South East Technical Support Engineer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Technical Support Engineer role in IT jobs within the South East region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Technical Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Technical Support Engineer
Location Aldershot Amersham Andover Banbury Basingstoke Beaconsfield Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Dartford Daventry Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh Egham England Essex Fareham Farnborough Gloucester Gloucestershire Gourock Guildford Gwent Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Inverclyde Ipswich Kent Leeds Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Ringwood Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Smethwick Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Telford Thame Thames Valley UK Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	296	333
Rank change on same period last year	+37
Matching permanent IT job ads	196	200
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.103 %	0.082 %
As % of the category below	0.551 %	0.440 %
Salaries quoted	189	175
Average minimum salary	£30,460	£29,386
Average salary	£32,990	£31,772
% change on same period last year	+3.83 %
Average maximum salary	£35,519	£34,159
UK excluding London average salary	£30,694	£29,073
% change on same period last year	+5.57 %
Job Titles South East
Matching permanent IT job ads	35547	45458
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	18.77 %	18.61 %
Salaries quoted	28902	37065
Average minimum salary	£36,487	£37,847
Average salary	£39,807	£41,072
% change on same period last year	-3.07 %
Average maximum salary	£43,127	£44,297
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
Technical Support Engineer England

Technical Support Engineer
Demand Trend

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

Technical Support Engineer
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Technical Support Engineer across the South East region.

Technical Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Technical Support Engineer across the South East region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Technical Support Engineer
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Support Engineer within the South East region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Berkshire	+25	97	£34,938	+5.01 %
Surrey	+28	42	£34,207	+14.02 %
Hampshire	+8	22	£29,318	-2.67 %
Oxfordshire	+8	13	£24,615	-5.32 %
Buckinghamshire	+1	12	£23,358	-25.02 %
Middlesex	+20	9	£34,333	-5.06 %
Kent	-3	4	£30,500	+37.07 %
Thames Valley	+34	2	£44,750	-2.71 %
Sussex	-	1	£42,500	-
West Sussex	+17	1	£34,500	+38.00 %

Technical Support Engineer England

Technical Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the South East region that cited Technical 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 Technical Support Engineer in their job title.

1 192 (42.48 %) Windows 2 104 (23.01 %) TCP/IP 3 100 (22.12 %) Microsoft 4 96 (21.24 %) SQL 5 88 (19.47 %) German Language 6 81 (17.92 %) Active Directory 7 80 (17.70 %) UNIX 8 74 (16.37 %) Microsoft Certification 9 73 (16.15 %) Cisco 9 73 (16.15 %) Degree 10 68 (15.04 %) Firewall 11 66 (14.60 %) Oracle 12 65 (14.38 %) Solaris 13 64 (14.16 %) French Language 14 63 (13.94 %) Cisco Certification

15 61 (13.50 %) Linux 16 60 (13.27 %) SQL Server 16 60 (13.27 %) CCNA 17 58 (12.83 %) MS Exchange 18 57 (12.61 %) Windows NT 19 56 (12.39 %) MS Excel 20 55 (12.17 %) LAN 21 53 (11.73 %) MCSE 22 52 (11.50 %) Internet 23 45 (9.956 %) Java 24 43 (9.513 %) WAN 24 43 (9.513 %) DNS 25 39 (8.628 %) Windows 2000 26 37 (8.186 %) HPUX 26 37 (8.186 %) C++

Technical Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the South East region that cited Technical 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 Technical Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 24 (5.310 %) .NET 2 23 (5.088 %) XML 3 19 (4.204 %) J2EE 3 19 (4.204 %) WebSphere 4 17 (3.761 %) HTML 5 8 (1.770 %) WAP 6 7 (1.549 %) WebServices 7 3 (0.664 %) J2SE 8 2 (0.442 %) .NET Framework 8 2 (0.442 %) LAMP 9 1 (0.221 %) DOM 9 1 (0.221 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 58 (12.83 %) MS Exchange 2 30 (6.637 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 26 (5.752 %) Lotus Notes 4 21 (4.646 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 18 (3.982 %) Tomcat 6 17 (3.761 %) IIS 7 16 (3.540 %) WebLogic 7 16 (3.540 %) Exchange Server 5.5 8 15 (3.319 %) Apache 9 9 (1.991 %) SharePoint 10 7 (1.549 %) Lotus Domino 11 5 (1.106 %) JBoss 12 4 (0.885 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 13 2 (0.442 %) Exchange Server 2007 13 2 (0.442 %) WebSphere Application Server 14 1 (0.221 %) Alfresco 14 1 (0.221 %) GroupWise
Applications 1 56 (12.39 %) MS Excel 2 12 (2.655 %) MS Office 3 2 (0.442 %) MS Visio 4 1 (0.221 %) CATIA 4 1 (0.221 %) MS PowerPoint 4 1 (0.221 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 8 (1.770 %) Oracle BRM 2 1 (0.221 %) Navision 2 1 (0.221 %) SMARTEAM
Communications & Networking 1 104 (23.01 %) TCP/IP 2 68 (15.04 %) Firewall 3 55 (12.17 %) LAN 4 52 (11.50 %) Internet 5 43 (9.513 %) DNS 5 43 (9.513 %) WAN 6 35 (7.743 %) Wireless 7 29 (6.416 %) VoIP 8 25 (5.531 %) SAN 9 24 (5.310 %) VPN 10 20 (4.425 %) ISDN 11 18 (3.982 %) DHCP 12 17 (3.761 %) HTTP 12 17 (3.761 %) SMTP 13 14 (3.097 %) FTP 13 14 (3.097 %) Cisco IOS 14 12 (2.655 %) Network Security 14 12 (2.655 %) GPRS 14 12 (2.655 %) GSM 15 11 (2.434 %) 3G	Database & Business Intelligence 1 60 (13.27 %) SQL Server 2 25 (5.531 %) SQL Server 2000 3 15 (3.319 %) RDBMS 4 11 (2.434 %) SQL Server 2005 5 10 (2.212 %) Oracle 10g 5 10 (2.212 %) Oracle 9i 6 9 (1.991 %) DB2 7 8 (1.770 %) TOAD 7 8 (1.770 %) SQLPlus 8 7 (1.549 %) EDMS 8 7 (1.549 %) Informix 9 5 (1.106 %) MySQL 10 3 (0.664 %) Oracle 11g 11 2 (0.442 %) SAP BI 11 2 (0.442 %) SQL Server 7 12 1 (0.221 %) ETL 12 1 (0.221 %) MSDE 12 1 (0.221 %) PostgreSQL
General 1 36 (7.965 %) Telecoms 2 21 (4.646 %) Education 3 13 (2.876 %) Pensions 4 11 (2.434 %) Finance 5 8 (1.770 %) Health 5 8 (1.770 %) Billing 6 7 (1.549 %) Electronics 7 5 (1.106 %) Manufacturing 7 5 (1.106 %) Marketing 8 3 (0.664 %) Banking 9 2 (0.442 %) Retail 9 2 (0.442 %) Pharmaceutical 9 2 (0.442 %) Automotive 9 2 (0.442 %) Insurance 10 1 (0.221 %) Electric 10 1 (0.221 %) Auditing 10 1 (0.221 %) Aerospace	Miscellaneous 1 88 (19.47 %) German Language 2 64 (14.16 %) French Language 3 33 (7.301 %) Italian Language 4 32 (7.080 %) Spanish Language 5 30 (6.637 %) Computer Science 6 20 (4.425 %) Video Conferencing 7 19 (4.204 %) Portuguese Language 8 9 (1.991 %) Client/Server 9 8 (1.770 %) Streaming Video 10 6 (1.327 %) Blackberry 10 6 (1.327 %) Mainframe 11 5 (1.106 %) Clustering 11 5 (1.106 %) Speech Recognition 12 3 (0.664 %) Russian Language 13 2 (0.442 %) Fat Client 13 2 (0.442 %) Dutch Language 13 2 (0.442 %) Japanese Language 13 2 (0.442 %) Polish Language 13 2 (0.442 %) EPoS 13 2 (0.442 %) Chip and PIN
Operating Systems 1 192 (42.48 %) Windows 2 80 (17.70 %) UNIX 3 65 (14.38 %) Solaris 4 61 (13.50 %) Linux 5 57 (12.61 %) Windows NT 6 39 (8.628 %) Windows 2000 7 37 (8.186 %) HPUX 8 34 (7.522 %) AIX 9 20 (4.425 %) SUSE 10 18 (3.982 %) Windows Server 2003 11 15 (3.319 %) Windows XP 12 11 (2.434 %) Symbian OS 13 3 (0.664 %) Debian 14 2 (0.442 %) Fedora 14 2 (0.442 %) Ubuntu 14 2 (0.442 %) Windows Vista 15 1 (0.221 %) VMS 15 1 (0.221 %) OpenVMS 15 1 (0.221 %) FreeBSD 15 1 (0.221 %) IRIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 16 (3.540 %) Validation 2 15 (3.319 %) Project Management 3 13 (2.876 %) Service Delivery 3 13 (2.876 %) Disaster Recovery 4 8 (1.770 %) CRM 5 7 (1.549 %) ITIL 5 7 (1.549 %) EAI 6 5 (1.106 %) Process Management 7 4 (0.885 %) Data Management 7 4 (0.885 %) SOA 8 3 (0.664 %) ERP 8 3 (0.664 %) Web Testing 9 2 (0.442 %) Time Management 9 2 (0.442 %) Load Balancing 9 2 (0.442 %) Network Design 9 2 (0.442 %) Business Intelligence 9 2 (0.442 %) Six Sigma 9 2 (0.442 %) Migration 9 2 (0.442 %) Web Design 10 1 (0.221 %) PLM
Programming Languages 1 96 (21.24 %) SQL 2 45 (9.956 %) Java 3 37 (8.186 %) C++ 4 31 (6.858 %) C 5 18 (3.982 %) VB 6 8 (1.770 %) C# 7 5 (1.106 %) JavaScript 8 4 (0.885 %) VBScript 9 3 (0.664 %) VB.NET 10 2 (0.442 %) VBA 10 2 (0.442 %) Shell Script 11 1 (0.221 %) Transact-SQL 11 1 (0.221 %) Perl 11 1 (0.221 %) PHP 11 1 (0.221 %) COBOL 11 1 (0.221 %) Delphi	Qualifications 1 74 (16.37 %) Microsoft Certification 2 73 (16.15 %) Degree 3 63 (13.94 %) Cisco Certification 4 60 (13.27 %) CCNA 5 53 (11.73 %) MCSE 6 29 (6.416 %) MCP 6 29 (6.416 %) CCNP 7 21 (4.646 %) MCSA 8 12 (2.655 %) CCVP 9 8 (1.770 %) Sun Certification 10 7 (1.549 %) RHCE 10 7 (1.549 %) SCNA 10 7 (1.549 %) SCSA 11 5 (1.106 %) Network+ Certification 12 4 (0.885 %) A+ Certification 12 4 (0.885 %) CCA 12 4 (0.885 %) Citrix Certification 13 2 (0.442 %) CISSP 13 2 (0.442 %) Security+ Certification 13 2 (0.442 %) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 24 (5.310 %) SLA 2 8 (1.770 %) QA	System Software 1 81 (17.92 %) Active Directory 2 7 (1.549 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 6 (1.327 %) Nmap 4 4 (0.885 %) NFS 5 3 (0.664 %) ISA Server 6 2 (0.442 %) Backup Exec 7 1 (0.221 %) VMware GSX 7 1 (0.221 %) VMware ESX 7 1 (0.221 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 14 (3.097 %) Tivoli 2 12 (2.655 %) OpenView 3 9 (1.991 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 4 2 (0.442 %) Nessus 5 1 (0.221 %) BMC Performance Manager 5 1 (0.221 %) OVPM 5 1 (0.221 %) BMC PATROL 5 1 (0.221 %) Unicenter 5 1 (0.221 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 5 1 (0.221 %) MOM	Vendors 1 100 (22.12 %) Microsoft 2 73 (16.15 %) Cisco 3 66 (14.60 %) Oracle 4 33 (7.301 %) Sun 5 30 (6.637 %) Red Hat 6 27 (5.973 %) Lotus 7 26 (5.752 %) HP 8 25 (5.531 %) IBM 9 18 (3.982 %) Citrix 10 14 (3.097 %) VMware 11 12 (2.655 %) CA 12 11 (2.434 %) EMC 12 11 (2.434 %) Symbian 13 9 (1.991 %) VERITAS 14 8 (1.770 %) Sybase 14 8 (1.770 %) SAP 15 7 (1.549 %) NetApp 16 6 (1.327 %) Dell 17 5 (1.106 %) Polycom 18 4 (0.885 %) 3Com