West Midlands Support Consultant Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Support Consultant 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 Support Consultant 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 Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkhamsted Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheshire Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Dunbartonshire East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Farnborough Glasgow Glastonbury Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Huddersfield Hungerford Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Keighley Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Mansfield Marlow Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Preston Reading Redhill Rochdale Sale Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Tring Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallington Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Wilmslow Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	160	168
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching permanent IT job ads	69	66
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.037 %	0.028 %
As % of the category below	0.864 %	0.791 %
Salaries quoted	65	56
Average minimum salary	£24,013	£41,990
Average salary	£26,571	£44,561
% change on same period last year	-40.37 %
Average maximum salary	£29,130	£47,133
UK excluding London average salary	£30,229	£34,245
% change on same period last year	-11.72 %
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 Support Consultant 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 Support Consultant across the West Midlands region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Support Consultant 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 Support Consultant 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	-	20	£21,000	-
Coventry	+5	19	£23,816	-8.40 %
Solihull	+15	16	£25,500	-21.53 %
Birmingham	-33	4	£28,625	-46.09 %
Staffordshire	-	3	£23,500	-
Herefordshire	-17	2	-	-
Shropshire	-17	2	£29,000	-6.45 %

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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 Support Consultant 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 Consultant in their job title.

1 30 (29.41 %) SQL 2 29 (28.43 %) SAP 3 22 (21.57 %) Sage 3 22 (21.57 %) Cognos 4 21 (20.59 %) Windows 4 21 (20.59 %) Oracle 5 19 (18.63 %) .NET 5 19 (18.63 %) ERP 6 18 (17.65 %) SQL Server 7 17 (16.67 %) C# 7 17 (16.67 %) Business Intelligence 8 15 (14.71 %) VB.NET 8 15 (14.71 %) CRM 9 13 (12.75 %) Remedy 9 13 (12.75 %) Navision

9 13 (12.75 %) Pegasus 10 12 (11.76 %) ASP.NET 11 11 (10.78 %) Pegasus Opera 11 11 (10.78 %) Marketing 12 10 (9.804 %) Retail 12 10 (9.804 %) Microsoft 12 10 (9.804 %) Datawarehouse 13 9 (8.824 %) Great Plains 13 9 (8.824 %) NHS 13 9 (8.824 %) Change Management 13 9 (8.824 %) Kerridge 14 8 (7.843 %) ITIL 15 7 (6.863 %) UNIX 15 7 (6.863 %) MS Access 15 7 (6.863 %) Java

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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 Support Consultant 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 Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 19 (18.63 %) .NET 2 12 (11.76 %) ASP.NET 3 4 (3.922 %) ASP 4 2 (1.961 %) HTML 4 2 (1.961 %) CSS 4 2 (1.961 %) XML 4 2 (1.961 %) EDI 5 1 (0.980 %) Java RMI	Application Platforms 1 5 (4.902 %) MS Exchange 2 4 (3.922 %) IIS 3 3 (2.941 %) Lotus Notes 3 3 (2.941 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 3 (2.941 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 2 (1.961 %) Exchange Server 5.5 5 1 (0.980 %) SharePoint 5 1 (0.980 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 4 (3.922 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 13 (12.75 %) Navision 2 11 (10.78 %) Pegasus Opera 3 9 (8.824 %) Great Plains 4 4 (3.922 %) SAP FI 4 4 (3.922 %) SAP FI/CO 4 4 (3.922 %) SAP CO 4 4 (3.922 %) Dynamics NAV 4 4 (3.922 %) Sage MMS 5 3 (2.941 %) SAP CRM 5 3 (2.941 %) SAP SD 6 2 (1.961 %) SAP MM 6 2 (1.961 %) Axapta 6 2 (1.961 %) Dynamics AX 6 2 (1.961 %) SAP Business One 7 1 (0.980 %) Line 500 7 1 (0.980 %) SAP Payroll 7 1 (0.980 %) Microsoft CRM 7 1 (0.980 %) SAP HR 7 1 (0.980 %) SAP R/3
Communications & Networking 1 5 (4.902 %) LAN 1 5 (4.902 %) WAN 1 5 (4.902 %) Firewall 2 4 (3.922 %) TCP/IP 3 3 (2.941 %) VPN 3 3 (2.941 %) Internet 3 3 (2.941 %) MPLS 4 2 (1.961 %) BGP 4 2 (1.961 %) VLAN 4 2 (1.961 %) Cisco PIX 4 2 (1.961 %) Network Security	Database & Business Intelligence 1 18 (17.65 %) SQL Server 2 10 (9.804 %) Datawarehouse 3 7 (6.863 %) MS Access 4 6 (5.882 %) OLAP 4 6 (5.882 %) Oracle OLAP 5 5 (4.902 %) DecisionStream 5 5 (4.902 %) Cognos Powerplay 5 5 (4.902 %) Cognos Impromptu 6 3 (2.941 %) BusinessObjects 7 1 (0.980 %) RDBMS 7 1 (0.980 %) DB2 7 1 (0.980 %) SAP BW 7 1 (0.980 %) SQL Server 2000 7 1 (0.980 %) SAP BI 7 1 (0.980 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 2 (1.961 %) VSS/SourceSafe 1 2 (1.961 %) Oracle Forms 2 1 (0.980 %) MorphX	General 1 11 (10.78 %) Marketing 2 10 (9.804 %) Retail 3 4 (3.922 %) Manufacturing 3 4 (3.922 %) Automotive 4 3 (2.941 %) Finance 4 3 (2.941 %) Pensions 5 2 (1.961 %) Education 5 2 (1.961 %) Back Office 6 1 (0.980 %) Telecoms 6 1 (0.980 %) Health
Miscellaneous 1 9 (8.824 %) NHS 2 2 (1.961 %) AS400 2 2 (1.961 %) Clustering 2 2 (1.961 %) French Language 3 1 (0.980 %) EPoS	Operating Systems 1 21 (20.59 %) Windows 2 7 (6.863 %) UNIX 3 4 (3.922 %) Linux 3 4 (3.922 %) Windows Server 2003 4 3 (2.941 %) SUSE 4 3 (2.941 %) Red Hat Linux 5 2 (1.961 %) Windows 2000 5 2 (1.961 %) Windows NT 6 1 (0.980 %) Windows Server 2008 6 1 (0.980 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 19 (18.63 %) ERP 2 17 (16.67 %) Business Intelligence 3 15 (14.71 %) CRM 4 9 (8.824 %) Change Management 5 8 (7.843 %) ITIL 6 3 (2.941 %) Business Development 7 1 (0.980 %) Data Migration 7 1 (0.980 %) Project Management 7 1 (0.980 %) Workflow 7 1 (0.980 %) Migration 7 1 (0.980 %) PLM 7 1 (0.980 %) Logistics 7 1 (0.980 %) Business Analysis	Programming Languages 1 30 (29.41 %) SQL 2 17 (16.67 %) C# 3 15 (14.71 %) VB.NET 4 7 (6.863 %) Java 5 2 (1.961 %) JavaScript 5 2 (1.961 %) PHP 5 2 (1.961 %) PL/SQL 5 2 (1.961 %) VB 6 1 (0.980 %) X++
Qualifications 1 2 (1.961 %) CCNP 1 2 (1.961 %) Cisco Certification 1 2 (1.961 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (0.980 %) MCTS 2 1 (0.980 %) MCP 2 1 (0.980 %) MCSE	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (3.922 %) SLA
System Software 1 7 (6.863 %) Active Directory 2 3 (2.941 %) MetaFrame 2 3 (2.941 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 2 (1.961 %) VMware ESX 4 1 (0.980 %) ISA Server	Systems Management 1 1 (0.980 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 29 (28.43 %) SAP 2 22 (21.57 %) Cognos 2 22 (21.57 %) Sage 3 21 (20.59 %) Oracle 4 13 (12.75 %) Pegasus 4 13 (12.75 %) Remedy 5 10 (9.804 %) Microsoft 6 9 (8.824 %) Kerridge 7 6 (5.882 %) Citrix 8 5 (4.902 %) IBM 8 5 (4.902 %) VMware 9 4 (3.922 %) Cisco 10 3 (2.941 %) Business Objects 10 3 (2.941 %) Lotus 10 3 (2.941 %) Red Hat 10 3 (2.941 %) Novell 11 2 (1.961 %) Exchequer 11 2 (1.961 %) CheckPoint 11 2 (1.961 %) Baan 11 2 (1.961 %) JD Edwards