The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 23 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Engineer
Rank 49 45 41
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 11 7 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 2.282% 1.542% 1.932%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.428% 1.602% 1.956%
Number of salaries quoted 9 5 8
Average salary £24,000 £27,500 £32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.72% -14.06%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,900 £22,600 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £30,000 £36,500
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
All Job Titles
Newcastle upon Tyne
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
453 437 409
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 93.98% 96.26% 98.79%
Number of salaries quoted 388 366 342
Average salary £37,500 £36,500 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.73% -
90% offered a salary of more than £23,850 £24,000 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,650 £72,500 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Support Engineer
Tyne and Wear

Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne Support Engineer Salary Trend

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Support Engineer across the Newcastle upon Tyne region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Newcastle upon Tyne Support Engineer Salary Histogram

Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 (55.00%) Windows
2 10 (50.00%) SAN
3 9 (45.00%) UNIX
3 9 (45.00%) Linux
3 9 (45.00%) VMware
3 9 (45.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (40.00%) NAS
4 8 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (35.00%) TCP/IP
5 7 (35.00%) SLA
5 7 (35.00%) VMware ESX
5 7 (35.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2007
6 6 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2010
6 6 (30.00%) Hyper-V
6 6 (30.00%) Symantec
6 6 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2003
6 6 (30.00%) German Language
6 6 (30.00%) iSCSI
6 6 (30.00%) DNS
6 6 (30.00%) Active Directory
6 6 (30.00%) MS Excel
6 6 (30.00%) MS Exchange
6 6 (30.00%) DHCP
6 6 (30.00%) NFS
7 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
7 4 (20.00%) French Language
7 4 (20.00%) Italian Language
7 4 (20.00%) C
7 4 (20.00%) ITIL

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Platforms
1 6 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 6 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 6 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 6 (30.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (5.000%) Lync
2 1 (5.000%) Lotus Notes
2 1 (5.000%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (30.00%) MS Excel
2 3 (15.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 10 (50.00%) SAN
2 8 (40.00%) NAS
3 7 (35.00%) TCP/IP
4 6 (30.00%) iSCSI
4 6 (30.00%) DNS
4 6 (30.00%) DHCP
5 3 (15.00%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.000%) MySQL
General
1 6 (30.00%) German Language
2 4 (20.00%) French Language
2 4 (20.00%) Italian Language
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.000%) Spanish Language
4 1 (5.000%) Hebrew Language
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (5.000%) Symmetrix DMX
2 1 (5.000%) Celerra
2 1 (5.000%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.000%) CLARiiON
2 1 (5.000%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 11 (55.00%) Windows
2 9 (45.00%) UNIX
2 9 (45.00%) Linux
3 8 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 7 (35.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (10.00%) Solaris
6 1 (5.000%) Windows 7
6 1 (5.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (5.000%) Windows XP
6 1 (5.000%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (20.00%) ITIL
2 2 (10.00%) Service Management
3 1 (5.000%) Performance Management
3 1 (5.000%) Capacity Management
3 1 (5.000%) Analytics
3 1 (5.000%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (5.000%) MCP
1 1 (5.000%) MCSA
1 1 (5.000%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (5.000%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (5.000%) CCNA
1 1 (5.000%) MCDST
1 1 (5.000%) MCTS
1 1 (5.000%) Degree
1 1 (5.000%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.000%) DV Cleared
1 1 (5.000%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (35.00%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (45.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (35.00%) VMware ESX
3 6 (30.00%) Hyper-V
3 6 (30.00%) Active Directory
3 6 (30.00%) NFS
4 1 (5.000%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 1 (5.000%) Tivoli
1 1 (5.000%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) VMware
2 6 (30.00%) Symantec
3 3 (15.00%) EMC
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (10.00%) Hitachi
4 2 (10.00%) NetApp
4 2 (10.00%) Cisco
4 2 (10.00%) FalconStor
5 1 (5.000%) Oracle
5 1 (5.000%) IBM
5 1 (5.000%) Citrix
5 1 (5.000%) Veritas
5 1 (5.000%) Lotus
5 1 (5.000%) Red Hat
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
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Posted: 20 May 2013