The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. 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 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Engineer
Rank 186 165 153
Rank change year-on-year
-21 -12
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Engineer 18 20 23
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.358% 0.439% 0.551%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.373% 0.458% 0.576%
Number of salaries quoted 17 17 23
Average salary £35,000 £28,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.80% -36.66%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £31,250
% change year-on-year
- +12.00%
All Job Titles
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
4823 4368 3992
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 95.92% 95.83% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3997 3832 3397
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £25,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Technical Engineer
England

Technical Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Technical Engineer across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

West Midlands Technical Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Technical Engineer across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Technical Engineer Salary Trend

Technical Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Technical Engineer across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Midlands Technical Engineer Salary Histogram

Technical Engineer
Job Locations

The table below 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 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Birmingham -13 6 £32,500 +14.03%
Shropshire 0 4 £32,000 +4.91%
Warwickshire +6 3 £23,500 -6.00%
Staffordshire -3 2 £37,500 +78.57%
Coventry -25 2 £30,250 -
Wolverhampton - 2 £35,000 -
Solihull -15 1 £38,500 +48.07%
Worcestershire - 1 £35,000 -
Technical Engineer
England

Technical Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 14 (40.00%) VMware
2 13 (37.14%) Telecoms
2 13 (37.14%) Windows
2 13 (37.14%) Microsoft
3 11 (31.43%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (31.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (28.57%) CCNA
4 10 (28.57%) Active Directory
5 9 (25.71%) Cisco
5 9 (25.71%) NetApp
6 8 (22.86%) Citrix
6 8 (22.86%) MS Excel
6 8 (22.86%) LAN
6 8 (22.86%) WAN
6 8 (22.86%) Windows Server 2008
6 8 (22.86%) VMware ESX
7 7 (20.00%) Firewall
7 7 (20.00%) SQL Server
7 7 (20.00%) Avaya
7 7 (20.00%) SAN
7 7 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
8 6 (17.14%) TCP/IP
8 6 (17.14%) MS Exchange
8 6 (17.14%) XenApp
8 6 (17.14%) Unified Communications
9 5 (14.29%) R
9 5 (14.29%) vSphere
9 5 (14.29%) XenServer
9 5 (14.29%) XenDesktop
9 5 (14.29%) Nortel Meridian

Technical Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 2 (5.714%) Web Services
2 1 (2.857%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 6 (17.14%) MS Exchange
2 2 (5.714%) IIS
3 1 (2.857%) Exchange Server 2000
3 1 (2.857%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (2.857%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (2.857%) Apache
3 1 (2.857%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.857%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (2.857%) Lync
3 1 (2.857%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 8 (22.86%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.857%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (2.857%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 8 (22.86%) LAN
1 8 (22.86%) WAN
2 7 (20.00%) Firewall
2 7 (20.00%) SAN
3 6 (17.14%) TCP/IP
3 6 (17.14%) Unified Communications
4 5 (14.29%) Nortel Meridian
4 5 (14.29%) IP Telephony
4 5 (14.29%) VoIP
5 4 (11.43%) DNS
5 4 (11.43%) SNMP
6 3 (8.571%) Wireless
6 3 (8.571%) iSCSI
6 3 (8.571%) DHCP
6 3 (8.571%) MPLS
6 3 (8.571%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (5.714%) Kerberos
7 2 (5.714%) WLAN
7 2 (5.714%) PBX
7 2 (5.714%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.857%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (2.857%) MSI
General
1 13 (37.14%) Telecoms
2 3 (8.571%) Electronics
3 2 (5.714%) Finance
4 1 (2.857%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.714%) Computer Science
1 2 (5.714%) IVR
2 1 (2.857%) Statistics
2 1 (2.857%) SCADA
2 1 (2.857%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 13 (37.14%) Windows
2 8 (22.86%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (14.29%) Linux
5 3 (8.571%) Windows 2000 Server
5 3 (8.571%) Windows 8
6 2 (5.714%) UNIX
6 2 (5.714%) Windows 7
7 1 (2.857%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (8.571%) ITIL
2 2 (5.714%) Software Deployment
2 2 (5.714%) Time Management
3 1 (2.857%) Service Delivery
3 1 (2.857%) Business Development
3 1 (2.857%) Data Management
3 1 (2.857%) Business Continuity
3 1 (2.857%) Data Protection
3 1 (2.857%) E-Commerce
3 1 (2.857%) Configuration Management
3 1 (2.857%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (2.857%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.29%) R
1 5 (14.29%) SQL
1 5 (14.29%) C
2 3 (8.571%) Perl
2 3 (8.571%) PHP
2 3 (8.571%) VBScript
3 1 (2.857%) VB
3 1 (2.857%) Java
3 1 (2.857%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.857%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (31.43%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (28.57%) CCNA
3 4 (11.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (8.571%) Citrix Certification
4 3 (8.571%) NCDA
4 3 (8.571%) CCEE
4 3 (8.571%) CCAA
5 2 (5.714%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (5.714%) CCNP
6 1 (2.857%) MCDST
6 1 (2.857%) MCTS
6 1 (2.857%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.857%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.857%) MCSE
6 1 (2.857%) A+ Certification
6 1 (2.857%) IBM Certification
6 1 (2.857%) NCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.714%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (31.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (28.57%) Active Directory
3 8 (22.86%) VMware ESX
4 6 (17.14%) XenApp
5 5 (14.29%) vSphere
5 5 (14.29%) XenServer
5 5 (14.29%) XenDesktop
6 2 (5.714%) ISA Server
7 1 (2.857%) Hyper-V
7 1 (2.857%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (8.571%) Backup Exec
2 1 (2.857%) NetBackup
2 1 (2.857%) SCCM
2 1 (2.857%) SCOM
2 1 (2.857%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 14 (40.00%) VMware
2 13 (37.14%) Microsoft
3 9 (25.71%) Cisco
3 9 (25.71%) NetApp
4 8 (22.86%) Citrix
5 7 (20.00%) Avaya
6 5 (14.29%) HP
6 5 (14.29%) Nortel
7 4 (11.43%) Dell
8 3 (8.571%) IBM
9 2 (5.714%) Genesys
9 2 (5.714%) Novell
9 2 (5.714%) Veritas
9 2 (5.714%) EMC
10 1 (2.857%) Veeam
10 1 (2.857%) Symantec
10 1 (2.857%) CommVault
10 1 (2.857%) Lumension
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