East Midlands Support Technician Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Support Technician role in IT jobs within the East Midlands region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT job ads that have cited Support Technician in their job title over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Support Technician
Location Aberdeen Alfreton Ashby-de-la-Zouch Avon Banstead Barnet Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bournemouth Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall Coulsdon County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Daresbury Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dunstable East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edgware Elland England Esher Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Haverhill Hertfordshire High Wycombe Huddersfield Ipswich Keighley Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Maldon Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Preston Reading Redruth Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Sittingbourne Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Stansted Stevenage Stockport Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Tamworth Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wetherby Whitstable Wigan Wiltshire Wirral Woking Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	118	149
Rank change on same period last year	+31
Matching permanent IT job ads	60	33
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.031 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	1.301 %	0.615 %
Salaries quoted	58	25
Average minimum salary	£20,507	£18,880
Average salary	£21,547	£19,940
% change on same period last year	+8.05 %
Average maximum salary	£22,587	£21,000
UK excluding London average salary	£22,622	£22,690
% change on same period last year	-0.29 %
Job Titles East Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	4612	5362
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.408 %	2.212 %
Salaries quoted	3885	4461
Average minimum salary	£32,094	£31,385
Average salary	£34,749	£33,921
% change on same period last year	+2.44 %
Average maximum salary	£37,404	£36,457
UK excluding London average salary	£38,227	£39,513
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
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Support Technician
Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Support Technician across the East Midlands region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Support Technician across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT job ads citing Support Technician within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Nottinghamshire	+30	29	£21,552	-5.26 %
Leicestershire	+24	21	£21,631	+0.61 %
Derbyshire	+23	16	£22,156	+39.34 %
Lincolnshire	-7	7	£21,214	+3.48 %
Northamptonshire	-3	4	£19,250	-20.61 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT jobs across the East Midlands region that cited Support Technician 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 Technician in their job title.

1 76 (69.09 %) Windows 2 52 (47.27 %) Microsoft 3 48 (43.64 %) Active Directory 4 35 (31.82 %) TCP/IP 5 34 (30.91 %) LAN 6 33 (30.00 %) Microsoft Certification 7 30 (27.27 %) MS Office 8 29 (26.36 %) MCP 8 29 (26.36 %) Windows XP 9 28 (25.45 %) WAN 10 25 (22.73 %) Firewall 11 24 (21.82 %) MCSE 11 24 (21.82 %) Exchange Server 2003 12 19 (17.27 %) Degree 13 18 (16.36 %) MS Exchange

13 18 (16.36 %) MS Excel 14 15 (13.64 %) Windows 2000 14 15 (13.64 %) SQL Server 14 15 (13.64 %) Citrix 15 13 (11.82 %) Avaya 16 12 (10.91 %) MCSA 17 11 (10.00 %) Blackberry 17 11 (10.00 %) Pensions 18 10 (9.091 %) VoIP 18 10 (9.091 %) SQL 19 9 (8.182 %) Lotus Notes 19 9 (8.182 %) Lotus 19 9 (8.182 %) VPN 20 7 (6.364 %) Windows Server 2003 21 6 (5.455 %) DNS

Support Technician
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT jobs across the East Midlands region that cited Support Technician 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 Technician in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (1.818 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 24 (21.82 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 18 (16.36 %) MS Exchange 3 9 (8.182 %) Lotus Notes 4 6 (5.455 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 5 (4.545 %) CMS 6 3 (2.727 %) Exchange Server 5.5 7 2 (1.818 %) Exchange Server 2007 7 2 (1.818 %) IIS 8 1 (0.909 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications 1 30 (27.27 %) MS Office 2 18 (16.36 %) MS Excel 3 5 (4.545 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 35 (31.82 %) TCP/IP 2 34 (30.91 %) LAN 3 28 (25.45 %) WAN 4 25 (22.73 %) Firewall 5 10 (9.091 %) VoIP 6 9 (8.182 %) VPN 7 6 (5.455 %) DNS 7 6 (5.455 %) DHCP 8 5 (4.545 %) Wireless 9 4 (3.636 %) RIP 9 4 (3.636 %) BGP 9 4 (3.636 %) EIGRP 10 2 (1.818 %) Ethernet 10 2 (1.818 %) Intranet 10 2 (1.818 %) Internet 11 1 (0.909 %) ADSL 11 1 (0.909 %) Broadband 11 1 (0.909 %) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence 1 15 (13.64 %) SQL Server 2 1 (0.909 %) Crystal Reports 2 1 (0.909 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 1 (0.909 %) SQL Server 7 2 1 (0.909 %) SQL Server 2000	General 1 11 (10.00 %) Pensions 2 5 (4.545 %) Automotive 2 5 (4.545 %) Electronics 3 4 (3.636 %) Multimedia 4 3 (2.727 %) Telecoms 4 3 (2.727 %) Education 5 2 (1.818 %) Electric 5 2 (1.818 %) Health 5 2 (1.818 %) Auditing 6 1 (0.909 %) Games 6 1 (0.909 %) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous 1 11 (10.00 %) Blackberry 2 4 (3.636 %) PDA 3 3 (2.727 %) Asset Management	Operating Systems 1 76 (69.09 %) Windows 2 29 (26.36 %) Windows XP 3 15 (13.64 %) Windows 2000 4 7 (6.364 %) Windows Server 2003 5 6 (5.455 %) UNIX 6 5 (4.545 %) Linux 7 3 (2.727 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (3.636 %) Web Development 2 2 (1.818 %) PLM 2 2 (1.818 %) ITIL 2 2 (1.818 %) ERP 2 2 (1.818 %) CAD 3 1 (0.909 %) Business Continuity 3 1 (0.909 %) OO 3 1 (0.909 %) Software Testing 3 1 (0.909 %) Problem Management	Programming Languages 1 10 (9.091 %) SQL 2 6 (5.455 %) C 3 3 (2.727 %) VB 4 2 (1.818 %) Java 5 1 (0.909 %) C++
Qualifications 1 33 (30.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 29 (26.36 %) MCP 3 24 (21.82 %) MCSE 4 19 (17.27 %) Degree 5 12 (10.91 %) MCSA 6 6 (5.455 %) HND 7 1 (0.909 %) HNC	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (2.727 %) SLA
System Software 1 48 (43.64 %) Active Directory 2 3 (2.727 %) Terminal Services	Systems Management 1 2 (1.818 %) WSUS 2 1 (0.909 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 52 (47.27 %) Microsoft 2 15 (13.64 %) Citrix 3 13 (11.82 %) Avaya 4 9 (8.182 %) Lotus 5 6 (5.455 %) McAfee Security 5 6 (5.455 %) Cisco 6 3 (2.727 %) Symantec 6 3 (2.727 %) VERITAS 7 2 (1.818 %) HP 7 2 (1.818 %) SAP 8 1 (0.909 %) Oracle 8 1 (0.909 %) WatchGuard