West Midlands Server Support Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Server Support 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 Support in their job title over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Andover Avon Barking Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blandford Forum Bracknell Bradford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chesham Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Fakenham Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Grays Guildford Hampshire Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Inverness Ipswich Jersey Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newmarket Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Ormskirk Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Romford Rotherham Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Tadworth Telford Thame UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Welwyn Garden City West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	186	200
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching permanent IT job ads	42	32
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.023 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	0.526 %	0.384 %
Salaries quoted	28	25
Average minimum salary	£27,971	£22,923
Average salary	£29,399	£25,750
% change on same period last year	+14.17 %
Average maximum salary	£30,828	£28,577
UK excluding London average salary	£31,964	£31,017
% change on same period last year	+3.05 %
Job Titles West Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	7985	8342
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	4.297 %	3.478 %
Salaries quoted	6829	7245
Average minimum salary	£32,843	£33,758
Average salary	£35,744	£36,540
% change on same period last year	-2.17 %
Average maximum salary	£38,646	£39,322
UK excluding London average salary	£38,072	£39,428
% change on same period last year	-3.43 %
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Demand Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Server Support across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Server Support within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 August 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
Warwickshire	+11	12	£27,915	+11.66 %
Coventry	-4	12	£30,333	+11.31 %
Birmingham	-7	7	£32,357	+20.33 %
Herefordshire	-8	6	£32,000	-
Staffordshire	-2	3	£22,366	+15.28 %
Shropshire	-19	1	£18,000	-40.00 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands region that cited Server 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 Server Support in their job title.

1 67 (88.16 %) Windows 2 41 (53.95 %) Windows Server 2003 3 39 (51.32 %) Active Directory 4 32 (42.11 %) MS Exchange 5 30 (39.47 %) Microsoft Certification 6 27 (35.53 %) Microsoft 7 26 (34.21 %) MCSE 8 25 (32.89 %) VMware 9 23 (30.26 %) Windows 2000 10 22 (28.95 %) Citrix 11 17 (22.37 %) Cisco 11 17 (22.37 %) MS Excel 11 17 (22.37 %) Linux 11 17 (22.37 %) SQL 11 17 (22.37 %) SQL Server

12 16 (21.05 %) DNS 12 16 (21.05 %) Exchange Server 2003 13 15 (19.74 %) Clustering 13 15 (19.74 %) Firewall 14 14 (18.42 %) IIS 14 14 (18.42 %) Windows 2000 Server 15 12 (15.79 %) Pensions 15 12 (15.79 %) MCP 16 11 (14.47 %) SLA 16 11 (14.47 %) DHCP 16 11 (14.47 %) SAN 17 10 (13.16 %) Internet 17 10 (13.16 %) MS Office 17 10 (13.16 %) Windows XP 17 10 (13.16 %) Education

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands region that cited Server 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 Server Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 4 (5.263 %) .NET 1 4 (5.263 %) ASP 1 4 (5.263 %) ASP.NET 1 4 (5.263 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 32 (42.11 %) MS Exchange 2 16 (21.05 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 14 (18.42 %) IIS 4 10 (13.16 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 8 (10.53 %) Apache 6 4 (5.263 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 6 4 (5.263 %) SharePoint 6 4 (5.263 %) Exchange Server 2000 7 3 (3.947 %) Lotus Notes 7 3 (3.947 %) Lotus Domino 7 3 (3.947 %) Office Communications Server 8 2 (2.632 %) Tomcat 9 1 (1.316 %) Exchange Server 5.5
Applications 1 17 (22.37 %) MS Excel 2 10 (13.16 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 2 (2.632 %) SoftGrid
Communications & Networking 1 16 (21.05 %) DNS 2 15 (19.74 %) Firewall 3 11 (14.47 %) SAN 3 11 (14.47 %) DHCP 4 10 (13.16 %) Internet 5 7 (9.211 %) WAN 6 5 (6.579 %) TCP/IP 7 4 (5.263 %) VPN 8 3 (3.947 %) Intranet 8 3 (3.947 %) VoIP 8 3 (3.947 %) DDNS 8 3 (3.947 %) Cisco IOS 9 2 (2.632 %) ADSL 9 2 (2.632 %) LAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 17 (22.37 %) SQL Server 2 4 (5.263 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 3 (3.947 %) SQL Server 2005 3 3 (3.947 %) Data Mining 4 1 (1.316 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (1.316 %) DTS 4 1 (1.316 %) SQL Server Integration Services
General 1 12 (15.79 %) Pensions 2 10 (13.16 %) Education 3 9 (11.84 %) Health 4 4 (5.263 %) Telecoms 5 2 (2.632 %) Construction 6 1 (1.316 %) Automotive	Miscellaneous 1 15 (19.74 %) Clustering 2 6 (7.895 %) Video Conferencing 3 4 (5.263 %) Client/Server 3 4 (5.263 %) Blackberry 4 3 (3.947 %) Data Conversion 5 1 (1.316 %) AS400
Operating Systems 1 67 (88.16 %) Windows 2 41 (53.95 %) Windows Server 2003 3 23 (30.26 %) Windows 2000 4 17 (22.37 %) Linux 5 14 (18.42 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 10 (13.16 %) Windows XP 7 6 (7.895 %) UNIX 8 4 (5.263 %) Windows NT 9 3 (3.947 %) AIX 9 3 (3.947 %) Windows Server 2008 10 2 (2.632 %) Red Hat Linux 10 2 (2.632 %) SUSE	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (10.53 %) Configuration Management 2 7 (9.211 %) ITIL 3 6 (7.895 %) Project Management 4 3 (3.947 %) Data Analysis 4 3 (3.947 %) Incident Management 5 2 (2.632 %) Technical Architecture 5 2 (2.632 %) Disaster Recovery 6 1 (1.316 %) Business Continuity 6 1 (1.316 %) Change Management
Programming Languages 1 17 (22.37 %) SQL 2 4 (5.263 %) JavaScript 2 4 (5.263 %) VB 3 1 (1.316 %) Transact-SQL	Qualifications 1 30 (39.47 %) Microsoft Certification 2 26 (34.21 %) MCSE 3 12 (15.79 %) MCP 4 9 (11.84 %) MCSA 5 8 (10.53 %) Citrix Certification 6 7 (9.211 %) CCA 7 3 (3.947 %) HND 8 2 (2.632 %) Degree 9 1 (1.316 %) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 11 (14.47 %) SLA 2 1 (1.316 %) QA 2 1 (1.316 %) ISO9001	System Software 1 39 (51.32 %) Active Directory 2 10 (13.16 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 8 (10.53 %) MetaFrame 4 5 (6.579 %) ISA Server 4 5 (6.579 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 4 (5.263 %) Terminal Server 5 4 (5.263 %) Terminal Services 6 3 (3.947 %) VMware ESX 6 3 (3.947 %) Squid 7 1 (1.316 %) NetBackup 7 1 (1.316 %) VMware Server
Systems Management 1 6 (7.895 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 2 (2.632 %) SCCM 2 2 (2.632 %) SCOM 3 1 (1.316 %) WSUS 3 1 (1.316 %) Legato 3 1 (1.316 %) Tivoli Storage Manager	Vendors 1 27 (35.53 %) Microsoft 2 25 (32.89 %) VMware 3 22 (28.95 %) Citrix 4 17 (22.37 %) Cisco 5 8 (10.53 %) VERITAS 6 6 (7.895 %) Dell 7 5 (6.579 %) IBM 8 4 (5.263 %) Oracle 8 4 (5.263 %) HP 8 4 (5.263 %) 3Com 9 3 (3.947 %) Novell 9 3 (3.947 %) Lotus 10 2 (2.632 %) Red Hat 11 1 (1.316 %) Sage 11 1 (1.316 %) CommVault 11 1 (1.316 %) Sun