The first table below looks at the demand for the IT Support 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 in their job title over the 3 months to 18 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IT Support
Rank 106 120 117
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -3
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Support 11 9 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.634% 0.446% 0.476%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.672% 0.458% 0.500%
Number of salaries quoted 11 7 10
Average salary £35,000 £26,500 £26,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+32.07% +0.95%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £21,400 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £29,800 £28,100
UK excluding London average salary £24,000 £24,000 £24,000
All Job Titles
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1637 1964 2001
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 94.30% 97.42% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1466 1677 1829
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 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
IT Support
Cambridgeshire

IT Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge IT Support Jobs Demand Trend

IT Support
Salary Trend

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

Cambridge IT Support Salary Trend

IT Support
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing IT Support across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Cambridge IT Support Salary Histogram

IT Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region that cited IT 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 IT Support in their job title.

1 26 (96.30%) Windows
2 16 (59.26%) Linux
3 14 (51.85%) Firewall
4 11 (40.74%) SAN
4 11 (40.74%) Red Hat
4 11 (40.74%) Python
4 11 (40.74%) MySQL
4 11 (40.74%) NFS
5 10 (37.04%) Microsoft
5 10 (37.04%) Degree
5 10 (37.04%) Bash shell
6 9 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (33.33%) Network Security
7 8 (29.63%) UNIX
7 8 (29.63%) Samba
8 7 (25.93%) Big Data
9 6 (22.22%) Wiki
9 6 (22.22%) Active Directory
9 6 (22.22%) Postgraduate
10 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (18.52%) VMware
11 4 (14.81%) Finance
11 4 (14.81%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (14.81%) DNS
11 4 (14.81%) HP
11 4 (14.81%) Citrix
11 4 (14.81%) Perl
11 4 (14.81%) PHP
11 4 (14.81%) IIS
11 4 (14.81%) Text Mining

IT Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region that cited IT 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 IT Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (7.407%) WebSphere MQ
1 2 (7.407%) Middleware
1 2 (7.407%) JRules
1 2 (7.407%) WebSphere
1 2 (7.407%) WebCenter
2 1 (3.704%) COM
Application Platforms
1 4 (14.81%) IIS
2 2 (7.407%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.407%) MS Exchange
2 2 (7.407%) Site Server
2 2 (7.407%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (7.407%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 2 (7.407%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) MS Office
2 1 (3.704%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.704%) Google Apps
Business Applications
1 2 (7.407%) Documaker
Communications & Networking
1 14 (51.85%) Firewall
2 11 (40.74%) SAN
3 9 (33.33%) Network Security
4 4 (14.81%) DNS
5 2 (7.407%) LAN
5 2 (7.407%) WAN
5 2 (7.407%) TCP/IP
5 2 (7.407%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (3.704%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (40.74%) MySQL
2 7 (25.93%) Big Data
3 4 (14.81%) Text Mining
4 2 (7.407%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (7.407%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.704%) Data Mining
General
1 4 (14.81%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Wiki
2 3 (11.11%) Computer Science
3 2 (7.407%) Reference Data
4 1 (3.704%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 26 (96.30%) Windows
2 16 (59.26%) Linux
3 9 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (29.63%) UNIX
5 4 (14.81%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (14.81%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (11.11%) Windows XP
7 2 (7.407%) Windows Vista
7 2 (7.407%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (11.11%) Data Protection
2 2 (7.407%) ITIL
2 2 (7.407%) BPMN
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) Python
2 10 (37.04%) Bash shell
3 4 (14.81%) Perl
3 4 (14.81%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (37.04%) Degree
2 6 (22.22%) Postgraduate
3 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (11.11%) MCP
5 2 (7.407%) MCITP
5 2 (7.407%) MCSE
5 2 (7.407%) MCSA
6 1 (3.704%) A+ Certification
System Software
1 11 (40.74%) NFS
2 8 (29.63%) Samba
3 6 (22.22%) Active Directory
4 2 (7.407%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 1 (3.704%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (7.407%) Tivoli Identity Manager
1 2 (7.407%) Control-M
Vendors
1 11 (40.74%) Red Hat
2 10 (37.04%) Microsoft
3 5 (18.52%) VMware
4 4 (14.81%) HP
4 4 (14.81%) Citrix
5 2 (7.407%) Informatica
5 2 (7.407%) NetApp
5 2 (7.407%) Apple
5 2 (7.407%) Oracle
5 2 (7.407%) Cisco
5 2 (7.407%) IBM
6 1 (3.704%) Google
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