Milton Keynes 2nd Line Support Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the 2nd Line Support role in IT jobs within the Milton Keynes 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 2nd Line Support in their job title over the 3 months to 28 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Second Line Support
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alfreton Altrincham Andover Banbury Barking Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Caterham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester Congleton Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dunbar Dunstable East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Grimsby Guildford Hailsham Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kettering Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Ormskirk Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Rochdale Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Teddington Telford Thames Valley Thatcham Thurrock Tyne and Wear Uckfield UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Waltham Abbey Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 28 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	74	85
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching permanent IT job ads	21	13
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	1.619 %	0.863 %
Salaries quoted	21	10
Average minimum salary	£20,095	£26,700
Average salary	£24,214	£30,100
% change on same period last year	-19.55 %
Average maximum salary	£28,333	£33,500
UK excluding London average salary	£25,247	£25,343
% change on same period last year	-0.38 %
Job Titles Milton Keynes
Matching permanent IT job ads	1297	1507
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.705 %	0.633 %
Salaries quoted	1169	1247
Average minimum salary	£34,580	£33,318
Average salary	£37,405	£36,282
% change on same period last year	+3.09 %
Average maximum salary	£40,230	£39,246
UK excluding London average salary	£38,056	£39,460
% change on same period last year	-3.55 %
2nd Line Support Buckinghamshire

2nd Line Support
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing 2nd Line Support across the Milton Keynes region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

2nd Line Support
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing 2nd Line Support across the Milton Keynes region.

2nd Line Support
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing 2nd Line Support across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 28 August 2008.

2nd Line Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 28 August 2008, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes region that cited 2nd Line 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 2nd Line Support in their job title.

1 22 (66.67 %) Windows 2 17 (51.52 %) Windows XP 2 17 (51.52 %) Active Directory 2 17 (51.52 %) Citrix 3 16 (48.48 %) Windows Server 2003 4 15 (45.45 %) Thin Client 4 15 (45.45 %) Microsoft 4 15 (45.45 %) Fat Client 5 8 (24.24 %) SQL 6 5 (15.15 %) MCSE 6 5 (15.15 %) Cisco 6 5 (15.15 %) Microsoft Certification 7 4 (12.12 %) Cisco Certification 7 4 (12.12 %) Firmware 7 4 (12.12 %) CCIE

7 4 (12.12 %) ERP 7 4 (12.12 %) Electric 7 4 (12.12 %) Degree 7 4 (12.12 %) SCADA 7 4 (12.12 %) Computer Science 8 3 (9.091 %) MCP 8 3 (9.091 %) MS Excel 9 2 (6.061 %) MCSA 9 2 (6.061 %) COBOL 9 2 (6.061 %) CCNP 9 2 (6.061 %) Unisys 9 2 (6.061 %) CheckPoint 9 2 (6.061 %) Mainframe 9 2 (6.061 %) Firewall 9 2 (6.061 %) IPCC

2nd Line Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 28 August 2008, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes region that cited 2nd Line 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 2nd Line Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (3.030 %) Lotus Notes 1 1 (3.030 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (3.030 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 3 (9.091 %) MS Excel 2 1 (3.030 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 2 (6.061 %) Firewall 1 2 (6.061 %) IPCC 1 2 (6.061 %) Cisco IPT 1 2 (6.061 %) Cisco PIX 1 2 (6.061 %) Network Security 1 2 (6.061 %) Cisco ASA 2 1 (3.030 %) LAN 2 1 (3.030 %) WAN 2 1 (3.030 %) VPN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (3.030 %) SQL Server 1 1 (3.030 %) MS Access
General 1 4 (12.12 %) Electric 2 1 (3.030 %) Health 2 1 (3.030 %) Pensions 2 1 (3.030 %) Finance	Miscellaneous 1 15 (45.45 %) Thin Client 1 15 (45.45 %) Fat Client 2 4 (12.12 %) Firmware 2 4 (12.12 %) SCADA 2 4 (12.12 %) Computer Science 3 2 (6.061 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 22 (66.67 %) Windows 2 17 (51.52 %) Windows XP 3 16 (48.48 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (3.030 %) Windows Vista 4 1 (3.030 %) Linux 4 1 (3.030 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (12.12 %) ERP 2 1 (3.030 %) Business Desktop Deployment
Programming Languages 1 8 (24.24 %) SQL 2 2 (6.061 %) COBOL 3 1 (3.030 %) C 3 1 (3.030 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 5 (15.15 %) MCSE 1 5 (15.15 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (12.12 %) Cisco Certification 2 4 (12.12 %) CCIE 2 4 (12.12 %) Degree 3 3 (9.091 %) MCP 4 2 (6.061 %) CCVP 4 2 (6.061 %) CCNP 4 2 (6.061 %) MCSA 5 1 (3.030 %) MCDST
System Software 1 17 (51.52 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 1 (3.030 %) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors 1 17 (51.52 %) Citrix 2 15 (45.45 %) Microsoft 3 5 (15.15 %) Cisco 4 2 (6.061 %) Unisys 4 2 (6.061 %) Blue Coat 4 2 (6.061 %) CheckPoint 5 1 (3.030 %) Wyse 5 1 (3.030 %) Lotus