The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Support role in IT jobs advertised for the Plymouth region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Technical Support in their job title over the 3 months to 18 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 Plymouth region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Support
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Support 1 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Plymouth 1.818% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.041% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Average salary £29,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £30,500 £30,000 £28,500
% change year-on-year
+1.66% +5.26%
All Job Titles
Plymouth
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
49 25 22
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Plymouth 89.09% 96.15% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 42 25 21
Average salary £32,500 £29,000 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.06% +16.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,500 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £31,000 £34,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Technical Support
Devon

Technical Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Plymouth Technical Support Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Support
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Technical Support across the Plymouth region.

Plymouth Technical Support Salary Trend

Technical Support
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Plymouth region that cited Technical 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 Technical Support in their job title.

1 5 (100.00%) ITIL
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 5 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) EMC
1 5 (100.00%) Citrix
1 5 (100.00%) Juniper
1 5 (100.00%) SAN
1 5 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
1 5 (100.00%) Banking
1 5 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 5 (100.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 5 (100.00%) XenApp
1 5 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 5 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010

Technical Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Plymouth region that cited Technical 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 Technical Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 5 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 5 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) SAN
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
1 5 (100.00%) Banking
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 5 (100.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) ITIL
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (100.00%) XenApp
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) EMC
1 5 (100.00%) Citrix
1 5 (100.00%) Juniper
1 5 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 5 (100.00%) VMware