Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the IT Support Technician role in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited IT Support Technician in their job title over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Scotland region.

 IT Support Technician
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank98115174
Rank change year-on-year
Up+17Up+59
Matching permanent IT job ads414
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland0.215 %0.049 %0.075 %
As % of the Job Titles category0.240 %0.052 %0.080 %
Salaries quoted412
Average salary£24,000£30,000£19,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00 %+57.89 %
UK excluding London average salary£20,500£22,000£22,000
% change year-on-year
-6.810 %-
Scotland IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
166519205011
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland89.42 %93.43 %94.14 %
Salaries quoted103014163246
Average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.140 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£24,000£24,000£24,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£50,000£52,500£51,500
UK excluding London average salary£35,556£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+1.580 %-
IT Support Technician UKIT Support Technician
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IT Support Technician
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing IT Support Technician across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Scotland IT Support Technician Demand Trend

IT Support Technician
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing IT Support Technician across the Scotland region.

Scotland IT Support Technician Salary Trend

IT Support Technician
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Support Technician within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EdinburghDown-123£24,000-20.00 %
AberdeenshireNew entry-1£15,000-
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IT Support Technician
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Scotland region that cited IT Support Technician 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 IT Support Technician in their job title.

14 (100.00 %)Cisco
14 (100.00 %)Microsoft
23 (75.00 %)Exchange Server 2003
23 (75.00 %)Telecoms
23 (75.00 %)Windows
23 (75.00 %)Active Directory
23 (75.00 %)Windows XP
23 (75.00 %)MS Exchange
23 (75.00 %)LAN
23 (75.00 %)WAN
23 (75.00 %)TCP/IP
31 (25.00 %)Citrix
31 (25.00 %)MS Excel
31 (25.00 %)VMware

IT Support Technician
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Scotland region that cited IT Support Technician 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 IT Support Technician in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Scotland IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
13 (75.00 %)MS Exchange
13 (75.00 %)Exchange Server 2003
Scotland IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11 (25.00 %)MS Excel
Scotland IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
13 (75.00 %)LAN
13 (75.00 %)WAN
13 (75.00 %)TCP/IP
Scotland IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
13 (75.00 %)Telecoms
Scotland IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
13 (75.00 %)Windows
13 (75.00 %)Windows XP
Scotland IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
13 (75.00 %)Active Directory
Scotland IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
14 (100.00 %)Cisco
14 (100.00 %)Microsoft
21 (25.00 %)Citrix
21 (25.00 %)VMware