The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical 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 Technical Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Support Engineer
Rank 135 131 130
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Support Engineer 10 13 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 0.377% 0.458% 0.825%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.395% 0.477% 0.868%
Number of salaries quoted 8 12 21
Average salary £27,500 £21,500 £26,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+27.90% -17.30%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,250 £21,500 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £34,000 £26,500 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £34,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-4.41% +13.33%
All Job Titles
Cambridgeshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2534 2728 2880
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 95.41% 96.16% 95.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2259 2299 2561
Average salary £38,000 £38,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.29% +10.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Technical Support Engineer
East of England

Technical Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Technical Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Technical Support Engineer Salary Trend

Technical Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Technical Support Engineer across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cambridgeshire Technical Support Engineer Salary Histogram

Technical Support Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Support Engineer within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cambridge -6 7 £23,250 +8.13%
Technical Support Engineer
East of England

Technical Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire region that cited Technical 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 Technical Support Engineer in their job title.

1 10 (50.00%) Windows
2 8 (40.00%) MS Office
3 6 (30.00%) MS Excel
3 6 (30.00%) Degree
3 6 (30.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (25.00%) ASP
4 5 (25.00%) HTML
4 5 (25.00%) Java
4 5 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (20.00%) Perl
5 4 (20.00%) PHP
5 4 (20.00%) XML
5 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 4 (20.00%) Linux
5 4 (20.00%) ColdFusion
5 4 (20.00%) Active Directory
5 4 (20.00%) Internet
5 4 (20.00%) Telecoms
5 4 (20.00%) Cisco
5 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 3 (15.00%) Publishing
6 3 (15.00%) Windows XP
6 3 (15.00%) MS Exchange
6 3 (15.00%) SQL
7 2 (10.00%) ITIL
7 2 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (10.00%) MCTS
7 2 (10.00%) MCITP

Technical Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire region that cited Technical 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 Technical Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (25.00%) HTML
1 5 (25.00%) ASP
2 4 (20.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 4 (20.00%) ColdFusion
2 3 (15.00%) MS Exchange
3 2 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (5.000%) WebLogic
4 1 (5.000%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (40.00%) MS Office
2 6 (30.00%) MS Excel
3 1 (5.000%) AutoCAD
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) Internet
2 1 (5.000%) 3G
2 1 (5.000%) Firewall
2 1 (5.000%) TETRA
2 1 (5.000%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (5.000%) LTE
2 1 (5.000%) Bluetooth
2 1 (5.000%) GSM
2 1 (5.000%) VoIP
2 1 (5.000%) DHCP
2 1 (5.000%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.000%) VPN
2 1 (5.000%) DNS
2 1 (5.000%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (5.000%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (5.000%) MySQL
3 1 (5.000%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (5.000%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.000%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 4 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (15.00%) Publishing
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.000%) Retail
4 1 (5.000%) Multimedia
4 1 (5.000%) Portuguese Language
4 1 (5.000%) Spanish Language
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (5.000%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (50.00%) Windows
2 6 (30.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (20.00%) Linux
5 3 (15.00%) Windows XP
6 2 (10.00%) Windows 8
7 1 (5.000%) UNIX
7 1 (5.000%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (10.00%) ITIL
1 2 (10.00%) Problem Management
1 2 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (5.000%) B2B
2 1 (5.000%) Project Management
2 1 (5.000%) Service Management
2 1 (5.000%) SEO
2 1 (5.000%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) Java
1 5 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (20.00%) Perl
2 4 (20.00%) PHP
3 3 (15.00%) SQL
4 1 (5.000%) VB
4 1 (5.000%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) CCENT
2 2 (10.00%) CCNA
2 2 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (10.00%) MCTS
2 2 (10.00%) MCITP
2 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.000%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (5.000%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.000%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (5.000%) Veritas
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