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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Support
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Support 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dunstable - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £30,500 £30,000 £28,500
% change year-on-year
+1.66% +5.26%
All Job Titles
Dunstable
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
95 29 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dunstable 96.94% 100.00% 72.97%
Number of salaries quoted 87 27 14
Average salary £45,000 £55,250 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-18.55% +57.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £33,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £58,000 £50,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Technical Support
Bedfordshire

Technical Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dunstable Technical Support Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Support
Salary Trend

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

Dunstable Technical Support Salary Trend

Technical Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 4 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (50.00%) SLA
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
2 2 (50.00%) HP
2 2 (50.00%) Citrix
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (50.00%) Middleware
2 2 (50.00%) Service Management
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Legal
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) BASE24
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (50.00%) ServiceCenter
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (50.00%) Network Management
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) WebLogic
2 2 (50.00%) MS Office
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Solaris

Technical Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (50.00%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Office
1 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) BASE24
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Legal
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Service Management
1 2 (50.00%) Network Management
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) Capacity Management
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) HP
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle