The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Peterborough 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 19 June 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 Peterborough region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Engineer
Rank 28 46 37
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 21 1 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Peterborough 5.899% 0.318% 3.927%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.158% 0.338% 4.025%
Number of salaries quoted 17 1 9
Average salary £34,000 £20,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+70.00% -50.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,500 £20,000 £36,600
10% offered a salary of more than £35,400 £20,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
All Job Titles
Peterborough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
341 296 323
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Peterborough 95.79% 94.27% 97.58%
Number of salaries quoted 293 258 277
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £19,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £41,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Support Engineer
Cambridgeshire

Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Peterborough 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 Peterborough region.

Peterborough Support Engineer Salary Trend

Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Peterborough 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 23 (71.88%) Windows
2 19 (59.38%) Windows Server 2008
3 17 (53.13%) Active Directory
4 15 (46.88%) Citrix
5 14 (43.75%) MS Exchange
5 14 (43.75%) Windows Server 2003
6 12 (37.50%) SCCM
7 11 (34.38%) SharePoint
8 10 (31.25%) VMware
8 10 (31.25%) Exchange Server 2010
9 9 (28.13%) SQL
9 9 (28.13%) ITIL
10 8 (25.00%) MS Excel
10 8 (25.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 8 (25.00%) XenApp
10 8 (25.00%) MCTS
11 7 (21.88%) MCITP
11 7 (21.88%) Incident Management
11 7 (21.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 7 (21.88%) Citrix Certification
11 7 (21.88%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (21.88%) Cisco
11 7 (21.88%) CCNA
12 6 (18.75%) CCNP
12 6 (18.75%) VPN
12 6 (18.75%) Firewall
12 6 (18.75%) Cisco ASA
13 5 (15.63%) Network Security
13 5 (15.63%) Information Security
13 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Certification

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Peterborough 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 1 (3.125%) WebSphere
1 1 (3.125%) Java EE
1 1 (3.125%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 14 (43.75%) MS Exchange
2 11 (34.38%) SharePoint
3 10 (31.25%) Exchange Server 2010
4 8 (25.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 4 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2007
6 3 (9.375%) Lync
7 2 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2003
8 1 (3.125%) WebSphere Process Server
8 1 (3.125%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (3.125%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 8 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.125%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.125%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.75%) VPN
1 6 (18.75%) Firewall
1 6 (18.75%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (15.63%) Network Security
3 3 (9.375%) NetScaler
4 2 (6.250%) LAN
4 2 (6.250%) WAN
4 2 (6.250%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (3.125%) Unified Communications
5 1 (3.125%) SMTP
5 1 (3.125%) DHCP
5 1 (3.125%) FTP
5 1 (3.125%) HTTP
5 1 (3.125%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.125%) VoIP
5 1 (3.125%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.125%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 1 (3.125%) Retail
1 1 (3.125%) Back Office
1 1 (3.125%) Telecoms
1 1 (3.125%) Advertising
1 1 (3.125%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.125%) PKI
1 1 (3.125%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 23 (71.88%) Windows
2 19 (59.38%) Windows Server 2008
3 14 (43.75%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (6.250%) Windows 7
5 1 (3.125%) Windows XP
5 1 (3.125%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (28.13%) ITIL
2 7 (21.88%) Incident Management
3 5 (15.63%) Information Security
4 4 (12.50%) SIEM
5 3 (9.375%) Change Management
6 1 (3.125%) Infrastructure Management
6 1 (3.125%) ITSM
6 1 (3.125%) Risk Management
6 1 (3.125%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (28.13%) SQL
2 1 (3.125%) Jython
2 1 (3.125%) Shell Script
2 1 (3.125%) Java
2 1 (3.125%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) MCTS
2 7 (21.88%) MCITP
2 7 (21.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 7 (21.88%) Citrix Certification
2 7 (21.88%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (21.88%) CCNA
3 6 (18.75%) CCNP
4 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (12.50%) MCSE
5 4 (12.50%) CCA
6 3 (9.375%) CCEE
7 1 (3.125%) Security Cleared
7 1 (3.125%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.375%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (53.13%) Active Directory
2 8 (25.00%) XenApp
3 4 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (12.50%) XenDesktop
4 3 (9.375%) XenServer
4 3 (9.375%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.125%) VMware Server
5 1 (3.125%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 12 (37.50%) SCCM
2 1 (3.125%) FortiGate
2 1 (3.125%) Puppet
2 1 (3.125%) WSUS
2 1 (3.125%) SCOM
2 1 (3.125%) OpenView
Vendors
1 15 (46.88%) Citrix
2 10 (31.25%) VMware
3 7 (21.88%) Cisco
4 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
5 4 (12.50%) HP
5 4 (12.50%) Dell
5 4 (12.50%) CheckPoint
5 4 (12.50%) Juniper
6 3 (9.375%) AppSense