The first table below looks at the demand for the 1st Line Support Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited 1st Line Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Kent region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
First Line Support Engineer
Rank 83 71 94
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +23
Permanent jobs requiring a 1st Line Support Engineer 4 1 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 0.346% 0.139% 0.753%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.368% 0.153% 0.789%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 8
Average salary £21,750 £14,500 £23,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+50.00% -38.29%
UK excluding London average salary £19,000 £19,000 £21,000
% change year-on-year
- -9.52%
All Job Titles
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1087 654 1014
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 93.95% 91.21% 95.39%
Number of salaries quoted 930 583 931
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -5.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £47,500 £48,650
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
1st Line Support Engineer
South East

1st Line Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing 1st Line Support Engineer across the Kent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Kent 1st Line Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

1st Line Support Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing 1st Line Support Engineer across the Kent region.

Kent 1st Line Support Engineer Salary Trend

1st Line Support Engineer
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent region that cited 1st Line 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 1st Line Support Engineer in their job title.

1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) CCSA
1 2 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Vista
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint

1st Line Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent region that cited 1st Line 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 1st Line Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Vista
1 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCSA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint