South West IT Support Engineer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the IT Support Engineer role in IT jobs within the South West 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 IT Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IT Support Engineer
Location Abingdon Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Castleford Cheadle Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London County Armagh Crawley Croydon Dagenham Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Egham England Epsom Essex Fareham Farnborough Farnham Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Gwent Halifax Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Kent Kettering Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Preston Reading Redhill Ringwood Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sidcup Slough Solihull South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stansted Stirling Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Swindon Teddington Thatcham Thurrock Tring Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallington Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Windsor York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	226	223
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching permanent IT job ads	32	32
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	0.296 %	0.317 %
Salaries quoted	31	28
Average minimum salary	£22,543	£22,241
Average salary	£23,886	£23,983
% change on same period last year	-0.40 %
Average maximum salary	£25,229	£25,724
UK excluding London average salary	£25,036	£24,436
% change on same period last year	+2.45 %
Job Titles South West
Matching permanent IT job ads	10812	10107
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	5.708 %	4.139 %
Salaries quoted	9261	8523
Average minimum salary	£31,813	£31,893
Average salary	£34,972	£35,032
% change on same period last year	-0.17 %
Average maximum salary	£38,131	£38,170
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
IT Support Engineer England

IT Support Engineer
Demand Trend

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

IT Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

IT Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

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

IT Support Engineer
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Support Engineer within the South West 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
Wiltshire	-1	13	£25,821	+5.39 %
Bristol	-17	10	£22,600	+6.14 %
Gloucestershire	-28	7	£22,500	-1.31 %
Dorset	+1	2	£22,750	-28.90 %

IT Support Engineer England

IT Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 34 (57.63 %) Windows 2 19 (32.20 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 18 (30.51 %) LAN 3 18 (30.51 %) WAN 4 16 (27.12 %) Windows 2000 5 15 (25.42 %) Microsoft 5 15 (25.42 %) Microsoft Certification 6 13 (22.03 %) Active Directory 6 13 (22.03 %) MS Exchange 6 13 (22.03 %) MCSE 7 12 (20.34 %) SQL Server 8 11 (18.64 %) Windows XP 8 11 (18.64 %) TCP/IP 9 9 (15.25 %) MS Office 10 8 (13.56 %) MCP

10 8 (13.56 %) Citrix 10 8 (13.56 %) Firewall 10 8 (13.56 %) Exchange Server 2000 11 6 (10.17 %) Windows Server 2003 11 6 (10.17 %) SQL 11 6 (10.17 %) MySQL 12 5 (8.475 %) SLA 12 5 (8.475 %) Cisco 12 5 (8.475 %) MS Excel 12 5 (8.475 %) VERITAS 13 4 (6.780 %) Wireless 13 4 (6.780 %) Pensions 13 4 (6.780 %) Sage 13 4 (6.780 %) McAfee Security 13 4 (6.780 %) MS Access

IT Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms 1 19 (32.20 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 13 (22.03 %) MS Exchange 3 8 (13.56 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 3 (5.085 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 1 (1.695 %) IIS 5 1 (1.695 %) SharePoint	Applications 1 9 (15.25 %) MS Office 2 5 (8.475 %) MS Excel 3 3 (5.085 %) CATIA
Communications & Networking 1 18 (30.51 %) LAN 1 18 (30.51 %) WAN 2 11 (18.64 %) TCP/IP 3 8 (13.56 %) Firewall 4 4 (6.780 %) DNS 4 4 (6.780 %) Wireless 4 4 (6.780 %) DHCP 5 3 (5.085 %) VPN 5 3 (5.085 %) Broadband 6 2 (3.390 %) VoIP 6 2 (3.390 %) VLAN 7 1 (1.695 %) SAN 7 1 (1.695 %) Wi-Fi 7 1 (1.695 %) ADSL	Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (20.34 %) SQL Server 2 6 (10.17 %) MySQL 3 4 (6.780 %) MS Access 4 3 (5.085 %) SQL Server 7 4 3 (5.085 %) SQL Server 2005 5 1 (1.695 %) SQL Server 2000 5 1 (1.695 %) Crystal Reports
General 1 4 (6.780 %) Pensions 2 3 (5.085 %) Aerospace 2 3 (5.085 %) Automotive 2 3 (5.085 %) Electric 3 2 (3.390 %) Games 4 1 (1.695 %) Retail 4 1 (1.695 %) Manufacturing	Miscellaneous 1 3 (5.085 %) Streaming Media 2 2 (3.390 %) PDA 2 2 (3.390 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 34 (57.63 %) Windows 2 16 (27.12 %) Windows 2000 3 11 (18.64 %) Windows XP 4 6 (10.17 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (1.695 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (5.085 %) CAD 2 2 (3.390 %) Project Management 2 2 (3.390 %) SC Cleared 2 2 (3.390 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (3.390 %) CRM 3 1 (1.695 %) Service Management
Programming Languages 1 6 (10.17 %) SQL 2 4 (6.780 %) VB 2 4 (6.780 %) VBA 2 4 (6.780 %) C 3 3 (5.085 %) C++ 3 3 (5.085 %) Perl	Qualifications 1 15 (25.42 %) Microsoft Certification 2 13 (22.03 %) MCSE 3 8 (13.56 %) MCP 4 3 (5.085 %) MCSA 5 2 (3.390 %) CCNA 5 2 (3.390 %) Cisco Certification 6 1 (1.695 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (8.475 %) SLA	System Software 1 13 (22.03 %) Active Directory 2 3 (5.085 %) Backup Exec 3 2 (3.390 %) Terminal Services 4 1 (1.695 %) ISA Server 4 1 (1.695 %) Terminal Server 4 1 (1.695 %) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors 1 15 (25.42 %) Microsoft 2 8 (13.56 %) Citrix 3 5 (8.475 %) VERITAS 3 5 (8.475 %) Cisco 4 4 (6.780 %) Sage 4 4 (6.780 %) McAfee Security 5 2 (3.390 %) Sophos 5 2 (3.390 %) Symantec 5 2 (3.390 %) Remedy 5 2 (3.390 %) Lotus 6 1 (1.695 %) HP 6 1 (1.695 %) VMware