Technical Support Jobs in Solihull

The median annual salary for a Technical Support was £25,500 in advertised job vacancies in Solihull during the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

Technical Support West Midlands / Solihull
Location	3 months to 26 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	31	31	38
Rank change year-on-year	0	+7
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Support	7	1	4
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in Solihull	3.50%	0.44%	1.48%
As % of the Job Titles category	3.50%	0.46%	1.52%
Number of salaries quoted	7	1	4
Median salary	£25,500	£22,500	£22,750
Median salary % change year-on-year	+13.33%	-1.09%
UK excluding London median salary	£29,000	£27,500	£28,500
% change year-on-year	+5.45%	-3.50%

The next table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all job roles in permanent job vacancies advertised in Solihull. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title. As such, the figures in the first row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

IT Job Roles Solihull
Permanent job vacancies with a job title containing a recognized job role	200	216	264
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Solihull	100.00%	95.58%	97.78%
Number of salaries quoted	187	189	227
Median salary	£40,000	£37,500	£32,500
Median salary % change year-on-year	+6.66%	+15.38%
90% offered a salary of more than	£25,000	£21,500	£22,500
10% offered a salary of more than	£55,000	£52,500	£65,000
UK excluding London median salary	£42,500	£41,500	£40,000
% change year-on-year	+2.40%	+3.75%

Technical Support
Job Vacancy Trend in Solihull

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in Solihull that featured Technical Support in the job title.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Support in Solihull

Technical Support
Salary Trend in Solihull

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Technical Support in Solihull.

Salary trend for Technical Support in Solihull

Technical Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in Solihull

For the 6 months to 26 June 2017, Technical Support job roles required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads across the Solihull region featuring Technical Support in the job title.

1	9 (100.00%)	Microsoft
1	9 (100.00%)	Active Directory
1	9 (100.00%)	Windows
1	9 (100.00%)	MS Exchange
1	9 (100.00%)	VMware
1	9 (100.00%)	VMware Infrastructure
1	9 (100.00%)	Hyper-V
2	7 (77.78%)	Enterprise Storage
2	7 (77.78%)	ISO/IEC 27001
2	7 (77.78%)	BS25999
2	7 (77.78%)	ISO/IEC 20000
2	7 (77.78%)	EqualLogic
2	7 (77.78%)	Retail
2	7 (77.78%)	Firewall
2	7 (77.78%)	Dell

2	7 (77.78%)	Citrix
2	7 (77.78%)	NetApp
3	2 (22.22%)	Veritas
3	2 (22.22%)	Red Hat
3	2 (22.22%)	arcserve
3	2 (22.22%)	Symantec
3	2 (22.22%)	McAfee
3	2 (22.22%)	Norton AntiVirus
3	2 (22.22%)	Project Management
3	2 (22.22%)	Service Delivery
3	2 (22.22%)	VPN
3	2 (22.22%)	SSL
3	2 (22.22%)	Linux
3	2 (22.22%)	SUSE
3	2 (22.22%)	Fedora

Technical Support Skill Set
Co-occurring IT Skills in Solihull by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Communications & Networking
General
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	9 (100.00%)	MS Exchange

Communications & Networking
1	7 (77.78%)	Firewall
2	2 (22.22%)	SSL
2	2 (22.22%)	VPN

General
1	7 (77.78%)	Retail

Miscellaneous
1	7 (77.78%)	Enterprise Storage

Operating Systems
1	9 (100.00%)	Windows
2	2 (22.22%)	Fedora
2	2 (22.22%)	Linux
2	2 (22.22%)	SUSE
2	2 (22.22%)	Ubuntu
2	2 (22.22%)	Windows Server
2	2 (22.22%)	Windows Server 2008
2	2 (22.22%)	Windows Server 2012

Processes & Methodologies
1	2 (22.22%)	Kalman Filter
1	2 (22.22%)	Project Management
1	2 (22.22%)	Service Delivery

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	7 (77.78%)	BS25999
1	7 (77.78%)	ISO/IEC 20000
1	7 (77.78%)	ISO/IEC 27001

System Software
1	9 (100.00%)	Active Directory
1	9 (100.00%)	Hyper-V
1	9 (100.00%)	VMware Infrastructure
2	2 (22.22%)	VMware ESXi
2	2 (22.22%)	XenApp
2	2 (22.22%)	XenDesktop

Systems Management
1	2 (22.22%)	Backup Exec
1	2 (22.22%)	Norton AntiVirus
1	2 (22.22%)	vCenter Server

Vendors
1	9 (100.00%)	Microsoft
1	9 (100.00%)	VMware
2	7 (77.78%)	Citrix
2	7 (77.78%)	Dell
2	7 (77.78%)	EqualLogic
2	7 (77.78%)	NetApp
3	2 (22.22%)	arcserve
3	2 (22.22%)	Barracuda Networks
3	2 (22.22%)	McAfee
3	2 (22.22%)	Red Hat
3	2 (22.22%)	Symantec
3	2 (22.22%)	Veritas