The first table below looks at the demand for the IT Support role in IT jobs advertised for the Suffolk region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited IT Support in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Suffolk region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IT Support
Rank 76 55 50
Rank change year-on-year
-21 -5
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Support 3 11 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Suffolk 0.430% 1.975% 2.937%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.442% 1.996% 3.065%
Number of salaries quoted 3 11 17
Average salary £19,000 £23,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-19.14% -21.66%
UK excluding London average salary £24,000 £24,000 £23,750
% change year-on-year
- +1.05%
All Job Titles
Suffolk
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
679 551 620
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Suffolk 97.42% 98.92% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 626 485 543
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +15.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £23,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
IT Support
East of England

IT Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk IT Support Jobs Demand Trend

IT Support
Salary Trend

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

Suffolk IT Support Salary Trend

IT Support
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Support within the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 24 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
Bury St Edmunds -7 1 £18,000 -1.36%
Ipswich -13 1 £22,000 -12.00%
Newmarket - 1 £19,000 -
IT Support
East of England

IT Support
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Suffolk region that cited IT 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 IT Support in their job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Windows XP
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (60.00%) MS Office
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Vista
3 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (40.00%) VMware
4 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (20.00%) Windows 2000
4 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
4 1 (20.00%) ADSL
4 1 (20.00%) LAN
4 1 (20.00%) WAN
4 1 (20.00%) Degree

IT Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Suffolk region that cited IT 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 IT Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 3 (60.00%) MS Office
2 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (20.00%) ADSL
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Windows XP
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Vista
4 1 (20.00%) Windows 2000
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk
Beneficial to have commercial experience in this area with LAN / WAN / Wi-Fi / ADSL... You will be supporting a Windows environment, you will deal with Network issues such...
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £16000 - £20000 per annum
Posted: 19 May 2013