The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the St Albans 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 23 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 St Albans region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Engineer
Rank 23 29 32
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 13 2 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 7.386% 1.449% 3.627%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.879% 1.575% 4.094%
Number of salaries quoted 11 2 2
Average salary £28,500 £26,500 £38,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.54% -31.61%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £26,500 £33,750
10% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £26,500 £43,750
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
All Job Titles
St Albans
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
165 127 171
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 93.75% 92.03% 88.60%
Number of salaries quoted 103 97 75
Average salary £35,500 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.25% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,250 £26,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £45,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Support Engineer
Hertfordshire

Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

St Albans 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 St Albans region.

St Albans Support Engineer Salary Trend

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Support Engineer across the St Albans region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

St Albans Support Engineer Salary Histogram

Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 20 (71.43%) Windows
1 20 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 18 (64.29%) MS Exchange
3 16 (57.14%) Active Directory
4 11 (39.29%) Cisco
4 11 (39.29%) Firewall
5 10 (35.71%) VMware
5 10 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (32.14%) Windows Vista
6 9 (32.14%) iSCSI
6 9 (32.14%) NAS
7 8 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (28.57%) Migration
7 8 (28.57%) VPN
7 8 (28.57%) MS Excel
7 8 (28.57%) IIS
8 7 (25.00%) SharePoint
8 7 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
9 6 (21.43%) Windows XP
9 6 (21.43%) vSphere
10 5 (17.86%) Windows 7
10 5 (17.86%) Lync
10 5 (17.86%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (17.86%) VMware ESX
10 5 (17.86%) TCP/IP
10 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (17.86%) Exchange Server 2010
11 4 (14.29%) Symantec
11 4 (14.29%) Norton AntiVirus
11 4 (14.29%) Apple

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 Platforms
1 18 (64.29%) MS Exchange
2 8 (28.57%) IIS
3 7 (25.00%) SharePoint
4 5 (17.86%) Lync
4 5 (17.86%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (3.571%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (3.571%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 8 (28.57%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.571%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 11 (39.29%) Firewall
2 9 (32.14%) iSCSI
2 9 (32.14%) NAS
3 8 (28.57%) VPN
4 5 (17.86%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (17.86%) TCP/IP
5 4 (14.29%) Wireless
6 3 (10.71%) SAN
7 2 (7.143%) DNS
7 2 (7.143%) Unified Communications
8 1 (3.571%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (3.571%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) SQL Server
1 4 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.571%) CCTV
1 1 (3.571%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 20 (71.43%) Windows
2 9 (32.14%) Windows Vista
3 7 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (21.43%) Windows XP
5 5 (17.86%) Windows 7
6 4 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (7.143%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) Migration
2 4 (14.29%) Data Security
2 4 (14.29%) Knowledge Management
2 4 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 1 (3.571%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.571%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.571%) CCVP
2 1 (3.571%) MCTS
2 1 (3.571%) MCITP
2 1 (3.571%) Degree
2 1 (3.571%) MCSE
2 1 (3.571%) MCP
2 1 (3.571%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.571%) CCNP
System Software
1 16 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 10 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (21.43%) vSphere
5 5 (17.86%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (3.571%) Cisco UCCX
2 1 (3.571%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 20 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 11 (39.29%) Cisco
3 10 (35.71%) VMware
4 4 (14.29%) Symantec
4 4 (14.29%) Apple
5 1 (3.571%) Sophos
5 1 (3.571%) McAfee