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

LinkSupport Engineer
Location
3 months to 25 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank6569
Rank change on same period last yearUp+4
Matching permanent IT job ads339270
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.179 %0.111 %
As % of the category below3.135 %2.671 %
Salaries quoted302245
Average minimum salary£26,282£23,620
Average salary£29,150£25,728
% change on same period last year+13.29 %
Average maximum salary£32,017£27,835
UK excluding London average salary£29,999£28,994
% change on same period last year+3.46 %
South West IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
South West
Matching permanent IT job ads1081210107
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled5.708 %4.139 %
Salaries quoted92618523
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 %
Support Engineer EnglandSupport Engineer
England

Support Engineer
Demand Trend

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

South West Support Engineer Demand Trend

Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

South West Support Engineer Salary Trend

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

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

South West Support Engineer Salary Histogram

Support Engineer
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 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.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
BristolUp+11112£27,477+2.76 %
WiltshireDown-591£30,833+19.47 %
GloucestershireDown-2356£30,538+26.95 %
DevonDown-322£25,684+2.19 %
SomersetDown-1721£28,381+12.08 %
DorsetUp+912£29,437-2.34 %
CornwallNew entry-4£17,250-
AvonUp+232£27,500-1.78 %
Support Engineer EnglandSupport Engineer
England

Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1231 (34.22 %)Windows
2166 (24.59 %)Microsoft
3157 (23.26 %)Active Directory
4131 (19.41 %)Microsoft Certification
5130 (19.26 %)Cisco Certification
6129 (19.11 %)Cisco
7127 (18.81 %)CCNA
7127 (18.81 %)UNIX
8123 (18.22 %)Telecoms
9110 (16.30 %)MCSE
1099 (14.67 %)LAN
1195 (14.07 %)SQL
1294 (13.93 %)TCP/IP
1391 (13.48 %)WAN
1391 (13.48 %)Exchange Server 2003
1478 (11.56 %)MS Excel
1573 (10.81 %)MCP
1672 (10.67 %)Firewall
1767 (9.926 %)Linux
1858 (8.593 %)MS Exchange
1957 (8.444 %)SLA
2054 (8.000 %)Security Cleared
2153 (7.852 %)Citrix
2252 (7.704 %)CCNP
2349 (7.259 %)Exchange Server 2000
2448 (7.111 %)Internet
2547 (6.963 %)Windows Server 2003
2547 (6.963 %)Broadband
2644 (6.519 %)SQL Server
2743 (6.370 %)Windows 2000

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 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 Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

South West IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
17 (1.037 %)ODBC
26 (0.889 %).NET
26 (0.889 %)J2EE
35 (0.741 %)ASP.NET
35 (0.741 %)HTML
35 (0.741 %)XML
43 (0.444 %)XSLT
52 (0.296 %)WML
52 (0.296 %)JSP
52 (0.296 %)XHTML
52 (0.296 %)X-Windows
61 (0.148 %)WAP
South West IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
191 (13.48 %)Exchange Server 2003
258 (8.593 %)MS Exchange
349 (7.259 %)Exchange Server 2000
426 (3.852 %)Exchange Server 2007
514 (2.074 %)Lotus Notes
610 (1.481 %)SharePoint
79 (1.333 %)IIS
83 (0.444 %)WebLogic
83 (0.444 %)Exchange Server 5.5
83 (0.444 %)Lotus Domino
92 (0.296 %)Apache
92 (0.296 %)Tomcat
101 (0.148 %)Tuxedo
South West IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
178 (11.56 %)MS Excel
222 (3.259 %)MS Office
321 (3.111 %)MS Visio
45 (0.741 %)CATIA
51 (0.148 %)MS Project
South West IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
13 (0.444 %)Metrica
21 (0.148 %)Remedy AR System
South West IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
199 (14.67 %)LAN
294 (13.93 %)TCP/IP
391 (13.48 %)WAN
472 (10.67 %)Firewall
548 (7.111 %)Internet
647 (6.963 %)Broadband
740 (5.926 %)SAN
835 (5.185 %)Intranet
928 (4.148 %)GSM
1025 (3.704 %)SDH
1025 (3.704 %)ATM
1122 (3.259 %)SS7
1220 (2.963 %)OSPF
1220 (2.963 %)DNS
1317 (2.519 %)3G
1317 (2.519 %)UMTS
1317 (2.519 %)VLAN
1416 (2.370 %)SNMP
1515 (2.222 %)BGP
1515 (2.222 %)X.500
South West IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
144 (6.519 %)SQL Server
216 (2.370 %)BusinessObjects
39 (1.333 %)MySQL
39 (1.333 %)SQL Server 2005
46 (0.889 %)SQL Server 7
46 (0.889 %)SQL Server 2000
54 (0.593 %)MS Access
63 (0.444 %)RDBMS
63 (0.444 %)GIS
72 (0.296 %)Crystal Reports
72 (0.296 %)Informix
72 (0.296 %)Oracle 9i
72 (0.296 %)Oracle 10g
81 (0.148 %)DB2
South West IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
11 (0.148 %)JUnit
South West IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1123 (18.22 %)Telecoms
232 (4.741 %)Pensions
326 (3.852 %)Back Office
326 (3.852 %)Health
410 (1.481 %)Government
58 (1.185 %)Insurance
66 (0.889 %)Retail
66 (0.889 %)Electric
66 (0.889 %)Aerospace
75 (0.741 %)Automotive
75 (0.741 %)Education
75 (0.741 %)Finance
75 (0.741 %)Marketing
84 (0.593 %)FMCG
84 (0.593 %)Games
93 (0.444 %)Manufacturing
102 (0.296 %)3D Graphics
102 (0.296 %)Multimedia
102 (0.296 %)Local Government
102 (0.296 %)Electronics
South West IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
17 (1.037 %)French Language
26 (0.889 %)Firmware
35 (0.741 %)Client/Server
35 (0.741 %)Blackberry
35 (0.741 %)Clustering
35 (0.741 %)Computer Science
44 (0.593 %)PDA
44 (0.593 %)Fat Client
44 (0.593 %)EPoS
44 (0.593 %)EFT
44 (0.593 %)Thin Client
53 (0.444 %)Streaming Media
62 (0.296 %)Italian Language
71 (0.148 %)German Language
71 (0.148 %)Mathematics
71 (0.148 %)Physics
71 (0.148 %)IVR
71 (0.148 %)PKI
71 (0.148 %)Mainframe
71 (0.148 %)Replication
South West IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1231 (34.22 %)Windows
2127 (18.81 %)UNIX
367 (9.926 %)Linux
447 (6.963 %)Windows Server 2003
543 (6.370 %)Windows 2000
637 (5.481 %)Windows XP
730 (4.444 %)Solaris
826 (3.852 %)Windows NT
910 (1.481 %)HPUX
109 (1.333 %)AIX
113 (0.444 %)VMS
122 (0.296 %)OpenVMS
122 (0.296 %)Mac OS X
122 (0.296 %)SUSE
122 (0.296 %)Debian
122 (0.296 %)Fedora
122 (0.296 %)Ubuntu
131 (0.148 %)Mac OS X Server
South West IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
154 (8.000 %)Security Cleared
239 (5.778 %)SC Cleared
325 (3.704 %)Network Planning
424 (3.556 %)ITIL
522 (3.259 %)Project Management
621 (3.111 %)Service Delivery
714 (2.074 %)OO
811 (1.630 %)Release Management
910 (1.481 %)WFM
108 (1.185 %)UML
116 (0.889 %)Change Management
116 (0.889 %)Software Engineering
125 (0.741 %)Load Balancing
125 (0.741 %)Disaster Recovery
125 (0.741 %)CAD
134 (0.593 %)Service Management
134 (0.593 %)DV Cleared
143 (0.444 %)Agile Software Development
143 (0.444 %)CRM
152 (0.296 %)Logistics
South West IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
195 (14.07 %)SQL
240 (5.926 %)Shell Script
333 (4.889 %)C
421 (3.111 %)Java
520 (2.963 %)C++
614 (2.074 %)VB
710 (1.481 %)VC++
89 (1.333 %)Ada
95 (0.741 %)VBA
95 (0.741 %)Perl
104 (0.593 %)AWK
113 (0.444 %)Transact-SQL
122 (0.296 %)PHP
122 (0.296 %)Embedded C
131 (0.148 %)Embedded C++
131 (0.148 %)Tcl
131 (0.148 %)Delphi
131 (0.148 %)C#
South West IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1131 (19.41 %)Microsoft Certification
2130 (19.26 %)Cisco Certification
3127 (18.81 %)CCNA
4110 (16.30 %)MCSE
573 (10.81 %)MCP
652 (7.704 %)CCNP
735 (5.185 %)MCSA
833 (4.889 %)Degree
913 (1.926 %)CCSP
105 (0.741 %)HNC
114 (0.593 %)HND
123 (0.444 %)CCA
123 (0.444 %)Citrix Certification
123 (0.444 %)A+ Certification
132 (0.296 %)Sun Certification
132 (0.296 %)CCIE
132 (0.296 %)RHCE
132 (0.296 %)SCSA
141 (0.148 %)MCDST
141 (0.148 %)CCIP
South West IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
157 (8.444 %)SLA
22 (0.296 %)ISO9001
31 (0.148 %)QA
South West IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
1157 (23.26 %)Active Directory
213 (1.926 %)NetBackup
38 (1.185 %)VMware Infrastructure
44 (0.593 %)NFS
44 (0.593 %)VMware ESX
44 (0.593 %)Backup Exec
53 (0.444 %)Terminal Services
53 (0.444 %)ISA Server
62 (0.296 %)Oracle RAC
62 (0.296 %)Citrix Presentation Server
71 (0.148 %)Terminal Server
South West IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
15 (0.741 %)Netcool
23 (0.444 %)Netcool/Proviso
32 (0.296 %)EMC NetWorker
32 (0.296 %)BMC PATROL
32 (0.296 %)CiscoWorks
32 (0.296 %)Legato
32 (0.296 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
41 (0.148 %)OpenView Configuration Management
41 (0.148 %)DameWare
41 (0.148 %)OVSD
41 (0.148 %)OpenView
South West IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
1166 (24.59 %)Microsoft
2129 (19.11 %)Cisco
353 (7.852 %)Citrix
440 (5.926 %)HP
536 (5.333 %)Nortel
536 (5.333 %)3Com
629 (4.296 %)Oracle
722 (3.259 %)Symantec
819 (2.815 %)IBM
819 (2.815 %)VMware
918 (2.667 %)Genesys
1016 (2.370 %)Business Objects
1016 (2.370 %)BT
1016 (2.370 %)Lotus
1112 (1.778 %)VERITAS
1210 (1.481 %)CheckPoint
1210 (1.481 %)Dell
1210 (1.481 %)Brocade
139 (1.333 %)McAfee Security
148 (1.185 %)Sun
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