The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Croydon region. 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 20 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 Croydon region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Engineer
Rank 37 40 30
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -10
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 2 9 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 0.697% 2.624% 3.226%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.758% 2.941% 3.321%
Number of salaries quoted 1 9 9
Average salary £30,000 £31,500 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.76% -14.86%
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
All Job Titles
Croydon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
264 306 271
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 91.99% 89.21% 97.13%
Number of salaries quoted 238 284 255
Average salary £45,000 £37,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.00% -11.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £75,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Support Engineer
London

Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Croydon Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Croydon Support Engineer Salary Trend

Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) CCNP
2 2 (40.00%) CCNA
2 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) Citrix
2 2 (40.00%) Lotus Domino
2 2 (40.00%) Windows XP
2 2 (40.00%) Apple
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) MCITP
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (40.00%) Windows 2000 Server
3 1 (20.00%) Open Source
3 1 (20.00%) Bash shell
3 1 (20.00%) Office 365
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco PIX
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (20.00%) MCTS
3 1 (20.00%) Fedora
3 1 (20.00%) Backup Exec
3 1 (20.00%) Juniper

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Lotus Domino
2 1 (20.00%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) LDAP
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (20.00%) OSPF
1 1 (20.00%) BGP
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco PIX
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (40.00%) Windows 2000 Server
2 2 (40.00%) Windows XP
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (20.00%) Fedora
3 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Solaris
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL
1 1 (20.00%) Change Management
1 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CCNP
1 2 (40.00%) CCNA
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (40.00%) MCITP
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (20.00%) MCTS
2 1 (20.00%) CCDP
2 1 (20.00%) CCA
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix Certification
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Apple
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Citrix
3 1 (20.00%) Juniper
3 1 (20.00%) Veritas
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (20.00%) Sun
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