Wales Support Technician Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Support Technician role in IT jobs within the Wales 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 Support Technician in their job title over the 3 months to 18 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bodmin Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Dartford Derbyshire Devon Dorset Dudley Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely Enfield England Essex Exeter Exmouth Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hartlepool Haverhill Hertfordshire Heywood Hoddesdon Hounslow Hull Isle of Wight Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Lingfield Liverpool London Lothian Loughborough Maidenhead Maldon Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Rotherham Saffron Walden Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Skelmersdale Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stansted Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Ware Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Bromwich West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Whitstable Wiltshire Wirral Woking Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	102	98
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching permanent IT job ads	4	15
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	0.266 %	0.749 %
Salaries quoted	4	15
Average minimum salary	£22,400	£20,313
Average salary	£23,600	£22,344
% change on same period last year	+5.62 %
Average maximum salary	£24,800	£24,375
UK excluding London average salary	£23,756	£22,307
% change on same period last year	+6.49 %
Job Titles Wales
Matching permanent IT job ads	1503	2002
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.973 %	0.893 %
Salaries quoted	1399	1834
Average minimum salary	£31,522	£30,876
Average salary	£35,419	£34,258
% change on same period last year	+3.38 %
Average maximum salary	£39,317	£37,640
UK excluding London average salary	£38,454	£39,134
% change on same period last year	-1.73 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Support Technician across the Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Support Technician across the Wales region over the 3 months to 18 November 2008.

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Support Technician within the Wales region over the 3 months to 18 November 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
South Wales	-5	4	£23,600	+5.62 %

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Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 November 2008, IT jobs across the Wales region that cited Support 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 Support Technician in their job title.

1 9 (81.82 %) Windows 2 8 (72.73 %) Active Directory 3 6 (54.55 %) MS Exchange 4 5 (45.45 %) Microsoft Certification 4 5 (45.45 %) MCSE 4 5 (45.45 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 4 (36.36 %) Government 5 4 (36.36 %) ITIL 6 3 (27.27 %) MS Office 6 3 (27.27 %) Windows 2000 6 3 (27.27 %) MS Excel 6 3 (27.27 %) Windows XP 6 3 (27.27 %) TCP/IP 7 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft 7 2 (18.18 %) Site Server

8 1 (9.091 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 8 1 (9.091 %) MCSA 8 1 (9.091 %) SCOM 8 1 (9.091 %) MCDST 8 1 (9.091 %) Pensions 8 1 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 1 (9.091 %) Problem Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 November 2008, IT jobs across the Wales region that cited Support 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 Support Technician in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 6 (54.55 %) MS Exchange 2 5 (45.45 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 2 (18.18 %) Site Server 4 1 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 3 (27.27 %) MS Office 1 3 (27.27 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 3 (27.27 %) TCP/IP	General 1 4 (36.36 %) Government 2 1 (9.091 %) Pensions
Operating Systems 1 9 (81.82 %) Windows 2 3 (27.27 %) Windows 2000 2 3 (27.27 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (36.36 %) ITIL 2 1 (9.091 %) Problem Management
Qualifications 1 5 (45.45 %) Microsoft Certification 1 5 (45.45 %) MCSE 2 1 (9.091 %) MCSA 2 1 (9.091 %) MCDST	System Software 1 8 (72.73 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (9.091 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 1 (9.091 %) SCOM	Vendors 1 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft