 %) LAN 3 1 (1.563 %) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (7.813 %) SQL Server 2 2 (3.125 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 1 (1.563 %) Dreamweaver 1 1 (1.563 %) FrontPage
General 1 37 (57.81 %) Retail 2 5 (7.813 %) Finance 3 2 (3.125 %) Pensions 4 1 (1.563 %) Health 4 1 (1.563 %) Financial Institution 4 1 (1.563 %) Telecoms	Miscellaneous 1 1 (1.563 %) Client/Server 1 1 (1.563 %) Management Information System 1 1 (1.563 %) AS400 1 1 (1.563 %) Handset 1 1 (1.563 %) Replication 1 1 (1.563 %) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems 1 10 (15.63 %) Windows 2 4 (6.250 %) Linux 3 3 (4.688 %) Windows Server 2003 4 2 (3.125 %) Windows XP 5 1 (1.563 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (1.563 %) ITIL 1 1 (1.563 %) Problem Management
Programming Languages 1 40 (62.50 %) SQL 2 2 (3.125 %) PHP 3 1 (1.563 %) VBScript 3 1 (1.563 %) VB 3 1 (1.563 %) Java 3 1 (1.563 %) JavaScript	Qualifications 1 2 (3.125 %) Microsoft Certification 1 2 (3.125 %) MCSE 2 1 (1.563 %) CCNA 2 1 (1.563 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (1.563 %) A+ Certification 2 1 (1.563 %) MCDST 2 1 (1.563 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 35 (54.69 %) SLA 2 1 (1.563 %) QA	System Software 1 4 (6.250 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 3 (4.688 %) Norton AntiVirus	Vendors 1 4 (6.250 %) Microsoft 2 2 (3.125 %) Lotus 3 1 (1.563 %) Symantec 3 1 (1.563 %) VMware 3 1 (1.563 %) Altiris 3 1 (1.563 %) Kaspersky 3 1 (1.563 %) Adobe 3 1 (1.563 %) Citrix 3 1 (1.563 %) Avaya 3 1 (1.563 %) IBM