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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Walsall 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 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Walsall region.

 Support Engineer
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank7-15
Rank change year-on-year
New entry-No change0
Matching permanent IT job ads201
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Walsall7.407 %-1.471 %
As % of the Job Titles category7.407 %-1.471 %
Salaries quoted201
Average salary£25,500-£29,000
UK excluding London average salary£27,500£27,500£28,500
% change year-on-year
--3.500 %
Walsall IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
Walsall
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
277968
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Walsall100.00 %91.86 %100.00 %
Salaries quoted253967
Average salary£31,500£22,000£29,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+43.18 %-24.13 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,500£19,500£25,300
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£37,200£36,500£30,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,556£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+1.580 %-
Support Engineer West MidlandsSupport Engineer
West Midlands

Support Engineer
Demand Trend

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

Walsall Support Engineer Demand Trend

Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Walsall Support Engineer Salary Trend

Support Engineer
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Walsall 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.

12 (66.67 %)Perl
12 (66.67 %)SQL
12 (66.67 %)Linux
12 (66.67 %)Python
12 (66.67 %)Internet
12 (66.67 %)Fedora
12 (66.67 %)Ubuntu
12 (66.67 %)CentOS
12 (66.67 %)Red Hat Linux
12 (66.67 %)Asterisk PBX
12 (66.67 %)Open Source
12 (66.67 %)Red Hat
21 (33.33 %)Windows Server 2003
21 (33.33 %)Windows XP
21 (33.33 %)DNS
21 (33.33 %)Microsoft
21 (33.33 %)Active Directory
21 (33.33 %)MS Office
21 (33.33 %)ITIL
21 (33.33 %)Windows

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Walsall 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.

Walsall IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11 (33.33 %)MS Office
Walsall IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
12 (66.67 %)Internet
12 (66.67 %)Asterisk PBX
21 (33.33 %)DNS
Walsall IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
12 (66.67 %)Open Source
Walsall IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
12 (66.67 %)Fedora
12 (66.67 %)Ubuntu
12 (66.67 %)CentOS
12 (66.67 %)Red Hat Linux
12 (66.67 %)Linux
21 (33.33 %)Windows XP
21 (33.33 %)Windows Server 2003
21 (33.33 %)Windows
Walsall IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11 (33.33 %)ITIL
Walsall IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
12 (66.67 %)Perl
12 (66.67 %)SQL
12 (66.67 %)Python
Walsall IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11 (33.33 %)Active Directory
Walsall IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12 (66.67 %)Red Hat
21 (33.33 %)Microsoft