North West Network Support Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Network Support role in IT jobs within the North West 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 Network Support in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Network Support
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Amersham Andover Ashton-under-Lyne Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Billericay Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Cornwall Corsham Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Deeside Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dunstable East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Essex Farnham Feltham Flintshire Glasgow Gloucestershire Godalming Grimsby Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Hungerford Isleworth Keighley Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincolnshire London Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Renfrew Renfrewshire Rochdale Rotherham Rugby Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southport St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Thatcham Truro Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Woking Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	206	239
Rank change on same period last year	+33
Matching permanent IT job ads	67	52
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.035 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	0.601 %	0.407 %
Salaries quoted	64	47
Average minimum salary	£24,879	£21,188
Average salary	£26,371	£22,427
% change on same period last year	+17.58 %
Average maximum salary	£27,864	£23,667
UK excluding London average salary	£31,035	£29,908
% change on same period last year	+3.76 %
Job Titles North West
Matching permanent IT job ads	11148	12772
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	5.885 %	5.230 %
Salaries quoted	9407	10740
Average minimum salary	£32,555	£34,146
Average salary	£36,431	£37,829
% change on same period last year	-3.69 %
Average maximum salary	£40,307	£41,512
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
Network Support England

Network Support
Demand Trend

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

Network Support
Salary Trend

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

Network Support
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Network Support across the North West region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Support within the North West region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Manchester	+53	39	£25,118	+11.93 %
Cheshire	+6	26	£28,808	+32.83 %
Lancashire	-25	1	£18,500	-14.15 %
Merseyside	-5	1	£18,500	-30.18 %

Network Support England

Network Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the North West region that cited Network 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 Network Support in their job title.

1 94 (86.24 %) Windows 2 55 (50.46 %) MS Exchange 3 51 (46.79 %) Active Directory 4 45 (41.28 %) Windows 2000 5 44 (40.37 %) WAN 5 44 (40.37 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 37 (33.94 %) TCP/IP 7 36 (33.03 %) Microsoft 8 35 (32.11 %) Microsoft Certification 8 35 (32.11 %) Cisco 9 33 (30.28 %) LAN 10 32 (29.36 %) SQL Server 10 32 (29.36 %) Exchange Server 2000 11 30 (27.52 %) MS Excel 12 28 (25.69 %) Windows Server 2003

13 27 (24.77 %) IIS 14 26 (23.85 %) MS Office 14 26 (23.85 %) DNS 15 24 (22.02 %) Firewall 16 21 (19.27 %) Citrix 16 21 (19.27 %) MCSA 17 18 (16.51 %) MCSE 17 18 (16.51 %) DHCP 17 18 (16.51 %) Windows XP 18 17 (15.60 %) VPN 18 17 (15.60 %) Oracle 19 16 (14.68 %) SQL Server 2000 20 14 (12.84 %) SQL 21 12 (11.01 %) Dell 21 12 (11.01 %) Exchange Server 2007

Network Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the North West region that cited Network 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 Network Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 6 (5.505 %) .NET 2 3 (2.752 %) XML 2 3 (2.752 %) EDI 2 3 (2.752 %) HTML 3 1 (0.917 %) ASP 3 1 (0.917 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (0.917 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 55 (50.46 %) MS Exchange 2 44 (40.37 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 32 (29.36 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 27 (24.77 %) IIS 5 12 (11.01 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 11 (10.09 %) Exchange Server 5.5 7 4 (3.670 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 7 4 (3.670 %) Lotus Notes 8 2 (1.835 %) Apache 8 2 (1.835 %) SharePoint 9 1 (0.917 %) Lotus Domino
Applications 1 30 (27.52 %) MS Excel 2 26 (23.85 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 3 (2.752 %) PeopleSoft Financials 1 3 (2.752 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 44 (40.37 %) WAN 2 37 (33.94 %) TCP/IP 3 33 (30.28 %) LAN 4 26 (23.85 %) DNS 5 24 (22.02 %) Firewall 6 18 (16.51 %) DHCP 7 17 (15.60 %) VPN 8 10 (9.174 %) Broadband 9 7 (6.422 %) Internet 9 7 (6.422 %) MPLS 9 7 (6.422 %) VoIP 10 6 (5.505 %) ADSL 10 6 (5.505 %) Network Security 11 5 (4.587 %) SNMP 12 4 (3.670 %) Ethernet 13 2 (1.835 %) Cisco IOS 13 2 (1.835 %) IPsec 13 2 (1.835 %) BGP 14 1 (0.917 %) EIGRP 14 1 (0.917 %) Wireless	Database & Business Intelligence 1 32 (29.36 %) SQL Server 2 16 (14.68 %) SQL Server 2000 3 10 (9.174 %) MySQL 4 5 (4.587 %) Crystal Reports 5 2 (1.835 %) SQL Server 7 5 2 (1.835 %) SQL Server 2005 6 1 (0.917 %) PostgreSQL 6 1 (0.917 %) MS Access
General 1 11 (10.09 %) Pensions 2 8 (7.339 %) Finance 3 5 (4.587 %) Back Office 4 4 (3.670 %) Telecoms 5 2 (1.835 %) Health 5 2 (1.835 %) Law 5 2 (1.835 %) Legal 5 2 (1.835 %) Banking 6 1 (0.917 %) Automotive 6 1 (0.917 %) Construction 6 1 (0.917 %) Marketing	Miscellaneous 1 6 (5.505 %) Video Conferencing 2 4 (3.670 %) Blackberry 3 3 (2.752 %) Client/Server 4 1 (0.917 %) NHS 4 1 (0.917 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 94 (86.24 %) Windows 2 45 (41.28 %) Windows 2000 3 28 (25.69 %) Windows Server 2003 4 18 (16.51 %) Windows XP 5 11 (10.09 %) Linux 6 6 (5.505 %) UNIX 6 6 (5.505 %) NetWare 7 5 (4.587 %) Solaris 8 3 (2.752 %) OS/400 9 1 (0.917 %) FreeBSD 9 1 (0.917 %) Windows NT 9 1 (0.917 %) Debian 9 1 (0.917 %) OpenBSD	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (4.587 %) Web Development 2 4 (3.670 %) ITIL 3 3 (2.752 %) ERP 3 3 (2.752 %) Disaster Recovery 3 3 (2.752 %) Migration 4 2 (1.835 %) Business Continuity 4 2 (1.835 %) Asset Management 4 2 (1.835 %) E-Commerce 5 1 (0.917 %) Project Management 5 1 (0.917 %) Quality Management 5 1 (0.917 %) Content Management 5 1 (0.917 %) Network Design 5 1 (0.917 %) Time Management
Programming Languages 1 14 (12.84 %) SQL 2 3 (2.752 %) PHP 3 2 (1.835 %) VB 3 2 (1.835 %) C 4 1 (0.917 %) C# 4 1 (0.917 %) Java 4 1 (0.917 %) Perl 4 1 (0.917 %) Shell Script 4 1 (0.917 %) PowerHouse	Qualifications 1 35 (32.11 %) Microsoft Certification 2 21 (19.27 %) MCSA 3 18 (16.51 %) MCSE 4 11 (10.09 %) Cisco Certification 5 10 (9.174 %) CCNA 6 6 (5.505 %) Citrix Certification 6 6 (5.505 %) CCEA 7 5 (4.587 %) CNE 7 5 (4.587 %) Novell Certification 8 3 (2.752 %) Degree 8 3 (2.752 %) CCNP 9 2 (1.835 %) MCP 10 1 (0.917 %) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (2.752 %) ISO27001 2 1 (0.917 %) QA 2 1 (0.917 %) SLA 2 1 (0.917 %) BS7799	System Software 1 51 (46.79 %) Active Directory 2 8 (7.339 %) Backup Exec 3 7 (6.422 %) ISA Server 4 6 (5.505 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 5 (4.587 %) Terminal Services 6 3 (2.752 %) MetaFrame 6 3 (2.752 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management 1 4 (3.670 %) Nagios 2 3 (2.752 %) OpenView 2 3 (2.752 %) Tivoli 3 2 (1.835 %) OVSD 4 1 (0.917 %) HP Data Protector 4 1 (0.917 %) Norton AntiVirus	Vendors 1 36 (33.03 %) Microsoft 2 35 (32.11 %) Cisco 3 21 (19.27 %) Citrix 4 17 (15.60 %) Oracle 5 12 (11.01 %) Dell 6 8 (7.339 %) HP 7 6 (5.505 %) VMware 7 6 (5.505 %) Mitel 7 6 (5.505 %) Novell 8 5 (4.587 %) Lotus 8 5 (4.587 %) Sun 8 5 (4.587 %) Polycom 8 5 (4.587 %) CheckPoint 9 4 (3.670 %) SAP 10 3 (2.752 %) Siebel 10 3 (2.752 %) PeopleSoft 10 3 (2.752 %) Adobe 10 3 (2.752 %) Red Hat 11 2 (1.835 %) Symantec 12 1 (0.917 %) VERITAS