West Midlands Technical Engineer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Technical 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 Technical Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Technical Engineer
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Amersham Andover Ashton-under-Lyne Banbury Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham City of London Coventry Crawley Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gloucester Gloucestershire Gourock Guildford Gwent Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hounslow Hull Inverclyde Inverness Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Ringwood Rugby Sale Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Smethwick Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stirling Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Telford Thame Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	183	208
Rank change on same period last year	+25
Matching permanent IT job ads	43	26
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.023 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	0.537 %	0.311 %
Salaries quoted	37	24
Average minimum salary	£27,854	£27,127
Average salary	£30,549	£29,285
% change on same period last year	+4.31 %
Average maximum salary	£33,244	£31,442
UK excluding London average salary	£33,487	£32,054
% change on same period last year	+4.46 %
Job Titles West Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	8003	8352
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	4.308 %	3.481 %
Salaries quoted	6845	7254
Average minimum salary	£32,827	£33,784
Average salary	£35,731	£36,559
% change on same period last year	-2.26 %
Average maximum salary	£38,635	£39,334
UK excluding London average salary	£38,055	£39,430
% change on same period last year	-3.48 %
Technical Engineer England

Technical Engineer
Demand Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Technical Engineer across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 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 Technical Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 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	+14	19	£33,563	-5.98 %
Birmingham	-7	12	£31,250	+34.53 %
Shropshire	-	4	£27,125	-
Herefordshire	-	3	£25,000	-
Coventry	-10	2	£22,000	-56.00 %
Staffordshire	-	2	£25,000	-
Smethwick	-	2	£22,500	-
Worcestershire	-7	1	£25,000	-25.92 %
Sutton Coldfield	-	1	£25,000	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands region that cited Technical 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 Technical Engineer in their job title.

1 49 (64.47 %) Windows 2 35 (46.05 %) TCP/IP 3 32 (42.11 %) SQL Server 4 31 (40.79 %) Active Directory 5 21 (27.63 %) Windows Server 2003 6 19 (25.00 %) Cisco 7 18 (23.68 %) Citrix 7 18 (23.68 %) IIS 7 18 (23.68 %) Apache 7 18 (23.68 %) Firewall 8 17 (22.37 %) Linux 8 17 (22.37 %) Windows 2000 8 17 (22.37 %) DNS 9 16 (21.05 %) VPN 9 16 (21.05 %) Microsoft Certification

10 14 (18.42 %) MCSE 11 12 (15.79 %) Cisco Certification 11 12 (15.79 %) Microsoft 11 12 (15.79 %) CCNA 11 12 (15.79 %) Clustering 12 10 (13.16 %) Telecoms 12 10 (13.16 %) MS Excel 12 10 (13.16 %) Windows NT 12 10 (13.16 %) Degree 13 9 (11.84 %) MS Exchange 14 8 (10.53 %) Windows XP 14 8 (10.53 %) Lotus Domino 14 8 (10.53 %) SQL 14 8 (10.53 %) Handset 14 8 (10.53 %) Internet

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 1 (1.316 %) Adobe Flex	Application Platforms 1 18 (23.68 %) Apache 1 18 (23.68 %) IIS 2 9 (11.84 %) MS Exchange 3 8 (10.53 %) Lotus Domino 4 6 (7.895 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 4 (5.263 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 3 (3.947 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 3 (3.947 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 10 (13.16 %) MS Excel 2 6 (7.895 %) MS Office 3 2 (2.632 %) MATLAB 3 2 (2.632 %) Simulink 4 1 (1.316 %) MS PowerPoint	Communications & Networking 1 35 (46.05 %) TCP/IP 2 18 (23.68 %) Firewall 3 17 (22.37 %) DNS 4 16 (21.05 %) VPN 5 8 (10.53 %) Internet 5 8 (10.53 %) DDNS 5 8 (10.53 %) Cisco IOS 6 7 (9.211 %) WAN 6 7 (9.211 %) LAN 7 6 (7.895 %) TETRA 8 5 (6.579 %) MPLS 8 5 (6.579 %) Intranet 9 4 (5.263 %) VLAN 10 2 (2.632 %) VoIP 10 2 (2.632 %) Bluetooth 10 2 (2.632 %) GSM 10 2 (2.632 %) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 32 (42.11 %) SQL Server 2 3 (3.947 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (1.316 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (1.316 %) DB2 3 1 (1.316 %) RDBMS	Development Applications 1 4 (5.263 %) Eclipse
General 1 10 (13.16 %) Telecoms 2 8 (10.53 %) Pensions 3 4 (5.263 %) Finance 3 4 (5.263 %) Education 4 3 (3.947 %) Insurance 5 2 (2.632 %) Marketing 5 2 (2.632 %) Automotive 6 1 (1.316 %) Health 6 1 (1.316 %) Retail	Miscellaneous 1 12 (15.79 %) Clustering 2 8 (10.53 %) Handset 3 5 (6.579 %) Computer Science 4 2 (2.632 %) Device Driver 4 2 (2.632 %) Replication 5 1 (1.316 %) Firmware 5 1 (1.316 %) Thin Client 5 1 (1.316 %) Pocket PC 5 1 (1.316 %) PDA 5 1 (1.316 %) SCADA 5 1 (1.316 %) French Language 5 1 (1.316 %) German Language 5 1 (1.316 %) Fat Client
Operating Systems 1 49 (64.47 %) Windows 2 21 (27.63 %) Windows Server 2003 3 17 (22.37 %) Linux 3 17 (22.37 %) Windows 2000 4 10 (13.16 %) Windows NT 5 8 (10.53 %) Windows XP 5 8 (10.53 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 3 (3.947 %) HPUX 7 1 (1.316 %) UNIX 7 1 (1.316 %) AIX 7 1 (1.316 %) Red Hat Linux 7 1 (1.316 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (7.895 %) ITIL 1 6 (7.895 %) Migration 1 6 (7.895 %) System Testing 2 2 (2.632 %) Time Management 2 2 (2.632 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (1.316 %) Data Protection 3 1 (1.316 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (1.316 %) Software Testing 3 1 (1.316 %) Incident Management 3 1 (1.316 %) Service Delivery
Programming Languages 1 8 (10.53 %) SQL 2 3 (3.947 %) C 3 2 (2.632 %) C# 3 2 (2.632 %) C++	Qualifications 1 16 (21.05 %) Microsoft Certification 2 14 (18.42 %) MCSE 3 12 (15.79 %) CCNA 3 12 (15.79 %) Cisco Certification 4 10 (13.16 %) Degree 5 7 (9.211 %) Citrix Certification 6 5 (6.579 %) CCA 7 4 (5.263 %) MCSA 7 4 (5.263 %) HND 8 3 (3.947 %) MCP 8 3 (3.947 %) CCNP 9 2 (2.632 %) Network+ Certification 10 1 (1.316 %) RHCE 10 1 (1.316 %) A+ Certification 10 1 (1.316 %) ITIL Certification 10 1 (1.316 %) CCEA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.632 %) SLA 2 1 (1.316 %) ISO9001	System Software 1 31 (40.79 %) Active Directory 2 7 (9.211 %) Terminal Services 3 6 (7.895 %) MetaFrame 3 6 (7.895 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 1 (1.316 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 1 (1.316 %) ISA Server
Systems Management 1 6 (7.895 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 19 (25.00 %) Cisco 2 18 (23.68 %) Citrix 3 12 (15.79 %) Microsoft 4 4 (5.263 %) HP 4 4 (5.263 %) Lotus 4 4 (5.263 %) Avaya 4 4 (5.263 %) Mitel 5 3 (3.947 %) Alcatel 5 3 (3.947 %) Oracle 6 1 (1.316 %) LANDesk 6 1 (1.316 %) Red Hat 6 1 (1.316 %) CheckPoint 6 1 (1.316 %) VMware 6 1 (1.316 %) IBM