The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior IT Technician role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior IT Technician in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior IT Technician
Rank 851 891 870
Rank change year-on-year
+40 -21
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior IT Technician 7 5 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.006% 0.004% 0.001%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.004% 0.001%
Number of salaries quoted 7 5 1
Average salary £22,500 £27,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-18.18% -8.33%
UK excluding London average salary £22,500 £27,500 -
% change year-on-year
-18.18% -
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
101791 114576 116360
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.44% 94.74% 94.25%
Number of salaries quoted 84727 98303 98213
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,000 £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%

Senior IT Technician
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Senior IT Technician Jobs Demand Trend

Senior IT Technician
Salary Trend

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

Senior IT Technician Salary Trend

Senior IT Technician
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior IT Technician within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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
England +35 7 £22,500 -18.18%
Northampton - 3 £18,712 -
Northamptonshire - 3 £18,712 -
East Midlands - 3 £18,712 -
South West - 2 £23,250 -
Yorkshire - 2 £27,500 -
West Yorkshire - 2 £27,500 -
Dorset - 2 £23,250 -
Wakefield - 2 £27,500 -
Bournemouth - 2 £23,250 -

Senior IT Technician
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Senior IT Technician 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 Senior IT Technician in their job title.

1 6 (50.00%) Windows
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (33.33%) HP
2 4 (33.33%) .NET
2 4 (33.33%) MS Office
2 4 (33.33%) MS Excel
3 3 (25.00%) LAN
3 3 (25.00%) WAN
3 3 (25.00%) SQL
3 3 (25.00%) MCSE
3 3 (25.00%) MCSA
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (25.00%) VMware
3 3 (25.00%) Asset Management
3 3 (25.00%) MCITP
3 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (25.00%) Windows 7
4 2 (16.67%) MS PowerPoint
4 2 (16.67%) MIIS
4 2 (16.67%) Degree
4 2 (16.67%) Identity Management
4 2 (16.67%) BlackBerry Internet Service
4 2 (16.67%) SAN
4 2 (16.67%) BMC
4 2 (16.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (16.67%) VB
4 2 (16.67%) C++
4 2 (16.67%) Java
4 2 (16.67%) PHP

Senior IT Technician
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Senior IT Technician 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 Senior IT Technician in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (33.33%) .NET
2 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (8.333%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 4 (33.33%) MS Office
1 4 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 2 (16.67%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) LAN
1 3 (25.00%) WAN
2 2 (16.67%) VPN
2 2 (16.67%) SAN
3 1 (8.333%) 3G
3 1 (8.333%) MPLS
3 1 (8.333%) DSL
3 1 (8.333%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (8.333%) Windows XP
3 1 (8.333%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (8.333%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (16.67%) Identity Management
3 1 (8.333%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) VB
2 2 (16.67%) C++
2 2 (16.67%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) MCSE
1 3 (25.00%) MCSA
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (25.00%) MCITP
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (8.333%) CCNA
3 1 (8.333%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (16.67%) BlackBerry Internet Service
4 1 (8.333%) Hyper-V
4 1 (8.333%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (8.333%) Terminal Services
4 1 (8.333%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) MIIS
2 1 (8.333%) Backup Exec
2 1 (8.333%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) HP
3 3 (25.00%) VMware
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco
4 2 (16.67%) BMC
5 1 (8.333%) Symantec
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The ideal candidate will have strong knowledge of Windows Servers,Networks, Exchange, SQL Server and VPN's... Any exposure to development technologies such as Visual basic/C++/ASP/...
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Posted: 10 May 2013