Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Support Technician role in IT jobs advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Support Technician in their job title over the 3 months to 18 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 South West region.

 Support Technician
Location
3 months to
18 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank161155208
Rank change year-on-year
Down-6Up+53
Matching permanent IT job ads193350
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West0.381 %0.529 %0.431 %
As % of the Job Titles category0.403 %0.568 %0.455 %
Salaries quoted172847
Average salary£23,500£22,194£20,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.880 %+10.96 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£19,600£16,000£16,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£31,900£28,550£25,000
UK excluding London average salary£23,250£22,000£22,500
% change year-on-year
+5.680 %-2.220 %
South West IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
4719580910984
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West94.59 %93.15 %94.62 %
Salaries quoted413150478951
Average salary£32,500£35,000£34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.140 %+2.940 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£22,500£24,000£22,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£47,500£50,000£50,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+1.420 %-
Support Technician EnglandSupport Technician
England

Support Technician
Demand Trend

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

South West Support Technician Demand Trend

Support Technician
Salary Trend

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

South West Support Technician Salary Trend

Support Technician
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Support Technician across the South West region over the 3 months to 18 March 2010.

South West Support Technician Salary Histogram

Support Technician
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Support Technician within the South West region over the 3 months to 18 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
DorsetNew entry-12£25,000-
BristolUp+83£20,000-25.92 %
GloucestershireUp+72£26,750-7.75 %
WiltshireDown-281--
SomersetNew entry-1£23,500-
Support Technician EnglandSupport Technician
England

Support Technician
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT jobs across the South West region that cited 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 Support Technician in their job title.

121 (65.63 %)Windows
217 (53.13 %)Microsoft
312 (37.50 %)MS Exchange
411 (34.38 %)Microsoft Certification
510 (31.25 %)SQL Server
69 (28.13 %)Active Directory
78 (25.00 %)MS Excel
87 (21.88 %)LAN
87 (21.88 %)Linux
96 (18.75 %)MCP
96 (18.75 %)MCSE
105 (15.63 %)Windows Vista
105 (15.63 %)Time Management
105 (15.63 %)Oracle
105 (15.63 %)SQL
105 (15.63 %)Cisco
105 (15.63 %)Windows XP
105 (15.63 %)Internet
105 (15.63 %)Windows Server 2003
114 (12.50 %)SAN
114 (12.50 %)Cisco Certification
114 (12.50 %)CCNA
114 (12.50 %)OCP
114 (12.50 %)Oracle Certification
114 (12.50 %)RHCE
114 (12.50 %)TCP/IP
114 (12.50 %)MS Office
114 (12.50 %)MCSA
114 (12.50 %)WAN
114 (12.50 %)Windows 7

Support Technician
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT jobs across the South West region that cited 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 Support Technician in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

South West IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
13 (9.375 %)Web Services
22 (6.250 %)SOAP
22 (6.250 %)Silverlight
22 (6.250 %)GWT
22 (6.250 %)Adobe Flex
31 (3.125 %).NET
South West IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
112 (37.50 %)MS Exchange
23 (9.375 %)Exchange Server 2003
32 (6.250 %)Tomcat
32 (6.250 %)GlassFish
41 (3.125 %)Lotus Notes
South West IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
18 (25.00 %)MS Excel
24 (12.50 %)MS Office
31 (3.125 %)MS PowerPoint
31 (3.125 %)AutoCAD
South West IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
11 (3.125 %)SAP ERP
South West IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
17 (21.88 %)LAN
25 (15.63 %)Internet
34 (12.50 %)SAN
34 (12.50 %)TCP/IP
34 (12.50 %)WAN
43 (9.375 %)Firewall
52 (6.250 %)Intranet
52 (6.250 %)NAS
52 (6.250 %)VLAN
52 (6.250 %)Wireless
61 (3.125 %)FTP
61 (3.125 %)VoIP
61 (3.125 %)ADSL
61 (3.125 %)Broadband
61 (3.125 %)DNS
South West IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
110 (31.25 %)SQL Server
22 (6.250 %)MySQL
22 (6.250 %)PostgreSQL
31 (3.125 %)Crystal Reports
South West IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
14 (12.50 %)Pensions
14 (12.50 %)Finance
22 (6.250 %)Telecoms
22 (6.250 %)Government
22 (6.250 %)Health
31 (3.125 %)Education
South West IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
12 (6.250 %)RIA
21 (3.125 %)VLE
21 (3.125 %)Replication
21 (3.125 %)CCTV
21 (3.125 %)Mathematics
21 (3.125 %)Statistics
South West IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
121 (65.63 %)Windows
27 (21.88 %)Linux
35 (15.63 %)Windows Vista
35 (15.63 %)Windows XP
35 (15.63 %)Windows Server 2003
44 (12.50 %)Windows 7
53 (9.375 %)Red Hat Linux
53 (9.375 %)Windows Server 2008
62 (6.250 %)Mac OS X
62 (6.250 %)Windows 2000 Server
71 (3.125 %)UNIX
South West IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
15 (15.63 %)Time Management
24 (12.50 %)Logistics
32 (6.250 %)Service Delivery
32 (6.250 %)OOP
32 (6.250 %)OO
32 (6.250 %)Data Protection
32 (6.250 %)Data Security
32 (6.250 %)Data Management
41 (3.125 %)Business Continuity
41 (3.125 %)Document Management
41 (3.125 %)ERP
41 (3.125 %)ITIL
41 (3.125 %)BCP
South West IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
15 (15.63 %)SQL
23 (9.375 %)C
32 (6.250 %)C++
32 (6.250 %)Java
32 (6.250 %)VBScript
32 (6.250 %)VB
41 (3.125 %)VB.NET
41 (3.125 %)C#
South West IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
111 (34.38 %)Microsoft Certification
26 (18.75 %)MCP
26 (18.75 %)MCSE
34 (12.50 %)Cisco Certification
34 (12.50 %)CCNA
34 (12.50 %)OCP
34 (12.50 %)Oracle Certification
34 (12.50 %)RHCE
34 (12.50 %)MCSA
34 (12.50 %)RHCT
41 (3.125 %)Degree
South West IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (3.125 %)SLA
South West IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
19 (28.13 %)Active Directory
21 (3.125 %)Hyper-V
21 (3.125 %)vSphere
South West IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
12 (6.250 %)Norton AntiVirus
South West IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
117 (53.13 %)Microsoft
25 (15.63 %)Oracle
25 (15.63 %)Cisco
34 (12.50 %)VMware
43 (9.375 %)SAP
43 (9.375 %)IBM
43 (9.375 %)Red Hat
52 (6.250 %)Symantec
52 (6.250 %)Sophos
52 (6.250 %)JBoss
52 (6.250 %)Aruba
61 (3.125 %)Lotus
61 (3.125 %)Dell
61 (3.125 %)Intel
61 (3.125 %)Citrix
61 (3.125 %)Avaya