The first table below looks at the demand for the IT Support Technician role in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited IT Support Technician 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 Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IT Support Technician
Rank 121 133 117
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -16
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Support Technician 1 3 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.054% 0.139% 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.057% 0.144% 0.061%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 1
Average salary £25,000 £16,500 £17,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+51.51% -2.94%
UK excluding London average salary £22,500 £22,250 £22,000
% change year-on-year
+1.12% +1.13%
All Job Titles
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1757 2079 1646
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 95.49% 96.16% 94.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1428 1851 1408
Average salary £34,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.42% -
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £24,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
IT Support Technician
North West

IT Support Technician
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire IT Support Technician Jobs Demand Trend

IT Support Technician
Salary Trend

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

Cheshire IT Support Technician Salary Trend

IT Support Technician
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Support Technician within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Vacancies
Knutsford - 1 £25,000 -
IT Support Technician
North West

IT Support Technician
Top 12 Related IT Skills

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

1 2 (100.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) IIS
2 1 (50.00%) MS Office
2 1 (50.00%) Windows

IT Support Technician
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) VMware
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix