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This section looks at the demand for the Systems Support 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 in their job title over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

 Systems Support
Location
3 months to
29 Aug 2008
Same period last year
Rank370340
Rank change on same period last yearDown-30
Matching permanent IT job ads7891083
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.431 %0.455 %
As % of the category below0.501 %0.522 %
Salaries quoted669862
Average minimum salary£30,291£35,722
Average salary£32,114£37,924
% change on same period last year-15.32 %
Average maximum salary£33,936£40,126
UK excluding London average salary£29,174£30,613
% change on same period last year-4.70 %
England IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
England
Matching permanent IT job ads157517207448
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled86.00 %87.10 %
Salaries quoted131193166753
Average minimum salary£38,947£40,638
Average salary£42,570£44,396
% change on same period last year-4.11 %
Average maximum salary£46,193£48,154
UK excluding London average salary£38,060£39,458
% change on same period last year-3.54 %
Systems Support UKSystems Support
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Systems Support
Demand Trend

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

England Systems Support Demand Trend

Systems Support
Salary Trend

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

England Systems Support Salary Trend

Systems Support
Salary Histogram

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

England Systems Support Salary Histogram

Systems Support
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Support within the England region over the 3 months to 29 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.

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
LondonDown-86249£38,009-17.19 %
South EastUp+42216£32,595-6.26 %
YorkshireUp+55110£27,120-5.48 %
East of EnglandDown-1159£30,684+9.16 %
North WestDown-751£24,116-3.49 %
South WestDown-2741£27,336-1.72 %
West MidlandsDown-2328£30,592+1.02 %
East MidlandsUp+1227£25,133+6.46 %
North EastUp+2311£23,150-
South CoastNew entry-1£35,000-
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Systems Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the England region that cited Systems Support 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 in their job title.

1837 (53.28 %)Windows
2527 (33.55 %)Windows Server 2003
3471 (29.98 %)Active Directory
4451 (28.71 %)Microsoft
5398 (25.33 %)SQL
6322 (20.50 %)MS Exchange
7315 (20.05 %)SQL Server
8309 (19.67 %)UNIX
9305 (19.41 %)Finance
10295 (18.78 %)Windows XP
11292 (18.59 %)Linux
12290 (18.46 %)TCP/IP
13269 (17.12 %)LAN
13269 (17.12 %)MS Excel
14267 (17.00 %)WAN
15239 (15.21 %)Firewall
16237 (15.09 %)Cisco
17212 (13.49 %)Exchange Server 2003
18199 (12.67 %)Microsoft Certification
19187 (11.90 %)Windows 2000 Server
20178 (11.33 %)VPN
21175 (11.14 %)Windows 2000
22174 (11.08 %)MCSE
23169 (10.76 %)Citrix
24168 (10.69 %)Degree
25162 (10.31 %)IIS
26161 (10.25 %)MS Office
27137 (8.721 %)Oracle
28130 (8.275 %)Solaris
28130 (8.275 %)VMware

Systems Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the England region that cited Systems Support 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 in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

England IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
1116 (7.384 %).NET
262 (3.947 %)XML
342 (2.673 %)ASP.NET
432 (2.037 %)HTML
526 (1.655 %)WebSphere
621 (1.337 %)WebServices
717 (1.082 %)CSS
815 (0.955 %)ASP
911 (0.700 %)EDI
1010 (0.637 %)J2EE
117 (0.446 %)ODBC
126 (0.382 %)Application Packaging
135 (0.318 %)WS-I
135 (0.318 %)Middleware
135 (0.318 %)JSP
144 (0.255 %)WMI
153 (0.191 %)WSH
153 (0.191 %)EJB
153 (0.191 %)XSL
162 (0.127 %)DCOM
England IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1322 (20.50 %)MS Exchange
2212 (13.49 %)Exchange Server 2003
3162 (10.31 %)IIS
488 (5.602 %)SharePoint
559 (3.756 %)Exchange Server 2000
647 (2.992 %)Apache
741 (2.610 %)Lotus Notes
834 (2.164 %)Exchange Server 2007
923 (1.464 %)Tomcat
1015 (0.955 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1113 (0.827 %)Oracle Workflow
1211 (0.700 %)WebLogic
139 (0.573 %)BizTalk Server
146 (0.382 %)SharePoint Portal Server
146 (0.382 %)Exchange Server 5.5
155 (0.318 %)MQSeries
155 (0.318 %)Lotus Domino
164 (0.255 %)WebSphere MQ
164 (0.255 %)ColdFusion
164 (0.255 %)CMS
England IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
1269 (17.12 %)MS Excel
2161 (10.25 %)MS Office
318 (1.146 %)MS Visio
411 (0.700 %)MS PowerPoint
55 (0.318 %)MS Project
63 (0.191 %)Photoshop
63 (0.191 %)Spreadsheet
63 (0.191 %)DeltaView
72 (0.127 %)AutoCAD
81 (0.064 %)Acrobat
England IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
117 (1.082 %)Great Plains
117 (1.082 %)Oracle EBS
215 (0.955 %)Microsoft CRM
312 (0.764 %)Navision
47 (0.446 %)Oracle Financials
56 (0.382 %)Oracle 11i
56 (0.382 %)InvestOne
56 (0.382 %)Loan IQ
65 (0.318 %)RMDS
65 (0.318 %)Summit
74 (0.255 %)Dynamics AX
83 (0.191 %)Academy Housing
83 (0.191 %)JDE EnterpriseOne
83 (0.191 %)Line 500
83 (0.191 %)Oracle ERP
83 (0.191 %)SAP CRM
83 (0.191 %)SAP R/3
92 (0.127 %)CODA-Financials
92 (0.127 %)Oracle Applications
92 (0.127 %)Pegasus Opera
England IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1290 (18.46 %)TCP/IP
2269 (17.12 %)LAN
3267 (17.00 %)WAN
4239 (15.21 %)Firewall
5178 (11.33 %)VPN
6107 (6.811 %)DNS
789 (5.665 %)SAN
886 (5.474 %)Internet
981 (5.156 %)DHCP
1040 (2.546 %)Cisco PIX
1135 (2.228 %)VoIP
1223 (1.464 %)Cisco ASA
1319 (1.209 %)PBX
1319 (1.209 %)LDAP
1319 (1.209 %)Intranet
1417 (1.082 %)SSL
1515 (0.955 %)IP Telephony
1613 (0.827 %)Wireless
1710 (0.637 %)HTTP
189 (0.573 %)IPX
England IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
1315 (20.05 %)SQL Server
295 (6.047 %)SQL Server 2000
394 (5.983 %)SQL Server 2005
439 (2.482 %)MySQL
526 (1.655 %)Crystal Reports
619 (1.209 %)Oracle 10g
716 (1.018 %)MS Access
814 (0.891 %)Oracle Reports
911 (0.700 %)BusinessObjects
109 (0.573 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
118 (0.509 %)Oracle 8/8i
127 (0.446 %)Oracle 9i
127 (0.446 %)Cognos Impromptu
127 (0.446 %)FileMaker
136 (0.382 %)GIS
136 (0.382 %)Oracle Discoverer
136 (0.382 %)RDBMS
136 (0.382 %)DTS
145 (0.318 %)Datawarehouse
145 (0.318 %)DB2
England IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
114 (0.891 %)Flash
213 (0.827 %)Visual Studio
36 (0.382 %)Oracle Forms
45 (0.318 %)MSI
54 (0.255 %)VSS/SourceSafe
63 (0.191 %)JIRA
71 (0.064 %)InstallShield
71 (0.064 %)FrontPage
71 (0.064 %)ClearCase
England IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1305 (19.41 %)Finance
282 (5.220 %)Telecoms
368 (4.328 %)Pensions
457 (3.628 %)Banking
552 (3.310 %)Retail
643 (2.737 %)Health
741 (2.610 %)Back Office
833 (2.101 %)Front Office
928 (1.782 %)Manufacturing
1021 (1.337 %)Publishing
1021 (1.337 %)Investment Banking
1117 (1.082 %)Government
1216 (1.018 %)Electronics
1315 (0.955 %)Financial Institution
1315 (0.955 %)Insurance
1414 (0.891 %)Construction
1513 (0.827 %)Music
1612 (0.764 %)Marketing
1612 (0.764 %)Education
1710 (0.637 %)Legal
England IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
153 (3.374 %)Blackberry
234 (2.164 %)Derivative
331 (1.973 %)Computer Science
420 (1.273 %)Clustering
518 (1.146 %)EPoS
616 (1.018 %)AS400
715 (0.955 %)Mathematics
813 (0.827 %)Management Information System
912 (0.764 %)Client/Server
1011 (0.700 %)Fixed Income
1011 (0.700 %)Equities
119 (0.573 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
127 (0.446 %)Credit Derivative
136 (0.382 %)VAX
145 (0.318 %)IPTV
145 (0.318 %)Physics
145 (0.318 %)Replication
145 (0.318 %)Credit Risk
145 (0.318 %)Russian Language
145 (0.318 %)Spanish Language
England IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1837 (53.28 %)Windows
2527 (33.55 %)Windows Server 2003
3309 (19.67 %)UNIX
4295 (18.78 %)Windows XP
5292 (18.59 %)Linux
6187 (11.90 %)Windows 2000 Server
7175 (11.14 %)Windows 2000
8130 (8.275 %)Solaris
980 (5.092 %)Windows Vista
1038 (2.419 %)Red Hat Linux
1134 (2.164 %)AIX
1224 (1.528 %)VxWorks
1317 (1.082 %)VMS
1410 (0.637 %)Mac OS X Server
159 (0.573 %)Windows Server 2008
159 (0.573 %)Debian
168 (0.509 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
177 (0.446 %)Windows NT
177 (0.446 %)HPUX
186 (0.382 %)OpenVMS
England IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
193 (5.920 %)Project Management
261 (3.883 %)ERP
353 (3.374 %)ITIL
449 (3.119 %)CRM
539 (2.482 %)Investment Management
638 (2.419 %)Disaster Recovery
727 (1.719 %)Risk Management
826 (1.655 %)E-Commerce
925 (1.591 %)PRINCE2
1024 (1.528 %)Workflow
1120 (1.273 %)Web Development
1219 (1.209 %)Incident Management
1314 (0.891 %)Change Management
1314 (0.891 %)Business Continuity
1314 (0.891 %)User Acceptance Testing
1412 (0.764 %)Security Cleared
1412 (0.764 %)Software Engineering
1511 (0.700 %)Document Management
1511 (0.700 %)Network Design
1610 (0.637 %)Business Analysis
England IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1398 (25.33 %)SQL
283 (5.283 %)C
354 (3.437 %)Perl
453 (3.374 %)C++
546 (2.928 %)Shell Script
645 (2.864 %)Java
645 (2.864 %)VB
743 (2.737 %)VBA
832 (2.037 %)VB.NET
930 (1.910 %)C#
1019 (1.209 %)JavaScript
1114 (0.891 %)PHP
1213 (0.827 %)VBScript
1312 (0.764 %)Embedded C
1410 (0.637 %)Transact-SQL
157 (0.446 %)Fortran
157 (0.446 %)AppleScript
157 (0.446 %)Korn
166 (0.382 %)VB6
166 (0.382 %)Python
England IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1199 (12.67 %)Microsoft Certification
2174 (11.08 %)MCSE
3168 (10.69 %)Degree
475 (4.774 %)MCP
574 (4.710 %)MCSA
646 (2.928 %)Cisco Certification
743 (2.737 %)CCNA
816 (1.018 %)PRINCE2 Certification
99 (0.573 %)ISEB
108 (0.509 %)CCNP
116 (0.382 %)HND
116 (0.382 %)ITIL Certification
116 (0.382 %)MCTS
125 (0.318 %)Oracle Certification
125 (0.318 %)ACCA
134 (0.255 %)CIMA
134 (0.255 %)RHCE
143 (0.191 %)Postgraduate
152 (0.127 %)CCA
152 (0.127 %)Citrix Certification
England IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
147 (2.992 %)SLA
212 (0.764 %)QA
38 (0.509 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
41 (0.064 %)ISO27001
England IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
1471 (29.98 %)Active Directory
276 (4.838 %)ISA Server
341 (2.610 %)VMware Infrastructure
439 (2.482 %)Backup Exec
526 (1.655 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
624 (1.528 %)Terminal Services
714 (0.891 %)MetaFrame
810 (0.637 %)Citrix Presentation Server
99 (0.573 %)VMware ESX
108 (0.509 %)NetBackup
116 (0.382 %)Terminal Server
121 (0.064 %)NFS
121 (0.064 %)RACF
121 (0.064 %)Squid
England IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
19 (0.573 %)Norton AntiVirus
19 (0.573 %)CA SiteMinder
28 (0.509 %)MIMEsweeper
28 (0.509 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
37 (0.446 %)Tivoli
46 (0.382 %)OpenView
46 (0.382 %)MOM
46 (0.382 %)WSUS
55 (0.318 %)SCOM
64 (0.255 %)BMC PATROL
64 (0.255 %)CONTROL-M
64 (0.255 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
73 (0.191 %)Netcool
73 (0.191 %)Netcool/OMNIbus
73 (0.191 %)EMC NetWorker
73 (0.191 %)ARCserve
82 (0.127 %)Tivoli Monitoring
91 (0.064 %)Tivoli NetView
91 (0.064 %)Unicenter
91 (0.064 %)Legato
England IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
1451 (28.71 %)Microsoft
2237 (15.09 %)Cisco
3169 (10.76 %)Citrix
4137 (8.721 %)Oracle
5130 (8.275 %)VMware
687 (5.538 %)HP
745 (2.864 %)IBM
844 (2.801 %)VERITAS
844 (2.801 %)Lotus
940 (2.546 %)Sun
1038 (2.419 %)Red Hat
1133 (2.101 %)SAP
1231 (1.973 %)Intel
1329 (1.846 %)Avaya
1428 (1.782 %)CheckPoint
1525 (1.591 %)CODA
1624 (1.528 %)Sage
1723 (1.464 %)Websense
1723 (1.464 %)LANDesk
1822 (1.400 %)Symantec