The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Support Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Support Engineer
Rank 699 768 709
Rank change year-on-year
+69 -59
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Support Engineer 145 112 167
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.140% 0.099% 0.139%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.149% 0.104% 0.147%
Number of salaries quoted 102 102 150
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -9.09%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £27,650 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
All Job Titles
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
97589 107526 113233
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 94.40% 95.02% 94.24%
Number of salaries quoted 82183 92922 96618
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Senior Support Engineer
UK

Senior Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Senior Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

England Senior Support Engineer Salary Trend

Senior Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior Support Engineer across the England region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013.

England Senior Support Engineer Salary Histogram

Senior Support Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Support Engineer within the England region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +68 63 £45,000 +26.76% 8
South East +23 37 £46,000 +15.00% 2
East of England +29 20 £37,500 +15.38% 2
Yorkshire -8 11 £36,500 -18.88%
North West -13 7 £38,000 +8.57% 1
East Midlands -4 4 £33,750 -3.57% 3
South West -2 2 £27,500 -15.38% 4
West Midlands -23 1 £37,500 +11.94% 1
Senior Support Engineer
UK

Senior Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the England region that cited Senior 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 Senior Support Engineer in their job title.

1 133 (49.26%) Windows
2 101 (37.41%) Active Directory
3 80 (29.63%) Cisco
4 77 (28.52%) Windows Server 2008
5 74 (27.41%) Microsoft
6 73 (27.04%) TCP/IP
7 70 (25.93%) Firewall
8 66 (24.44%) Linux
9 65 (24.07%) Windows Server 2003
10 60 (22.22%) UNIX
11 57 (21.11%) MS Exchange
12 53 (19.63%) Cisco Certification
13 52 (19.26%) VMware
14 51 (18.89%) Java
15 48 (17.78%) Finance
16 47 (17.41%) SQL
17 43 (15.93%) Microsoft Certification
18 40 (14.81%) SQL Server
18 40 (14.81%) MS Office
19 39 (14.44%) MS Excel
19 39 (14.44%) DNS
20 38 (14.07%) VMware Infrastructure
21 37 (13.70%) Degree
21 37 (13.70%) Windows XP
21 37 (13.70%) ITIL
22 34 (12.59%) IIS
23 33 (12.22%) SAN
24 32 (11.85%) Exchange Server 2010
25 31 (11.48%) SLA
26 29 (10.74%) Telecoms

Senior Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the England region that cited Senior 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 Senior Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (4.815%) .NET
2 11 (4.074%) XML
3 9 (3.333%) CGI
4 8 (2.963%) J2EE
5 7 (2.593%) Application Packaging
6 5 (1.852%) Java EE
6 5 (1.852%) ASP
6 5 (1.852%) XSLT
7 4 (1.481%) CSS
8 2 (0.741%) HTML
8 2 (0.741%) JMS
8 2 (0.741%) JSR 170
8 2 (0.741%) OSGi
9 1 (0.370%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.370%) XMPP
9 1 (0.370%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.370%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 57 (21.11%) MS Exchange
2 34 (12.59%) IIS
3 32 (11.85%) Exchange Server 2010
4 28 (10.37%) Exchange Server 2003
5 27 (10.00%) SharePoint
6 22 (8.148%) Apache
7 15 (5.556%) Tomcat
8 12 (4.444%) Exchange Server 2007
9 9 (3.333%) SharePoint 2010
10 6 (2.222%) Lync
10 6 (2.222%) IBM Notes
10 6 (2.222%) Exchange Server 2013
11 2 (0.741%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.741%) CMS
12 1 (0.370%) Exchange Server 5.5
12 1 (0.370%) SharePoint Server
12 1 (0.370%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.370%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.370%) Documentum
Applications
1 40 (14.81%) MS Office
2 39 (14.44%) MS Excel
3 3 (1.111%) MS Project
4 2 (0.741%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.741%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 2 (0.741%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.370%) SyteLine
2 1 (0.370%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 73 (27.04%) TCP/IP
2 70 (25.93%) Firewall
3 39 (14.44%) DNS
4 33 (12.22%) SAN
5 27 (10.00%) MPLS
6 26 (9.630%) LAN
6 26 (9.630%) VoIP
7 21 (7.778%) WAN
7 21 (7.778%) DHCP
7 21 (7.778%) VPN
8 20 (7.407%) Internet
9 18 (6.667%) Wireless
10 16 (5.926%) VLAN
11 15 (5.556%) BGP
12 13 (4.815%) OSPF
12 13 (4.815%) LDAP
13 12 (4.444%) HTTP
13 12 (4.444%) EIGRP
14 11 (4.074%) IP Telephony
14 11 (4.074%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (14.81%) SQL Server
2 18 (6.667%) MySQL
3 7 (2.593%) SQL Server 2008
4 6 (2.222%) SQL Server 2000
5 5 (1.852%) SQL Server 2012
6 4 (1.481%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (1.481%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.741%) Jackrabbit
7 2 (0.741%) SQL Server 2005
7 2 (0.741%) Oracle 8/8i
7 2 (0.741%) Big Data
8 1 (0.370%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.370%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.370%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.370%) DB2
Development Applications
1 10 (3.704%) Subversion
2 7 (2.593%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.741%) MSI
4 1 (0.370%) Git (software)
General
1 48 (17.78%) Finance
2 29 (10.74%) Telecoms
3 20 (7.407%) Banking
4 17 (6.296%) Financial Institution
5 13 (4.815%) Back Office
6 6 (2.222%) Marketing
7 4 (1.481%) Publishing
7 4 (1.481%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.111%) Arabic Language
8 3 (1.111%) Retail
9 2 (0.741%) Japanese Language
9 2 (0.741%) Advertising
9 2 (0.741%) Electronics
9 2 (0.741%) Russian Language
9 2 (0.741%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.370%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.370%) Legal
10 1 (0.370%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.370%) Portuguese Language
10 1 (0.370%) Danish Language
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.704%) Blackberry
1 10 (3.704%) Handset
1 10 (3.704%) Clustering
2 8 (2.963%) Computer Science
3 6 (2.222%) Open Source
4 5 (1.852%) SaaS
5 4 (1.481%) Derivative
5 4 (1.481%) Mathematics
5 4 (1.481%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.111%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.741%) Thin Client
7 2 (0.741%) Wiki
7 2 (0.741%) Fat Client
7 2 (0.741%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (0.741%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.370%) iPhone
8 1 (0.370%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.370%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.370%) EPoS
8 1 (0.370%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 133 (49.26%) Windows
2 77 (28.52%) Windows Server 2008
3 66 (24.44%) Linux
4 65 (24.07%) Windows Server 2003
5 60 (22.22%) UNIX
6 37 (13.70%) Windows XP
7 17 (6.296%) Windows 7
8 15 (5.556%) Solaris
9 13 (4.815%) Windows 2000 Server
10 12 (4.444%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 11 (4.074%) Windows 2000
12 9 (3.333%) Windows Vista
12 9 (3.333%) Windows Server 2012
13 8 (2.963%) Ubuntu
13 8 (2.963%) CentOS
14 7 (2.593%) Mac OS X
15 6 (2.222%) Fedora
16 2 (0.741%) Windows NT
17 1 (0.370%) HPUX
17 1 (0.370%) Mac OS X Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (13.70%) ITIL
2 23 (8.519%) Change Management
3 14 (5.185%) Agile Software Development
4 13 (4.815%) Problem Management
5 10 (3.704%) Time Management
5 10 (3.704%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (3.704%) Project Management
6 7 (2.593%) CRM
6 7 (2.593%) E-Commerce
6 7 (2.593%) Product Management
6 7 (2.593%) Change Control
7 6 (2.222%) Service Delivery
7 6 (2.222%) Risk Analysis
7 6 (2.222%) Direct Marketing
7 6 (2.222%) Information Security
8 5 (1.852%) QMS
8 5 (1.852%) Mobile Device Management
9 4 (1.481%) Load Balancing
9 4 (1.481%) ERP
9 4 (1.481%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (18.89%) Java
2 47 (17.41%) SQL
3 21 (7.778%) Shell Script
4 16 (5.926%) Perl
5 14 (5.185%) C
6 10 (3.704%) Bash shell
6 10 (3.704%) C++
6 10 (3.704%) Python
7 5 (1.852%) VB
7 5 (1.852%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.852%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.481%) C#
8 4 (1.481%) VB.NET
9 3 (1.111%) PHP
10 1 (0.370%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.370%) VBScript
10 1 (0.370%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 53 (19.63%) Cisco Certification
2 43 (15.93%) Microsoft Certification
3 37 (13.70%) Degree
4 28 (10.37%) CCNA
5 23 (8.519%) CCNP
6 20 (7.407%) MCSE
7 19 (7.037%) MCP
8 17 (6.296%) CCIE
9 14 (5.185%) MCSA
10 11 (4.074%) MCTS
11 8 (2.963%) MCITP
12 6 (2.222%) A+ Certification
13 4 (1.481%) CCDP
13 4 (1.481%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (1.111%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.741%) CCA
15 2 (0.741%) Citrix Certification
15 2 (0.741%) CISSP
15 2 (0.741%) MCDST
16 1 (0.370%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (11.48%) SLA
2 24 (8.889%) QA
3 4 (1.481%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 101 (37.41%) Active Directory
2 38 (14.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (5.926%) Hyper-V
4 11 (4.074%) vSphere
5 6 (2.222%) NFS
5 6 (2.222%) XenApp
6 5 (1.852%) Terminal Services
7 4 (1.481%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.481%) VMware ESX
8 2 (0.741%) Forefront TMG
8 2 (0.741%) Terminal Server
9 1 (0.370%) Samba
9 1 (0.370%) XenServer
9 1 (0.370%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.370%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 13 (4.815%) Backup Exec
2 9 (3.333%) SCCM
2 9 (3.333%) FortiGate
3 7 (2.593%) WSUS
4 6 (2.222%) McAfee ePO
4 6 (2.222%) Tivoli
4 6 (2.222%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 6 (2.222%) MOM
5 2 (0.741%) Nagios
5 2 (0.741%) Norton AntiVirus
5 2 (0.741%) Puppet
5 2 (0.741%) CiscoWorks
6 1 (0.370%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.370%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 1 (0.370%) SCOM
6 1 (0.370%) Cacti
6 1 (0.370%) MIMEsweeper
6 1 (0.370%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.370%) ARCserve
6 1 (0.370%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 80 (29.63%) Cisco
2 74 (27.41%) Microsoft
3 52 (19.26%) VMware
4 27 (10.00%) Juniper
5 24 (8.889%) Oracle
6 22 (8.148%) HP
7 16 (5.926%) CheckPoint
8 15 (5.556%) Citrix
9 14 (5.185%) F5
10 13 (4.815%) NetApp
11 12 (4.444%) Symantec
12 11 (4.074%) Red Hat
13 10 (3.704%) Dell
13 10 (3.704%) Sybase
14 9 (3.333%) Apple
15 8 (2.963%) CA
15 8 (2.963%) NetScout
15 8 (2.963%) Fortinet
16 6 (2.222%) Lotus
16 6 (2.222%) McAfee
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