The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Support Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior Support Engineer 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
Senior Support Engineer
Rank 115 127 115
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -12
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Support Engineer 7 9 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.380% 0.416% 0.172%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.398% 0.433% 0.182%
Number of salaries quoted 6 8 1
Average salary £38,000 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.57% -6.66%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
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%
Senior Support Engineer
North West

Senior Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire Senior Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Cheshire Senior Support Engineer Salary Trend

Senior Support Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Support Engineer 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
Macclesfield - 7 £38,000 -
Senior Support Engineer
North West

Senior Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 15 (93.75%) Telecoms
2 14 (87.50%) Java
2 14 (87.50%) UNIX
2 14 (87.50%) Linux
3 13 (81.25%) Shell Script
4 9 (56.25%) Degree
4 9 (56.25%) HTTP
5 7 (43.75%) C
5 7 (43.75%) QA
5 7 (43.75%) Handset
6 4 (25.00%) Fedora
6 4 (25.00%) Ubuntu
6 4 (25.00%) CentOS
6 4 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (25.00%) Bash shell
6 4 (25.00%) Solaris
6 4 (25.00%) Red Hat
7 3 (18.75%) Computer Science
8 2 (12.50%) IMAP
8 2 (12.50%) SMTP
8 2 (12.50%) vSphere
8 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (12.50%) Finance
8 2 (12.50%) Windows XP
8 2 (12.50%) Terminal Server
8 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (12.50%) Internet
8 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
8 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
8 2 (12.50%) Active Directory

Senior Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Applications
1 2 (12.50%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (56.25%) HTTP
2 2 (12.50%) IMAP
2 2 (12.50%) SMTP
2 2 (12.50%) Internet
2 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 2 (12.50%) LDAP
3 1 (6.250%) SMS
General
1 15 (93.75%) Telecoms
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Handset
2 3 (18.75%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 14 (87.50%) UNIX
1 14 (87.50%) Linux
2 4 (25.00%) Fedora
2 4 (25.00%) Ubuntu
2 4 (25.00%) CentOS
2 4 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (25.00%) Solaris
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (12.50%) Windows XP
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (12.50%) Windows
3 2 (12.50%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (6.250%) E-Commerce
1 1 (6.250%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) Java
2 13 (81.25%) Shell Script
3 7 (43.75%) C
4 4 (25.00%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 9 (56.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (43.75%) QA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) vSphere
1 2 (12.50%) Terminal Server
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft