City of London Support Engineer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT jobs within the City of London region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Support Engineer
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Amersham Andover Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Billericay Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Castleford Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clapham Congleton Cornwall Corsham County Antrim County Armagh Coventry Cranleigh Crawley Croydon Dagenham Dartford Daventry Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dundee Dunstable Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gourock Grantham Great Yarmouth Greenford Guildford Gwent Hailsham Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Horley Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverclyde Inverness Ipswich Isle of Wight Isleworth Keighley Kent Kettering Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Retford Rickmansworth Ringwood Romford Romsey Royston Rugby Ryde Sale Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skipton Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South Coast South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stansted Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Teddington Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Thatcham Thurrock Towcester Tring Trowbridge Truro Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallington Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Drayton West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Witney Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	137	161
Rank change on same period last year	+24
Matching permanent IT job ads	305	226
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.161 %	0.093 %
As % of the category below	1.636 %	1.195 %
Salaries quoted	258	201
Average minimum salary	£36,572	£36,483
Average salary	£39,688	£38,720
% change on same period last year	+2.49 %
Average maximum salary	£42,804	£40,958
UK excluding London average salary	£29,954	£28,922
% change on same period last year	+3.56 %
Job Titles City of London
Matching permanent IT job ads	18646	18917
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	9.820 %	7.759 %
Salaries quoted	15822	14352
Average minimum salary	£47,743	£52,351
Average salary	£52,482	£56,925
% change on same period last year	-7.80 %
Average maximum salary	£57,221	£61,498
UK excluding London average salary	£38,194	£39,492
% change on same period last year	-3.28 %
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Support Engineer
Demand Trend

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

Support Engineer
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Support Engineer across the City of London region.

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Support Engineer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited 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 Support Engineer in their job title.

1 347 (53.80 %) Windows 2 210 (32.56 %) Finance 3 173 (26.82 %) Active Directory 4 152 (23.57 %) SQL 5 135 (20.93 %) MS Excel 6 134 (20.78 %) UNIX 7 128 (19.84 %) Microsoft 8 125 (19.38 %) Microsoft Certification 9 119 (18.45 %) MS Exchange 10 106 (16.43 %) MS Office 11 98 (15.19 %) Banking 12 95 (14.73 %) Windows 2000 13 91 (14.11 %) MCSE 14 88 (13.64 %) Exchange Server 2003 15 85 (13.18 %) Linux

16 82 (12.71 %) Cisco 17 80 (12.40 %) SQL Server 18 78 (12.09 %) Windows XP 19 73 (11.32 %) TCP/IP 20 70 (10.85 %) Windows Server 2003 21 64 (9.922 %) Solaris 22 60 (9.302 %) Citrix 23 56 (8.682 %) Investment Banking 24 54 (8.372 %) Financial Institution 24 54 (8.372 %) Perl 25 53 (8.217 %) Firewall 26 52 (8.062 %) Exchange Server 2000 27 51 (7.907 %) Oracle 27 51 (7.907 %) Cisco Certification 27 51 (7.907 %) LAN

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited 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 Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 37 (5.736 %) .NET 2 21 (3.256 %) Middleware 3 14 (2.171 %) HTML 4 9 (1.395 %) Application Packaging 5 7 (1.085 %) XML 6 4 (0.620 %) ASP.NET 6 4 (0.620 %) ADO.NET 6 4 (0.620 %) FIX Protocol 7 3 (0.465 %) Ruby on Rails 7 3 (0.465 %) CSS 8 2 (0.310 %) JMS 8 2 (0.310 %) WSH 8 2 (0.310 %) J2EE 8 2 (0.310 %) WebSphere 9 1 (0.155 %) ASP 9 1 (0.155 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 119 (18.45 %) MS Exchange 2 88 (13.64 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 52 (8.062 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 41 (6.357 %) IIS 5 27 (4.186 %) MQSeries 6 21 (3.256 %) Apache 7 19 (2.946 %) Tomcat 8 16 (2.481 %) Lotus Notes 9 14 (2.171 %) Exchange Server 2007 10 8 (1.240 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 11 7 (1.085 %) SharePoint 12 6 (0.930 %) Lotus Domino 13 3 (0.465 %) WebLogic 13 3 (0.465 %) GroupWise 13 3 (0.465 %) SharePoint Portal Server 14 2 (0.310 %) iPlanet 15 1 (0.155 %) Exchange Server 5.5 15 1 (0.155 %) WebSphere Application Server 15 1 (0.155 %) GlassFish
Applications 1 135 (20.93 %) MS Excel 2 106 (16.43 %) MS Office 3 13 (2.016 %) MS PowerPoint 4 4 (0.620 %) MS Visio 5 3 (0.465 %) Acrobat 6 1 (0.155 %) Maya	Business Applications 1 4 (0.620 %) SalesLogix 2 1 (0.155 %) LongView 2 1 (0.155 %) FRONT ARENA 2 1 (0.155 %) RMDS
Communications & Networking 1 73 (11.32 %) TCP/IP 2 53 (8.217 %) Firewall 3 51 (7.907 %) LAN 4 50 (7.752 %) WAN 5 44 (6.822 %) DNS 6 38 (5.891 %) VPN 7 33 (5.116 %) DHCP 8 31 (4.806 %) VoIP 9 26 (4.031 %) SAN 10 20 (3.101 %) Internet 11 11 (1.705 %) OSPF 11 11 (1.705 %) BGP 11 11 (1.705 %) VLAN 12 10 (1.550 %) MPLS 13 8 (1.240 %) SMS 13 8 (1.240 %) PBX 14 5 (0.775 %) SDH 14 5 (0.775 %) Ethernet 14 5 (0.775 %) Intranet 15 4 (0.620 %) SMTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 80 (12.40 %) SQL Server 2 16 (2.481 %) SQL Server 2000 3 15 (2.326 %) MySQL 4 9 (1.395 %) RDBMS 4 9 (1.395 %) SQL Server 7 5 5 (0.775 %) SQL Server 2005 6 4 (0.620 %) ETL 7 2 (0.310 %) Sybase IQ 7 2 (0.310 %) MS Access 7 2 (0.310 %) Crystal Reports 8 1 (0.155 %) Oracle 9i
Development Applications 1 3 (0.465 %) PVCS 1 3 (0.465 %) Subversion 2 2 (0.310 %) Flash 2 2 (0.310 %) MSI 3 1 (0.155 %) CruiseControl 3 1 (0.155 %) JIRA	General 1 210 (32.56 %) Finance 2 98 (15.19 %) Banking 3 56 (8.682 %) Investment Banking 4 54 (8.372 %) Financial Institution 5 30 (4.651 %) Law 6 26 (4.031 %) Back Office 6 26 (4.031 %) Telecoms 7 16 (2.481 %) Health 8 15 (2.326 %) Pensions 9 13 (2.016 %) Insurance 10 10 (1.550 %) Publishing 11 8 (1.240 %) Front Office 12 6 (0.930 %) Education 13 5 (0.775 %) Marketing 13 5 (0.775 %) Advertising 14 4 (0.620 %) Legal 15 3 (0.465 %) Government 16 2 (0.310 %) Retail 17 1 (0.155 %) Games 17 1 (0.155 %) Electronics
Miscellaneous 1 35 (5.426 %) Blackberry 2 18 (2.791 %) Derivative 3 17 (2.636 %) Clustering 4 15 (2.326 %) French Language 5 9 (1.395 %) Equities 6 8 (1.240 %) PDA 6 8 (1.240 %) Fixed Income 7 6 (0.930 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 7 6 (0.930 %) German Language 7 6 (0.930 %) Computer Science 8 5 (0.775 %) N-Tier 8 5 (0.775 %) Management Information System 9 4 (0.620 %) DTV 10 3 (0.465 %) Client/Server 10 3 (0.465 %) PMI 10 3 (0.465 %) Firmware 10 3 (0.465 %) Italian Language 10 3 (0.465 %) Japanese Language 11 2 (0.310 %) Video Conferencing 11 2 (0.310 %) Pocket PC	Operating Systems 1 347 (53.80 %) Windows 2 134 (20.78 %) UNIX 3 95 (14.73 %) Windows 2000 4 85 (13.18 %) Linux 5 78 (12.09 %) Windows XP 6 70 (10.85 %) Windows Server 2003 7 64 (9.922 %) Solaris 8 31 (4.806 %) Windows NT 9 15 (2.326 %) AIX 10 8 (1.240 %) HPUX 10 8 (1.240 %) Mac OS X 11 4 (0.620 %) Mac OS X Server 12 3 (0.465 %) SUSE 12 3 (0.465 %) Debian 13 2 (0.310 %) Windows Vista 13 2 (0.310 %) Mandriva Linux 14 1 (0.155 %) Windows Mobile 14 1 (0.155 %) VMS
Processes & Methodologies 1 46 (7.132 %) ITIL 2 20 (3.101 %) Disaster Recovery 3 16 (2.481 %) Electronic Trading 4 12 (1.860 %) Project Management 5 11 (1.705 %) Service Delivery 6 10 (1.550 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 9 (1.395 %) Configuration Management 7 9 (1.395 %) Load Balancing 8 8 (1.240 %) Asset Management 8 8 (1.240 %) Migration 9 7 (1.085 %) BCP 10 6 (0.930 %) CRM 11 5 (0.775 %) Regression Testing 11 5 (0.775 %) Investment Management 11 5 (0.775 %) Security Cleared 12 4 (0.620 %) Web Development 12 4 (0.620 %) Network Design 12 4 (0.620 %) RDF 13 3 (0.465 %) E-Commerce 13 3 (0.465 %) Knowledge Management	Programming Languages 1 152 (23.57 %) SQL 2 54 (8.372 %) Perl 3 46 (7.132 %) Java 4 36 (5.581 %) Shell Script 5 23 (3.566 %) Euclid 6 22 (3.411 %) C 7 18 (2.791 %) C++ 8 14 (2.171 %) VB 9 13 (2.016 %) Transact-SQL 10 11 (1.705 %) VBA 11 10 (1.550 %) PL/SQL 12 8 (1.240 %) C# 12 8 (1.240 %) Python 13 7 (1.085 %) VB.NET 13 7 (1.085 %) JavaScript 13 7 (1.085 %) PHP 14 5 (0.775 %) VBScript 15 3 (0.465 %) Ruby 16 1 (0.155 %) JCL 16 1 (0.155 %) PowerHouse
Qualifications 1 125 (19.38 %) Microsoft Certification 2 91 (14.11 %) MCSE 3 51 (7.907 %) Cisco Certification 4 45 (6.977 %) Degree 5 43 (6.667 %) MCP 6 32 (4.961 %) MCSA 6 32 (4.961 %) CCNA 7 20 (3.101 %) CCNP 8 17 (2.636 %) Citrix Certification 9 16 (2.481 %) CCA 10 14 (2.171 %) MOS 11 12 (1.860 %) ITIL Certification 12 11 (1.705 %) CCIE 13 10 (1.550 %) CCEA 14 6 (0.930 %) MCDST 15 5 (0.775 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 16 3 (0.465 %) CCIP 16 3 (0.465 %) HNC 17 2 (0.310 %) HND 17 2 (0.310 %) A+ Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 35 (5.426 %) SLA 2 4 (0.620 %) QA 3 1 (0.155 %) ISO9001 3 1 (0.155 %) ISO27001
System Software 1 173 (26.82 %) Active Directory 2 27 (4.186 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 19 (2.946 %) VMware ESX 4 13 (2.016 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 13 (2.016 %) MetaFrame 5 8 (1.240 %) NetBackup 5 8 (1.240 %) Backup Exec 6 7 (1.085 %) Terminal Server 6 7 (1.085 %) ISA Server 7 4 (0.620 %) NFS 7 4 (0.620 %) Terminal Services 8 3 (0.465 %) NDS 9 1 (0.155 %) Samba 9 1 (0.155 %) VMware GSX 9 1 (0.155 %) VMware Server	Systems Management 1 8 (1.240 %) OpenView 2 7 (1.085 %) MOM 3 5 (0.775 %) WSUS 4 4 (0.620 %) CiscoWorks 4 4 (0.620 %) Unicenter 4 4 (0.620 %) BMC PATROL 4 4 (0.620 %) Nagios 4 4 (0.620 %) ARCserve 5 3 (0.465 %) ZENworks 5 3 (0.465 %) Tivoli 5 3 (0.465 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 6 2 (0.310 %) Netcool 6 2 (0.310 %) AutoSys 6 2 (0.310 %) Legato 6 2 (0.310 %) MIMEsweeper 6 2 (0.310 %) EMC NetWorker 7 1 (0.155 %) TeMIP 7 1 (0.155 %) AppManager 7 1 (0.155 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 7 1 (0.155 %) CONTROL-M
Vendors 1 128 (19.84 %) Microsoft 2 82 (12.71 %) Cisco 3 60 (9.302 %) Citrix 4 51 (7.907 %) Oracle 5 48 (7.442 %) VMware 6 43 (6.667 %) HP 7 34 (5.271 %) VERITAS 7 34 (5.271 %) Bloomberg 8 29 (4.496 %) Reuters 9 24 (3.721 %) Sun 10 23 (3.566 %) Remedy 11 19 (2.946 %) Lotus 11 19 (2.946 %) CheckPoint 12 17 (2.636 %) Sybase 13 12 (1.860 %) Altiris 14 11 (1.705 %) Juniper 15 10 (1.550 %) Red Hat 15 10 (1.550 %) Dell 16 8 (1.240 %) IBM 16 8 (1.240 %) Adobe