West Midlands Server Engineer Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Server Engineer role in IT jobs within the West Midlands 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 Server Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Andover Basildon Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devizes Docklands, London Dorset Dudley East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Egham Ely Enfield England Essex Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenwich Guildford Hackney Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hitchin Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Leeds Lincolnshire London Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Middlesbrough Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Redhill Reigate Royston Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staines Stroud Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	191	200
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching permanent IT job ads	30	28
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	0.404 %	0.337 %
Salaries quoted	26	23
Average minimum salary	£26,774	£30,005
Average salary	£29,422	£32,297
% change on same period last year	-8.90 %
Average maximum salary	£32,070	£34,588
UK excluding London average salary	£32,549	£33,104
% change on same period last year	-1.67 %
Job Titles West Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	7421	8313
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	4.337 %	3.653 %
Salaries quoted	6316	7160
Average minimum salary	£33,156	£33,413
Average salary	£36,174	£36,236
% change on same period last year	-0.17 %
Average maximum salary	£39,191	£39,059
UK excluding London average salary	£38,166	£39,195
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Server Engineer across the West Midlands 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 Server Engineer across the West Midlands region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Server Engineer across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 15 October 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 Server Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 15 October 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
Birmingham	+10	11	£28,727	-16.40 %
Wolverhampton	-	6	£31,233	-
Coventry	+8	5	£30,000	+33.33 %
Herefordshire	+3	5	£32,100	-14.40 %
Warwickshire	-7	2	-	-
Shropshire	-23	1	£18,000	-40.00 %
Dudley	-	1	£22,500	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands region that cited Server 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 Server Engineer in their job title.

1 35 (67.31 %) Windows 2 21 (40.38 %) HP 3 20 (38.46 %) Windows Server 2003 4 14 (26.92 %) VMware 5 13 (25.00 %) MS Exchange 6 12 (23.08 %) Cisco 7 11 (21.15 %) Microsoft 7 11 (21.15 %) Active Directory 8 10 (19.23 %) UNIX 9 9 (17.31 %) Sun 9 9 (17.31 %) Clustering 10 8 (15.38 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 8 (15.38 %) Auditing 10 8 (15.38 %) Windows 2000 11 7 (13.46 %) Citrix

11 7 (13.46 %) Microsoft Certification 11 7 (13.46 %) Solaris 11 7 (13.46 %) ITIL 11 7 (13.46 %) WAN 11 7 (13.46 %) MCSE 12 6 (11.54 %) SLA 12 6 (11.54 %) TCP/IP 12 6 (11.54 %) Linux 13 5 (9.615 %) SQL Server 13 5 (9.615 %) Windows XP 14 4 (7.692 %) MS Excel 14 4 (7.692 %) LAN 14 4 (7.692 %) IBM 14 4 (7.692 %) SAP 14 4 (7.692 %) ITIL Certification

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands region that cited Server 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 Server Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 13 (25.00 %) MS Exchange 2 8 (15.38 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 4 (7.692 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 2 (3.846 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 1 (1.923 %) IIS 5 1 (1.923 %) Lotus Notes	Applications 1 4 (7.692 %) MS Excel 2 2 (3.846 %) MS Office 3 1 (1.923 %) MS Visio
Communications & Networking 1 7 (13.46 %) WAN 2 6 (11.54 %) TCP/IP 3 4 (7.692 %) LAN 3 4 (7.692 %) Firewall 4 3 (5.769 %) SAN 5 2 (3.846 %) VPN 6 1 (1.923 %) DHCP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (9.615 %) SQL Server 2 3 (5.769 %) SQL Server 2000
General 1 8 (15.38 %) Auditing 2 4 (7.692 %) Telecoms 3 2 (3.846 %) Education 3 2 (3.846 %) Insurance 4 1 (1.923 %) Local Government 4 1 (1.923 %) Back Office 4 1 (1.923 %) Government 4 1 (1.923 %) Legal 4 1 (1.923 %) Banking	Miscellaneous 1 9 (17.31 %) Clustering 2 3 (5.769 %) Client/Server 3 2 (3.846 %) Video Conferencing 4 1 (1.923 %) NHS 4 1 (1.923 %) NPfIT
Operating Systems 1 35 (67.31 %) Windows 2 20 (38.46 %) Windows Server 2003 3 10 (19.23 %) UNIX 4 8 (15.38 %) Windows 2000 5 7 (13.46 %) Solaris 6 6 (11.54 %) Linux 7 5 (9.615 %) Windows XP 8 4 (7.692 %) Windows Vista 8 4 (7.692 %) Windows 2000 Server 9 3 (5.769 %) AIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (13.46 %) ITIL 2 4 (7.692 %) Incident Management 2 4 (7.692 %) SAP Implementation 3 1 (1.923 %) Business Continuity
Programming Languages 1 2 (3.846 %) VB 2 1 (1.923 %) Shell Script 2 1 (1.923 %) C 2 1 (1.923 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 7 (13.46 %) MCSE 1 7 (13.46 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (7.692 %) ITIL Certification 3 3 (5.769 %) Degree 4 1 (1.923 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 4 1 (1.923 %) Sun Certification 4 1 (1.923 %) CCA 4 1 (1.923 %) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (11.54 %) SLA 2 1 (1.923 %) QA	System Software 1 11 (21.15 %) Active Directory 2 4 (7.692 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 2 (3.846 %) MetaFrame 3 2 (3.846 %) Backup Exec 3 2 (3.846 %) Terminal Services 4 1 (1.923 %) ISA Server 4 1 (1.923 %) VMware ESX 4 1 (1.923 %) NetBackup 4 1 (1.923 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 1 (1.923 %) Terminal Server
Systems Management 1 3 (5.769 %) MOM 1 3 (5.769 %) WSUS 1 3 (5.769 %) HP Data Protector 2 2 (3.846 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 2 (3.846 %) Legato 3 1 (1.923 %) Tivoli Storage Manager	Vendors 1 21 (40.38 %) HP 2 14 (26.92 %) VMware 3 12 (23.08 %) Cisco 4 11 (21.15 %) Microsoft 5 9 (17.31 %) Sun 6 7 (13.46 %) Citrix 7 4 (7.692 %) IBM 7 4 (7.692 %) SAP 8 3 (5.769 %) Oracle 9 2 (3.846 %) Dell 9 2 (3.846 %) Symantec 10 1 (1.923 %) Fujitsu 10 1 (1.923 %) CommVault 10 1 (1.923 %) Novell 10 1 (1.923 %) VERITAS 10 1 (1.923 %) Lotus 10 1 (1.923 %) iSOFT