The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Stockport 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 21 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 Stockport region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Engineer
Rank 31 23 40
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +17
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 10 13 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stockport 4.878% 6.436% 0.565%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.950% 6.599% 0.571%
Number of salaries quoted 10 13 0
Average salary £21,000 £29,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-27.58% -
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
All Job Titles
Stockport
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
202 197 175
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stockport 98.54% 97.52% 98.87%
Number of salaries quoted 198 180 164
Average salary £32,000 £32,000 £28,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +12.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,000 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £41,500 £37,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Support Engineer
Manchester

Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stockport 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 Stockport region.

Stockport Support Engineer Salary Trend

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Support Engineer across the Stockport region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Stockport Support Engineer Salary Histogram

Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stockport 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 15 (71.43%) SQL
2 13 (61.90%) Java
2 13 (61.90%) UNIX
2 13 (61.90%) Linux
3 7 (33.33%) Finance
3 7 (33.33%) J2EE
3 7 (33.33%) Oracle
3 7 (33.33%) Ant
3 7 (33.33%) WebLogic
3 7 (33.33%) MS Excel
3 7 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 7 (33.33%) Hudson
4 6 (28.57%) Wonderware
4 6 (28.57%) Client/Server
4 6 (28.57%) LAN
4 6 (28.57%) WAN
4 6 (28.57%) B2B
4 6 (28.57%) Advertising
4 6 (28.57%) Apache
4 6 (28.57%) Tomcat
4 6 (28.57%) Red Hat
5 2 (9.524%) Degree
6 1 (4.762%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (4.762%) Computer Science
6 1 (4.762%) Data Protection
6 1 (4.762%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (4.762%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (4.762%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (4.762%) Network Management
6 1 (4.762%) HTML

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stockport 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 7 (33.33%) J2EE
2 1 (4.762%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 7 (33.33%) WebLogic
2 6 (28.57%) Apache
2 6 (28.57%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (28.57%) LAN
1 6 (28.57%) WAN
Development Applications
1 7 (33.33%) Ant
1 7 (33.33%) Hudson
General
1 7 (33.33%) Finance
2 6 (28.57%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Client/Server
2 1 (4.762%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.762%) Computer Science
2 1 (4.762%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (4.762%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (61.90%) UNIX
1 13 (61.90%) Linux
2 1 (4.762%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 6 (28.57%) B2B
3 1 (4.762%) Data Protection
3 1 (4.762%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (4.762%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (71.43%) SQL
2 13 (61.90%) Java
3 1 (4.762%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (9.524%) Degree
2 1 (4.762%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (4.762%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.762%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Oracle
2 6 (28.57%) Wonderware
2 6 (28.57%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.762%) McAfee
3 1 (4.762%) Microsoft