England Systems Support Engineer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Systems 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 jobs that have cited Systems Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

System Support Engineer
Location Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Brighton Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Coventry Devon Docklands, London Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Hull Ipswich Kettering Leatherhead Leeds Liverpool London Merseyside Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Redhill Reigate Scotland Somerset South East South West Suffolk Surrey Tyne and Wear UK Wallington West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	801	806
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching permanent IT job ads	96	185
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.052 %	0.077 %
As % of the category below	0.060 %	0.089 %
Salaries quoted	85	153
Average minimum salary	£29,687	£31,500
Average salary	£31,995	£33,370
% change on same period last year	-4.12 %
Average maximum salary	£34,302	£35,241
UK excluding London average salary	£30,399	£30,987
% change on same period last year	-1.89 %
Job Titles England
Matching permanent IT job ads	159951	208751
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	86.08 %	87.03 %
Salaries quoted	133102	167766
Average minimum salary	£38,946	£40,649
Average salary	£42,570	£44,406
% change on same period last year	-4.13 %
Average maximum salary	£46,195	£48,162
UK excluding London average salary	£38,072	£39,428
% change on same period last year	-3.43 %
Systems Support Engineer UK

Systems Support Engineer
Demand Trend

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

Systems Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Systems Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Systems Support Engineer across the England region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

Systems Support Engineer
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Support Engineer within the England region over the 3 months to 21 August 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
South East	+14	43	£34,797	+2.36 %
London	+48	23	£35,840	-5.94 %
East of England	+15	11	£28,786	-10.04 %
South West	-19	8	£20,688	-31.67 %
Yorkshire	-3	5	£24,667	-7.16 %
East Midlands	+10	2	£23,750	-26.92 %
North West	-6	2	£29,750	+38.94 %
North East	-	2	£30,000	-
West Midlands	+4	1	£23,000	-8.00 %

Systems Support Engineer UK

Systems Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the England region that cited Systems 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 Systems Support Engineer in their job title.

1 169 (72.84 %) Windows 2 112 (48.28 %) Active Directory 3 100 (43.10 %) Windows Server 2003 4 77 (33.19 %) Microsoft 4 77 (33.19 %) MS Exchange 5 62 (26.72 %) TCP/IP 6 61 (26.29 %) Linux 7 58 (25.00 %) Microsoft Certification 8 57 (24.57 %) Exchange Server 2003 9 53 (22.84 %) MCSE 10 49 (21.12 %) UNIX 11 48 (20.69 %) Windows XP 12 45 (19.40 %) Cisco 13 43 (18.53 %) C 14 42 (18.10 %) MS Office

15 39 (16.81 %) LAN 16 38 (16.38 %) Windows 2000 17 37 (15.95 %) SQL Server 17 37 (15.95 %) WAN 18 36 (15.52 %) IIS 19 32 (13.79 %) MS Excel 20 31 (13.36 %) Finance 20 31 (13.36 %) SQL 21 30 (12.93 %) MCP 21 30 (12.93 %) Citrix 22 29 (12.50 %) VMware 22 29 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 Server 23 25 (10.78 %) Degree 23 25 (10.78 %) MCSA 23 25 (10.78 %) DNS

Systems Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the England region that cited Systems 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 Systems Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 10 (4.310 %) .NET 2 9 (3.879 %) XML 3 5 (2.155 %) ASP.NET 4 3 (1.293 %) EJB 5 2 (0.862 %) DCOM 5 2 (0.862 %) J2EE 5 2 (0.862 %) .NET Framework 6 1 (0.431 %) Application Packaging 6 1 (0.431 %) Middleware 6 1 (0.431 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 77 (33.19 %) MS Exchange 2 57 (24.57 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 36 (15.52 %) IIS 4 22 (9.483 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 10 (4.310 %) Apache 6 6 (2.586 %) Tomcat 6 6 (2.586 %) Exchange Server 2007 7 5 (2.155 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 8 4 (1.724 %) Lotus Domino 9 3 (1.293 %) Lotus Notes 9 3 (1.293 %) SharePoint 10 2 (0.862 %) WebLogic 10 2 (0.862 %) MQSeries 11 1 (0.431 %) GroupWise 11 1 (0.431 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 42 (18.10 %) MS Office 2 32 (13.79 %) MS Excel 3 6 (2.586 %) MS PowerPoint 4 1 (0.431 %) MS Visio 4 1 (0.431 %) Acrobat	Business Applications 1 1 (0.431 %) Microsoft CRM 1 1 (0.431 %) ResourceLink 1 1 (0.431 %) Line 50 1 1 (0.431 %) Line 100
Communications & Networking 1 62 (26.72 %) TCP/IP 2 39 (16.81 %) LAN 3 37 (15.95 %) WAN 4 25 (10.78 %) DNS 5 23 (9.914 %) Firewall 6 17 (7.328 %) SAN 7 16 (6.897 %) VPN 8 15 (6.466 %) DHCP 9 13 (5.603 %) Internet 10 10 (4.310 %) VoIP 11 7 (3.017 %) HTTP 12 6 (2.586 %) LDAP 12 6 (2.586 %) SMTP 13 4 (1.724 %) HTTPS 13 4 (1.724 %) SSL 13 4 (1.724 %) Wireless 14 3 (1.293 %) ADSL 15 2 (0.862 %) Ethernet 15 2 (0.862 %) IPsec 15 2 (0.862 %) IP Telephony	Database & Business Intelligence 1 37 (15.95 %) SQL Server 2 12 (5.172 %) SQL Server 2000 3 9 (3.879 %) SQL Server 2005 4 8 (3.448 %) MySQL 5 3 (1.293 %) GIS 6 2 (0.862 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 1 (0.431 %) EDRMS 7 1 (0.431 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 5 (2.155 %) Visual Studio 2 4 (1.724 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 1 (0.431 %) InstallShield	General 1 31 (13.36 %) Finance 2 12 (5.172 %) Electronics 3 11 (4.741 %) Telecoms 4 6 (2.586 %) Back Office 4 6 (2.586 %) Pensions 5 4 (1.724 %) Construction 5 4 (1.724 %) Banking 5 4 (1.724 %) Retail 6 3 (1.293 %) Education 6 3 (1.293 %) Financial Institution 7 2 (0.862 %) Automotive 7 2 (0.862 %) Health 7 2 (0.862 %) Manufacturing 7 2 (0.862 %) Publishing 8 1 (0.431 %) Insurance 8 1 (0.431 %) Legal 8 1 (0.431 %) Aerospace 8 1 (0.431 %) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous 1 8 (3.448 %) Blackberry 2 4 (1.724 %) Derivative 2 4 (1.724 %) French Language 2 4 (1.724 %) Spanish Language 2 4 (1.724 %) Video Conferencing 3 3 (1.293 %) Computer Science 3 3 (1.293 %) Clustering 4 2 (0.862 %) DTV 4 2 (0.862 %) Statistics 4 2 (0.862 %) VAX 4 2 (0.862 %) IPTV 5 1 (0.431 %) PDA 5 1 (0.431 %) SCADA 5 1 (0.431 %) AS400 5 1 (0.431 %) Replication 5 1 (0.431 %) E-Learning 5 1 (0.431 %) N-Tier 5 1 (0.431 %) EPoS	Operating Systems 1 169 (72.84 %) Windows 2 100 (43.10 %) Windows Server 2003 3 61 (26.29 %) Linux 4 49 (21.12 %) UNIX 5 48 (20.69 %) Windows XP 6 38 (16.38 %) Windows 2000 7 29 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 22 (9.483 %) VxWorks 9 12 (5.172 %) Solaris 10 6 (2.586 %) Windows Vista 11 4 (1.724 %) Windows Server 2008 11 4 (1.724 %) VMS 11 4 (1.724 %) Windows Mobile 12 3 (1.293 %) Red Hat Linux 13 2 (0.862 %) OpenVMS 13 2 (0.862 %) AIX 13 2 (0.862 %) Debian 14 1 (0.431 %) GCOS 14 1 (0.431 %) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies 1 16 (6.897 %) Disaster Recovery 2 11 (4.741 %) ERP 3 7 (3.017 %) CRM 4 6 (2.586 %) Business Continuity 5 4 (1.724 %) E-Commerce 5 4 (1.724 %) ITIL 6 3 (1.293 %) Security Management 7 2 (0.862 %) Migration 7 2 (0.862 %) Data Management 7 2 (0.862 %) Web Analytics 7 2 (0.862 %) Time Management 8 1 (0.431 %) Security Cleared 8 1 (0.431 %) Incident Management 8 1 (0.431 %) Load Balancing 8 1 (0.431 %) Fault Management 8 1 (0.431 %) Performance Testing 8 1 (0.431 %) Logistics 8 1 (0.431 %) Asset Management 8 1 (0.431 %) Benchmarking 8 1 (0.431 %) CAD	Programming Languages 1 43 (18.53 %) C 2 31 (13.36 %) SQL 3 19 (8.190 %) Shell Script 4 12 (5.172 %) Embedded C 4 12 (5.172 %) C++ 5 9 (3.879 %) VBA 6 6 (2.586 %) Java 6 6 (2.586 %) Perl 7 3 (1.293 %) VB.NET 8 2 (0.862 %) VB 8 2 (0.862 %) C# 9 1 (0.431 %) Transact-SQL 9 1 (0.431 %) VBScript 9 1 (0.431 %) Fortran 9 1 (0.431 %) Korn
Qualifications 1 58 (25.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 53 (22.84 %) MCSE 3 30 (12.93 %) MCP 4 25 (10.78 %) MCSA 4 25 (10.78 %) Degree 5 12 (5.172 %) Cisco Certification 5 12 (5.172 %) CCNA 6 3 (1.293 %) CCNP 7 2 (0.862 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 8 1 (0.431 %) JNCIA 8 1 (0.431 %) RHCE 8 1 (0.431 %) CCIP 8 1 (0.431 %) CCA 8 1 (0.431 %) Citrix Certification 8 1 (0.431 %) HNC	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 11 (4.741 %) SLA
System Software 1 112 (48.28 %) Active Directory 2 19 (8.190 %) ISA Server 3 13 (5.603 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 9 (3.879 %) Backup Exec 5 8 (3.448 %) VMware ESX 6 4 (1.724 %) Terminal Services 7 3 (1.293 %) NetBackup 7 3 (1.293 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 8 2 (0.862 %) Citrix Presentation Server 9 1 (0.431 %) VMware Server 9 1 (0.431 %) Squid 9 1 (0.431 %) MetaFrame	Systems Management 1 3 (1.293 %) Tivoli 2 2 (0.862 %) OpenView 2 2 (0.862 %) ARCserve 3 1 (0.431 %) Norton AntiVirus 3 1 (0.431 %) WSUS 3 1 (0.431 %) Unicenter 3 1 (0.431 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 3 1 (0.431 %) MOM 3 1 (0.431 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 1 (0.431 %) BMC PATROL 3 1 (0.431 %) CONTROL-M 3 1 (0.431 %) Nagios
Vendors 1 77 (33.19 %) Microsoft 2 45 (19.40 %) Cisco 3 30 (12.93 %) Citrix 4 29 (12.50 %) VMware 5 18 (7.759 %) HP 6 12 (5.172 %) VERITAS 7 8 (3.448 %) Avaya 8 7 (3.017 %) Oracle 9 6 (2.586 %) Lotus 9 6 (2.586 %) Dell 10 5 (2.155 %) IBM 10 5 (2.155 %) Adobe 10 5 (2.155 %) Bloomberg 11 4 (1.724 %) Apple 12 3 (1.293 %) Red Hat 12 3 (1.293 %) Intel 12 3 (1.293 %) Reuters 13 2 (0.862 %) Symantec 13 2 (0.862 %) McAfee Security 13 2 (0.862 %) Sophos