Suffolk Technical Support Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Technical Support role in IT jobs within the Suffolk 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 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Technical Support
Location Aberdeen Alfreton Altrincham Amersham Ascot Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Beaconsfield Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexhill-On-Sea Bexley Bingley Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester County Antrim Coventry Cranleigh Crawley Crewe Croydon Cwmbran Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dunfermline Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Essex Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Folkestone Glasgow Glastonbury Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Haverhill Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Horsham Huddersfield Hull Inverness Ipswich Isleworth Jersey Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge Livingston London Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlborough Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Ringwood Rugby Saffron Walden Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Tewkesbury Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wetherby Weybridge Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	43	70
Rank change on same period last year	+27
Matching permanent IT job ads	24	22
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	4.486 %	2.355 %
Salaries quoted	24	17
Average minimum salary	£21,958	£36,000
Average salary	£24,500	£39,412
% change on same period last year	-37.83 %
Average maximum salary	£27,042	£42,824
UK excluding London average salary	£30,421	£30,882
% change on same period last year	-1.49 %
Job Titles Suffolk
Matching permanent IT job ads	535	934
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.358 %	0.417 %
Salaries quoted	434	784
Average minimum salary	£31,259	£34,674
Average salary	£34,505	£38,954
% change on same period last year	-11.42 %
Average maximum salary	£37,752	£43,234
UK excluding London average salary	£38,498	£39,074
% change on same period last year	-1.47 %
Technical Support East of England

Technical Support
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Technical Support across the Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Technical Support
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Technical Support across the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

Technical Support
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Support within the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Ipswich	+28	21	£22,881	-50.52 %
Haverhill	-1	2	£38,000	+8.57 %

Technical Support East of England

Technical Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT jobs across the Suffolk 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 31 (93.94 %) Windows 2 25 (75.76 %) Windows XP 3 21 (63.64 %) MS Exchange 4 17 (51.52 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 16 (48.48 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 16 (48.48 %) Windows 2000 6 12 (36.36 %) Active Directory 7 10 (30.30 %) Linux 7 10 (30.30 %) Firewall 8 9 (27.27 %) Debian 8 9 (27.27 %) Degree 8 9 (27.27 %) ADSL 8 9 (27.27 %) Broadband 9 7 (21.21 %) Microsoft Certification 10 6 (18.18 %) Microsoft

10 6 (18.18 %) MCP 11 5 (15.15 %) Citrix 12 4 (12.12 %) Windows Server 2003 13 3 (9.091 %) SQL Server 13 3 (9.091 %) Windows Vista 14 2 (6.061 %) VMware 14 2 (6.061 %) VMware Infrastructure 14 2 (6.061 %) Windows Server 2008 14 2 (6.061 %) Time Management 14 2 (6.061 %) LAN 14 2 (6.061 %) WAN 14 2 (6.061 %) Smartcard 14 2 (6.061 %) ERP 14 2 (6.061 %) MCSE 15 1 (3.030 %) MS Excel

Technical Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT jobs across the Suffolk 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 1 (3.030 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 21 (63.64 %) MS Exchange 2 17 (51.52 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 16 (48.48 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 1 (3.030 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 1 (3.030 %) IIS
Applications 1 1 (3.030 %) MS Project 1 1 (3.030 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 10 (30.30 %) Firewall 2 9 (27.27 %) ADSL 2 9 (27.27 %) Broadband 3 2 (6.061 %) LAN 3 2 (6.061 %) WAN 4 1 (3.030 %) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (9.091 %) SQL Server	General 1 1 (3.030 %) Finance 1 1 (3.030 %) Health 1 1 (3.030 %) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.061 %) Smartcard 2 1 (3.030 %) Blackberry 2 1 (3.030 %) Management Information System 2 1 (3.030 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 31 (93.94 %) Windows 2 25 (75.76 %) Windows XP 3 16 (48.48 %) Windows 2000 4 10 (30.30 %) Linux 5 9 (27.27 %) Debian 6 4 (12.12 %) Windows Server 2003 7 3 (9.091 %) Windows Vista 8 2 (6.061 %) Windows Server 2008 9 1 (3.030 %) Windows 2000 Server 9 1 (3.030 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (6.061 %) ERP 1 2 (6.061 %) Time Management 2 1 (3.030 %) ITIL 2 1 (3.030 %) Configuration Management 2 1 (3.030 %) Project Management 2 1 (3.030 %) Programme Management	Programming Languages 1 1 (3.030 %) Java 1 1 (3.030 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 9 (27.27 %) Degree 2 7 (21.21 %) Microsoft Certification 3 6 (18.18 %) MCP 4 2 (6.061 %) MCSE 5 1 (3.030 %) CCENT	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (3.030 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 1 1 (3.030 %) QA
System Software 1 12 (36.36 %) Active Directory 2 2 (6.061 %) VMware Infrastructure	Vendors 1 6 (18.18 %) Microsoft 2 5 (15.15 %) Citrix 3 2 (6.061 %) VMware 4 1 (3.030 %) Peregrine 4 1 (3.030 %) Oracle 4 1 (3.030 %) Cisco