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This section looks at the demand for the Support Technician role in IT jobs within the Midlands 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 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

 Support Technician
Location
3 months to
20 Aug 2008
Same period last year
Rank7387
Rank change on same period last yearUp+14
Matching permanent IT job ads15
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.001 %0.002 %
As % of the category below0.104 %0.269 %
Salaries quoted13
Average minimum salary£26,000£25,000
Average salary£26,000£30,000
% change on same period last year-13.33 %
Average maximum salary£26,000£35,000
UK excluding London average salary£22,799£23,035
% change on same period last year-1.02 %
Midlands IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads9661860
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.520 %0.775 %
Salaries quoted7081458
Average minimum salary£43,560£41,711
Average salary£49,626£48,475
% change on same period last year+2.37 %
Average maximum salary£55,692£55,239
UK excluding London average salary£38,055£39,430
% change on same period last year-3.48 %
Support Technician EnglandSupport Technician
England

Support Technician
Demand Trend

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

Midlands Support Technician Demand Trend

Support Technician
Salary Trend

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

Midlands Support Technician Salary Trend

Support Technician
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Midlands 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.

12 (40.00 %)Microsoft
21 (20.00 %)Microsoft Certification
21 (20.00 %)Lotus
21 (20.00 %)Red Hat
21 (20.00 %)Apple
21 (20.00 %)Windows Server 2003
21 (20.00 %)Gentoo
21 (20.00 %)Fedora
21 (20.00 %)WatchGuard
21 (20.00 %)Mac OS X Server
21 (20.00 %)Windows 2000 Server
21 (20.00 %)Red Hat Linux
21 (20.00 %)Perl
21 (20.00 %)PHP
21 (20.00 %)ASP
21 (20.00 %)Windows
21 (20.00 %)Linux
21 (20.00 %)Windows 2000
21 (20.00 %)Lotus Notes
21 (20.00 %)Lotus Domino
21 (20.00 %)MCSE
21 (20.00 %)LDAP
21 (20.00 %)MS Excel
21 (20.00 %)Cisco

Support Technician
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Midlands 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.

Midlands IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
11 (20.00 %)ASP
Midlands IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
11 (20.00 %)Lotus Notes
11 (20.00 %)Lotus Domino
Midlands IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
11 (20.00 %)MS Excel
Midlands IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
11 (20.00 %)LDAP
Midlands IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
11 (20.00 %)Windows
11 (20.00 %)Linux
11 (20.00 %)Windows 2000
11 (20.00 %)Windows Server 2003
11 (20.00 %)Gentoo
11 (20.00 %)Fedora
11 (20.00 %)Mac OS X Server
11 (20.00 %)Windows 2000 Server
11 (20.00 %)Red Hat Linux
Midlands IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
11 (20.00 %)Perl
11 (20.00 %)PHP
Midlands IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
11 (20.00 %)MCSE
11 (20.00 %)Microsoft Certification
Midlands IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
12 (40.00 %)Microsoft
21 (20.00 %)Lotus
21 (20.00 %)Red Hat
21 (20.00 %)Apple
21 (20.00 %)WatchGuard
21 (20.00 %)Cisco