Lancashire IT Support Technician Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the IT Support Technician role in IT jobs within the Lancashire 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 IT Support Technician in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IT Support Technician
Location Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bracknell Brentwood Brighton Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canterbury Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield City of London Colchester Cornwall Crawley Daresbury Derbyshire Dudley Dunstable East Midlands East of England East Sussex Elland England Essex Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Lingfield London Luton Maldon Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Preston Reading Redruth Rugby Runcorn Scotland Sevenoaks Sittingbourne South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Stansted Stratford-upon-Avon Surrey Swindon Tamworth Tyne and Wear UK Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	89	81
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching permanent IT job ads	1	2
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.086 %	0.189 %
Salaries quoted	1	2
Average minimum salary	£22,000	£25,000
Average salary	£24,000	£30,750
% change on same period last year	-21.95 %
Average maximum salary	£26,000	£36,500
UK excluding London average salary	£21,607	£21,155
% change on same period last year	+2.13 %
Job Titles Lancashire
Matching permanent IT job ads	1159	1057
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.624 %	0.441 %
Salaries quoted	939	868
Average minimum salary	£27,814	£29,226
Average salary	£30,393	£31,654
% change on same period last year	-3.98 %
Average maximum salary	£32,972	£34,081
UK excluding London average salary	£38,055	£39,430
% change on same period last year	-3.48 %
IT Support Technician North West

IT Support Technician
Demand Trend

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

IT Support Technician
Salary Trend

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

IT Support Technician
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Support Technician within the Lancashire 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
Preston	-	1	£24,000	-

IT Support Technician North West

IT Support Technician
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 9 (81.82 %) Windows 2 8 (72.73 %) Windows Server 2003 2 8 (72.73 %) MS Exchange 2 8 (72.73 %) Symantec 3 7 (63.64 %) McAfee Security 3 7 (63.64 %) Backup Exec 3 7 (63.64 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 7 (63.64 %) ISA Server 3 7 (63.64 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 6 (54.55 %) Cisco PIX 4 6 (54.55 %) Internet 4 6 (54.55 %) MCSA 4 6 (54.55 %) WAN 4 6 (54.55 %) Cisco 4 6 (54.55 %) Microsoft Certification

5 2 (18.18 %) Site Server 5 2 (18.18 %) Video Conferencing 5 2 (18.18 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 1 (9.091 %) WatchGuard 6 1 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 1 (9.091 %) SQL 6 1 (9.091 %) VoIP 6 1 (9.091 %) Norton AntiVirus 6 1 (9.091 %) Blackberry 6 1 (9.091 %) MS PowerPoint 6 1 (9.091 %) Firewall 6 1 (9.091 %) Wireless 6 1 (9.091 %) Avaya 6 1 (9.091 %) Apple 6 1 (9.091 %) Sage

IT Support Technician
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms 1 8 (72.73 %) MS Exchange 2 7 (63.64 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 2 (18.18 %) Site Server 3 2 (18.18 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 1 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking 1 6 (54.55 %) WAN 1 6 (54.55 %) Internet 1 6 (54.55 %) Cisco PIX 2 1 (9.091 %) VoIP 2 1 (9.091 %) Firewall 2 1 (9.091 %) Wireless 2 1 (9.091 %) POP3 2 1 (9.091 %) SMTP 2 1 (9.091 %) FTP 2 1 (9.091 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (9.091 %) VPN 2 1 (9.091 %) DNS	Miscellaneous 1 2 (18.18 %) Video Conferencing 2 1 (9.091 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 9 (81.82 %) Windows 2 8 (72.73 %) Windows Server 2003 3 7 (63.64 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 1 (9.091 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (9.091 %) Windows XP	Programming Languages 1 1 (9.091 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 6 (54.55 %) MCSA 1 6 (54.55 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 7 (63.64 %) ISA Server 1 7 (63.64 %) Backup Exec 2 1 (9.091 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (9.091 %) Norton AntiVirus	Vendors 1 8 (72.73 %) Symantec 2 7 (63.64 %) McAfee Security 3 6 (54.55 %) Cisco 4 1 (9.091 %) Microsoft 4 1 (9.091 %) Citrix 4 1 (9.091 %) Avaya 4 1 (9.091 %) Apple 4 1 (9.091 %) Sage 4 1 (9.091 %) WatchGuard