North West Support Engineer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Support Engineer 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 Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Support Engineer
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Amersham Andover Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Billericay Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Castleford Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clapham Congleton Cornwall Corsham County Antrim County Armagh Coventry Cranleigh Crawley Croydon Dagenham Dartford Daventry Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dundee Dunstable Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gourock Grantham Great Yarmouth Greenford Guildford Gwent Hailsham Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Horley Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverclyde Inverness Ipswich Isle of Wight Isleworth Keighley Kent Kettering Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Retford Rickmansworth Ringwood Romford Romsey Royston Rugby Ryde Sale Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skipton Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South Coast South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stansted Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Teddington Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Thatcham Thurrock Towcester Tring Trowbridge Truro Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallington Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Drayton West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Witney Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	115	94
Rank change on same period last year	-21
Matching permanent IT job ads	185	259
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.098 %	0.106 %
As % of the category below	1.659 %	2.028 %
Salaries quoted	148	228
Average minimum salary	£25,087	£23,065
Average salary	£26,638	£24,299
% change on same period last year	+9.62 %
Average maximum salary	£28,188	£25,533
UK excluding London average salary	£29,999	£28,994
% change on same period last year	+3.46 %
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 %
Support Engineer England

Support Engineer
Demand Trend

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

Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Support Engineer 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 Support Engineer 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	+18	111	£27,500	+16.44 %
Cheshire	-26	47	£26,128	+7.18 %
Lancashire	-37	11	£21,500	-8.39 %
Merseyside	-10	6	£24,625	-3.54 %

Support Engineer England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the North West 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.

1 234 (54.55 %) Windows 2 145 (33.80 %) Microsoft 3 121 (28.21 %) Active Directory 3 121 (28.21 %) MS Exchange 4 106 (24.71 %) Microsoft Certification 5 103 (24.01 %) MS Excel 6 94 (21.91 %) Cisco 7 91 (21.21 %) Windows 2000 8 89 (20.75 %) SQL Server 9 85 (19.81 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 83 (19.35 %) Citrix 11 78 (18.18 %) WAN 12 69 (16.08 %) LAN 13 60 (13.99 %) SQL 14 58 (13.52 %) Exchange Server 2000

15 57 (13.29 %) MCSE 16 53 (12.35 %) Firewall 17 52 (12.12 %) Linux 18 49 (11.42 %) IIS 18 49 (11.42 %) Windows Server 2003 18 49 (11.42 %) Telecoms 19 48 (11.19 %) Windows XP 20 46 (10.72 %) MS Office 20 46 (10.72 %) VPN 21 45 (10.49 %) MCSA 22 44 (10.26 %) TCP/IP 23 32 (7.459 %) Internet 23 32 (7.459 %) UNIX 24 31 (7.226 %) Exchange Server 2007 25 30 (6.993 %) ISA Server

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the North West 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 Development 1 11 (2.564 %) .NET 2 8 (1.865 %) XML 3 6 (1.399 %) ASP.NET 4 4 (0.932 %) HTML 5 3 (0.699 %) WebSphere 6 2 (0.466 %) WML 6 2 (0.466 %) Middleware 6 2 (0.466 %) JSP 6 2 (0.466 %) XHTML 7 1 (0.233 %) EDI 7 1 (0.233 %) Java RMI 7 1 (0.233 %) WebServices 7 1 (0.233 %) EDIFACT 7 1 (0.233 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 121 (28.21 %) MS Exchange 2 85 (19.81 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 58 (13.52 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 49 (11.42 %) IIS 5 31 (7.226 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 8 (1.865 %) Apache 7 6 (1.399 %) Tomcat 8 5 (1.166 %) Exchange Server 5.5 9 3 (0.699 %) Lotus Notes 10 2 (0.466 %) SharePoint 10 2 (0.466 %) WebLogic 10 2 (0.466 %) Oracle Application Server 11 1 (0.233 %) WebSphere MQ 11 1 (0.233 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications 1 103 (24.01 %) MS Excel 2 46 (10.72 %) MS Office 3 5 (1.166 %) AutoCAD 4 4 (0.932 %) MS Visio 5 2 (0.466 %) MS Project 6 1 (0.233 %) MS PowerPoint 6 1 (0.233 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 5 (1.166 %) Microsoft CRM 2 4 (0.932 %) Oracle Applications 3 2 (0.466 %) Line 50 4 1 (0.233 %) SalesLogix 4 1 (0.233 %) BPCS 4 1 (0.233 %) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking 1 78 (18.18 %) WAN 2 69 (16.08 %) LAN 3 53 (12.35 %) Firewall 4 46 (10.72 %) VPN 5 44 (10.26 %) TCP/IP 6 32 (7.459 %) Internet 7 28 (6.527 %) Broadband 8 26 (6.061 %) DNS 9 21 (4.895 %) ADSL 10 18 (4.196 %) Cisco PIX 11 13 (3.030 %) VoIP 11 13 (3.030 %) DHCP 11 13 (3.030 %) Wireless 12 12 (2.797 %) SAN 13 7 (1.632 %) 3G 14 5 (1.166 %) MPLS 14 5 (1.166 %) BGP 14 5 (1.166 %) SMS 15 4 (0.932 %) SSL 15 4 (0.932 %) IP Telephony	Database & Business Intelligence 1 89 (20.75 %) SQL Server 2 13 (3.030 %) SQL Server 2000 3 11 (2.564 %) MySQL 4 6 (1.399 %) SQL Server 2005 5 4 (0.932 %) DTS 6 3 (0.699 %) Oracle Reports 6 3 (0.699 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 3 (0.699 %) Oracle 9i 6 3 (0.699 %) MS Access 6 3 (0.699 %) RDBMS 6 3 (0.699 %) Oracle 10g 6 3 (0.699 %) SQL Server 7 7 2 (0.466 %) Oracle Discoverer 7 2 (0.466 %) Crystal Reports 8 1 (0.233 %) PostgreSQL
Development Applications 1 3 (0.699 %) LoadRunner 2 1 (0.233 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (0.233 %) TestDirector	General 1 49 (11.42 %) Telecoms 2 28 (6.527 %) Finance 2 28 (6.527 %) Health 3 24 (5.594 %) Pensions 4 20 (4.662 %) Education 5 15 (3.497 %) Billing 6 13 (3.030 %) Pharmaceutical 7 9 (2.098 %) Manufacturing 8 7 (1.632 %) Banking 9 5 (1.166 %) Back Office 9 5 (1.166 %) Construction 10 4 (0.932 %) Law 11 2 (0.466 %) Marketing 12 1 (0.233 %) Insurance 12 1 (0.233 %) Retail 12 1 (0.233 %) Multimedia 12 1 (0.233 %) Electric 12 1 (0.233 %) Government 12 1 (0.233 %) Financial Institution 12 1 (0.233 %) Chemicals
Miscellaneous 1 21 (4.895 %) Thin Client 1 21 (4.895 %) Fat Client 2 13 (3.030 %) Blackberry 3 8 (1.865 %) AS400 4 6 (1.399 %) Clustering 5 4 (0.932 %) Replication 6 2 (0.466 %) EPoS 6 2 (0.466 %) German Language 6 2 (0.466 %) PDA 7 1 (0.233 %) CCTV 7 1 (0.233 %) SCADA 7 1 (0.233 %) Physics 7 1 (0.233 %) Video Conferencing 7 1 (0.233 %) Client/Server 7 1 (0.233 %) Smartcard 7 1 (0.233 %) VAX	Operating Systems 1 234 (54.55 %) Windows 2 91 (21.21 %) Windows 2000 3 52 (12.12 %) Linux 4 49 (11.42 %) Windows Server 2003 5 48 (11.19 %) Windows XP 6 32 (7.459 %) UNIX 7 20 (4.662 %) Windows NT 8 18 (4.196 %) NetWare 9 11 (2.564 %) Solaris 10 3 (0.699 %) Debian 11 2 (0.466 %) AIX 11 2 (0.466 %) HPUX 12 1 (0.233 %) FreeBSD 12 1 (0.233 %) OpenBSD 12 1 (0.233 %) GCOS 12 1 (0.233 %) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (3.263 %) CRM 2 13 (3.030 %) ITIL 3 9 (2.098 %) Problem Management 4 6 (1.399 %) Disaster Recovery 5 5 (1.166 %) Data Security 5 5 (1.166 %) ERP 6 4 (0.932 %) Time Management 6 4 (0.932 %) Change Management 7 3 (0.699 %) Performance Testing 7 3 (0.699 %) Benchmarking 7 3 (0.699 %) E-Commerce 7 3 (0.699 %) Project Management 7 3 (0.699 %) Information Security 8 2 (0.466 %) Asset Management 8 2 (0.466 %) Migration 8 2 (0.466 %) Business Continuity 8 2 (0.466 %) Configuration Management 8 2 (0.466 %) Security Cleared 9 1 (0.233 %) Test Management 9 1 (0.233 %) Test Scripting	Programming Languages 1 60 (13.99 %) SQL 2 23 (5.361 %) C 3 10 (2.331 %) VB.NET 4 7 (1.632 %) VB 4 7 (1.632 %) PHP 5 6 (1.399 %) C# 5 6 (1.399 %) Shell Script 6 5 (1.166 %) Java 7 3 (0.699 %) C++ 7 3 (0.699 %) VB6 8 2 (0.466 %) VBA 9 1 (0.233 %) Fortran 9 1 (0.233 %) PowerHouse 9 1 (0.233 %) Perl 9 1 (0.233 %) PL/SQL
Qualifications 1 106 (24.71 %) Microsoft Certification 2 57 (13.29 %) MCSE 3 45 (10.49 %) MCSA 4 26 (6.061 %) Degree 5 25 (5.828 %) Cisco Certification 6 18 (4.196 %) Novell Certification 7 17 (3.963 %) MCP 7 17 (3.963 %) CCNA 8 10 (2.331 %) Citrix Certification 9 8 (1.865 %) CCA 9 8 (1.865 %) CCIE 10 7 (1.632 %) CCNP 10 7 (1.632 %) MCDST 11 3 (0.699 %) CCVP 12 2 (0.466 %) JNCIS 12 2 (0.466 %) JNCIP 12 2 (0.466 %) CCEA 12 2 (0.466 %) ISEB 12 2 (0.466 %) HND 12 2 (0.466 %) Dell Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 14 (3.263 %) SLA 2 4 (0.932 %) QA
System Software 1 121 (28.21 %) Active Directory 2 30 (6.993 %) ISA Server 3 24 (5.594 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 18 (4.196 %) Terminal Services 5 11 (2.564 %) Backup Exec 6 9 (2.098 %) VMware Infrastructure 7 6 (1.399 %) Novell eDirectory 7 6 (1.399 %) MetaFrame 8 5 (1.166 %) VMware ESX 9 3 (0.699 %) Oracle RAC 10 2 (0.466 %) VMware Server	Systems Management 1 16 (3.730 %) ZENworks 2 9 (2.098 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 5 (1.166 %) OpenView Configuration Management 4 4 (0.932 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 5 2 (0.466 %) Norton AntiVirus 6 1 (0.233 %) Nagios
Vendors 1 145 (33.80 %) Microsoft 2 94 (21.91 %) Cisco 3 83 (19.35 %) Citrix 4 26 (6.061 %) Oracle 5 22 (5.128 %) Novell 6 12 (2.797 %) VMware 7 11 (2.564 %) CheckPoint 8 10 (2.331 %) Dell 9 9 (2.098 %) Juniper 9 9 (2.098 %) Symantec 10 7 (1.632 %) McAfee Security 11 6 (1.399 %) Sophos 11 6 (1.399 %) HP 12 4 (0.932 %) Nokia 13 3 (0.699 %) Sybase 13 3 (0.699 %) Sun 13 3 (0.699 %) Websense 13 3 (0.699 %) NEC 13 3 (0.699 %) Siemens 13 3 (0.699 %) Lotus