The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Technical Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Engineer
Rank 168 163 147
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Engineer 13 14 22
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.317% 0.380% 0.566%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.331% 0.394% 0.590%
Number of salaries quoted 13 14 22
Average salary £35,000 £30,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.66% -
90% offered a salary of more than £20,125 £27,800 £22,650
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £36,000 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £31,000
% change year-on-year
- +12.90%
All Job Titles
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
3925 3555 3731
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 95.59% 96.45% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 3408 3171 3415
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £56,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Technical Engineer
North West

Technical Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Technical Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Technical Engineer across the Manchester region.

Manchester Technical Engineer Salary Trend

Technical Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Technical Engineer across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Manchester Technical Engineer Salary Histogram

Technical Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Engineer within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 22 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
Salford +6 3 £19,250 -35.83%
Stockport - 2 £36,250 -
Bolton - 1 £37,500 -
Bury - 1 £37,500 -
Oldham - 1 £37,500 -
Sale - 1 £37,500 -
Technical Engineer
North West

Technical Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region that cited Technical 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 13 (41.94%) Windows
1 13 (41.94%) Microsoft
2 11 (35.48%) VMware
3 9 (29.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (29.03%) Cisco
3 9 (29.03%) NetApp
4 8 (25.81%) SLA
5 7 (22.58%) ITIL
5 7 (22.58%) UNIX
5 7 (22.58%) SQL
6 6 (19.35%) Legal
6 6 (19.35%) Active Directory
6 6 (19.35%) NFS
6 6 (19.35%) Fibre Channel
6 6 (19.35%) Degree
7 5 (16.13%) QMS
7 5 (16.13%) Dell
7 5 (16.13%) Linux
7 5 (16.13%) A+ Certification
8 4 (12.90%) Internet
8 4 (12.90%) Solaris
8 4 (12.90%) Java
8 4 (12.90%) Citrix
9 3 (9.677%) XenApp
9 3 (9.677%) vSphere
9 3 (9.677%) Bash shell
9 3 (9.677%) Ubuntu
9 3 (9.677%) Finance
9 3 (9.677%) HTTP
9 3 (9.677%) Windows XP

Technical Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region that cited Technical 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (6.452%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (9.677%) MS Exchange
2 1 (3.226%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (3.226%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (3.226%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (3.226%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (9.677%) MS Excel
2 2 (6.452%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (6.452%) Sage 200
Communications & Networking
1 6 (19.35%) Fibre Channel
2 4 (12.90%) Internet
3 3 (9.677%) HTTP
4 2 (6.452%) Intranet
5 1 (3.226%) NetScaler
5 1 (3.226%) NAS
5 1 (3.226%) IMAP
5 1 (3.226%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.226%) LAN
5 1 (3.226%) SMS
5 1 (3.226%) WAN
5 1 (3.226%) SMTP
5 1 (3.226%) LDAP
5 1 (3.226%) Firewall
5 1 (3.226%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.452%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.226%) MongoDB
General
1 6 (19.35%) Legal
2 3 (9.677%) Finance
3 2 (6.452%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.452%) Handset
2 1 (3.226%) Fat Client
2 1 (3.226%) IVR
2 1 (3.226%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 13 (41.94%) Windows
2 7 (22.58%) UNIX
3 5 (16.13%) Linux
4 4 (12.90%) Solaris
5 3 (9.677%) Ubuntu
5 3 (9.677%) Windows XP
6 2 (6.452%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (6.452%) Fedora
6 2 (6.452%) Windows Vista
6 2 (6.452%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (6.452%) CentOS
6 2 (6.452%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (22.58%) ITIL
2 5 (16.13%) QMS
3 2 (6.452%) Service Delivery
3 2 (6.452%) ERP
3 2 (6.452%) Asset Management
3 2 (6.452%) Document Management
3 2 (6.452%) Time Management
4 1 (3.226%) Product Management
4 1 (3.226%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (3.226%) Problem Management
4 1 (3.226%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 7 (22.58%) SQL
2 4 (12.90%) Java
3 3 (9.677%) Bash shell
4 2 (6.452%) Shell Script
4 2 (6.452%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.452%) C
4 2 (6.452%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) Degree
2 5 (16.13%) A+ Certification
3 3 (9.677%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (6.452%) MCSE
4 2 (6.452%) MCITP
5 1 (3.226%) VCAP
5 1 (3.226%) VCDX
5 1 (3.226%) CCEE
5 1 (3.226%) CCAA
5 1 (3.226%) CCIA
5 1 (3.226%) NCDA
5 1 (3.226%) NCIE
5 1 (3.226%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (3.226%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.81%) SLA
2 2 (6.452%) QA
System Software
1 9 (29.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (19.35%) Active Directory
2 6 (19.35%) NFS
3 3 (9.677%) XenApp
3 3 (9.677%) vSphere
4 2 (6.452%) Hyper-V
4 2 (6.452%) XenServer
5 1 (3.226%) XenDesktop
5 1 (3.226%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 1 (3.226%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 2 (6.452%) McAfee ePO
2 1 (3.226%) Puppet
2 1 (3.226%) SCCM
2 1 (3.226%) SCOM
2 1 (3.226%) Nagios
Vendors
1 13 (41.94%) Microsoft
2 11 (35.48%) VMware
3 9 (29.03%) Cisco
3 9 (29.03%) NetApp
4 5 (16.13%) Dell
5 4 (12.90%) Citrix
6 2 (6.452%) McAfee
6 2 (6.452%) Red Hat
6 2 (6.452%) Sage
6 2 (6.452%) Oracle
7 1 (3.226%) Sun
7 1 (3.226%) Avaya
7 1 (3.226%) TIBCO