London PC Support Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the PC Support role in IT jobs within the London 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 PC Support in their job title over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

PC Support
Location Aberdeen Banbury Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bristol Bromley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chertsey Cheshire Chippenham City of London Crawley Croydon Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Frome Gatwick Hammersmith Hampshire Hertford Hertfordshire Horsham Keighley London Maidenhead Manchester North West Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Retford Scotland Slough Somerset South East South West Southampton Surrey Torquay UK Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	550	621
Rank change on same period last year	+71
Matching permanent IT job ads	86	101
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.047 %	0.042 %
As % of the category below	0.127 %	0.101 %
Salaries quoted	61	81
Average minimum salary	£25,879	£25,685
Average salary	£26,976	£26,534
% change on same period last year	+1.66 %
Average maximum salary	£28,073	£27,383
UK excluding London average salary	£20,940	£22,661
% change on same period last year	-7.59 %
Job Titles London
Matching permanent IT job ads	67712	100164
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	36.97 %	42.06 %
Salaries quoted	56408	77161
Average minimum salary	£45,798	£47,393
Average salary	£49,981	£51,876
% change on same period last year	-3.65 %
Average maximum salary	£54,163	£56,359
UK excluding London average salary	£38,060	£39,458
% change on same period last year	-3.54 %
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PC Support
Demand Trend

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

PC Support
Salary Trend

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

PC Support
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing PC Support across the London region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PC Support within the London region over the 3 months to 29 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
City of London	-14	15	£27,071	+0.69 %
Docklands, London	-	8	-	-
Hammersmith	+14	2	£22,875	-30.68 %
Canary Wharf	-	1	£27,000	-
Croydon	-	1	-	-
Bromley	-7	1	£28,000	+2.43 %

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PC Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the London region that cited PC 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 PC Support in their job title.

1 145 (83.82 %) Windows 2 102 (58.96 %) MS Office 3 83 (47.98 %) Windows XP 4 79 (45.66 %) MS Excel 5 55 (31.79 %) Active Directory 6 52 (30.06 %) Microsoft 7 50 (28.90 %) Windows Server 2003 8 46 (26.59 %) Mac OS X 9 38 (21.97 %) Windows Vista 10 35 (20.23 %) Linux 11 34 (19.65 %) Apple 12 30 (17.34 %) Windows 2000 12 30 (17.34 %) Banking 13 29 (16.76 %) Lotus Notes 13 29 (16.76 %) Lotus

13 29 (16.76 %) Adobe 14 27 (15.61 %) Microsoft Certification 14 27 (15.61 %) TCP/IP 14 27 (15.61 %) MS Exchange 15 25 (14.45 %) Finance 16 24 (13.87 %) Blackberry 16 24 (13.87 %) MCSA 16 24 (13.87 %) PDA 17 23 (13.29 %) MCSE 18 22 (12.72 %) Investment Banking 19 21 (12.14 %) Advertising 20 20 (11.56 %) Quark 21 19 (10.98 %) Red Hat 21 19 (10.98 %) Red Hat Linux 22 17 (9.827 %) Exchange Server 2003

PC Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the London region that cited PC 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 PC Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 7 (4.046 %) HTML 1 7 (4.046 %) .NET 1 7 (4.046 %) ASP.NET 2 5 (2.890 %) ASP 3 4 (2.312 %) CGI 3 4 (2.312 %) X-Windows 4 1 (0.578 %) ODBC	Application Platforms 1 29 (16.76 %) Lotus Notes 2 27 (15.61 %) MS Exchange 3 17 (9.827 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 5 (2.890 %) IIS 5 3 (1.734 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 1 (0.578 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications 1 102 (58.96 %) MS Office 2 79 (45.66 %) MS Excel 3 15 (8.671 %) Photoshop 4 9 (5.202 %) QuarkXPress 5 8 (4.624 %) Acrobat 6 5 (2.890 %) Adobe Illustrator 7 1 (0.578 %) InDesign 7 1 (0.578 %) MS PowerPoint	Communications & Networking 1 27 (15.61 %) TCP/IP 2 11 (6.358 %) Internet 3 8 (4.624 %) LAN 3 8 (4.624 %) WAN 4 6 (3.468 %) DNS 4 6 (3.468 %) Intranet 5 5 (2.890 %) VPN 6 4 (2.312 %) Firewall 7 3 (1.734 %) DHCP 8 2 (1.156 %) Ethernet 8 2 (1.156 %) ATM 8 2 (1.156 %) ISDN 8 2 (1.156 %) IMAP 9 1 (0.578 %) Cisco PIX 9 1 (0.578 %) Wireless 9 1 (0.578 %) Nortel Meridian 9 1 (0.578 %) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (4.624 %) SQL Server 2 1 (0.578 %) FileMaker	General 1 30 (17.34 %) Banking 2 25 (14.45 %) Finance 3 22 (12.72 %) Investment Banking 4 21 (12.14 %) Advertising 5 17 (9.827 %) Marketing 6 10 (5.780 %) Animation 7 6 (3.468 %) Games 8 5 (2.890 %) Music 9 4 (2.312 %) Pensions 10 3 (1.734 %) Publishing 10 3 (1.734 %) Health 11 2 (1.156 %) Legal 11 2 (1.156 %) Telecoms 12 1 (0.578 %) Insurance
Miscellaneous 1 24 (13.87 %) Blackberry 1 24 (13.87 %) PDA 2 4 (2.312 %) Photography 2 4 (2.312 %) Web 2.0 3 1 (0.578 %) Spanish Language 3 1 (0.578 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 145 (83.82 %) Windows 2 83 (47.98 %) Windows XP 3 50 (28.90 %) Windows Server 2003 4 46 (26.59 %) Mac OS X 5 38 (21.97 %) Windows Vista 6 35 (20.23 %) Linux 7 30 (17.34 %) Windows 2000 8 19 (10.98 %) Red Hat Linux 9 15 (8.671 %) Solaris 10 6 (3.468 %) Windows NT 11 4 (2.312 %) Mac OS X Server 12 3 (1.734 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (2.890 %) ITIL 1 5 (2.890 %) Security Cleared 2 4 (2.312 %) Migration 3 2 (1.156 %) Configuration Management 3 2 (1.156 %) Change Management 4 1 (0.578 %) Business Continuity 4 1 (0.578 %) Information Security 4 1 (0.578 %) SC Cleared	Programming Languages 1 11 (6.358 %) SQL 2 9 (5.202 %) C
Qualifications 1 27 (15.61 %) Microsoft Certification 2 24 (13.87 %) MCSA 3 23 (13.29 %) MCSE 4 5 (2.890 %) MCP 5 4 (2.312 %) Degree 6 3 (1.734 %) HND 7 2 (1.156 %) Cisco Certification 8 1 (0.578 %) CCNP 8 1 (0.578 %) CCNA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (1.734 %) SLA 2 2 (1.156 %) TickIT
System Software 1 55 (31.79 %) Active Directory 2 4 (2.312 %) Backup Exec 3 2 (1.156 %) Terminal Server 4 1 (0.578 %) Terminal Services 4 1 (0.578 %) ISA Server 4 1 (0.578 %) VMware ESX 4 1 (0.578 %) NetBackup 4 1 (0.578 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 1 (0.578 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 4 (2.312 %) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors 1 52 (30.06 %) Microsoft 2 34 (19.65 %) Apple 3 29 (16.76 %) Lotus 3 29 (16.76 %) Adobe 4 20 (11.56 %) Quark 5 19 (10.98 %) Red Hat 6 15 (8.671 %) Macromedia 7 11 (6.358 %) Dell 8 10 (5.780 %) HP 8 10 (5.780 %) Citrix 9 7 (4.046 %) Remedy 10 6 (3.468 %) Bloomberg 10 6 (3.468 %) Intel 11 5 (2.890 %) Cisco 11 5 (2.890 %) VERITAS 12 4 (2.312 %) Peregrine 12 4 (2.312 %) Symantec 13 3 (1.734 %) LANDesk 14 2 (1.156 %) VMware 14 2 (1.156 %) Avaya