The first table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Support Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Infrastructure Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 North West region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Infrastructure Support Engineer
Rank 245 220 229
Rank change year-on-year
-25 +9
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support Engineer 3 21 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.042% 0.292% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.305% 0.031%
Number of salaries quoted 3 20 2
Average salary £26,500 £32,750 £29,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-19.08% +12.93%
UK excluding London average salary £30,373 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
-13.22% +7.69%
All Job Titles
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
6899 6891 6432
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 95.51% 95.87% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5861 6087 5695
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £22,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Infrastructure Support Engineer
England

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Infrastructure Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

North West Infrastructure Support Engineer Salary Trend

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Support Engineer within the North West region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Manchester -6 3 £26,500 -18.46%
Infrastructure Support Engineer
England

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region that cited Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Support Engineer in their job title.

1 13 (76.47%) VMware
1 13 (76.47%) Microsoft
2 11 (64.71%) Windows
2 11 (64.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (58.82%) Cisco
4 9 (52.94%) Windows Server 2003
4 9 (52.94%) MS Exchange
4 9 (52.94%) Windows Server 2008
5 8 (47.06%) Exchange Server 2010
5 8 (47.06%) ITIL
6 7 (41.18%) SAN
7 6 (35.29%) Legal
7 6 (35.29%) SCCM
7 6 (35.29%) NetApp
7 6 (35.29%) WAN
7 6 (35.29%) NFS
7 6 (35.29%) SQL Server
7 6 (35.29%) LAN
7 6 (35.29%) Windows XP
7 6 (35.29%) Fibre Channel
8 5 (29.41%) Hyper-V
8 5 (29.41%) CRM
8 5 (29.41%) VoIP
8 5 (29.41%) SQL
8 5 (29.41%) SCOM
8 5 (29.41%) Dynamics CRM
8 5 (29.41%) Telecoms
9 4 (23.53%) SQL Server 2005
9 4 (23.53%) MS Office
9 4 (23.53%) SharePoint

Infrastructure Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region that cited Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 9 (52.94%) MS Exchange
2 8 (47.06%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (23.53%) SharePoint
3 4 (23.53%) Lync
4 2 (11.76%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (11.76%) IIS
4 2 (11.76%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 4 (23.53%) MS Office
2 3 (17.65%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 7 (41.18%) SAN
2 6 (35.29%) WAN
2 6 (35.29%) LAN
2 6 (35.29%) Fibre Channel
3 5 (29.41%) VoIP
4 4 (23.53%) NAS
5 2 (11.76%) Firewall
5 2 (11.76%) VPN
6 1 (5.882%) WLAN
6 1 (5.882%) iSCSI
6 1 (5.882%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) SQL Server
2 4 (23.53%) SQL Server 2005
2 4 (23.53%) SQL Server 2000
2 4 (23.53%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (23.53%) SQL Server 2012
General
1 6 (35.29%) Legal
2 5 (29.41%) Telecoms
3 3 (17.65%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.882%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 11 (64.71%) Windows
2 9 (52.94%) Windows Server 2003
2 9 (52.94%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (35.29%) Windows XP
4 2 (11.76%) Windows 7
5 1 (5.882%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) ITIL
2 5 (29.41%) CRM
3 3 (17.65%) Network Design
4 1 (5.882%) High Availability
4 1 (5.882%) Network Architecture
4 1 (5.882%) Problem Management
4 1 (5.882%) Performance Management
4 1 (5.882%) Change Management
4 1 (5.882%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (5.882%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (5.882%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (5.882%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (5.882%) MCP
1 1 (5.882%) MCSE
1 1 (5.882%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 11 (64.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (35.29%) NFS
3 5 (29.41%) Hyper-V
4 4 (23.53%) Active Directory
5 2 (11.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) SCCM
2 5 (29.41%) SCOM
3 4 (23.53%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 2 (11.76%) MOM
4 2 (11.76%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (5.882%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (5.882%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 13 (76.47%) VMware
1 13 (76.47%) Microsoft
2 10 (58.82%) Cisco
3 6 (35.29%) NetApp
4 4 (23.53%) Symantec
5 3 (17.65%) SolarWinds
6 2 (11.76%) Sophos
6 2 (11.76%) HP
7 1 (5.882%) IBM
7 1 (5.882%) Citrix
7 1 (5.882%) Juniper