The first table below looks at the demand for the PC Support role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PC Support in their job title over the 3 months to 18 June 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 currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PC Support
Rank 867 882 856
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -26
Permanent jobs requiring a PC Support 4 19 39
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.004% 0.016% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.004% 0.017% 0.032%
Number of salaries quoted 4 17 39
Average salary £22,750 £25,000 £24,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.00% +2.04%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,800 £19,200 £16,833
10% offered a salary of more than £26,150 £30,000 £30,000
UK excluding London average salary £22,750 £22,500 £22,250
% change year-on-year
+1.11% +1.12%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
104165 114120 121133
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.41% 94.97% 94.12%
Number of salaries quoted 86738 97875 102752
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

PC Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

PC Support Jobs Demand Trend

PC Support
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing PC Support within the UK.

PC Support Salary Trend

PC Support
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PC Support within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +16 2 £25,250 +1.00%
Surrey +7 1 £27,500 -1.78%
South East -4 1 £27,500 +1.85%
Peterborough - 1 £23,000 -
Weybridge - 1 £27,500 -
Cambridgeshire - 1 £23,000 -
Scotland - 1 £22,500 -
East of England - 1 £23,000 -

PC Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited PC 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 PC Support in their job title.

1 9 (90.00%) Windows
2 8 (80.00%) Windows XP
3 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
3 6 (60.00%) MS Office
3 6 (60.00%) Windows 7
4 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (40.00%) VMware
5 4 (40.00%) MS Excel
6 3 (30.00%) Cognos
6 3 (30.00%) ITIL
6 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
6 3 (30.00%) Crystal Reports
6 3 (30.00%) Sage
6 3 (30.00%) EDI
6 3 (30.00%) ERP
6 3 (30.00%) Magma
6 3 (30.00%) Windows Vista
6 3 (30.00%) Line 500
6 3 (30.00%) Time Management
6 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (30.00%) Replication
6 3 (30.00%) Veeam
7 2 (20.00%) MS Exchange
7 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
8 1 (10.00%) DNS
8 1 (10.00%) Citrix
8 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (10.00%) Red Hat

PC Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited PC 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 PC Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (30.00%) EDI
2 1 (10.00%) LAMP
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (10.00%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (60.00%) MS Office
2 4 (40.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Line 500
2 1 (10.00%) Visualfiles
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) PABX
2 1 (10.00%) LAN
2 1 (10.00%) VoIP
2 1 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (30.00%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (10.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (10.00%) Back Office
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
1 1 (10.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Replication
2 1 (10.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Windows
2 8 (80.00%) Windows XP
3 6 (60.00%) Windows 7
4 5 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (30.00%) Windows Vista
7 1 (10.00%) Linux
7 1 (10.00%) Windows NT
7 1 (10.00%) Windows 2000 Server
7 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) ITIL
1 3 (30.00%) ERP
1 3 (30.00%) Time Management
2 1 (10.00%) DNA
2 1 (10.00%) Web Development
2 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) PHP
1 1 (10.00%) Python
1 1 (10.00%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) MCP
1 1 (10.00%) MCSE
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (10.00%) MCDST
1 1 (10.00%) MCITP
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (10.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) DameWare
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) VMware
3 3 (30.00%) Magma
3 3 (30.00%) Veeam
3 3 (30.00%) Cognos
3 3 (30.00%) Sage
4 1 (10.00%) Citrix
4 1 (10.00%) Red Hat