Hertfordshire Support Consultant Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Support Consultant role in IT jobs within the Hertfordshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Support Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Support Consultant
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkhamsted Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheshire Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Dunbartonshire East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Farnborough Glasgow Glastonbury Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Huddersfield Hungerford Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Keighley Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Mansfield Marlow Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Preston Reading Redhill Rochdale Sale Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Tring Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallington Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Wilmslow Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	127	147
Rank change on same period last year	+20
Matching permanent IT job ads	41	35
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.022 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	0.972 %	0.732 %
Salaries quoted	27	31
Average minimum salary	£25,204	£26,903
Average salary	£28,574	£29,597
% change on same period last year	-3.45 %
Average maximum salary	£31,944	£32,290
UK excluding London average salary	£30,091	£34,245
% change on same period last year	-12.13 %
Job Titles Hertfordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	4220	4782
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.272 %	1.993 %
Salaries quoted	3577	4151
Average minimum salary	£37,451	£37,023
Average salary	£41,307	£40,383
% change on same period last year	+2.28 %
Average maximum salary	£45,164	£43,743
UK excluding London average salary	£38,055	£39,430
% change on same period last year	-3.48 %
Support Consultant East of England

Support Consultant
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Support Consultant across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Support Consultant
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Support Consultant across the Hertfordshire region.

Support Consultant
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Support Consultant across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Support Consultant within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Bishop's Stortford	-	8	£24,000	-
St Albans	-	8	£67,500	-
Watford	+2	6	£24,250	-29.36 %
Tring	-	4	£29,167	-
Berkhamsted	-1	2	£24,000	-23.80 %
Letchworth	-	1	£26,500	-
Welwyn Garden City	-23	1	£30,000	-

Support Consultant East of England

Support Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited Support Consultant 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 Consultant in their job title.

1 28 (35.90 %) Microsoft 2 23 (29.49 %) Windows 3 21 (26.92 %) Finance 4 20 (25.64 %) SQL Server 4 20 (25.64 %) MS Exchange 5 16 (20.51 %) Windows Server 2003 5 16 (20.51 %) Active Directory 6 14 (17.95 %) .NET 7 13 (16.67 %) MS Excel 7 13 (16.67 %) Microsoft Certification 7 13 (16.67 %) Thin Client 7 13 (16.67 %) Fat Client 7 13 (16.67 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 12 (15.38 %) TCP/IP 9 11 (14.10 %) DNS

9 11 (14.10 %) Navision 9 11 (14.10 %) MCSE 10 10 (12.82 %) CRM 10 10 (12.82 %) Citrix 10 10 (12.82 %) Business Intelligence 10 10 (12.82 %) Cisco Certification 10 10 (12.82 %) Firewall 10 10 (12.82 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 10 (12.82 %) WFM 10 10 (12.82 %) Dynamics NAV 10 10 (12.82 %) Pensions 11 9 (11.54 %) Dynamics CRM 11 9 (11.54 %) Exchange Server 2000 11 9 (11.54 %) Health 11 9 (11.54 %) Service Management

Support Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited Support Consultant 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 Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 14 (17.95 %) .NET 2 2 (2.564 %) Cocoon 3 1 (1.282 %) ASP 3 1 (1.282 %) XML 3 1 (1.282 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 20 (25.64 %) MS Exchange 2 10 (12.82 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 9 (11.54 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 6 (7.692 %) SharePoint 4 6 (7.692 %) BizTalk Server 4 6 (7.692 %) SharePoint Portal Server 5 1 (1.282 %) Exchange Server 5.5 5 1 (1.282 %) NetWeaver 5 1 (1.282 %) IIS 5 1 (1.282 %) Apache
Applications 1 13 (16.67 %) MS Excel 2 5 (6.410 %) MS Office 3 1 (1.282 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 11 (14.10 %) Navision 2 10 (12.82 %) Dynamics NAV 3 9 (11.54 %) Dynamics CRM 4 3 (3.846 %) Pegasus Opera 4 3 (3.846 %) Microsoft CRM 4 3 (3.846 %) Great Plains 4 3 (3.846 %) Sage MMS 5 2 (2.564 %) SAP Business One 5 2 (2.564 %) CODA-Financials 6 1 (1.282 %) ResourceLink 6 1 (1.282 %) Exchequer Enterprise 6 1 (1.282 %) Line 100
Communications & Networking 1 12 (15.38 %) TCP/IP 2 11 (14.10 %) DNS 3 10 (12.82 %) Firewall 4 9 (11.54 %) Internet 5 8 (10.26 %) VPN 5 8 (10.26 %) DHCP 6 5 (6.410 %) LAN 6 5 (6.410 %) WAN 7 3 (3.846 %) Wi-Fi 7 3 (3.846 %) IP Telephony 8 2 (2.564 %) IPX 9 1 (1.282 %) Intranet 9 1 (1.282 %) Network Security	Database & Business Intelligence 1 20 (25.64 %) SQL Server 2 9 (11.54 %) FileMaker 3 1 (1.282 %) Text Mining 3 1 (1.282 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (1.282 %) Cognos Impromptu 3 1 (1.282 %) ETL 3 1 (1.282 %) RDBMS 3 1 (1.282 %) SAP BW 3 1 (1.282 %) SQL Server 2000
General 1 21 (26.92 %) Finance 2 10 (12.82 %) Pensions 3 9 (11.54 %) Health 4 6 (7.692 %) Back Office 5 3 (3.846 %) Education 6 2 (2.564 %) Retail 7 1 (1.282 %) Publishing	Miscellaneous 1 13 (16.67 %) Thin Client 1 13 (16.67 %) Fat Client 2 7 (8.974 %) Client/Server 3 3 (3.846 %) EPoS 3 3 (3.846 %) IBM Mainframe 3 3 (3.846 %) Mainframe 4 2 (2.564 %) Clustering 4 2 (2.564 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 23 (29.49 %) Windows 2 16 (20.51 %) Windows Server 2003 3 13 (16.67 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 5 (6.410 %) UNIX 4 5 (6.410 %) Windows XP 5 3 (3.846 %) Linux 6 2 (2.564 %) Windows 2000 6 2 (2.564 %) Windows Vista 7 1 (1.282 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (12.82 %) CRM 1 10 (12.82 %) Business Intelligence 1 10 (12.82 %) WFM 2 9 (11.54 %) Service Management 3 3 (3.846 %) ERP 3 3 (3.846 %) E-Procurement 4 2 (2.564 %) Project Management 5 1 (1.282 %) Process Management 5 1 (1.282 %) Risk Management 5 1 (1.282 %) ITIL 5 1 (1.282 %) E-Commerce 5 1 (1.282 %) Practice Management 5 1 (1.282 %) Asset Management 5 1 (1.282 %) Content Management 5 1 (1.282 %) Document Management 5 1 (1.282 %) Software Testing
Programming Languages 1 7 (8.974 %) Java 2 6 (7.692 %) VBScript 2 6 (7.692 %) VB 3 5 (6.410 %) SQL 4 4 (5.128 %) VB.NET 4 4 (5.128 %) C# 5 2 (2.564 %) ABAP 6 1 (1.282 %) Shell Script 6 1 (1.282 %) Transact-SQL 6 1 (1.282 %) JavaScript	Qualifications 1 13 (16.67 %) Microsoft Certification 2 11 (14.10 %) MCSE 3 10 (12.82 %) Cisco Certification 4 8 (10.26 %) CCNA 5 6 (7.692 %) Degree 6 2 (2.564 %) CCNP 7 1 (1.282 %) CCA 7 1 (1.282 %) Citrix Certification 7 1 (1.282 %) ACCA 7 1 (1.282 %) CIMA
System Software 1 16 (20.51 %) Active Directory 2 1 (1.282 %) VMware ESX	Systems Management 1 2 (2.564 %) CiscoWorks 2 1 (1.282 %) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors 1 28 (35.90 %) Microsoft 2 10 (12.82 %) Citrix 3 9 (11.54 %) Cisco 4 6 (7.692 %) Oracle 5 4 (5.128 %) SAP 5 4 (5.128 %) Sage 6 3 (3.846 %) Mapinfo 6 3 (3.846 %) Pegasus 6 3 (3.846 %) CODA 6 3 (3.846 %) IBM 6 3 (3.846 %) Epicor 6 3 (3.846 %) Exchequer 7 2 (2.564 %) Agresso 7 2 (2.564 %) VMware 8 1 (1.282 %) Northgate 8 1 (1.282 %) Symantec 8 1 (1.282 %) McAfee Security 8 1 (1.282 %) VERITAS 8 1 (1.282 %) Cognos