The first table below looks at the demand for the 2nd Line Support Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited 2nd Line 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 Reading region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Second Line Support Engineer
Rank 121 118 120
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a 2nd Line Support Engineer 18 14 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 0.805% 0.595% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.848% 0.633% 0.055%
Number of salaries quoted 18 14 1
Average salary £30,000 £28,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -30.00%
UK excluding London average salary £26,450 £25,500 £24,000
% change year-on-year
+3.72% +6.25%
All Job Titles
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2123 2212 1809
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 94.95% 94.05% 94.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1727 1875 1487
Average salary £40,000 £43,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.97% +7.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
2nd Line Support Engineer
Berkshire

2nd Line Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing 2nd Line Support Engineer across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Reading 2nd Line Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

2nd Line Support Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing 2nd Line Support Engineer across the Reading region.

Reading 2nd Line Support Engineer Salary Trend

2nd Line Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing 2nd Line Support Engineer across the Reading region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Reading 2nd Line Support Engineer Salary Histogram

2nd Line Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region that cited 2nd Line 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 2nd Line Support Engineer in their job title.

1 22 (64.71%) MPLS
1 22 (64.71%) Unified Communications
2 15 (44.12%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (44.12%) Cisco
2 15 (44.12%) CCIE
2 15 (44.12%) CCSP
2 15 (44.12%) CCNP
2 15 (44.12%) CCIP
2 15 (44.12%) CCNA
3 8 (23.53%) Active Directory
3 8 (23.53%) Windows
4 7 (20.59%) Juniper
4 7 (20.59%) JNCIA
4 7 (20.59%) JNCIS
4 7 (20.59%) JNCIP
5 5 (14.71%) Windows 7
5 5 (14.71%) Windows 8
5 5 (14.71%) ADSL
5 5 (14.71%) LAN
5 5 (14.71%) WAN
5 5 (14.71%) TCP/IP
6 3 (8.824%) Linux
6 3 (8.824%) PDA
6 3 (8.824%) SC Cleared
6 3 (8.824%) Security Cleared
7 2 (5.882%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (5.882%) Fat Client
7 2 (5.882%) VMware
7 2 (5.882%) Thin Client
7 2 (5.882%) Terminal Services

2nd Line Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region that cited 2nd Line 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 2nd Line Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (2.941%) LAMP
Communications & Networking
1 22 (64.71%) MPLS
1 22 (64.71%) Unified Communications
2 5 (14.71%) ADSL
2 5 (14.71%) LAN
2 5 (14.71%) WAN
2 5 (14.71%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.941%) SAN
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.824%) PDA
2 2 (5.882%) Fat Client
2 2 (5.882%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 8 (23.53%) Windows
2 5 (14.71%) Windows 7
2 5 (14.71%) Windows 8
3 3 (8.824%) Linux
4 1 (2.941%) UNIX
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.941%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 15 (44.12%) Cisco Certification
1 15 (44.12%) CCIE
1 15 (44.12%) CCSP
1 15 (44.12%) CCNP
1 15 (44.12%) CCIP
1 15 (44.12%) CCNA
2 7 (20.59%) JNCIA
2 7 (20.59%) JNCIS
2 7 (20.59%) JNCIP
3 3 (8.824%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.824%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.882%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (5.882%) MCSE
5 1 (2.941%) HND
System Software
1 8 (23.53%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.882%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.882%) Terminal Services
Vendors
1 15 (44.12%) Cisco
2 7 (20.59%) Juniper
3 2 (5.882%) VMware
3 2 (5.882%) Citrix
4 1 (2.941%) Twitter