The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Specialist role in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Applications Specialist 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 Bedfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Specialist
Rank 80 71 72
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +1
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Specialist 10 11 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 0.937% 1.235% 0.539%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.987% 1.288% 0.564%
Number of salaries quoted 10 11 5
Average salary £41,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.14% +7.69%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £35,309 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+9.03% -5.84%
All Job Titles
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1013 854 887
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 94.94% 95.85% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 909 746 839
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Applications Specialist
East of England

Applications Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Applications Specialist across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Bedfordshire Applications Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Applications Specialist
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Applications Specialist across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Applications Specialist Salary Trend

Applications Specialist
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Specialist within the Bedfordshire 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
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Job
Vacancies
Dunstable - 5 £37,500 -
Luton - 3 £44,000 -
Applications Specialist
East of England

Applications Specialist
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region that cited Applications Specialist 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 Applications Specialist in their job title.

1 6 (60.00%) Finance
1 6 (60.00%) Java
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle
2 4 (40.00%) JSON
3 3 (30.00%) Problem Management
3 3 (30.00%) RESTful
3 3 (30.00%) Change Control
3 3 (30.00%) XML
3 3 (30.00%) XSL
3 3 (30.00%) XSLT
3 3 (30.00%) MQSeries
3 3 (30.00%) ERP
3 3 (30.00%) IBM
4 2 (20.00%) Lawson
4 2 (20.00%) SLA
4 2 (20.00%) CRM
4 2 (20.00%) Infor M3
4 2 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (20.00%) Movex
4 2 (20.00%) Git (software)
5 1 (10.00%) Erlang
5 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (10.00%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (10.00%) J2EE
5 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery

Applications Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region that cited Applications Specialist 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 Applications Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (40.00%) JSON
2 3 (30.00%) RESTful
2 3 (30.00%) XML
2 3 (30.00%) XSL
2 3 (30.00%) XSLT
3 2 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (10.00%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) MQSeries
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Lawson
1 2 (20.00%) Infor M3
1 2 (20.00%) Movex
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git (software)
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Problem Management
1 3 (30.00%) Change Control
1 3 (30.00%) ERP
2 2 (20.00%) CRM
3 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Java
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Erlang
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle
2 3 (30.00%) IBM
Bedfordshire, South East
Support implementation and deployment of new releases into Live.Essential:- Excellent knowledge of Java - Excellent knowledge of SQL and Oracle Technologies - Knowledge/experience of XML, XSL, XSLT - Working...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: £40000 per annum + Bonus, Pension, Healthcare
Posted: 10 June 2013