The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Tyne and Wear 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 20 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Engineer
Rank 54 46 30
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 11 15 29
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 1.996% 2.534% 5.370%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.119% 2.641% 5.492%
Number of salaries quoted 9 13 29
Average salary £24,000 £28,000 £32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.28% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,900 £26,600 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £29,200 £35,000 £34,200
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
All Job Titles
Tyne and Wear
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
519 568 528
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 94.19% 95.95% 97.78%
Number of salaries quoted 447 472 456
Average salary £36,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £24,500 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £72,500 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Support Engineer
North East

Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear Support Engineer Salary Trend

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Support Engineer across the Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 20 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -1 10 £24,000 -12.72%
Sunderland - 1 £24,000 -
Support Engineer
North East

Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 11 (55.00%) Windows
2 9 (45.00%) UNIX
2 9 (45.00%) Linux
2 9 (45.00%) SAN
3 8 (40.00%) SLA
3 8 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 8 (40.00%) VMware
3 8 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (40.00%) NAS
4 7 (35.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 7 (35.00%) VMware ESX
4 7 (35.00%) TCP/IP
5 6 (30.00%) DNS
5 6 (30.00%) MS Excel
5 6 (30.00%) MS Exchange
5 6 (30.00%) DHCP
5 6 (30.00%) NFS
5 6 (30.00%) Symantec
5 6 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2003
5 6 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2007
5 6 (30.00%) Hyper-V
5 6 (30.00%) German Language
5 6 (30.00%) iSCSI
5 6 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2010
6 5 (25.00%) ITIL
6 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
7 4 (20.00%) C
7 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
7 4 (20.00%) French Language
7 4 (20.00%) Italian Language

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 6 (30.00%) MS Exchange
1 6 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 6 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 6 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (10.00%) Lotus Notes
3 1 (5.000%) Apache
3 1 (5.000%) Lync
Applications
1 6 (30.00%) MS Excel
2 3 (15.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 9 (45.00%) SAN
2 8 (40.00%) NAS
3 7 (35.00%) TCP/IP
4 6 (30.00%) DNS
4 6 (30.00%) iSCSI
4 6 (30.00%) DHCP
5 2 (10.00%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.000%) MySQL
General
1 6 (30.00%) German Language
2 4 (20.00%) French Language
2 4 (20.00%) Italian Language
3 1 (5.000%) Spanish Language
3 1 (5.000%) Finance
3 1 (5.000%) Hebrew Language
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (5.000%) Celerra
2 1 (5.000%) Symmetrix DMX
2 1 (5.000%) Blackberry
2 1 (5.000%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.000%) CLARiiON
2 1 (5.000%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 11 (55.00%) Windows
2 9 (45.00%) Linux
2 9 (45.00%) UNIX
3 8 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 7 (35.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (10.00%) Solaris
6 1 (5.000%) Windows XP
6 1 (5.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (5.000%) Windows 7
6 1 (5.000%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) ITIL
2 2 (10.00%) Service Management
3 1 (5.000%) Asset Management
3 1 (5.000%) Problem Management
3 1 (5.000%) Performance Management
3 1 (5.000%) Capacity Management
3 1 (5.000%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (5.000%) MCP
1 1 (5.000%) MCSA
1 1 (5.000%) CCNA
1 1 (5.000%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (5.000%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (5.000%) MCDST
1 1 (5.000%) MCTS
1 1 (5.000%) Degree
1 1 (5.000%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.000%) DV Cleared
1 1 (5.000%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (35.00%) VMware ESX
3 6 (30.00%) Hyper-V
3 6 (30.00%) NFS
4 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
5 1 (5.000%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 1 (5.000%) Tivoli
1 1 (5.000%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) VMware
2 6 (30.00%) Symantec
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (10.00%) EMC
4 2 (10.00%) Cisco
4 2 (10.00%) Lotus
5 1 (5.000%) Red Hat
5 1 (5.000%) IBM
5 1 (5.000%) Citrix
5 1 (5.000%) Hitachi
5 1 (5.000%) NetApp
5 1 (5.000%) Veritas
5 1 (5.000%) Oracle
5 1 (5.000%) FalconStor
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
The successful SAN Support Engineer - 2nd Line - SAN, VMWare, Active Directory will need to extensive experience in some of the following: - Core Edge Topology, - Fiber Channel Routing and...
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Salary: Up to £40,000 per annum Corporate Benefits incl. Health, Pension
Posted: 16 May 2013