Manchester Network Support Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Network Support role in IT jobs within the Manchester 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 Network Support in their job title over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Network Support
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Andover Ashton-under-Lyne Avonmouth Aylesbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cannock Cardiff Cheadle Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Corsham County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cumbria Dartford Deeside Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dunstable Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England Egham England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Feltham Flintshire Glasgow Gloucestershire Godalming Grimsby Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Huddersfield Hungerford Isleworth Kent Kidlington Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Milton Newbury North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nuneaton Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Reading Redhill Rotherham Rugby Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke Mandeville Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swindon Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Thatcham Twickenham UK Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	145	199
Rank change on same period last year	+54
Matching permanent IT job ads	35	15
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	0.767 %	0.230 %
Salaries quoted	34	15
Average minimum salary	£23,235	£27,533
Average salary	£24,559	£28,367
% change on same period last year	-13.42 %
Average maximum salary	£25,882	£29,200
UK excluding London average salary	£30,904	£30,333
% change on same period last year	+1.88 %
Job Titles Manchester
Matching permanent IT job ads	4565	6526
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.526 %	2.737 %
Salaries quoted	3892	5554
Average minimum salary	£33,474	£36,571
Average salary	£38,313	£41,243
% change on same period last year	-7.10 %
Average maximum salary	£43,153	£45,915
UK excluding London average salary	£38,058	£39,448
% change on same period last year	-3.52 %
Network Support North West

Network Support
Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Network Support across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Support within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
Salford	+11	13	£20,923	-36.59 %
Cheadle	-	6	£30,250	-
Ashton-under-Lyne	-	4	£20,000	-
Stockport	+7	1	£22,500	-21.05 %

Network Support North West

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the Manchester region that cited Network 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 Network Support in their job title.

1 53 (89.83 %) Windows 2 47 (79.66 %) MS Exchange 2 47 (79.66 %) Windows Server 2003 3 37 (62.71 %) Active Directory 4 31 (52.54 %) TCP/IP 5 29 (49.15 %) SQL Server 6 25 (42.37 %) Windows XP 7 23 (38.98 %) Windows 2000 8 22 (37.29 %) MS Excel 8 22 (37.29 %) MS Office 9 20 (33.90 %) IIS 9 20 (33.90 %) Windows Vista 10 17 (28.81 %) DNS 11 16 (27.12 %) DHCP 12 15 (25.42 %) Microsoft Certification

13 14 (23.73 %) Oracle 14 13 (22.03 %) Broadband 15 12 (20.34 %) WAN 15 12 (20.34 %) Cisco 16 10 (16.95 %) LAN 17 9 (15.25 %) Microsoft 17 9 (15.25 %) Exchange Server 2003 18 8 (13.56 %) MySQL 19 6 (10.17 %) Firewall 19 6 (10.17 %) .NET 19 6 (10.17 %) MCSA 19 6 (10.17 %) Exchange Server 2007 20 5 (8.475 %) Web Development 20 5 (8.475 %) Crystal Reports 21 4 (6.780 %) Cisco Certification

Network Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the Manchester region that cited Network 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 Network Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 6 (10.17 %) .NET 2 1 (1.695 %) ASP 2 1 (1.695 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (1.695 %) CSS 2 1 (1.695 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 47 (79.66 %) MS Exchange 2 20 (33.90 %) IIS 3 9 (15.25 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 6 (10.17 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 2 (3.390 %) SharePoint 6 1 (1.695 %) SharePoint Server 2007 6 1 (1.695 %) Apache 6 1 (1.695 %) Exchange Server 5.5
Applications 1 22 (37.29 %) MS Office 1 22 (37.29 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 31 (52.54 %) TCP/IP 2 17 (28.81 %) DNS 3 16 (27.12 %) DHCP 4 13 (22.03 %) Broadband 5 12 (20.34 %) WAN 6 10 (16.95 %) LAN 7 6 (10.17 %) Firewall 8 3 (5.085 %) Internet 8 3 (5.085 %) Network Security 9 2 (3.390 %) Cisco ASA 9 2 (3.390 %) IP Telephony 9 2 (3.390 %) VoIP 9 2 (3.390 %) VPN 9 2 (3.390 %) SNA 10 1 (1.695 %) SNMP 10 1 (1.695 %) SMTP 10 1 (1.695 %) Cisco IOS 10 1 (1.695 %) Cisco PIX 10 1 (1.695 %) BGP 10 1 (1.695 %) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence 1 29 (49.15 %) SQL Server 2 8 (13.56 %) MySQL 3 5 (8.475 %) Crystal Reports 4 1 (1.695 %) MS Access 4 1 (1.695 %) PostgreSQL 4 1 (1.695 %) SQL Server 2005	General 1 3 (5.085 %) Finance 2 2 (3.390 %) Law 2 2 (3.390 %) Legal 2 2 (3.390 %) Banking 3 1 (1.695 %) Telecoms 3 1 (1.695 %) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous 1 2 (3.390 %) Client/Server 2 1 (1.695 %) NHS 2 1 (1.695 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 53 (89.83 %) Windows 2 47 (79.66 %) Windows Server 2003 3 25 (42.37 %) Windows XP 4 23 (38.98 %) Windows 2000 5 20 (33.90 %) Windows Vista 6 4 (6.780 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 3 (5.085 %) Windows Server 2008 8 2 (3.390 %) Linux 9 1 (1.695 %) FreeBSD 9 1 (1.695 %) NetWare 9 1 (1.695 %) Debian 9 1 (1.695 %) OpenBSD 9 1 (1.695 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (8.475 %) Web Development 2 3 (5.085 %) Network Design 2 3 (5.085 %) Project Management 3 2 (3.390 %) Migration 4 1 (1.695 %) Time Management 4 1 (1.695 %) Quality Management 4 1 (1.695 %) ITIL 4 1 (1.695 %) E-Commerce	Programming Languages 1 3 (5.085 %) SQL 2 2 (3.390 %) PHP 3 1 (1.695 %) VB 3 1 (1.695 %) Shell Script 3 1 (1.695 %) C# 3 1 (1.695 %) Perl
Qualifications 1 15 (25.42 %) Microsoft Certification 2 6 (10.17 %) MCSA 3 4 (6.780 %) CCNP 3 4 (6.780 %) CCNA 3 4 (6.780 %) Cisco Certification 3 4 (6.780 %) MCSE 4 2 (3.390 %) MCP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.695 %) SLA 1 1 (1.695 %) BS7799 1 1 (1.695 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 1 1 (1.695 %) QA
System Software 1 37 (62.71 %) Active Directory 2 2 (3.390 %) Backup Exec 3 1 (1.695 %) ISA Server	Systems Management 1 4 (6.780 %) Nagios 2 3 (5.085 %) OpenView 2 3 (5.085 %) Tivoli 3 2 (3.390 %) OVSD 4 1 (1.695 %) SCCM 4 1 (1.695 %) SCOM 4 1 (1.695 %) HP Data Protector
Vendors 1 14 (23.73 %) Oracle 2 12 (20.34 %) Cisco 3 9 (15.25 %) Microsoft 4 3 (5.085 %) HP 4 3 (5.085 %) Dell 5 2 (3.390 %) Citrix 6 1 (1.695 %) Novell 6 1 (1.695 %) Lotus 6 1 (1.695 %) Symantec 6 1 (1.695 %) Nortel 6 1 (1.695 %) SAP