The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited 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 Middlesex region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Engineer
Rank 44 36 38
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 10 23 38
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 1.938% 4.609% 5.382%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.037% 5.033% 5.864%
Number of salaries quoted 10 19 38
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £33,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,700 £30,000 £26,750
10% offered a salary of more than £37,300 £47,000 £43,000
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
All Job Titles
Middlesex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
491 457 648
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 95.16% 91.58% 91.78%
Number of salaries quoted 403 379 497
Average salary £47,500 £45,000 £43,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.55% +4.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,000 £32,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Support Engineer
South East

Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Middlesex Support Engineer Salary Trend

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

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

Middlesex Support Engineer Salary Histogram

Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex region that cited 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 Support Engineer in their job title.

1 11 (91.67%) Windows
2 7 (58.33%) Linux
2 7 (58.33%) DNS
2 7 (58.33%) Windows 7
3 6 (50.00%) SQL
3 6 (50.00%) Oracle
4 5 (41.67%) Java
4 5 (41.67%) J2EE
4 5 (41.67%) Solaris
4 5 (41.67%) XML
4 5 (41.67%) Apache
4 5 (41.67%) UNIX
4 5 (41.67%) Nagios
4 5 (41.67%) Hibernate
4 5 (41.67%) Bash shell
4 5 (41.67%) JIRA
5 4 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
5 4 (33.33%) nginx
5 4 (33.33%) CMS
5 4 (33.33%) Tomcat
5 4 (33.33%) MS Exchange
5 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
6 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
6 3 (25.00%) VPN
6 3 (25.00%) Data Mining
6 3 (25.00%) HTML
6 3 (25.00%) MS Office
6 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
6 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex region that cited 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 Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (41.67%) J2EE
1 5 (41.67%) XML
1 5 (41.67%) Hibernate
2 3 (25.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 5 (41.67%) Apache
2 4 (33.33%) Tomcat
2 4 (33.33%) MS Exchange
2 4 (33.33%) CMS
2 4 (33.33%) nginx
3 1 (8.333%) IIS
3 1 (8.333%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (8.333%) Commerce Server
3 1 (8.333%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (8.333%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) MS Office
2 1 (8.333%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Line 50
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) DNS
2 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (25.00%) VPN
3 2 (16.67%) DHCP
4 1 (8.333%) PPP
4 1 (8.333%) ADSL
4 1 (8.333%) LAN
4 1 (8.333%) WAN
4 1 (8.333%) Firewall
4 1 (8.333%) Wireless
4 1 (8.333%) VLAN
4 1 (8.333%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
2 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (25.00%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) JIRA
2 1 (8.333%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (8.333%) MSBuild
General
1 1 (8.333%) Back Office
1 1 (8.333%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Video on Demand
2 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (16.67%) Client/Server
2 2 (16.67%) Blackberry
3 1 (8.333%) Smartphone
3 1 (8.333%) EMV
3 1 (8.333%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Windows
2 7 (58.33%) Linux
2 7 (58.33%) Windows 7
3 5 (41.67%) UNIX
3 5 (41.67%) Solaris
4 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (16.67%) Fedora
5 2 (16.67%) Windows XP
6 1 (8.333%) Windows Vista
6 1 (8.333%) Android
6 1 (8.333%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (8.333%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (8.333%) E-Commerce
1 1 (8.333%) CAD
1 1 (8.333%) Change Management
1 1 (8.333%) Workflow
1 1 (8.333%) Validation
1 1 (8.333%) Problem Management
1 1 (8.333%) Time Management
1 1 (8.333%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) SQL
2 5 (41.67%) Java
2 5 (41.67%) Bash shell
3 1 (8.333%) C
3 1 (8.333%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.333%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.333%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.333%) MCP
2 1 (8.333%) MCSE
2 1 (8.333%) MCSA
2 1 (8.333%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (8.333%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (8.333%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.333%) Terminal Services
2 1 (8.333%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Nagios
2 1 (8.333%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (25.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (8.333%) Sage
4 1 (8.333%) Symantec
4 1 (8.333%) VMware
4 1 (8.333%) HP
4 1 (8.333%) Dell