The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Support 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 Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Support Engineer
Rank 185 165 159
Rank change year-on-year
-20 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Support Engineer 9 10 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.222% 0.276% 0.355%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.232% 0.286% 0.369%
Number of salaries quoted 9 10 14
Average salary £22,500 £30,000 £29,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.00% +3.44%
90% offered a salary of more than £19,250 £27,250 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £37,700 £30,750 £33,000
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £34,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-4.41% +13.33%
All Job Titles
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
3875 3500 3791
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 95.49% 96.53% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3350 3122 3469
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Technical Support Engineer
North West

Technical Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Technical Support Engineer Salary Trend

Technical Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Technical Support Engineer across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Manchester Technical Support Engineer Salary Histogram

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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 17 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 +4 2 £19,250 -35.83%
Stockport - 1 £35,000 -
Technical Support Engineer
North West

Technical Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 8 (44.44%) Windows
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 7 (38.89%) VMware
3 6 (33.33%) Legal
3 6 (33.33%) NetApp
3 6 (33.33%) NFS
3 6 (33.33%) Cisco
3 6 (33.33%) ITIL
3 6 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (33.33%) Fibre Channel
4 5 (27.78%) Linux
5 4 (22.22%) UNIX
5 4 (22.22%) Java
5 4 (22.22%) SQL
6 3 (16.67%) Solaris
6 3 (16.67%) HTTP
6 3 (16.67%) SLA
6 3 (16.67%) Internet
6 3 (16.67%) Ubuntu
6 3 (16.67%) Degree
6 3 (16.67%) Bash shell
7 2 (11.11%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (11.11%) CentOS
7 2 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (11.11%) QA
7 2 (11.11%) Handset
7 2 (11.11%) Service Delivery
7 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
7 2 (11.11%) Fedora
7 2 (11.11%) Time Management

Technical Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 (5.556%) MS Exchange
1 1 (5.556%) RabbitMQ
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) Fibre Channel
2 3 (16.67%) Internet
2 3 (16.67%) HTTP
3 2 (11.11%) Intranet
4 1 (5.556%) IMAP
4 1 (5.556%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.556%) LDAP
4 1 (5.556%) SMS
4 1 (5.556%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.556%) MongoDB
General
1 6 (33.33%) Legal
2 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Windows
2 5 (27.78%) Linux
3 4 (22.22%) UNIX
4 3 (16.67%) Solaris
4 3 (16.67%) Ubuntu
5 2 (11.11%) Windows Vista
5 2 (11.11%) CentOS
5 2 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (11.11%) Windows XP
5 2 (11.11%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (11.11%) Service Delivery
2 2 (11.11%) Asset Management
2 2 (11.11%) Time Management
3 1 (5.556%) Product Management
3 1 (5.556%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) Java
1 4 (22.22%) SQL
2 3 (16.67%) Bash shell
3 2 (11.11%) C
3 2 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.556%) MCITP
3 1 (5.556%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) SLA
2 2 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) NFS
1 6 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.556%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (5.556%) Nagios
1 1 (5.556%) McAfee ePO
1 1 (5.556%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 7 (38.89%) VMware
3 6 (33.33%) Cisco
3 6 (33.33%) NetApp
4 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
5 1 (5.556%) TIBCO
5 1 (5.556%) McAfee