The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Support Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Technical Support Engineer 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 Hertfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Support Engineer
Rank 138 137 161
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +24
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Support Engineer 5 13 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.203% 0.516% 0.212%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.217% 0.536% 0.227%
Number of salaries quoted 5 11 6
Average salary £21,500 £44,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-51.13% +46.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,600 £40,000 £25,250
10% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £45,000 £36,250
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £35,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +16.66%
All Job Titles
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2309 2427 3085
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 93.94% 96.35% 93.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1883 1979 2498
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +3.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £59,550 £59,320
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Technical Support Engineer
East of England

Technical Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire Technical Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Hertfordshire Technical Support Engineer Salary Trend

Technical Support Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Support Engineer within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Hemel Hempstead - 3 £21,500 -
Letchworth - 1 £25,000 -
St Albans - 1 £20,000 -
Technical Support Engineer
East of England

Technical Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 11 (68.75%) Windows
2 10 (62.50%) Degree
3 7 (43.75%) UNIX
4 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
5 4 (25.00%) SQL
5 4 (25.00%) Oracle
5 4 (25.00%) Electronics
6 3 (18.75%) Validation
6 3 (18.75%) 3D Graphics
6 3 (18.75%) VHDL
6 3 (18.75%) Verilog
6 3 (18.75%) Multimedia
6 3 (18.75%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
6 3 (18.75%) Perl
6 3 (18.75%) MS Excel
6 3 (18.75%) Tcl
6 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (18.75%) ASIC
6 3 (18.75%) C-shell
7 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (12.50%) MCSE
7 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (12.50%) CCNA
7 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
7 2 (12.50%) VPN
7 2 (12.50%) MS Exchange
7 2 (12.50%) MS Office
7 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2003
7 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure

Technical Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) MS Exchange
1 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (6.250%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) MS Excel
2 2 (12.50%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) VPN
2 1 (6.250%) VLAN
2 1 (6.250%) LAN
2 1 (6.250%) VoIP
2 1 (6.250%) WLAN
2 1 (6.250%) WAN
2 1 (6.250%) DHCP
2 1 (6.250%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.250%) DNS
2 1 (6.250%) SAN
2 1 (6.250%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (6.250%) Wireless
2 1 (6.250%) Asterisk PBX
2 1 (6.250%) PABX
General
1 4 (25.00%) Electronics
2 3 (18.75%) Multimedia
3 1 (6.250%) Finance
3 1 (6.250%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) 3D Graphics
1 3 (18.75%) VHDL
1 3 (18.75%) Verilog
1 3 (18.75%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
1 3 (18.75%) ASIC
2 2 (12.50%) Robotics
3 1 (6.250%) Mathematics
3 1 (6.250%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (6.250%) iPhone
3 1 (6.250%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 11 (68.75%) Windows
2 7 (43.75%) UNIX
3 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (6.250%) Android
5 1 (6.250%) Linux
5 1 (6.250%) Windows XP
5 1 (6.250%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (18.75%) Validation
2 1 (6.250%) Time Management
2 1 (6.250%) Incident Management
2 1 (6.250%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (6.250%) Network Management
2 1 (6.250%) High Availability
2 1 (6.250%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) Perl
2 3 (18.75%) Tcl
2 3 (18.75%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 10 (62.50%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) MCSE
2 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (12.50%) CCNA
3 1 (6.250%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.250%) QA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.250%) VMware Workstation
2 1 (6.250%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (6.250%) Backup Exec
1 1 (6.250%) SCCM
1 1 (6.250%) SCOM
1 1 (6.250%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) Oracle
3 2 (12.50%) VMware
4 1 (6.250%) Citrix
4 1 (6.250%) Symantec
4 1 (6.250%) McAfee
4 1 (6.250%) Sophos
4 1 (6.250%) Kaseya
Stevenage, South East
For this position the following skills and experience are required: - Degree in Engineering or HNC plus experience - Ideally 5 years plus experience working with vibration test systems preferably...
Huxley Associates
Salary: £35000 - £44000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013