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This section looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT jobs within the England 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 Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 9 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkSupport Engineer
Location
3 months to 9 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank9095
Rank change on same period last yearUp+5
Matching permanent IT job ads41344483
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled2.124 %1.867 %
As % of the category below2.448 %2.151 %
Salaries quoted36373720
Average minimum salary£29,012£28,544
Average salary£31,130£30,618
% change on same period last year+1.67 %
Average maximum salary£33,249£32,692
UK excluding London average salary£29,802£28,988
% change on same period last year+2.80 %
Job Titles EnglandJob Titles
England
Matching permanent IT job ads168867208442
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled86.77 %86.82 %
Salaries quoted139989166875
Average minimum salary£38,896£40,807
Average salary£42,535£44,621
% change on same period last year-4.67 %
Average maximum salary£46,175£48,434
UK excluding London average salary£38,190£39,485
% change on same period last year-3.27 %
Support Engineer UKSupport Engineer
UK

Support Engineer
Demand Trend

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

England Support Engineer Demand Trend

Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

England Support Engineer Salary Trend

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Support Engineer across the England region over the 3 months to 9 July 2008.

England Support Engineer Salary Histogram

Support Engineer
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT job ads citing Support Engineer within the England region over the 3 months to 9 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.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
South EastUp+71453£31,638+2.14 %
LondonUp+101288£34,509+2.50 %
East of EnglandDown-6346£29,058-5.02 %
South WestUp+2316£29,253+13.62 %
North WestDown-14205£26,361+8.78 %
West MidlandsDown-7203£25,619-13.24 %
YorkshireUp+12194£26,439+2.01 %
East MidlandsDown-2118£26,828+10.03 %
MidlandsUp+1226£37,472+45.17 %
North EastUp+217£22,900-24.58 %
South CoastUp+71£32,500-27.77 %
Support Engineer UKSupport Engineer
UK

Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 July 2008, IT jobs across the England 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.

14492 (51.71 %)Windows
22413 (27.78 %)Active Directory
32358 (27.14 %)Microsoft
41846 (21.25 %)Microsoft Certification
51692 (19.48 %)Cisco
61669 (19.21 %)TCP/IP
61669 (19.21 %)MS Exchange
71374 (15.82 %)MCSE
81333 (15.34 %)MS Excel
91308 (15.06 %)Unix
101298 (14.94 %)SQL
111272 (14.64 %)Exchange Server 2003
121188 (13.68 %)SQL Server
131165 (13.41 %)Firewall
141148 (13.22 %)Linux
151132 (13.03 %)LAN
161126 (12.96 %)Windows 2000
171097 (12.63 %)WAN
181007 (11.59 %)Windows XP
191002 (11.53 %)Cisco Certification
20995 (11.45 %)MS Office
21923 (10.63 %)Citrix
22829 (9.543 %)MCP
23820 (9.439 %)Windows Server 2003
24784 (9.025 %)Finance
25777 (8.944 %)DNS
26726 (8.357 %)CCNA
27708 (8.150 %)Oracle
28701 (8.070 %)Telecoms
29669 (7.701 %)VPN

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 July 2008, IT jobs across the England 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
1296 (3.407 %).NET
2228 (2.625 %)HTML
3192 (2.210 %)XML
4146 (1.681 %)J2EE
591 (1.048 %)WebSphere
679 (0.909 %)ASP.NET
769 (0.794 %)ASP
865 (0.748 %)CSS
963 (0.725 %)JSP
1062 (0.714 %)WebServices
1148 (0.553 %)Middleware
1229 (0.334 %)XHTML
1229 (0.334 %)JDBC
1327 (0.311 %)WAP
1426 (0.299 %)SOAP
1524 (0.276 %)WML
1524 (0.276 %)JMS
1623 (0.265 %)Servlets
1720 (0.230 %).NET Framework
1818 (0.207 %)UIQ
Application Platforms
11669 (19.21 %)MS Exchange
21272 (14.64 %)Exchange Server 2003
3635 (7.310 %)Exchange Server 2000
4530 (6.101 %)IIS
5298 (3.430 %)Apache
6269 (3.097 %)Lotus Notes
7195 (2.245 %)Exchange Server 2007
8158 (1.819 %)Tomcat
9138 (1.589 %)SharePoint
10135 (1.554 %)WebLogic
1193 (1.071 %)Lotus Domino
1290 (1.036 %)Exchange Server 5.5
1361 (0.702 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1459 (0.679 %)JBoss
1536 (0.414 %)MQSeries
1627 (0.311 %)CMS
1725 (0.288 %)GroupWise
1821 (0.242 %)iPlanet
1918 (0.207 %)WebSphere Application Server
2017 (0.196 %)SharePoint Portal Server
Applications
11333 (15.34 %)MS Excel
2995 (11.45 %)MS Office
360 (0.691 %)MS Visio
425 (0.288 %)MS PowerPoint
519 (0.219 %)AutoCAD
612 (0.138 %)MS Project
78 (0.092 %)Photoshop
87 (0.081 %)CATIA
94 (0.046 %)DeltaView
94 (0.046 %)Acrobat
102 (0.023 %)QuarkXPress
111 (0.012 %)MATLAB
111 (0.012 %)S-PLUS
111 (0.012 %)Maya
111 (0.012 %)CorelDRAW
111 (0.012 %)NASTRAN
Business Applications
112 (0.138 %)Movex
211 (0.127 %)Oracle BRM
39 (0.104 %)Oracle Applications
47 (0.081 %)Teamcenter
47 (0.081 %)Microsoft CRM
47 (0.081 %)RMDS
56 (0.069 %)Oracle EBS
56 (0.069 %)Line 100
56 (0.069 %)BusinessWorks
65 (0.058 %)Line 50
65 (0.058 %)SalesLogix
65 (0.058 %)Remedy AR System
74 (0.046 %)ResourceLink
74 (0.046 %)Navision
83 (0.035 %)Metrica
92 (0.023 %)Pegasus Opera
92 (0.023 %)SMARTEAM
92 (0.023 %)Oracle 11i
92 (0.023 %)BASE24
101 (0.012 %)MAXIMO
Communications & Networking
11669 (19.21 %)TCP/IP
21165 (13.41 %)Firewall
31132 (13.03 %)LAN
41097 (12.63 %)WAN
5777 (8.944 %)DNS
6669 (7.701 %)VPN
7607 (6.987 %)Internet
8507 (5.836 %)VoIP
9390 (4.489 %)DHCP
10323 (3.718 %)SAN
11303 (3.488 %)Wireless
12205 (2.360 %)OSPF
13204 (2.348 %)BGP
14201 (2.314 %)Ethernet
15180 (2.072 %)Network Security
16166 (1.911 %)MPLS
17164 (1.888 %)ISDN
18150 (1.727 %)WINS
19145 (1.669 %)Cisco PIX
20143 (1.646 %)SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
11188 (13.68 %)SQL Server
2225 (2.590 %)SQL Server 2000
3168 (1.934 %)MySQL
4123 (1.416 %)RDBMS
5120 (1.381 %)SQL Server 2005
6112 (1.289 %)DB2
783 (0.955 %)SQL Server 7
852 (0.599 %)Crystal Reports
949 (0.564 %)MS Access
1040 (0.460 %)Informix
1136 (0.414 %)Datawarehouse
1230 (0.345 %)Oracle 10g
1329 (0.334 %)Oracle Reports
1427 (0.311 %)Oracle 9i
1525 (0.288 %)DTS
1624 (0.276 %)BusinessObjects
1717 (0.196 %)GIS
1815 (0.173 %)TOAD
1815 (0.173 %)Oracle 8/8i
1914 (0.161 %)OLAP
Development Applications
126 (0.299 %)Visual Studio
213 (0.150 %)JIRA
311 (0.127 %)ClearCase
311 (0.127 %)MSI
410 (0.115 %)Flash
58 (0.092 %)Eclipse
67 (0.081 %)PVCS
67 (0.081 %)VSS/SourceSafe
76 (0.069 %)Dreamweaver
76 (0.069 %)ClearQuest
83 (0.035 %)LoadRunner
83 (0.035 %)Oracle Forms
83 (0.035 %)WebSphere Studio Application Developer
83 (0.035 %)LabVIEW
83 (0.035 %)Subversion
83 (0.035 %)WebLOAD
92 (0.023 %)CruiseControl
92 (0.023 %)Selenium
92 (0.023 %)WebLogic Workshop
101 (0.012 %)InstallShield
General
1784 (9.025 %)Finance
2701 (8.070 %)Telecoms
3345 (3.971 %)Pensions
4302 (3.476 %)Health
5282 (3.246 %)Banking
6201 (2.314 %)Education
7139 (1.600 %)Investment Banking
8114 (1.312 %)Back Office
9101 (1.163 %)Manufacturing
10100 (1.151 %)Financial Institution
1199 (1.140 %)Retail
1199 (1.140 %)Insurance
1291 (1.048 %)Government
1379 (0.909 %)Marketing
1478 (0.898 %)Law
1567 (0.771 %)Electronics
1663 (0.725 %)Billing
1755 (0.633 %)Publishing
1845 (0.518 %)Legal
1845 (0.518 %)Electric
Miscellaneous
1270 (3.108 %)Blackberry
2223 (2.567 %)German Language
3211 (2.429 %)French Language
4185 (2.130 %)Clustering
5180 (2.072 %)Computer Science
6113 (1.301 %)Client/Server
772 (0.829 %)Spanish Language
871 (0.817 %)Italian Language
871 (0.817 %)PDA
953 (0.610 %)Thin Client
953 (0.610 %)Fat Client
1050 (0.576 %)Firmware
1149 (0.564 %)EFT
1149 (0.564 %)Asset Management
1248 (0.553 %)Mathematics
1342 (0.483 %)EPoS
1440 (0.460 %)Video Conferencing
1532 (0.368 %)Dutch Language
1630 (0.345 %)IVR
1729 (0.334 %)AS400
Operating Systems
14492 (51.71 %)Windows
21308 (15.06 %)Unix
31148 (13.22 %)Linux
41126 (12.96 %)Windows 2000
51007 (11.59 %)Windows XP
6820 (9.439 %)Windows Server 2003
7570 (6.562 %)Windows NT
8521 (5.997 %)Solaris
9149 (1.715 %)AIX
10133 (1.531 %)HPUX
1188 (1.013 %)Mac OS X
1261 (0.702 %)NetWare
1339 (0.449 %)SUSE
1430 (0.345 %)Windows Vista
1525 (0.288 %)Debian
1621 (0.242 %)VMS
1719 (0.219 %)VxWorks
1817 (0.196 %)Fedora
1817 (0.196 %)FreeBSD
1914 (0.161 %)Mac OS X Server
Processes & Methodologies
1377 (4.340 %)ITIL
2165 (1.899 %)Disaster Recovery
3163 (1.876 %)Security Cleared
4149 (1.715 %)Project Management
5141 (1.623 %)Service Delivery
6111 (1.278 %)CRM
784 (0.967 %)ERP
874 (0.852 %)SC Cleared
971 (0.817 %)Migration
1060 (0.691 %)Network Design
1159 (0.679 %)E-Commerce
1258 (0.668 %)Configuration Management
1258 (0.668 %)Problem Management
1357 (0.656 %)Time Management
1454 (0.622 %)Incident Management
1553 (0.610 %)Change Management
1651 (0.587 %)CAD
1750 (0.576 %)Release Management
1848 (0.553 %)Load Balancing
1939 (0.449 %)Validation
Programming Languages
11298 (14.94 %)SQL
2438 (5.042 %)Java
3397 (4.570 %)C
4293 (3.373 %)C++
5262 (3.016 %)Perl
6236 (2.717 %)Shell Script
7231 (2.659 %)VB
8137 (1.577 %)JavaScript
9127 (1.462 %)C#
1078 (0.898 %)PHP
1171 (0.817 %)Transact-SQL
1257 (0.656 %)PL/SQL
1351 (0.587 %)VBA
1441 (0.472 %)VB.NET
1540 (0.460 %)VBScript
1632 (0.368 %)Python
1725 (0.288 %)VB6
1820 (0.230 %)Euclid
1915 (0.173 %)Embedded C
1915 (0.173 %)COBOL
Qualifications
11846 (21.25 %)Microsoft Certification
21374 (15.82 %)MCSE
31002 (11.53 %)Cisco Certification
4829 (9.543 %)MCP
5726 (8.357 %)CCNA
6629 (7.241 %)Degree
7481 (5.537 %)CCNP
8399 (4.593 %)MCSA
9164 (1.888 %)CCVP
10114 (1.312 %)Citrix Certification
11101 (1.163 %)CCA
1282 (0.944 %)CCIP
1378 (0.898 %)CCIE
1475 (0.863 %)A+ Certification
1565 (0.748 %)MCDST
1662 (0.714 %)CCSP
1760 (0.691 %)HND
1846 (0.530 %)CCEA
1943 (0.495 %)CCDP
2036 (0.414 %)Novell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1454 (5.226 %)SLA
286 (0.990 %)QA
36 (0.069 %)WAI
36 (0.069 %)ISO9000
36 (0.069 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
44 (0.046 %)ISO9001
52 (0.023 %)ISO8583
61 (0.012 %)ISO27001
System Software
12413 (27.78 %)Active Directory
2169 (1.945 %)Terminal Services
3159 (1.830 %)VMware Infrastructure
4158 (1.819 %)Backup Exec
5155 (1.784 %)ISA Server
6118 (1.358 %)Citrix Presentation Server
781 (0.932 %)Terminal Server
873 (0.840 %)MetaFrame
967 (0.771 %)VMware ESX
967 (0.771 %)NetBackup
1022 (0.253 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1120 (0.230 %)Oracle RAC
1120 (0.230 %)VMware Server
1217 (0.196 %)NFS
138 (0.092 %)Squid
147 (0.081 %)Samba
155 (0.058 %)Orbix
155 (0.058 %)NDS
155 (0.058 %)Nmap
155 (0.058 %)Novell eDirectory
Systems Management
191 (1.048 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
276 (0.875 %)OpenView
364 (0.737 %)Norton AntiVirus
453 (0.610 %)MOM
545 (0.518 %)WSUS
638 (0.437 %)CiscoWorks
732 (0.368 %)Tivoli
829 (0.334 %)ZENworks
928 (0.322 %)ARCserve
1025 (0.288 %)Netcool
1120 (0.230 %)SCOM
1217 (0.196 %)EMC NetWorker
1316 (0.184 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1413 (0.150 %)Nagios
1413 (0.150 %)SCCM
1512 (0.138 %)DameWare
1512 (0.138 %)Legato
1611 (0.127 %)MIMEsweeper
1710 (0.115 %)Netcool/Proviso
1710 (0.115 %)BMC PATROL
Vendors
12358 (27.14 %)Microsoft
21692 (19.48 %)Cisco
3923 (10.63 %)Citrix
4708 (8.150 %)Oracle
5470 (5.410 %)HP
6397 (4.570 %)VMware
7309 (3.557 %)Lotus
8221 (2.544 %)CheckPoint
9214 (2.463 %)VERITAS
10184 (2.118 %)Red Hat
11163 (1.876 %)Sun
12151 (1.738 %)IBM
13142 (1.635 %)Nortel
14136 (1.566 %)Symantec
15133 (1.531 %)Juniper
16127 (1.462 %)Dell
17119 (1.370 %)Avaya
18117 (1.347 %)Novell
19113 (1.301 %)Remedy
20106 (1.220 %)Bloomberg
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