The first table below looks at the demand for the 1st Line Support role in IT jobs advertised for the Redditch region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited 1st Line Support 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 Redditch region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
First Line Support
Rank - - 13
Permanent jobs requiring a 1st Line Support 0 0 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Redditch - - 4.167%
As % of the Job Titles category - - 4.255%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 2
Average salary - - £17,000
UK excluding London average salary £19,250 £19,000 £20,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% -5.00%
All Job Titles
Redditch
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
53 17 47
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Redditch 100.00% 85.00% 97.92%
Number of salaries quoted 47 17 47
Average salary £35,000 £29,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.68% -17.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £22,500 £21,200
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £40,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
1st Line Support
Worcestershire

1st Line Support
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing 1st Line Support across the Redditch region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Redditch 1st Line Support Jobs Demand Trend

1st Line Support
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing 1st Line Support across the Redditch region.

Redditch 1st Line Support Salary Trend

1st Line Support
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Redditch region that cited 1st Line 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 1st Line Support in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Web Design
1 1 (100.00%) XPath
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3

1st Line Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Redditch region that cited 1st Line 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 1st Line Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) XPath