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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Engineer
Rank 14 11 -
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 5 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Plymouth 9.259% 4.348% -
As % of the Job Titles category 9.804% 4.545% -
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 0
Average salary £29,500 £22,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+31.11% -
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
All Job Titles
Plymouth
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
51 22 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Plymouth 94.44% 95.65% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 42 22 18
Average salary £32,500 £29,000 £26,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.06% +9.43%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,127 £22,500 £22,100
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £31,500 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Support Engineer
Devon

Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Plymouth 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 Plymouth region.

Plymouth Support Engineer Salary Trend

Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Plymouth 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 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (62.50%) ITIL
2 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 5 (62.50%) Windows XP
2 5 (62.50%) MS Exchange
2 5 (62.50%) SAN
2 5 (62.50%) Windows 7
3 4 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (50.00%) XenApp
3 4 (50.00%) Banking
3 4 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 4 (50.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 4 (50.00%) Cisco
3 4 (50.00%) Firewall
3 4 (50.00%) Finance
3 4 (50.00%) VMware
3 4 (50.00%) EMC
3 4 (50.00%) Citrix
3 4 (50.00%) Juniper
3 4 (50.00%) CheckPoint
3 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (25.00%) Xserve
4 2 (25.00%) Apple
5 1 (12.50%) NVQ Level 3
5 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
5 1 (12.50%) Blackberry
5 1 (12.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (12.50%) Project Management

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Plymouth 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 5 (62.50%) MS Exchange
2 4 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 4 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (12.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
1 1 (12.50%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) SAN
2 4 (50.00%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) LAN
3 1 (12.50%) WAN
3 1 (12.50%) DHCP
3 1 (12.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (50.00%) Banking
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Xserve
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
1 5 (62.50%) Windows XP
1 5 (62.50%) Windows 7
2 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) ITIL
2 1 (12.50%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) NVQ Level 3
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (50.00%) XenApp
1 4 (50.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (50.00%) Cisco
2 4 (50.00%) VMware
2 4 (50.00%) EMC
2 4 (50.00%) Citrix
2 4 (50.00%) Juniper
2 4 (50.00%) CheckPoint
3 2 (25.00%) Apple