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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Support Technician role in IT jobs advertised for the Inverness region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Support Technician in their job title over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Inverness region.

 Support Technician
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank5--
Rank change year-on-year
New entry-No change0
Matching permanent IT job ads300
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Inverness15.00 %--
As % of the Job Titles category15.79 %--
Salaries quoted000
Average salary---
UK excluding London average salary£23,250£22,000£22,500
% change year-on-year
+5.680 %-2.220 %
Inverness IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
Inverness
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
19920
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Inverness95.00 %90.00 %86.96 %
Salaries quoted7514
Average salary£20,500£23,250£30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.82 %-22.50 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£17,000£17,925£29,800
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£47,500£30,000£27,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,556£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+1.580 %-
Support Technician HighlandsSupport Technician
Highlands

Support Technician
Demand Trend

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

Inverness Support Technician Demand Trend

Support Technician
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Inverness region that cited Support Technician 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 Technician in their job title.

11 (25.00 %)VMware
11 (25.00 %)VMware ESX
11 (25.00 %)Exchange Server 2003
11 (25.00 %)Exchange Server 2007
11 (25.00 %)SCOM
11 (25.00 %)NAS
11 (25.00 %)VBScript
11 (25.00 %)VB
11 (25.00 %)Windows
11 (25.00 %)MS Exchange
11 (25.00 %)TCP/IP
11 (25.00 %)Active Directory
11 (25.00 %)Citrix
11 (25.00 %)SAN
11 (25.00 %)Terminal Services

Support Technician
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Inverness region that cited Support Technician 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 Technician in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Inverness IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11 (25.00 %)MS Exchange
11 (25.00 %)Exchange Server 2003
11 (25.00 %)Exchange Server 2007
Inverness IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11 (25.00 %)TCP/IP
11 (25.00 %)SAN
11 (25.00 %)NAS
Inverness IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11 (25.00 %)Windows
Inverness IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11 (25.00 %)VBScript
11 (25.00 %)VB
Inverness IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11 (25.00 %)Active Directory
11 (25.00 %)Terminal Services
11 (25.00 %)VMware ESX
Inverness IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
11 (25.00 %)SCOM
Inverness IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11 (25.00 %)Citrix
11 (25.00 %)VMware