Southampton Technical Support Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Technical Support role in IT jobs within the Southampton 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 Technical Support in their job title over the 3 months to 4 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Technical Support
Location Abingdon Aldershot Alfreton Amersham Andover Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blandford Forum Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Coulsdon Coventry Cranleigh Crawley Crewe Croydon Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dunbar East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Feltham Flintshire Glasgow Glastonbury Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gourock Grays Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hull Inverclyde Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Kent Kidderminster Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Mayfield Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrew Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochdale Romford Rotherham Royston Ruislip Ryde Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Smethwick Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Tilbury Tring Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welling Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wetherby Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	53	65
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching permanent IT job ads	7	11
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	1.131 %	1.194 %
Salaries quoted	6	11
Average minimum salary	£26,167	£23,545
Average salary	£28,000	£25,318
% change on same period last year	+10.59 %
Average maximum salary	£29,833	£27,091
UK excluding London average salary	£30,049	£29,573
% change on same period last year	+1.61 %
Job Titles Southampton
Matching permanent IT job ads	619	921
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.341 %	0.390 %
Salaries quoted	527	823
Average minimum salary	£30,978	£30,689
Average salary	£34,172	£34,447
% change on same period last year	-0.79 %
Average maximum salary	£37,366	£38,204
UK excluding London average salary	£38,057	£39,474
% change on same period last year	-3.59 %
Technical Support Hampshire

Technical Support
Demand Trend

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

Technical Support
Salary Trend

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

Technical Support
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Technical Support across the Southampton region over the 3 months to 4 September 2008.

Technical Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 September 2008, IT jobs across the Southampton region that cited Technical 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 Technical Support in their job title.

1 13 (54.17 %) MCSA 1 13 (54.17 %) SLA 1 13 (54.17 %) Microsoft Certification 2 9 (37.50 %) Windows 3 8 (33.33 %) HP 3 8 (33.33 %) MCP 3 8 (33.33 %) Health 4 7 (29.17 %) Microsoft 5 5 (20.83 %) CCNA 5 5 (20.83 %) Cisco 5 5 (20.83 %) IBM 5 5 (20.83 %) Cisco Certification 6 4 (16.67 %) Windows Server 2003 7 3 (12.50 %) CAD 7 3 (12.50 %) HTML

7 3 (12.50 %) Service Management 7 3 (12.50 %) Server+ Certification 7 3 (12.50 %) Marketing 8 2 (8.333 %) Web Design 8 2 (8.333 %) SQL 8 2 (8.333 %) MS Office 8 2 (8.333 %) Lotus 8 2 (8.333 %) Lotus Notes 8 2 (8.333 %) Citrix 9 1 (4.167 %) Lotus Domino 9 1 (4.167 %) Internet 9 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server 2000 9 1 (4.167 %) PeopleSoft 9 1 (4.167 %) SAP 9 1 (4.167 %) ASP

Technical Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 September 2008, IT jobs across the Southampton region that cited Technical 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 Technical Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (12.50 %) HTML 2 1 (4.167 %) .NET 2 1 (4.167 %) ASP 2 1 (4.167 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (4.167 %) CSS 2 1 (4.167 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 2 (8.333 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (4.167 %) Lotus Domino 2 1 (4.167 %) Apache 2 1 (4.167 %) IIS
Applications 1 2 (8.333 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 1 (4.167 %) ATM 1 1 (4.167 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (4.167 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server 1 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server 2000 1 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server 2005	General 1 8 (33.33 %) Health 2 3 (12.50 %) Marketing 3 1 (4.167 %) Electronics 3 1 (4.167 %) Telecoms
Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.167 %) Client/Server 1 1 (4.167 %) AS400 1 1 (4.167 %) IPTV	Operating Systems 1 9 (37.50 %) Windows 2 4 (16.67 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (12.50 %) CAD 1 3 (12.50 %) Service Management 2 2 (8.333 %) Web Design 3 1 (4.167 %) Document Management 3 1 (4.167 %) Problem Management 3 1 (4.167 %) Workflow	Programming Languages 1 2 (8.333 %) SQL 2 1 (4.167 %) VBScript 2 1 (4.167 %) JavaScript 2 1 (4.167 %) RPG
Qualifications 1 13 (54.17 %) MCSA 1 13 (54.17 %) Microsoft Certification 2 8 (33.33 %) MCP 3 5 (20.83 %) CCNA 3 5 (20.83 %) Cisco Certification 4 3 (12.50 %) Server+ Certification 5 1 (4.167 %) HND	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 13 (54.17 %) SLA
Vendors 1 8 (33.33 %) HP 2 7 (29.17 %) Microsoft 3 5 (20.83 %) Cisco 3 5 (20.83 %) IBM 4 2 (8.333 %) Citrix 4 2 (8.333 %) Lotus 5 1 (4.167 %) Oracle 5 1 (4.167 %) PeopleSoft 5 1 (4.167 %) SAP