The first table below looks at the demand for the IT Support Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited IT Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IT Support Engineer
Rank 113 123 118
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -5
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Support Engineer 6 3 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.352% 0.148% 0.238%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.373% 0.152% 0.250%
Number of salaries quoted 6 3 5
Average salary £36,250 £26,500 £22,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+36.79% +20.45%
UK excluding London average salary £23,000 £23,500 £25,000
% change year-on-year
-2.12% -6.00%
All Job Titles
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1608 1974 2001
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 94.31% 97.39% 95.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1441 1689 1824
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £28,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
IT Support Engineer
Cambridgeshire

IT Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge IT Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

IT Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Cambridge IT Support Engineer Salary Trend

IT Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region that cited IT 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 IT Support Engineer in their job title.

1 17 (94.44%) Windows
2 14 (77.78%) Linux
3 11 (61.11%) Python
3 11 (61.11%) NFS
3 11 (61.11%) MySQL
3 11 (61.11%) SAN
3 11 (61.11%) Red Hat
4 10 (55.56%) Degree
4 10 (55.56%) Firewall
4 10 (55.56%) Bash shell
5 9 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (50.00%) Network Security
6 8 (44.44%) UNIX
6 8 (44.44%) Samba
7 7 (38.89%) Big Data
8 6 (33.33%) Postgraduate
8 6 (33.33%) Wiki
9 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
10 4 (22.22%) Perl
10 4 (22.22%) PHP
10 4 (22.22%) Text Mining
11 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
11 3 (16.67%) Data Protection
11 3 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
12 2 (11.11%) Informatica
12 2 (11.11%) NetApp
12 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
12 2 (11.11%) HP
12 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003

IT Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region that cited IT 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 IT Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (11.11%) WebSphere MQ
1 2 (11.11%) Middleware
1 2 (11.11%) JRules
1 2 (11.11%) WebSphere
1 2 (11.11%) WebCenter
2 1 (5.556%) COM
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) WebLogic
1 2 (11.11%) IIS
1 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
1 2 (11.11%) WebSphere Message Broker
Applications
1 1 (5.556%) Google Apps
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Documaker
Communications & Networking
1 11 (61.11%) SAN
2 10 (55.56%) Firewall
3 9 (50.00%) Network Security
4 2 (11.11%) DNS
5 1 (5.556%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (61.11%) MySQL
2 7 (38.89%) Big Data
3 4 (22.22%) Text Mining
4 1 (5.556%) Data Mining
General
1 2 (11.11%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Wiki
2 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (5.556%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 17 (94.44%) Windows
2 14 (77.78%) Linux
3 9 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (44.44%) UNIX
5 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (16.67%) Data Protection
1 3 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (11.11%) ITIL
2 2 (11.11%) BPMN
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) Python
2 10 (55.56%) Bash shell
3 4 (22.22%) Perl
3 4 (22.22%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (55.56%) Degree
2 6 (33.33%) Postgraduate
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (11.11%) MCP
3 2 (11.11%) MCSE
3 2 (11.11%) MCSA
3 2 (11.11%) MCITP
System Software
1 11 (61.11%) NFS
2 8 (44.44%) Samba
3 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
4 1 (5.556%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Tivoli Identity Manager
1 2 (11.11%) Control-M
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) Red Hat
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.11%) Informatica
3 2 (11.11%) NetApp
3 2 (11.11%) HP
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle
3 2 (11.11%) IBM
4 1 (5.556%) VMware
4 1 (5.556%) Google
Cambridge, East Anglia
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