The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Support role in IT jobs advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Technical Support in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Support
Rank 75 69 45
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -24
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Support 9 12 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 1.003% 1.639% 2.237%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.029% 1.690% 2.278%
Number of salaries quoted 7 11 10
Average salary £35,000 £30,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £43,500 £45,000 £38,500
UK excluding London average salary £30,500 £30,000 £29,000
% change year-on-year
+1.66% +3.44%
All Job Titles
Guildford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
875 710 439
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 97.55% 96.99% 98.21%
Number of salaries quoted 730 683 408
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,700 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £50,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Technical Support
Surrey

Technical Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford Technical Support Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Support
Salary Trend

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

Guildford Technical Support Salary Trend

Technical Support
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Technical Support across the Guildford region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Guildford Technical Support Salary Histogram

Technical Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford region that cited Technical 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 Technical Support in their job title.

1 10 (52.63%) ITIL
2 8 (42.11%) Problem Management
3 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
4 5 (26.32%) SQL
5 4 (21.05%) Windows
5 4 (21.05%) SNMP
5 4 (21.05%) E-Commerce
5 4 (21.05%) VMware
5 4 (21.05%) Nagios
5 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (21.05%) EFT
5 4 (21.05%) Hyper-V
5 4 (21.05%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (21.05%) French Language
5 4 (21.05%) Spanish Language
6 3 (15.79%) Degree
6 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
6 3 (15.79%) Internet
6 3 (15.79%) Telecoms
6 3 (15.79%) Firewall
6 3 (15.79%) MS Excel
6 3 (15.79%) Ethernet
6 3 (15.79%) DNS
6 3 (15.79%) MCP
7 2 (10.53%) Oracle
7 2 (10.53%) IIS
7 2 (10.53%) MS Office
7 2 (10.53%) Linux
7 2 (10.53%) UNIX
7 2 (10.53%) MCSE

Technical Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford region that cited Technical 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 Technical Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (5.263%) JMS
1 1 (5.263%) Web Services
1 1 (5.263%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) IIS
1 2 (10.53%) MS Exchange
2 1 (5.263%) Apache
2 1 (5.263%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) MS Excel
2 2 (10.53%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) SNMP
2 3 (15.79%) Internet
2 3 (15.79%) Firewall
2 3 (15.79%) Ethernet
2 3 (15.79%) DNS
3 2 (10.53%) DHCP
3 2 (10.53%) DSL
3 2 (10.53%) xDSL
3 2 (10.53%) IP Telephony
3 2 (10.53%) WiMAX
4 1 (5.263%) SAN
4 1 (5.263%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.263%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.263%) MySQL
General
1 4 (21.05%) French Language
1 4 (21.05%) Spanish Language
2 3 (15.79%) Telecoms
3 2 (10.53%) Electronics
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
4 1 (5.263%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) EFT
1 4 (21.05%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (10.53%) Client/Server
3 1 (5.263%) CCTV
3 1 (5.263%) Firmware
3 1 (5.263%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Windows
2 2 (10.53%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) UNIX
3 1 (5.263%) Windows Vista
3 1 (5.263%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) ITIL
2 8 (42.11%) Problem Management
3 4 (21.05%) E-Commerce
4 2 (10.53%) Information Security
4 2 (10.53%) Project Management
4 2 (10.53%) Test Strategy
4 2 (10.53%) Test Automation
4 2 (10.53%) Test Scripting
5 1 (5.263%) Logistics
5 1 (5.263%) Incident Management
5 1 (5.263%) Business Development
5 1 (5.263%) Service Delivery
5 1 (5.263%) CRM
5 1 (5.263%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) SQL
2 1 (5.263%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (15.79%) Degree
2 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) MCP
3 2 (10.53%) MCSE
3 2 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (10.53%) CCNA
3 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) MCITP
3 2 (10.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (5.263%) MCTS
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Hyper-V
2 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.53%) VMware ESX
2 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Nagios
2 1 (5.263%) SCCM
2 1 (5.263%) SCOM
2 1 (5.263%) SCVMM
2 1 (5.263%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 4 (21.05%) VMware
3 2 (10.53%) Oracle
3 2 (10.53%) Adobe
3 2 (10.53%) Sage
3 2 (10.53%) Avaya
3 2 (10.53%) Alcatel-Lucent
3 2 (10.53%) Infoblox
4 1 (5.263%) Veritas
4 1 (5.263%) Dell
4 1 (5.263%) EMC
4 1 (5.263%) JBoss
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Posted: 29 April 2013
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Guildford, South East
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