The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Support Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Leicestershire 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 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 Leicestershire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Support Engineer
Rank 79 72 58
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Support Engineer 2 3 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicestershire 0.288% 0.429% 0.758%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.298% 0.451% 0.818%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 4
Average salary £28,000 £35,000 £21,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% +62.79%
UK excluding London average salary £32,000 £35,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +16.66%
All Job Titles
Leicestershire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
671 665 489
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicestershire 96.55% 95.00% 92.61%
Number of salaries quoted 590 585 433
Average salary £37,500 £33,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.94% +3.07%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £24,500 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Technical Support Engineer
East Midlands

Technical Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Leicester - 1 £28,000 -
Loughborough - 1 - -
Technical Support Engineer
East Midlands

Technical Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicestershire 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 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 2000 Server
2 1 (50.00%) XenApp
2 1 (50.00%) XenServer
2 1 (50.00%) XenDesktop
2 1 (50.00%) Veeam
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (50.00%) CCAA
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 8
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) MCITP
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Vista
2 1 (50.00%) French Language
2 1 (50.00%) WatchGuard
2 1 (50.00%) Fat Client
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
2 1 (50.00%) Mac OS X Server
2 1 (50.00%) iSCSI
2 1 (50.00%) Symantec
2 1 (50.00%) MCSE

Technical Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicestershire 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 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (50.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) French Language
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Fat Client
1 1 (50.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 2000 Server
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 8
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Vista
2 1 (50.00%) Mac OS X Server
2 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (50.00%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCAA
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (50.00%) MCITP
1 1 (50.00%) MCSE
1 1 (50.00%) CCA
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CCEA
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) XenApp
1 1 (50.00%) XenServer
1 1 (50.00%) XenDesktop
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Veeam
2 1 (50.00%) WatchGuard
2 1 (50.00%) Symantec
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Apple