The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the West Yorkshire 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 22 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 Yorkshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Engineer
Rank 100 132 116
Rank change year-on-year
+32 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Engineer 74 41 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 1.998% 1.259% 0.922%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.099% 1.294% 0.955%
Number of salaries quoted 70 34 26
Average salary £26,000 £24,125 £23,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.77% +4.89%
90% offered a salary of more than £17,000 £18,550 £18,000
10% offered a salary of more than £32,800 £34,650 £33,750
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
All Job Titles
West Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
3525 3168 2828
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 95.19% 97.30% 96.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2820 2648 2358
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.05%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £23,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £48,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Support Engineer
Yorkshire

Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Support Engineer Salary Trend

Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Support Engineer across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Leeds +12 44 £26,500 +15.21%
Wakefield +3 15 £26,000 +15.55%
Bradford +12 4 £25,500 +7.36%
Pudsey - 4 £25,000 -
Halifax +2 2 £23,750 -28.03%
Huddersfield -1 2 £23,750 -26.35%
Wetherby - 1 £30,250 -
Support Engineer
Yorkshire

Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 88 (62.86%) Windows
2 75 (53.57%) Active Directory
3 61 (43.57%) Microsoft
4 51 (36.43%) VMware
5 48 (34.29%) MS Exchange
5 48 (34.29%) SAN
6 38 (27.14%) SQL Server
6 38 (27.14%) Windows Server 2008
7 36 (25.71%) VMware Infrastructure
7 36 (25.71%) Windows Server 2003
8 35 (25.00%) ITIL
9 34 (24.29%) Cisco
10 33 (23.57%) MS Excel
11 32 (22.86%) Citrix
12 28 (20.00%) SQL
13 27 (19.29%) TCP/IP
13 27 (19.29%) Exchange Server 2010
14 23 (16.43%) Linux
15 22 (15.71%) Firewall
15 22 (15.71%) XenApp
16 21 (15.00%) SQL Server 2005
16 21 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
17 20 (14.29%) LAN
18 19 (13.57%) WAN
18 19 (13.57%) SLA
18 19 (13.57%) MS Office
18 19 (13.57%) SQL Server 2008
19 18 (12.86%) SCCM
19 18 (12.86%) CheckPoint
20 17 (12.14%) HP

Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 12 (8.571%) .NET
2 6 (4.286%) Web Services
3 3 (2.143%) ASP.NET
3 3 (2.143%) COM+
3 3 (2.143%) HTML
4 2 (1.429%) WSDL
4 2 (1.429%) SOAP
4 2 (1.429%) XML
4 2 (1.429%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 48 (34.29%) MS Exchange
2 27 (19.29%) Exchange Server 2010
3 9 (6.429%) Exchange Server 2003
3 9 (6.429%) SharePoint
4 8 (5.714%) IIS
5 7 (5.000%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 6 (4.286%) Exchange Server 2007
7 3 (2.143%) WordPress
7 3 (2.143%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (1.429%) Lotus Notes
8 2 (1.429%) Office Communications Server
9 1 (0.714%) Moodle
9 1 (0.714%) Apache
9 1 (0.714%) SAS
Applications
1 33 (23.57%) MS Excel
2 19 (13.57%) MS Office
3 3 (2.143%) Office 365
3 3 (2.143%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.857%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.714%) Agresso
Communications & Networking
1 48 (34.29%) SAN
2 27 (19.29%) TCP/IP
3 22 (15.71%) Firewall
4 20 (14.29%) LAN
5 19 (13.57%) WAN
6 12 (8.571%) VPN
7 11 (7.857%) Internet
8 10 (7.143%) VoIP
9 9 (6.429%) DHCP
9 9 (6.429%) DNS
10 7 (5.000%) Intranet
11 6 (4.286%) VLAN
12 4 (2.857%) MPLS
12 4 (2.857%) FTP
12 4 (2.857%) Wireless
12 4 (2.857%) NAS
12 4 (2.857%) NetScaler
13 3 (2.143%) HTTP
13 3 (2.143%) SMTP
13 3 (2.143%) DEFINITY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (27.14%) SQL Server
2 21 (15.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 19 (13.57%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (2.857%) SQL Server 2000
5 3 (2.143%) MS Access
6 2 (1.429%) MySQL
General
1 8 (5.714%) Telecoms
2 7 (5.000%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.00%) Blackberry
2 3 (2.143%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.429%) Clustering
3 2 (1.429%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (0.714%) Mobile Computing
4 1 (0.714%) IVR
4 1 (0.714%) Fat Client
4 1 (0.714%) Mathematics
4 1 (0.714%) Physics
4 1 (0.714%) Computer Science
4 1 (0.714%) NHS
4 1 (0.714%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 88 (62.86%) Windows
2 38 (27.14%) Windows Server 2008
3 36 (25.71%) Windows Server 2003
4 23 (16.43%) Linux
5 17 (12.14%) Windows XP
6 13 (9.286%) UNIX
7 12 (8.571%) Windows 7
8 6 (4.286%) Windows 8
9 4 (2.857%) AIX
9 4 (2.857%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (2.143%) Debian
10 3 (2.143%) CentOS
11 2 (1.429%) Windows NT
11 2 (1.429%) Windows 2000
11 2 (1.429%) Windows Vista
11 2 (1.429%) Windows 2000 Server
12 1 (0.714%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.714%) Android
12 1 (0.714%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (25.00%) ITIL
2 12 (8.571%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (5.714%) Root Cause Analysis
4 7 (5.000%) Service Delivery
4 7 (5.000%) Business Continuity
5 6 (4.286%) Project Management
5 6 (4.286%) Service Management
6 5 (3.571%) Problem Management
7 4 (2.857%) CRM
7 4 (2.857%) ITSM
7 4 (2.857%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (2.857%) Mobile Device Management
8 3 (2.143%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (2.143%) Network Architecture
8 3 (2.143%) E-Procurement
8 3 (2.143%) Change Management
8 3 (2.143%) Requirements Management
8 3 (2.143%) B2B
9 2 (1.429%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (1.429%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (20.00%) SQL
2 10 (7.143%) PowerShell
3 8 (5.714%) VB
4 3 (2.143%) VBA
5 2 (1.429%) Perl
5 2 (1.429%) PHP
5 2 (1.429%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (7.857%) MCSE
4 9 (6.429%) CCA
4 9 (6.429%) Citrix Certification
4 9 (6.429%) CCEA
4 9 (6.429%) CCNA
4 9 (6.429%) CCAA
5 8 (5.714%) MCP
6 7 (5.000%) MCTS
7 6 (4.286%) MCSA
8 5 (3.571%) MCITP
9 4 (2.857%) Security Cleared
10 3 (2.143%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (2.143%) MCAD
10 3 (2.143%) MCSD
10 3 (2.143%) CCNP
11 2 (1.429%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (1.429%) HNC
11 2 (1.429%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.57%) SLA
System Software
1 75 (53.57%) Active Directory
2 36 (25.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (15.71%) XenApp
4 15 (10.71%) vSphere
5 13 (9.286%) Hyper-V
6 7 (5.000%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 6 (4.286%) XenServer
8 4 (2.857%) Terminal Server
8 4 (2.857%) Terminal Services
9 2 (1.429%) VMware ESX
9 2 (1.429%) UAG
9 2 (1.429%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.714%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.714%) ProxySG
10 1 (0.714%) Samba
10 1 (0.714%) Novell eDirectory
10 1 (0.714%) Xen
10 1 (0.714%) NFS
10 1 (0.714%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 18 (12.86%) SCCM
2 8 (5.714%) WSUS
3 7 (5.000%) SCOM
4 3 (2.143%) Nagios
5 2 (1.429%) Opalis
5 2 (1.429%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.714%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 1 (0.714%) Cacti
6 1 (0.714%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.714%) Backup Exec
6 1 (0.714%) HP Data Protector
6 1 (0.714%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 61 (43.57%) Microsoft
2 51 (36.43%) VMware
3 34 (24.29%) Cisco
4 32 (22.86%) Citrix
5 18 (12.86%) CheckPoint
6 17 (12.14%) HP
7 15 (10.71%) Juniper
8 7 (5.000%) Blue Coat
9 6 (4.286%) EMC
10 5 (3.571%) Red Hat
10 5 (3.571%) McAfee
11 4 (2.857%) Avaya
11 4 (2.857%) Dell
11 4 (2.857%) Wyse
12 3 (2.143%) Proofpoint
12 3 (2.143%) SAP
12 3 (2.143%) NetApp
12 3 (2.143%) Apple
12 3 (2.143%) Remedy
13 2 (1.429%) Symantec
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Desirable qualities/experience: - Microsoft Windows XP, Windows 7 - Active Directory - Understanding of servers and networking hardware - Printer configuration & troubleshooting - Microsoft Office (Outlook) Good organisation and excellent communication skills...
Sanderson
Salary: £18000 - £20000 per annum + great benefits
Posted: 3 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
They are looking to secure the services of a Network Support Engineer with experience with Unix, Linux, Windows and SQL. An excellent opportunity for a junior/graduate Network...
Searchability.co.uk
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013