The first table below looks at the demand for the IT Support role in IT jobs advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited IT Support in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IT Support
Rank 89 65 95
Rank change year-on-year
-24 +30
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Support 3 9 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 0.255% 1.262% 0.475%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.273% 1.374% 0.499%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 5
Average salary £17,500 £21,000 £29,859
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.66% -29.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £12,700 £21,000 £25,400
10% offered a salary of more than £22,300 £26,800 £30,243
UK excluding London average salary £24,000 £24,000 £24,000
All Job Titles
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1098 655 1002
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 93.29% 91.87% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 940 585 919
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £23,500 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £50,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
IT Support
South East

IT Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent IT Support Jobs Demand Trend

IT Support
Salary Trend

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

Kent IT Support Salary Trend

IT Support
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Support within the Kent region over the 3 months to 17 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
Tonbridge - 2 £11,500 -
Dover - 1 £23,500 -
IT Support
South East

IT Support
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent region that cited IT 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 IT Support in their job title.

1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 4 (57.14%) Windows
3 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (28.57%) Wiki
3 2 (28.57%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
3 2 (28.57%) Banking
3 2 (28.57%) Photoshop
3 2 (28.57%) MS Office
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
3 2 (28.57%) HP
3 2 (28.57%) Dell
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (14.29%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (14.29%) UNIX
4 1 (14.29%) Solaris
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
4 1 (14.29%) VMware
4 1 (14.29%) Information Security
4 1 (14.29%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (14.29%) vSphere
4 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure

IT Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent region that cited IT 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 IT Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Photoshop
1 2 (28.57%) MS Office
2 1 (14.29%) MS PowerPoint
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Wiki
1 2 (28.57%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (14.29%) UNIX
3 1 (14.29%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (14.29%) Information Security
2 1 (14.29%) Change Management
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
2 1 (14.29%) vSphere
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) HP
1 2 (28.57%) Dell
2 1 (14.29%) VMware
Maidstone, Kent
An experienced IT support engineer, ideally Microsoft Certified and experience in both 1st and 2nd line suppot, is immediately required a Microsoft Partner IT support consultancy based in...
CV Screen Ltd
Salary: Up to £24k plus benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Tonbridge, Kent
Tags: Microsoft, Finance, Office 2007, Office 2010, Kent, Application Support, 1st Line, Administration, IT Support, My client, a financial organisation based in Kent, are looking for an IT...
Roc Search
Posted: 14 May 2013