Manchester Support Technician Jobs

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

Support Technician
Location Alfreton Andover Ashby-de-la-Zouch Avon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Daresbury Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Elland England Essex Exeter Farnborough Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrow Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hoddesdon Hull Ipswich Keighley Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Lingfield Liverpool London Lothian Maidenhead Maidstone Maldon Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northolt Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redruth Reigate Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stansted Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Tamworth UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Whitstable Wigan Wiltshire Woking Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	152	207
Rank change on same period last year	+55
Matching permanent IT job ads	28	7
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.613 %	0.107 %
Salaries quoted	26	5
Average minimum salary	£18,500	£17,400
Average salary	£20,173	£18,800
% change on same period last year	+7.30 %
Average maximum salary	£21,846	£20,200
UK excluding London average salary	£23,128	£22,920
% change on same period last year	+0.90 %
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 %
Support Technician North West

Support Technician
Demand Trend

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

Support Technician
Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Support Technician 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 Support Technician 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
Bolton	-	2	£17,000	-
Stockport	-	1	£22,500	-
Wigan	-	1	-	-
Cheadle	-	1	£30,000	-

Support Technician North West

Support Technician
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 42 (71.19 %) Windows 2 29 (49.15 %) Windows Server 2003 3 24 (40.68 %) Citrix 4 22 (37.29 %) Windows XP 4 22 (37.29 %) TCP/IP 5 19 (32.20 %) Windows 2000 6 18 (30.51 %) MS Exchange 7 16 (27.12 %) Microsoft 8 14 (23.73 %) Active Directory 9 13 (22.03 %) Microsoft Certification 9 13 (22.03 %) Symantec 9 13 (22.03 %) McAfee Security 9 13 (22.03 %) VPN 9 13 (22.03 %) DNS 10 11 (18.64 %) Exchange Server 2003

10 11 (18.64 %) MS Excel 10 11 (18.64 %) SQL Server 10 11 (18.64 %) MS Office 11 10 (16.95 %) Internet 11 10 (16.95 %) Firewall 12 9 (15.25 %) MCSA 12 9 (15.25 %) Cisco 13 8 (13.56 %) SQL 14 7 (11.86 %) MCP 14 7 (11.86 %) MCSE 14 7 (11.86 %) HP 15 6 (10.17 %) Retail 16 5 (8.475 %) Cisco Certification 16 5 (8.475 %) EPoS 16 5 (8.475 %) WAN

Support Technician
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 1 (1.695 %) EDI	Application Platforms 1 18 (30.51 %) MS Exchange 2 11 (18.64 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 5 (8.475 %) SharePoint 4 4 (6.780 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 5 3 (5.085 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 2 (3.390 %) IIS 6 2 (3.390 %) Exchange Server 2007 7 1 (1.695 %) Lotus Notes 7 1 (1.695 %) Apache
Applications 1 11 (18.64 %) MS Office 1 11 (18.64 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 22 (37.29 %) TCP/IP 2 13 (22.03 %) VPN 2 13 (22.03 %) DNS 3 10 (16.95 %) Internet 3 10 (16.95 %) Firewall 4 5 (8.475 %) WAN 5 3 (5.085 %) Cisco PIX 6 2 (3.390 %) Cisco IOS 6 2 (3.390 %) Ethernet 6 2 (3.390 %) Wireless 6 2 (3.390 %) SAN 6 2 (3.390 %) LAN 6 2 (3.390 %) VoIP 7 1 (1.695 %) ADSL 7 1 (1.695 %) Broadband 7 1 (1.695 %) IP Telephony 7 1 (1.695 %) VLAN 7 1 (1.695 %) 3G 7 1 (1.695 %) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (18.64 %) SQL Server 2 1 (1.695 %) MySQL	General 1 6 (10.17 %) Retail 2 2 (3.390 %) Insurance 2 2 (3.390 %) Finance 2 2 (3.390 %) Construction 3 1 (1.695 %) Education 3 1 (1.695 %) Pensions 3 1 (1.695 %) Marketing 3 1 (1.695 %) FMCG
Miscellaneous 1 5 (8.475 %) EPoS 2 4 (6.780 %) Blackberry 3 2 (3.390 %) Management Information System 4 1 (1.695 %) Fat Client 4 1 (1.695 %) Thin Client	Operating Systems 1 42 (71.19 %) Windows 2 29 (49.15 %) Windows Server 2003 3 22 (37.29 %) Windows XP 4 19 (32.20 %) Windows 2000 5 2 (3.390 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 2 (3.390 %) OpenVMS 5 2 (3.390 %) UNIX 5 2 (3.390 %) Linux 6 1 (1.695 %) AIX 6 1 (1.695 %) HPUX 6 1 (1.695 %) NetWare 6 1 (1.695 %) Windows Vista 6 1 (1.695 %) Windows Server 2008 6 1 (1.695 %) Red Hat Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (6.780 %) Disaster Recovery 2 2 (3.390 %) Security Management 3 1 (1.695 %) System Testing 3 1 (1.695 %) Time Management 3 1 (1.695 %) Service Delivery	Programming Languages 1 8 (13.56 %) SQL 2 1 (1.695 %) VB
Qualifications 1 13 (22.03 %) Microsoft Certification 2 9 (15.25 %) MCSA 3 7 (11.86 %) MCP 3 7 (11.86 %) MCSE 4 5 (8.475 %) Cisco Certification 5 3 (5.085 %) Citrix Certification 5 3 (5.085 %) CCEA 6 2 (3.390 %) MCDST 7 1 (1.695 %) HND 7 1 (1.695 %) CCNA	System Software 1 14 (23.73 %) Active Directory 2 3 (5.085 %) MetaFrame 2 3 (5.085 %) ISA Server 2 3 (5.085 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 1 (1.695 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 1 (1.695 %) Tivoli 1 1 (1.695 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 1 1 (1.695 %) ARCserve 1 1 (1.695 %) HP Data Protector	Vendors 1 24 (40.68 %) Citrix 2 16 (27.12 %) Microsoft 3 13 (22.03 %) Symantec 3 13 (22.03 %) McAfee Security 4 9 (15.25 %) Cisco 5 7 (11.86 %) HP 6 4 (6.780 %) Dell 6 4 (6.780 %) VMware 7 3 (5.085 %) SonicWALL 8 2 (3.390 %) Lotus 8 2 (3.390 %) Red Hat 9 1 (1.695 %) Remedy 9 1 (1.695 %) Intel 9 1 (1.695 %) Oracle 9 1 (1.695 %) Novell 9 1 (1.695 %) VERITAS