The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Support Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Support Engineer
Rank - 141 132
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Support Engineer 0 10 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire - 0.348% 0.434%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.361% 0.455%
Number of salaries quoted 0 9 12
Average salary - £28,000 £24,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +15.46%
UK excluding London average salary £24,000 £28,000 £26,250
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +6.66%
All Job Titles
Cambridgeshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2446 2767 2856
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 95.25% 96.21% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2185 2346 2538
Average salary £38,500 £39,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.28% +11.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Software Support Engineer
East of England

Software Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Software Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Software Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Software Support Engineer Salary Trend

Software Support Engineer
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire region that cited Software 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 Software Support Engineer in their job title.

1 6 (75.00%) XML
1 6 (75.00%) C#
1 6 (75.00%) HTML
1 6 (75.00%) .NET
1 6 (75.00%) CSS
2 4 (50.00%) Ajax
2 4 (50.00%) WCF
2 4 (50.00%) jQuery
2 4 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 4 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 4 (50.00%) Software Deployment
2 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) VB.NET
2 4 (50.00%) XSLT
2 4 (50.00%) MVC
3 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Windows
3 2 (25.00%) OO
3 2 (25.00%) HTTP
3 2 (25.00%) IIS
3 2 (25.00%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) C++
3 2 (25.00%) WinDbg
3 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (25.00%) Degree
3 2 (25.00%) Web Services

Software Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire region that cited Software 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 Software Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (75.00%) XML
1 6 (75.00%) HTML
1 6 (75.00%) .NET
1 6 (75.00%) CSS
2 4 (50.00%) Ajax
2 4 (50.00%) WCF
2 4 (50.00%) jQuery
2 4 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 4 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 4 (50.00%) XSLT
3 2 (25.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) WinDbg
1 2 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Software Deployment
1 4 (50.00%) MVC
2 2 (25.00%) ITIL
2 2 (25.00%) OO
2 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) C#
2 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) VB.NET
3 2 (25.00%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree