The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Southampton region. 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 18 June 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Engineer
Rank 66 62 61
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 20 27 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 2.265% 2.919% 1.262%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.336% 2.987% 1.316%
Number of salaries quoted 19 27 8
Average salary £31,500 £23,000 £25,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+36.95% -9.80%
90% offered a salary of more than £19,000 £17,800 £18,500
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £32,500 £29,000
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
All Job Titles
Southampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
856 904 608
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 96.94% 97.73% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 792 851 551
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +1.35%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £22,600 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,000 £57,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Support Engineer
Hampshire

Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Southampton Support Engineer Salary Trend

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Support Engineer across the Southampton region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Southampton Support Engineer Salary Histogram

Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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.

1 33 (73.33%) Windows
2 25 (55.56%) MS Exchange
3 24 (53.33%) Microsoft
4 22 (48.89%) Active Directory
5 17 (37.78%) MS Excel
6 16 (35.56%) Windows Server 2008
7 14 (31.11%) Windows XP
8 13 (28.89%) LAN
9 12 (26.67%) Cisco
9 12 (26.67%) TCP/IP
10 11 (24.44%) WAN
10 11 (24.44%) MS Office
11 10 (22.22%) Windows 7
11 10 (22.22%) French Language
11 10 (22.22%) VMware
12 9 (20.00%) Firewall
12 9 (20.00%) Windows Vista
12 9 (20.00%) VPN
12 9 (20.00%) DNS
12 9 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
13 8 (17.78%) SQL
14 7 (15.56%) ITIL
15 6 (13.33%) Exchange Server 2010
15 6 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (13.33%) A+ Certification
16 5 (11.11%) SQL Server
16 5 (11.11%) DHCP
16 5 (11.11%) IIS
16 5 (11.11%) ITIL V3
17 4 (8.889%) IPsec

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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.

Application Development
1 4 (8.889%) .NET
2 1 (2.222%) COM
Application Platforms
1 25 (55.56%) MS Exchange
2 6 (13.33%) Exchange Server 2010
3 5 (11.11%) IIS
4 2 (4.444%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (2.222%) IBM Notes
5 1 (2.222%) Site Server
Applications
1 17 (37.78%) MS Excel
2 11 (24.44%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 13 (28.89%) LAN
2 12 (26.67%) TCP/IP
3 11 (24.44%) WAN
4 9 (20.00%) Firewall
4 9 (20.00%) VPN
4 9 (20.00%) DNS
5 5 (11.11%) DHCP
6 4 (8.889%) IPsec
7 3 (6.667%) SSL
7 3 (6.667%) SAN
8 1 (2.222%) Internet
8 1 (2.222%) BGP
8 1 (2.222%) VRRP
8 1 (2.222%) HTTP
8 1 (2.222%) SNMP
8 1 (2.222%) Wireless
8 1 (2.222%) VoIP
8 1 (2.222%) SSH
8 1 (2.222%) VLAN
8 1 (2.222%) Cisco PIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.222%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (2.222%) Cognos Impromptu
General
1 10 (22.22%) French Language
2 4 (8.889%) Telecoms
3 3 (6.667%) Finance
3 3 (6.667%) Dutch Language
3 3 (6.667%) German Language
3 3 (6.667%) Italian Language
3 3 (6.667%) Romanian Language
3 3 (6.667%) Spanish Language
4 1 (2.222%) Electronics
4 1 (2.222%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.889%) Clustering
2 3 (6.667%) Blackberry
3 1 (2.222%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.222%) Computer Science
3 1 (2.222%) Fat Client
3 1 (2.222%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 33 (73.33%) Windows
2 16 (35.56%) Windows Server 2008
3 14 (31.11%) Windows XP
4 10 (22.22%) Windows 7
5 9 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 9 (20.00%) Windows Vista
6 4 (8.889%) Windows 2000
7 2 (4.444%) Linux
8 1 (2.222%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (15.56%) ITIL
2 5 (11.11%) ITIL V3
3 3 (6.667%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (6.667%) Data Protection
4 1 (2.222%) PRINCE2
4 1 (2.222%) ERP
4 1 (2.222%) Service Delivery
4 1 (2.222%) Asset Management
4 1 (2.222%) Data Analysis
4 1 (2.222%) Problem Management
4 1 (2.222%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (17.78%) SQL
2 4 (8.889%) C#
3 1 (2.222%) C
Qualifications
1 6 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 6 (13.33%) A+ Certification
2 4 (8.889%) CCNA
2 4 (8.889%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (8.889%) MCSE
3 2 (4.444%) Degree
4 1 (2.222%) MCSA
4 1 (2.222%) CCNP
4 1 (2.222%) MCP
4 1 (2.222%) HNC
4 1 (2.222%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.889%) ISO 9001
2 3 (6.667%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (48.89%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.444%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.222%) vSphere
3 1 (2.222%) Forefront TMG
3 1 (2.222%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.222%) Terminal Services
3 1 (2.222%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.222%) ARCserve
1 1 (2.222%) NetBackup
1 1 (2.222%) SCOM
Vendors
1 24 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 12 (26.67%) Cisco
3 10 (22.22%) VMware
4 4 (8.889%) Citrix
5 3 (6.667%) Remedy
5 3 (6.667%) Intel
6 1 (2.222%) Cognos
6 1 (2.222%) Juniper
6 1 (2.222%) Veritas
6 1 (2.222%) Lotus
6 1 (2.222%) Apple
6 1 (2.222%) IBM
6 1 (2.222%) Dell
Southampton, Hampshire
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