The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Technician 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 Technician in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Technician
Rank 68 115 100
Rank change year-on-year
+47 -15
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Technician 13 1 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 1.331% 0.072% 0.159%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.364% 0.074% 0.168%
Number of salaries quoted 13 0 2
Average salary £35,000 - £20,250
UK excluding London average salary £22,500 £22,500 £23,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.17%
All Job Titles
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
953 1354 1189
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 97.54% 97.20% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 823 1105 983
Average salary £38,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.33% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £24,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Support Technician
East of England

Support Technician
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex Support Technician Jobs Demand Trend

Support Technician
Salary Trend

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

Essex Support Technician Salary Trend

Support Technician
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex region that cited Support Technician 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 Technician in their job title.

1 13 (100.00%) IIS
1 13 (100.00%) MCP
1 13 (100.00%) Windows
1 13 (100.00%) MCSE
1 13 (100.00%) LAN
1 13 (100.00%) WAN
1 13 (100.00%) DHCP
1 13 (100.00%) DNS
1 13 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 13 (100.00%) VMware
1 13 (100.00%) Automated Testing
1 13 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (69.23%) vSphere
2 9 (69.23%) Business Analysis
3 2 (15.38%) SQL

Support Technician
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex region that cited Support Technician 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 Technician in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 13 (100.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (100.00%) LAN
1 13 (100.00%) WAN
1 13 (100.00%) DHCP
1 13 (100.00%) DNS
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Automated Testing
2 9 (69.23%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) MCP
1 13 (100.00%) MCSE
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 13 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 13 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (69.23%) vSphere
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) VMware