The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Manager role in IT jobs advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Support Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 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 Essex region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Manager
Rank 79 90 100
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Manager 8 14 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 0.795% 1.018% 0.160%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.814% 1.047% 0.168%
Number of salaries quoted 7 14 2
Average salary £30,000 £42,875 £51,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-30.02% -16.34%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £40,000 £40,250
10% offered a salary of more than £68,500 £60,000 £62,250
UK excluding London average salary £43,750 £45,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
-3.84% +9.63%
All Job Titles
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
983 1337 1189
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 97.71% 97.24% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 844 1100 998
Average salary £39,500 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.33% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £24,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Support Manager
East of England

Support Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex Support Manager Jobs Demand Trend

Support Manager
Salary Trend

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

Essex Support Manager Salary Trend

Support Manager
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Support Manager across the Essex region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Essex Support Manager Salary Histogram

Support Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex region that cited Support Manager 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 Manager in their job title.

1 10 (58.82%) Windows
2 8 (47.06%) Active Directory
3 7 (41.18%) TCP/IP
3 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
4 6 (35.29%) SLA
5 5 (29.41%) SAP
5 5 (29.41%) Service Delivery
5 5 (29.41%) Change Management
5 5 (29.41%) Firewall
5 5 (29.41%) Knowledge Management
5 5 (29.41%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (23.53%) Windows 8
6 4 (23.53%) Network Security
6 4 (23.53%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (23.53%) Avaya
6 4 (23.53%) SAN
6 4 (23.53%) Apple
6 4 (23.53%) Project Management
6 4 (23.53%) Web Services
6 4 (23.53%) PHP
6 4 (23.53%) .NET
6 4 (23.53%) MySQL
6 4 (23.53%) Linux
6 4 (23.53%) Dell
6 4 (23.53%) VPN
6 4 (23.53%) VoIP
7 3 (17.65%) ADSL
7 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (17.65%) HP
7 3 (17.65%) SharePoint

Support Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex region that cited Support Manager 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 Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (23.53%) Web Services
1 4 (23.53%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (17.65%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.882%) IIS
2 1 (5.882%) MS Exchange
2 1 (5.882%) Apache
2 1 (5.882%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Office 365
2 1 (5.882%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) VisionPLUS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (41.18%) TCP/IP
2 5 (29.41%) Firewall
3 4 (23.53%) Network Security
3 4 (23.53%) SAN
3 4 (23.53%) VPN
3 4 (23.53%) VoIP
4 3 (17.65%) ADSL
4 3 (17.65%) Internet
5 2 (11.76%) FTP
6 1 (5.882%) LAN
6 1 (5.882%) WAN
6 1 (5.882%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) MySQL
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.882%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2012
General
1 4 (23.53%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (5.882%) Banking
2 1 (5.882%) Finance
2 1 (5.882%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
1 2 (11.76%) IBM Mainframe
1 2 (11.76%) VSAM
1 2 (11.76%) Mainframe
2 1 (5.882%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 10 (58.82%) Windows
2 4 (23.53%) Windows 8
2 4 (23.53%) Linux
3 3 (17.65%) Windows 7
4 1 (5.882%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (5.882%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Service Delivery
1 5 (29.41%) Change Management
1 5 (29.41%) Knowledge Management
1 5 (29.41%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (23.53%) Project Management
3 3 (17.65%) ITIL
3 3 (17.65%) Migration
4 2 (11.76%) Change Control
4 2 (11.76%) Incident Management
4 2 (11.76%) PRINCE2
5 1 (5.882%) E-Commerce
5 1 (5.882%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (5.882%) IT Governance
5 1 (5.882%) Resource Management
5 1 (5.882%) Operations Management
5 1 (5.882%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) PHP
2 3 (17.65%) SQL
3 1 (5.882%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (47.06%) Active Directory
2 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) CA Endevor
1 2 (11.76%) Control-M
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 5 (29.41%) SAP
3 4 (23.53%) Avaya
3 4 (23.53%) Apple
3 4 (23.53%) Dell
4 3 (17.65%) HP
4 3 (17.65%) Reuters
4 3 (17.65%) Bloomberg
4 3 (17.65%) VMware
5 2 (11.76%) CA
5 2 (11.76%) IBM
6 1 (5.882%) JBoss
6 1 (5.882%) Oracle