The first table below looks at the demand for the 3rd 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 3rd Line Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Reading region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Third Line Support Engineer
Rank 113 111 111
Rank change year-on-year
-2 0
Permanent jobs requiring a 3rd Line Support Engineer 19 22 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 0.902% 0.974% 0.161%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.951% 1.023% 0.172%
Number of salaries quoted 19 22 3
Average salary £30,000 £37,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-18.91% +23.33%
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +7.69%
All Job Titles
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1998 2150 1741
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 94.87% 95.17% 93.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1633 1856 1398
Average salary £42,500 £41,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.65% -3.52%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
3rd Line Support Engineer
Berkshire

3rd Line Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 3rd Line Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

3rd Line Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Reading 3rd Line Support Engineer Salary Trend

3rd Line Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region that cited 3rd 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 3rd Line Support Engineer in their job title.

1 24 (75.00%) Windows
2 21 (65.63%) MS Exchange
2 21 (65.63%) VMware
2 21 (65.63%) Windows Server 2008
3 16 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 14 (43.75%) Linux
5 12 (37.50%) SQL
5 12 (37.50%) Active Directory
5 12 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
6 11 (34.38%) MS Excel
7 10 (31.25%) Microsoft
7 10 (31.25%) Blackberry
7 10 (31.25%) German Language
8 9 (28.13%) TCP/IP
8 9 (28.13%) DNS
9 8 (25.00%) Cisco
9 8 (25.00%) Backup Exec
9 8 (25.00%) Symantec
10 7 (21.88%) SAN
10 7 (21.88%) CCNA
10 7 (21.88%) Windows XP
10 7 (21.88%) CCNP
10 7 (21.88%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (21.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (21.88%) MCSE
10 7 (21.88%) Exchange Server 2003
10 7 (21.88%) VMware Infrastructure
11 6 (18.75%) French Language
12 5 (15.63%) Firewall
12 5 (15.63%) Management Information System

3rd Line Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region that cited 3rd 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 3rd Line Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (15.63%) Software Packaging
2 3 (9.375%) .NET
3 2 (6.250%) Node.js
3 2 (6.250%) Java RMI
4 1 (3.125%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.125%) XML
Application Platforms
1 21 (65.63%) MS Exchange
2 16 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 7 (21.88%) Exchange Server 2003
4 5 (15.63%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (3.125%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (34.38%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (28.13%) TCP/IP
1 9 (28.13%) DNS
2 7 (21.88%) SAN
3 5 (15.63%) Firewall
4 2 (6.250%) DMS-100
4 2 (6.250%) LAN
4 2 (6.250%) WLAN
4 2 (6.250%) WAN
5 1 (3.125%) Unified Communications
5 1 (3.125%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.250%) Big Data
General
1 10 (31.25%) German Language
2 6 (18.75%) French Language
3 2 (6.250%) Finance
3 2 (6.250%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 10 (31.25%) Blackberry
2 5 (15.63%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.250%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 24 (75.00%) Windows
2 21 (65.63%) Windows Server 2008
3 14 (43.75%) Linux
4 12 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (21.88%) Windows XP
6 5 (15.63%) UNIX
7 2 (6.250%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (12.50%) ITIL
1 4 (12.50%) Change Management
2 3 (9.375%) Information Management
2 3 (9.375%) Data Protection
3 2 (6.250%) Incident Management
3 2 (6.250%) Problem Management
3 2 (6.250%) Migration
3 2 (6.250%) PRINCE2
3 2 (6.250%) Service Management
3 2 (6.250%) CMMI
Programming Languages
1 12 (37.50%) SQL
2 3 (9.375%) Java
3 2 (6.250%) PHP
3 2 (6.250%) Python
3 2 (6.250%) Ruby
4 1 (3.125%) C++
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) MCSE
1 7 (21.88%) CCNA
1 7 (21.88%) Cisco Certification
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft Certification
1 7 (21.88%) CCNP
2 5 (15.63%) Degree
2 5 (15.63%) MCSA
3 2 (6.250%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.125%) CCIP
4 1 (3.125%) CCIE
4 1 (3.125%) CCSP
4 1 (3.125%) JNCIA
4 1 (3.125%) JNCIS
4 1 (3.125%) JNCIP
4 1 (3.125%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.250%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 12 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 7 (21.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (15.63%) vSphere
4 2 (6.250%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 8 (25.00%) Backup Exec
2 5 (15.63%) SCCM
2 5 (15.63%) SCOM
3 3 (9.375%) PureDisk
3 3 (9.375%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 3 (9.375%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 21 (65.63%) VMware
2 10 (31.25%) Microsoft
3 8 (25.00%) Cisco
3 8 (25.00%) Symantec
4 2 (6.250%) Remedy
4 2 (6.250%) NetApp
4 2 (6.250%) EMC
4 2 (6.250%) Nortel
4 2 (6.250%) Northgate
5 1 (3.125%) Twitter
5 1 (3.125%) Juniper