The first table below looks at the demand for the IT Support role in IT jobs advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited IT Support in their job title over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Southampton region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IT Support
Rank 64 81 57
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -24
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Support 24 15 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 2.867% 1.601% 1.806%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.930% 1.639% 1.868%
Number of salaries quoted 24 15 11
Average salary £40,000 £31,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+29.03% +3.33%
UK excluding London average salary £24,000 £24,000 £24,000
All Job Titles
Southampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
819 915 589
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 97.85% 97.65% 96.72%
Number of salaries quoted 746 855 532
Average salary £37,500 £38,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.59% +10.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £23,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
IT Support
Hampshire

IT Support
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing IT Support across the Southampton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Southampton IT Support Jobs Demand Trend

IT Support
Salary Trend

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

Southampton IT Support Salary Trend

IT Support
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing IT Support across the Southampton region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Southampton IT Support Salary Histogram

IT Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton region that cited IT Support 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 in their job title.

1 42 (79.25%) Windows
2 31 (58.49%) MS Exchange
3 30 (56.60%) Windows Server 2008
4 29 (54.72%) VMware
5 27 (50.94%) TCP/IP
5 27 (50.94%) Citrix
6 26 (49.06%) Microsoft Certification
7 25 (47.17%) Exchange Server 2010
8 24 (45.28%) VMware Infrastructure
8 24 (45.28%) Windows Vista
8 24 (45.28%) MCITP
8 24 (45.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 24 (45.28%) SAN
8 24 (45.28%) Windows Server 2003
8 24 (45.28%) Firewall
8 24 (45.28%) CCA
8 24 (45.28%) Citrix Certification
8 24 (45.28%) MCSE
9 20 (37.74%) Active Directory
10 16 (30.19%) Microsoft
11 11 (20.75%) MS Excel
12 10 (18.87%) Cisco
13 8 (15.09%) LAN
13 8 (15.09%) ITIL
14 7 (13.21%) MS Office
14 7 (13.21%) French Language
15 5 (9.434%) ITIL V3
15 5 (9.434%) WAN
16 4 (7.547%) IIS
16 4 (7.547%) Windows XP

IT Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton region that cited IT Support 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 in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (1.887%) COM
Application Platforms
1 31 (58.49%) MS Exchange
2 25 (47.17%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (7.547%) IIS
4 2 (3.774%) Sitefinity
4 2 (3.774%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (1.887%) Site Server
Applications
1 11 (20.75%) MS Excel
2 7 (13.21%) MS Office
3 2 (3.774%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 27 (50.94%) TCP/IP
2 24 (45.28%) SAN
2 24 (45.28%) Firewall
3 8 (15.09%) LAN
4 5 (9.434%) WAN
5 2 (3.774%) VLAN
5 2 (3.774%) VPN
5 2 (3.774%) ISDN
5 2 (3.774%) SNMP
6 1 (1.887%) VoIP
6 1 (1.887%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.660%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.774%) Subversion
1 2 (3.774%) Git (software)
General
1 7 (13.21%) French Language
2 1 (1.887%) Telecoms
2 1 (1.887%) Manufacturing
2 1 (1.887%) Advertising
2 1 (1.887%) Retail
2 1 (1.887%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.660%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.774%) Smartphone
2 2 (3.774%) Statistics
2 2 (3.774%) Visualisation
3 1 (1.887%) Mathematics
3 1 (1.887%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 42 (79.25%) Windows
2 30 (56.60%) Windows Server 2008
3 24 (45.28%) Windows Vista
3 24 (45.28%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (7.547%) Windows XP
5 3 (5.660%) Linux
6 2 (3.774%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.887%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (15.09%) ITIL
2 5 (9.434%) ITIL V3
3 2 (3.774%) Incident Management
3 2 (3.774%) Network Load Balancing
3 2 (3.774%) Analytics
3 2 (3.774%) Network Management
3 2 (3.774%) Service Management
3 2 (3.774%) Service Delivery
4 1 (1.887%) ERP
4 1 (1.887%) Data Analysis
4 1 (1.887%) Asset Management
4 1 (1.887%) Web Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.660%) SQL
2 2 (3.774%) PowerShell
2 2 (3.774%) VBA
3 1 (1.887%) C
Qualifications
1 26 (49.06%) Microsoft Certification
2 24 (45.28%) MCITP
2 24 (45.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 24 (45.28%) CCA
2 24 (45.28%) Citrix Certification
2 24 (45.28%) MCSE
3 3 (5.660%) Degree
4 2 (3.774%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.774%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.774%) CCNA
4 2 (3.774%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.887%) MCP
5 1 (1.887%) MCSA
5 1 (1.887%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.774%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (45.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (37.74%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.774%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 2 (3.774%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 29 (54.72%) VMware
2 27 (50.94%) Citrix
3 16 (30.19%) Microsoft
4 10 (18.87%) Cisco
5 3 (5.660%) Dell
6 2 (3.774%) Mitel
6 2 (3.774%) Avaya
7 1 (1.887%) Apple
7 1 (1.887%) Intel
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