The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the West Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Sussex region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Engineer
Rank 79 72 71
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 31 33 41
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Sussex 2.147% 2.168% 2.904%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.238% 2.265% 3.044%
Number of salaries quoted 26 32 31
Average salary £32,000 £30,000 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +9.09%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,750 £27,600 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £42,950 £38,000
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
All Job Titles
West Sussex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1385 1457 1347
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Sussex 95.91% 95.73% 95.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1153 1186 1162
Average salary £39,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.50% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £25,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Support Engineer
South East

Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Sussex Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

West Sussex Support Engineer Salary Trend

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Support Engineer across the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

West Sussex Support Engineer Salary Histogram

Support Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Support Engineer within the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Crawley 0 17 £35,000 +16.66% 1
Worthing +2 1 £22,500 +18.42%
Chichester -4 1 £33,500 +24.07%
Haywards Heath -5 1 £23,000 -19.29% 1
Gatwick - 1 £34,500 -
Support Engineer
South East

Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the West Sussex region that cited Support 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 Support Engineer in their job title.

1 36 (69.23%) Windows
2 31 (59.62%) Microsoft
3 24 (46.15%) Windows Server 2008
4 20 (38.46%) SQL Server
5 17 (32.69%) Active Directory
6 14 (26.92%) IIS
7 13 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
8 12 (23.08%) Firewall
9 11 (21.15%) PowerShell
9 11 (21.15%) SharePoint
9 11 (21.15%) DNS
10 10 (19.23%) Windows XP
10 10 (19.23%) Configuration Management
10 10 (19.23%) Statistics
10 10 (19.23%) InfoPath
10 10 (19.23%) Workflow
10 10 (19.23%) Finance
10 10 (19.23%) VMware
10 10 (19.23%) SQL Server 2008
10 10 (19.23%) Lync
10 10 (19.23%) SQL Server 2012
10 10 (19.23%) Windows Server 2012
11 9 (17.31%) MCITP
12 8 (15.38%) LAN
12 8 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
13 7 (13.46%) TCP/IP
13 7 (13.46%) MCSE
13 7 (13.46%) ITIL
13 7 (13.46%) SQL

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the West Sussex region that cited Support 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 Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (5.769%) CSS
1 3 (5.769%) .NET
1 3 (5.769%) HTML
2 1 (1.923%) XML
Application Platforms
1 14 (26.92%) IIS
2 11 (21.15%) SharePoint
3 10 (19.23%) Lync
4 5 (9.615%) MS Exchange
5 1 (1.923%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (1.923%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (1.923%) Apache
5 1 (1.923%) Site Server
Applications
1 10 (19.23%) InfoPath
2 7 (13.46%) MS Excel
3 5 (9.615%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 12 (23.08%) Firewall
2 11 (21.15%) DNS
3 8 (15.38%) LAN
4 7 (13.46%) TCP/IP
5 6 (11.54%) SAN
5 6 (11.54%) WAN
6 3 (5.769%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (3.846%) Internet
7 2 (3.846%) 3G
7 2 (3.846%) DHCP
7 2 (3.846%) VPN
7 2 (3.846%) iSCSI
7 2 (3.846%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (3.846%) NAS
8 1 (1.923%) NetScaler
8 1 (1.923%) Network Security
8 1 (1.923%) VLAN
8 1 (1.923%) Wireless
8 1 (1.923%) FTP
8 1 (1.923%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (38.46%) SQL Server
2 10 (19.23%) SQL Server 2008
2 10 (19.23%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (1.923%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (5.769%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 10 (19.23%) Finance
2 3 (5.769%) Marketing
2 3 (5.769%) Telecoms
3 2 (3.846%) Electronics
3 2 (3.846%) Military
3 2 (3.846%) Aerospace
3 2 (3.846%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.23%) Statistics
2 3 (5.769%) Video Conferencing
2 3 (5.769%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.769%) Blackberry
3 2 (3.846%) Smartphone
4 1 (1.923%) Clustering
4 1 (1.923%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 36 (69.23%) Windows
2 24 (46.15%) Windows Server 2008
3 13 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 10 (19.23%) Windows XP
4 10 (19.23%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (11.54%) Linux
6 4 (7.692%) Windows 7
7 2 (3.846%) Mac OS X
7 2 (3.846%) Windows Vista
7 2 (3.846%) Windows 8
7 2 (3.846%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.923%) Windows Mobile
8 1 (1.923%) UNIX
8 1 (1.923%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (19.23%) Configuration Management
1 10 (19.23%) Workflow
2 7 (13.46%) ITIL
3 3 (5.769%) Product Management
3 3 (5.769%) Test Automation
3 3 (5.769%) Functional Testing
3 3 (5.769%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (5.769%) Load Testing
3 3 (5.769%) Test Management
3 3 (5.769%) Product Marketing
3 3 (5.769%) Automated Testing
3 3 (5.769%) Asset Management
3 3 (5.769%) Service Delivery
4 2 (3.846%) Change Management
4 2 (3.846%) Web Development
4 2 (3.846%) Information Management
4 2 (3.846%) Communications Security
5 1 (1.923%) Content Management
5 1 (1.923%) ERP
5 1 (1.923%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 11 (21.15%) PowerShell
2 7 (13.46%) SQL
3 3 (5.769%) T-SQL
3 3 (5.769%) VBScript
3 3 (5.769%) C
3 3 (5.769%) C#
3 3 (5.769%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.923%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (17.31%) MCITP
3 7 (13.46%) MCSE
4 5 (9.615%) MCP
5 4 (7.692%) MCSA
6 3 (5.769%) ISTQB
6 3 (5.769%) ISEB
7 2 (3.846%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (3.846%) CCNA
7 2 (3.846%) SC Cleared
7 2 (3.846%) Security Cleared
8 1 (1.923%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.923%) Degree
8 1 (1.923%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (1.923%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.846%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (32.69%) Active Directory
2 8 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (7.692%) XenApp
4 3 (5.769%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 2 (3.846%) ProxySG
5 2 (3.846%) vSphere
6 1 (1.923%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.923%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (5.769%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (3.846%) WSUS
3 1 (1.923%) SCOM
3 1 (1.923%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 31 (59.62%) Microsoft
2 10 (19.23%) VMware
3 7 (13.46%) Citrix
4 5 (9.615%) HP
5 3 (5.769%) Symantec
5 3 (5.769%) Cisco
6 2 (3.846%) CheckPoint
6 2 (3.846%) Avaya
6 2 (3.846%) Blue Coat
6 2 (3.846%) Axway
6 2 (3.846%) LANDesk
7 1 (1.923%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.923%) Intel
7 1 (1.923%) Apple
7 1 (1.923%) NetApp
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