Middlesex Technical Support Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Technical Support role in IT jobs within the Middlesex 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 Technical Support in their job title over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Technical Support
Location Abingdon Alfreton Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bingley Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Coventry Cranleigh Crawley Crewe Croydon Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dunbar East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Folkestone Glasgow Glastonbury Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gourock Grays Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Huddersfield Hull Inverclyde Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Isleworth Kent Kidderminster Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge Livingston London Loughborough Lutterworth Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlborough Mayfield Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrew Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochdale Rotherham Royston Rugby Ruislip Ryde Salisbury Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Tamworth Taunton Tewkesbury Thames Valley Tilbury Tonbridge Tring Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wetherby Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	41	80
Rank change on same period last year	+39
Matching permanent IT job ads	37	26
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	3.850 %	1.546 %
Salaries quoted	29	26
Average minimum salary	£31,690	£26,038
Average salary	£33,310	£29,154
% change on same period last year	+14.25 %
Average maximum salary	£34,931	£32,269
UK excluding London average salary	£30,395	£30,057
% change on same period last year	+1.12 %
Job Titles Middlesex
Matching permanent IT job ads	961	1682
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.556 %	0.724 %
Salaries quoted	834	1393
Average minimum salary	£41,951	£39,887
Average salary	£45,621	£42,186
% change on same period last year	+8.14 %
Average maximum salary	£49,291	£44,485
UK excluding London average salary	£38,208	£39,261
% change on same period last year	-2.68 %
Technical Support South East

Technical Support
Demand Trend

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

Technical Support
Salary Trend

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

Technical Support
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Technical Support across the Middlesex region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

Technical Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Middlesex region that cited Technical 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 Technical Support in their job title.

1 32 (41.03 %) Windows 2 27 (34.62 %) MCSE 2 27 (34.62 %) Microsoft Certification 3 26 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 4 22 (28.21 %) Active Directory 5 20 (25.64 %) TCP/IP 6 18 (23.08 %) SQL 7 15 (19.23 %) MCSA 7 15 (19.23 %) Windows XP 7 15 (19.23 %) SMTP 7 15 (19.23 %) Microsoft 7 15 (19.23 %) IMAP 8 14 (17.95 %) LAN 8 14 (17.95 %) Education 9 13 (16.67 %) MS Exchange

9 13 (16.67 %) Windows 2000 10 12 (15.38 %) Degree 10 12 (15.38 %) German Language 11 11 (14.10 %) MS Excel 12 10 (12.82 %) C++ 12 10 (12.82 %) SQL Server 12 10 (12.82 %) Symbian 12 10 (12.82 %) WAN 12 10 (12.82 %) Citrix 12 10 (12.82 %) Telecoms 12 10 (12.82 %) Symbian OS 13 9 (11.54 %) DNS 14 8 (10.26 %) VPN 14 8 (10.26 %) Windows NT 14 8 (10.26 %) Exchange Server 2007

Technical Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Middlesex region that cited Technical 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 Technical Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 13 (16.67 %) MS Exchange 2 8 (10.26 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 3 (3.846 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 4 2 (2.564 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 1 (1.282 %) Lotus Notes	Applications 1 11 (14.10 %) MS Excel 2 3 (3.846 %) MS Office
Business Applications 1 3 (3.846 %) Oracle Financials	Communications & Networking 1 20 (25.64 %) TCP/IP 2 15 (19.23 %) IMAP 2 15 (19.23 %) SMTP 3 14 (17.95 %) LAN 4 10 (12.82 %) WAN 5 9 (11.54 %) DNS 6 8 (10.26 %) VPN 7 5 (6.410 %) WiMAX 7 5 (6.410 %) 802.11 7 5 (6.410 %) Wi-Fi 7 5 (6.410 %) Wireless 7 5 (6.410 %) Ethernet 8 4 (5.128 %) IP Telephony 9 3 (3.846 %) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (12.82 %) SQL Server 2 7 (8.974 %) SQL Server 2005 3 3 (3.846 %) TOAD	General 1 14 (17.95 %) Education 2 10 (12.82 %) Telecoms 3 3 (3.846 %) Finance 3 3 (3.846 %) Health 3 3 (3.846 %) General Ledger 3 3 (3.846 %) Pensions 4 1 (1.282 %) Retail
Miscellaneous 1 12 (15.38 %) German Language 2 5 (6.410 %) Blackberry 2 5 (6.410 %) Dutch Language 3 1 (1.282 %) French Language 3 1 (1.282 %) AS400	Operating Systems 1 32 (41.03 %) Windows 2 26 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 3 15 (19.23 %) Windows XP 4 13 (16.67 %) Windows 2000 5 10 (12.82 %) Symbian OS 6 8 (10.26 %) Windows Server 2008 6 8 (10.26 %) Windows NT 7 2 (2.564 %) UNIX 8 1 (1.282 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 1 (1.282 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (8.974 %) ITIL 2 3 (3.846 %) Service Management 2 3 (3.846 %) Change Management 2 3 (3.846 %) Security Cleared 3 2 (2.564 %) Network Design 4 1 (1.282 %) Problem Management 4 1 (1.282 %) Disaster Recovery 4 1 (1.282 %) PRINCE2	Programming Languages 1 18 (23.08 %) SQL 2 10 (12.82 %) C++ 3 1 (1.282 %) C
Qualifications 1 27 (34.62 %) MCSE 1 27 (34.62 %) Microsoft Certification 2 15 (19.23 %) MCSA 3 12 (15.38 %) Degree 4 4 (5.128 %) CCNP 4 4 (5.128 %) Cisco Certification 5 2 (2.564 %) MCP 6 1 (1.282 %) PRINCE2 Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (5.128 %) SLA
System Software 1 22 (28.21 %) Active Directory 2 3 (3.846 %) MailMarshal 2 3 (3.846 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 1 (1.282 %) Terminal Server 3 1 (1.282 %) ISA Server	Vendors 1 15 (19.23 %) Microsoft 2 10 (12.82 %) Symbian 2 10 (12.82 %) Citrix 3 7 (8.974 %) VERITAS 4 5 (6.410 %) Cisco 4 5 (6.410 %) Nortel 5 4 (5.128 %) Novell 6 3 (3.846 %) Symantec 6 3 (3.846 %) Oracle 7 1 (1.282 %) VMware 7 1 (1.282 %) Lotus