The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Farnborough region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Farnborough region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Engineer
Rank 35 22 26
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 3 17 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Farnborough 1.639% 7.658% 2.479%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.685% 8.173% 2.752%
Number of salaries quoted 3 17 3
Average salary £25,000 £29,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.79% -17.14%
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
All Job Titles
Farnborough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
178 208 109
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Farnborough 97.27% 93.69% 90.08%
Number of salaries quoted 164 195 107
Average salary £38,500 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £29,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £50,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Support Engineer
Hampshire

Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Farnborough Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Farnborough Support Engineer Salary Trend

Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Farnborough 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.

1 3 (50.00%) DNS
1 3 (50.00%) SLA
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) Intel
2 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Apache
2 2 (33.33%) POP3
2 2 (33.33%) SMTP
2 2 (33.33%) FTP
2 2 (33.33%) SNMP
2 2 (33.33%) Internet
2 2 (33.33%) TELNET
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) SSH
2 2 (33.33%) Nmap
2 2 (33.33%) Ubuntu
2 2 (33.33%) IMAP
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (33.33%) vSphere
2 2 (33.33%) CentOS
3 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (16.67%) Network Management
3 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Farnborough 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 Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Apache
2 1 (16.67%) MS Exchange
2 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (16.67%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) Internet
2 2 (33.33%) TELNET
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) SSH
2 2 (33.33%) IMAP
2 2 (33.33%) POP3
2 2 (33.33%) SMTP
2 2 (33.33%) FTP
2 2 (33.33%) SNMP
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (16.67%) DHCP
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security
General
1 1 (16.67%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Ubuntu
1 2 (33.33%) CentOS
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Network Management
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) Nmap
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (33.33%) vSphere
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Intel
1 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
Farnborough, Hampshire
Essential skills: *Previous experience of working in a busy Service Desk environment *Windows XP/2003/2008/7 OS *Office 2003/2007/2010 *Active Directory *Experience of Networking *Experience...
TEKsystems
Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013