Edinburgh Support Engineer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT jobs within the Edinburgh 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 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Support Engineer
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Amersham Andover Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Avonmouth Aylesbury Banbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Bicester Billericay Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brierley Hill Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Caterham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Congleton Cornwall Corsham County Antrim County Armagh Coventry Cranleigh Crawley Croydon Dagenham Dartford Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gourock Great Yarmouth Greenford Guildford Gwent Hailsham Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Haywards Heath Heanor Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Horley Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverclyde Ipswich Isleworth Keighley Kent Kettering Kidderminster Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Mansfield Marlow Matlock Melksham Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Neath Port Talbot New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwood Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Osterley Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Port Talbot Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Retford Rickmansworth Ringwood Romford Romsey Royston Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stansted Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke Mandeville Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Teddington Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Thatcham Thurrock Towcester Tring Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Wallington Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welwyn Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wetherby Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Witney Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	53	65
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching permanent IT job ads	27	36
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	2.302 %	1.925 %
Salaries quoted	22	30
Average minimum salary	£22,250	£23,433
Average salary	£23,795	£28,267
% change on same period last year	-15.81 %
Average maximum salary	£25,341	£33,100
UK excluding London average salary	£29,788	£29,090
% change on same period last year	+2.39 %
Job Titles Edinburgh
Matching permanent IT job ads	1173	1870
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.640 %	0.785 %
Salaries quoted	855	1234
Average minimum salary	£32,508	£33,512
Average salary	£36,106	£37,015
% change on same period last year	-2.45 %
Average maximum salary	£39,704	£40,518
UK excluding London average salary	£38,060	£39,458
% change on same period last year	-3.54 %
Support Engineer Scotland

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Support Engineer across the Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Support Engineer across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 23 (52.27 %) Windows 2 15 (34.09 %) Degree 3 12 (27.27 %) Electric 3 12 (27.27 %) Linux 4 11 (25.00 %) Computer Science 5 10 (22.73 %) TCP/IP 5 10 (22.73 %) UNIX 6 9 (20.45 %) Firewall 7 6 (13.64 %) Windows Server 2003 8 5 (11.36 %) MS Excel 8 5 (11.36 %) Pensions 9 4 (9.091 %) CheckPoint 9 4 (9.091 %) Health 9 4 (9.091 %) Insurance 9 4 (9.091 %) Windows NT

9 4 (9.091 %) MS Exchange 9 4 (9.091 %) Cisco 9 4 (9.091 %) Microsoft 9 4 (9.091 %) Windows 2000 9 4 (9.091 %) SQL 9 4 (9.091 %) SQL Server 9 4 (9.091 %) Active Directory 9 4 (9.091 %) HP 10 3 (6.818 %) Compaq 10 3 (6.818 %) Juniper 10 3 (6.818 %) Service Management 10 3 (6.818 %) NetMail 10 3 (6.818 %) GroupWise 10 3 (6.818 %) Blackberry 10 3 (6.818 %) Solaris

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 2 (4.545 %) XML 2 1 (2.273 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 4 (9.091 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (6.818 %) GroupWise 3 1 (2.273 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (2.273 %) Flash Media Server 3 1 (2.273 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 5 (11.36 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 10 (22.73 %) TCP/IP 2 9 (20.45 %) Firewall 3 3 (6.818 %) Network Security 3 3 (6.818 %) SMTP 3 3 (6.818 %) DNS 4 2 (4.545 %) SAN 4 2 (4.545 %) Cisco ASA 5 1 (2.273 %) Wireless 5 1 (2.273 %) VPN 5 1 (2.273 %) Internet 5 1 (2.273 %) NetScreen 5 1 (2.273 %) Broadband 5 1 (2.273 %) LAN 5 1 (2.273 %) VoIP 5 1 (2.273 %) WLAN 5 1 (2.273 %) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2 2 (4.545 %) DB2 2 2 (4.545 %) GIS	Development Applications 1 1 (2.273 %) Flash
General 1 12 (27.27 %) Electric 2 5 (11.36 %) Pensions 3 4 (9.091 %) Insurance 3 4 (9.091 %) Health 4 1 (2.273 %) Home Office 4 1 (2.273 %) Government 4 1 (2.273 %) Telecoms	Miscellaneous 1 11 (25.00 %) Computer Science 2 3 (6.818 %) Blackberry 2 3 (6.818 %) PDA 2 3 (6.818 %) Mathematics 2 3 (6.818 %) Physics 3 2 (4.545 %) German Language 4 1 (2.273 %) Swedish Language 4 1 (2.273 %) French Language
Operating Systems 1 23 (52.27 %) Windows 2 12 (27.27 %) Linux 3 10 (22.73 %) UNIX 4 6 (13.64 %) Windows Server 2003 5 4 (9.091 %) Windows 2000 5 4 (9.091 %) Windows NT 6 3 (6.818 %) Solaris 6 3 (6.818 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 2 (4.545 %) OS/390 7 2 (4.545 %) zOS 8 1 (2.273 %) Windows XP 8 1 (2.273 %) NetWare	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (6.818 %) Service Management 1 3 (6.818 %) ITSM 2 2 (4.545 %) Disaster Recovery 2 2 (4.545 %) System Testing 3 1 (2.273 %) Migration 3 1 (2.273 %) Information Security 3 1 (2.273 %) Software Testing 3 1 (2.273 %) Incident Management 3 1 (2.273 %) Technical Architecture 3 1 (2.273 %) Service Delivery 3 1 (2.273 %) ITIL 3 1 (2.273 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 4 (9.091 %) SQL 2 1 (2.273 %) Java	Qualifications 1 15 (34.09 %) Degree 2 2 (4.545 %) HND 2 2 (4.545 %) MCSE 2 2 (4.545 %) CCNA 2 2 (4.545 %) Cisco Certification 2 2 (4.545 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (2.273 %) CCSE 3 1 (2.273 %) MCITP 3 1 (2.273 %) MCSA 3 1 (2.273 %) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.273 %) ISO27001	System Software 1 4 (9.091 %) Active Directory 2 3 (6.818 %) NetMail 3 1 (2.273 %) Backup Exec 3 1 (2.273 %) ProxySG
Vendors 1 4 (9.091 %) Cisco 1 4 (9.091 %) HP 1 4 (9.091 %) Microsoft 1 4 (9.091 %) CheckPoint 2 3 (6.818 %) Juniper 2 3 (6.818 %) Compaq 2 3 (6.818 %) VMware 2 3 (6.818 %) Blue Coat 3 2 (4.545 %) Remedy 3 2 (4.545 %) Sun 3 2 (4.545 %) EMC 3 2 (4.545 %) IBM 3 2 (4.545 %) Oracle 3 2 (4.545 %) Sybase 3 2 (4.545 %) Nokia 3 2 (4.545 %) StorageTek 4 1 (2.273 %) Symantec 4 1 (2.273 %) Genesys 4 1 (2.273 %) CA 4 1 (2.273 %) Adobe