The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Staffordshire 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 17 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 Staffordshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Engineer
Rank 63 63 54
Rank change year-on-year
0 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 8 2 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 1.338% 0.351% 0.877%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.361% 0.360% 0.923%
Number of salaries quoted 8 2 5
Average salary £24,750 £23,500 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.31% -6.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £19,250 £18,300 £20,800
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £28,700 £29,800
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
All Job Titles
Staffordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
588 555 542
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 98.33% 97.37% 95.09%
Number of salaries quoted 500 476 439
Average salary £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% -
90% offered a salary of more than £16,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £51,000 £60,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Support Engineer
West Midlands

Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire Support Engineer Salary Trend

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Support Engineer across the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Staffordshire Support Engineer Salary Histogram

Support Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Support Engineer within the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Stoke-on-Trent - 4 £20,250 -
Stafford +4 1 £26,500 -11.66%
Support Engineer
West Midlands

Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 14 (87.50%) Active Directory
2 12 (75.00%) WAN
2 12 (75.00%) LAN
3 11 (68.75%) DNS
4 10 (62.50%) Windows
5 9 (56.25%) VMware
6 7 (43.75%) SAN
6 7 (43.75%) MS Office
6 7 (43.75%) DHCP
7 6 (37.50%) Windows 7
7 6 (37.50%) Windows XP
7 6 (37.50%) MS Exchange
7 6 (37.50%) TCP/IP
7 6 (37.50%) SQL Server
7 6 (37.50%) LDAP
7 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
7 6 (37.50%) MPLS
8 5 (31.25%) Citrix
8 5 (31.25%) VPN
8 5 (31.25%) Exchange Server 2007
8 5 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
8 5 (31.25%) Windows Server 2008
9 4 (25.00%) CMDB
9 4 (25.00%) VoIP
9 4 (25.00%) MS Excel
9 4 (25.00%) Lotus Notes
9 4 (25.00%) Lotus
9 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (25.00%) Configuration Management
9 4 (25.00%) Validation

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 2 (12.50%) Web Services
2 1 (6.250%) COM
Application Platforms
1 6 (37.50%) MS Exchange
2 5 (31.25%) Exchange Server 2007
3 4 (25.00%) Lotus Notes
4 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (12.50%) IIS
5 1 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (6.250%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (6.250%) Lync
5 1 (6.250%) SharePoint
5 1 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 7 (43.75%) MS Office
2 4 (25.00%) MS Excel
3 1 (6.250%) Google Apps
Business Applications
1 1 (6.250%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (6.250%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 12 (75.00%) WAN
1 12 (75.00%) LAN
2 11 (68.75%) DNS
3 7 (43.75%) SAN
3 7 (43.75%) DHCP
4 6 (37.50%) TCP/IP
4 6 (37.50%) MPLS
4 6 (37.50%) LDAP
5 5 (31.25%) VPN
6 4 (25.00%) VoIP
7 3 (18.75%) Firewall
8 2 (12.50%) VLAN
8 2 (12.50%) Network Security
8 2 (12.50%) NAS
8 2 (12.50%) WLAN
8 2 (12.50%) Kerberos
8 2 (12.50%) SNMP
9 1 (6.250%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (6.250%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.250%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (6.250%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 2 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (6.250%) Manufacturing
2 1 (6.250%) Retail
2 1 (6.250%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) CMDB
2 1 (6.250%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 10 (62.50%) Windows
2 6 (37.50%) Windows XP
2 6 (37.50%) Windows 7
3 5 (31.25%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (12.50%) Windows 8
6 1 (6.250%) Ubuntu
6 1 (6.250%) Windows Vista
6 1 (6.250%) UNIX
6 1 (6.250%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (25.00%) Validation
2 3 (18.75%) ITIL
3 2 (12.50%) ERP
3 2 (12.50%) Software Deployment
4 1 (6.250%) Resource Management
4 1 (6.250%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (6.250%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) VBScript
2 1 (6.250%) X++
2 1 (6.250%) SQL
2 1 (6.250%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.250%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (6.250%) MCTS
System Software
1 14 (87.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (12.50%) ISA Server
4 1 (6.250%) NFS
4 1 (6.250%) Hyper-V
4 1 (6.250%) XenApp
4 1 (6.250%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) VMware
2 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 5 (31.25%) Citrix
4 4 (25.00%) Lotus
5 3 (18.75%) NetApp
5 3 (18.75%) IBM
6 2 (12.50%) Cisco
6 2 (12.50%) Oracle
6 2 (12.50%) Veritas
7 1 (6.250%) Avaya
7 1 (6.250%) Epicor
7 1 (6.250%) JD Edwards
7 1 (6.250%) Sage
7 1 (6.250%) Google
7 1 (6.250%) SAP
7 1 (6.250%) HP
7 1 (6.250%) Dell
7 1 (6.250%) Nortel
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