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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Support Technician role in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. 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 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Cambridgeshire region.

 Support Technician
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank11897131
Rank change year-on-year
Down-21Up+34
Matching permanent IT job ads11933
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire0.042 %0.847 %0.765 %
As % of the Job Titles category0.045 %0.909 %0.807 %
Salaries quoted1628
Average salary£24,500£22,000£22,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.36 %-
UK excluding London average salary£23,250£22,000£22,500
% change year-on-year
+5.680 %-2.220 %
Cambridgeshire IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
Cambridgeshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
220920914087
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire93.36 %93.26 %94.78 %
Salaries quoted199518213426
Average salary£35,000£35,000£35,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£25,000£24,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£47,500£50,000£52,500
UK excluding London average salary£35,556£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+1.580 %-
Support Technician East of EnglandSupport Technician
East of England

Support Technician
Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Support Technician Demand Trend

Support Technician
Salary Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Support Technician Salary Trend

Support Technician
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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
CambridgeDown-171£24,500-
Support Technician East of EnglandSupport Technician
East of England

Support Technician
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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.

13 (75.00 %)Microsoft
22 (50.00 %)SLA
22 (50.00 %)Sage
22 (50.00 %)MS Office
22 (50.00 %)Windows
22 (50.00 %)MS Excel
22 (50.00 %)CRM
22 (50.00 %)Windows XP
31 (25.00 %)Firewall
31 (25.00 %)Telecoms
31 (25.00 %)Retail
31 (25.00 %)IP Telephony
31 (25.00 %)Windows Vista
31 (25.00 %)Citrix Presentation Server
31 (25.00 %)MS Exchange
31 (25.00 %)Linux
31 (25.00 %)UNIX
31 (25.00 %)SQL Server
31 (25.00 %)Active Directory
31 (25.00 %)Citrix

Support Technician
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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.

Cambridgeshire IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11 (25.00 %)MS Exchange
Cambridgeshire IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
12 (50.00 %)MS Office
12 (50.00 %)MS Excel
Cambridgeshire IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11 (25.00 %)Firewall
11 (25.00 %)IP Telephony
Cambridgeshire IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11 (25.00 %)SQL Server
Cambridgeshire IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11 (25.00 %)Telecoms
11 (25.00 %)Retail
Cambridgeshire IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
12 (50.00 %)Windows
12 (50.00 %)Windows XP
21 (25.00 %)Windows Vista
21 (25.00 %)Linux
21 (25.00 %)UNIX
Cambridgeshire IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
12 (50.00 %)CRM
Cambridgeshire IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
12 (50.00 %)SLA
Cambridgeshire IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11 (25.00 %)Active Directory
11 (25.00 %)Citrix Presentation Server
Cambridgeshire IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
13 (75.00 %)Microsoft
22 (50.00 %)Sage
31 (25.00 %)Citrix