The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Support Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the City of London 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 23 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Support Engineer
Rank 303 310 314
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Support Engineer 17 18 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.147% 0.138% 0.083%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.158% 0.148% 0.089%
Number of salaries quoted 16 18 13
Average salary £39,000 £30,500 £29,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+27.86% +5.17%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,300 £19,800
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,800 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £35,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +16.66%
All Job Titles
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
10773 12165 14632
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 92.88% 93.10% 93.66%
Number of salaries quoted 9280 11060 13186
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.54%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Technical Support Engineer
London

Technical Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London 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 City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London Technical Support Engineer Salary Histogram

Technical Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 21 (53.85%) Linux
1 21 (53.85%) Degree
2 19 (48.72%) Red Hat
3 18 (46.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (35.90%) UNIX
4 14 (35.90%) Windows
5 13 (33.33%) Telecoms
6 12 (30.77%) VMware
6 12 (30.77%) SAN
7 11 (28.21%) Nagios
7 11 (28.21%) Network Design
7 11 (28.21%) Windows Server 2008
8 10 (25.64%) DHCP
8 10 (25.64%) VPN
9 9 (23.08%) CCNA
9 9 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (23.08%) LAN
10 8 (20.51%) CCNP
10 8 (20.51%) Computer Science
10 8 (20.51%) VLAN
11 7 (17.95%) Spanish Language
11 7 (17.95%) Problem Management
11 7 (17.95%) Ruby
11 7 (17.95%) Bash shell
11 7 (17.95%) Perl
11 7 (17.95%) PHP
11 7 (17.95%) Juniper
12 5 (12.82%) French Language
13 4 (10.26%) Windows Server 2003
13 4 (10.26%) SQL

Technical Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 3 (7.692%) XML
Application Platforms
1 3 (7.692%) MS Exchange
2 2 (5.128%) SharePoint Server
2 2 (5.128%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.564%) IIS
3 1 (2.564%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (2.564%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (2.564%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (2.564%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 3 (7.692%) MS Office
2 2 (5.128%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 12 (30.77%) SAN
2 10 (25.64%) DHCP
2 10 (25.64%) VPN
3 9 (23.08%) LAN
4 8 (20.51%) VLAN
5 4 (10.26%) TCP/IP
6 3 (7.692%) 802.11
6 3 (7.692%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (7.692%) Wireless
7 2 (5.128%) Firewall
7 2 (5.128%) Intranet
7 2 (5.128%) Broadband
7 2 (5.128%) VoIP
7 2 (5.128%) DNS
8 1 (2.564%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.692%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.564%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (2.564%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 13 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 7 (17.95%) Spanish Language
3 5 (12.82%) French Language
4 3 (7.692%) Banking
5 1 (2.564%) Finance
5 1 (2.564%) German Language
5 1 (2.564%) Portuguese Language
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Computer Science
2 3 (7.692%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (7.692%) Derivative
3 2 (5.128%) Digital Media
4 1 (2.564%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 21 (53.85%) Linux
2 18 (46.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (35.90%) UNIX
3 14 (35.90%) Windows
4 11 (28.21%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (10.26%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (5.128%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (2.564%) Windows 7
7 1 (2.564%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.21%) Network Design
2 7 (17.95%) Problem Management
3 2 (5.128%) Service Management
3 2 (5.128%) ITSM
4 1 (2.564%) ITIL
4 1 (2.564%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.95%) Ruby
1 7 (17.95%) Bash shell
1 7 (17.95%) Perl
1 7 (17.95%) PHP
2 4 (10.26%) SQL
3 3 (7.692%) Java
Qualifications
1 21 (53.85%) Degree
2 9 (23.08%) CCNA
2 9 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (20.51%) CCNP
4 2 (5.128%) MCSA
4 2 (5.128%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.564%) A+ Certification
5 1 (2.564%) MCSE
5 1 (2.564%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (2.564%) MCDST
5 1 (2.564%) MCITP
5 1 (2.564%) VTSP
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.128%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (2.564%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.564%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (28.21%) Nagios
2 2 (5.128%) Puppet
3 1 (2.564%) WSUS
Vendors
1 19 (48.72%) Red Hat
2 12 (30.77%) VMware
3 7 (17.95%) Juniper
4 3 (7.692%) Microsoft
4 3 (7.692%) Twitter
5 2 (5.128%) Citrix
5 2 (5.128%) Cisco
6 1 (2.564%) HP
6 1 (2.564%) EMC
6 1 (2.564%) SolarWinds
City of London
You will be involved in the following duties and have experience of: *Network troubleshooting; in depth knowledge of TCP/IP, routing protocols, NAT, switches, routers, firewalls, bandwidth analysers*...
Bluefire Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
City, London
You will be involved in the following duties and have experience of: *Network troubleshooting; in depth knowledge of TCP/IP, routing protocols, NAT, switches, routers, firewalls, bandwidth analysers *...
Bluefire Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013