The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Engineer
Rank 59 65 45
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -20
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 28 19 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 3.143% 2.635% 2.466%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.218% 2.714% 2.506%
Number of salaries quoted 24 17 10
Average salary £31,500 £28,000 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% +1.81%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £22,600 £24,800
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £30,000 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
All Job Titles
Guildford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
870 700 439
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 97.64% 97.09% 98.43%
Number of salaries quoted 728 675 408
Average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,943 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Support Engineer
Surrey

Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford Support Engineer Salary Trend

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Support Engineer across the Guildford region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Guildford Support Engineer Salary Histogram

Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford 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 18 (39.13%) Microsoft
2 17 (36.96%) Linux
3 15 (32.61%) VMware
4 14 (30.43%) Windows
4 14 (30.43%) SLA
5 12 (26.09%) Cisco
5 12 (26.09%) TCP/IP
5 12 (26.09%) Firewall
6 11 (23.91%) MS Excel
6 11 (23.91%) VMware Infrastructure
7 10 (21.74%) VoIP
7 10 (21.74%) Degree
8 8 (17.39%) MS Exchange
8 8 (17.39%) SQL
8 8 (17.39%) DNS
9 7 (15.22%) Active Directory
9 7 (15.22%) ITIL
10 6 (13.04%) Java
10 6 (13.04%) E-Commerce
10 6 (13.04%) SNMP
10 6 (13.04%) Nagios
10 6 (13.04%) Problem Management
11 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (10.87%) AIX
11 5 (10.87%) UNIX
12 4 (8.696%) MCP
12 4 (8.696%) JBoss
12 4 (8.696%) Perl
12 4 (8.696%) C
12 4 (8.696%) J2EE

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford 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 Development
1 4 (8.696%) J2EE
1 4 (8.696%) WebSphere
2 2 (4.348%) XML
3 1 (2.174%) MAPI
Application Platforms
1 8 (17.39%) MS Exchange
2 4 (8.696%) WebLogic
3 2 (4.348%) IIS
3 2 (4.348%) Tomcat
3 2 (4.348%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.174%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (2.174%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (2.174%) Lotus Notes
4 1 (2.174%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 11 (23.91%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.174%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 12 (26.09%) TCP/IP
1 12 (26.09%) Firewall
2 10 (21.74%) VoIP
3 8 (17.39%) DNS
4 6 (13.04%) SNMP
5 4 (8.696%) SAN
6 3 (6.522%) FTP
7 2 (4.348%) HTTP
7 2 (4.348%) DHCP
7 2 (4.348%) WAN
7 2 (4.348%) GSM
7 2 (4.348%) LAN
7 2 (4.348%) UMTS
7 2 (4.348%) VPN
7 2 (4.348%) Wireless
7 2 (4.348%) IPsec
7 2 (4.348%) MPLS
7 2 (4.348%) TCAP
7 2 (4.348%) SCCP
7 2 (4.348%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.696%) Oracle 9i
1 4 (8.696%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 4 (8.696%) JIRA
2 1 (2.174%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4 (8.696%) French Language
1 4 (8.696%) Spanish Language
2 2 (4.348%) Telecoms
2 2 (4.348%) Finance
3 1 (2.174%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.696%) EFT
1 4 (8.696%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (6.522%) Statistics
3 1 (2.174%) Fat Client
3 1 (2.174%) SaaS
3 1 (2.174%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.174%) Firmware
3 1 (2.174%) Thin Client
3 1 (2.174%) Blackberry
3 1 (2.174%) PKI
3 1 (2.174%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 17 (36.96%) Linux
2 14 (30.43%) Windows
3 5 (10.87%) AIX
3 5 (10.87%) UNIX
4 3 (6.522%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (4.348%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (2.174%) SUSE
6 1 (2.174%) Windows Vista
6 1 (2.174%) Windows 2000 Server
6 1 (2.174%) Windows 7
6 1 (2.174%) Solaris
6 1 (2.174%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (15.22%) ITIL
2 6 (13.04%) Problem Management
2 6 (13.04%) E-Commerce
3 4 (8.696%) B2B
4 2 (4.348%) Mobile Commerce
4 2 (4.348%) CRM
4 2 (4.348%) System Testing
5 1 (2.174%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (2.174%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (2.174%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (2.174%) Release Management
5 1 (2.174%) Project Management
5 1 (2.174%) Service Delivery
5 1 (2.174%) Migration
5 1 (2.174%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (17.39%) SQL
2 6 (13.04%) Java
3 4 (8.696%) Perl
3 4 (8.696%) C
4 2 (4.348%) C++
4 2 (4.348%) Python
4 2 (4.348%) Shell Script
4 2 (4.348%) Bash shell
5 1 (2.174%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (21.74%) Degree
2 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (8.696%) MCP
4 2 (4.348%) MCSE
4 2 (4.348%) MCSA
4 2 (4.348%) CCNA
4 2 (4.348%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (4.348%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (4.348%) JNCIA
4 2 (4.348%) JNCIS
4 2 (4.348%) JNCIP
4 2 (4.348%) MCTS
5 1 (2.174%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.174%) Avaya Certification
5 1 (2.174%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (2.174%) CCSA
5 1 (2.174%) CCSE
5 1 (2.174%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.174%) CCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (30.43%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (23.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (15.22%) Active Directory
3 3 (6.522%) vSphere
4 2 (4.348%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.174%) ISA Server
5 1 (2.174%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 6 (13.04%) Nagios
2 1 (2.174%) Backup Exec
2 1 (2.174%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 18 (39.13%) Microsoft
2 15 (32.61%) VMware
3 12 (26.09%) Cisco
4 4 (8.696%) Oracle
4 4 (8.696%) JBoss
5 3 (6.522%) Reuters
5 3 (6.522%) Juniper
6 2 (4.348%) CheckPoint
6 2 (4.348%) HP
7 1 (2.174%) Dell
7 1 (2.174%) EMC
7 1 (2.174%) Citrix
7 1 (2.174%) Avaya
7 1 (2.174%) Sun
7 1 (2.174%) Websense
7 1 (2.174%) CommVault
7 1 (2.174%) NetApp
7 1 (2.174%) Lotus
7 1 (2.174%) Mitel
7 1 (2.174%) Blue Coat
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Salary: £35,000 - £45,000 + generous bonus + bens
Posted: 29 April 2013
Guildford, Surrey
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Salary: From £25,000 to £31,000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013