Birmingham Applications Support Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Applications Support role in IT jobs within the Birmingham region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Applications Support in their job title over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Application Support
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Andover Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birkenhead Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Cobham Colchester County Antrim Coventry Cranleigh Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dunstable East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland England Epsom Essex Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Folkestone Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highland Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liversedge Livingston London Lothian Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Rochester Romford Rugby Sale Salford Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Spalding Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Tamworth Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear Uckfield UK Upminster Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Whitehaven Wigan Wiltshire Windsor Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	106	72
Rank change on same period last year	-34
Matching permanent IT job ads	35	60
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.027 %
As % of the category below	1.117 %	2.298 %
Salaries quoted	34	52
Average minimum salary	£25,853	£28,750
Average salary	£27,912	£30,784
% change on same period last year	-9.32 %
Average maximum salary	£29,971	£32,817
UK excluding London average salary	£31,322	£31,506
% change on same period last year	-0.58 %
Job Titles Birmingham
Matching permanent IT job ads	3134	2611
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.537 %	1.156 %
Salaries quoted	2703	2140
Average minimum salary	£37,580	£31,909
Average salary	£42,017	£35,005
% change on same period last year	+20.03 %
Average maximum salary	£46,454	£38,101
UK excluding London average salary	£38,585	£39,157
% change on same period last year	-1.46 %
Applications Support West Midlands

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Applications Support across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs ads citing Applications Support across the Birmingham region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Applications Support across the Birmingham region over the past 3 months.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing Applications Support also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Applications Support.

1 22 (28.95 %) Microsoft 1 22 (28.95 %) Oracle 2 17 (22.37 %) .NET 3 14 (18.42 %) XML 4 13 (17.11 %) SQL Server 5 12 (15.79 %) Java 5 12 (15.79 %) SQL 6 11 (14.47 %) VB 6 11 (14.47 %) Migration 7 10 (13.16 %) Delphi 7 10 (13.16 %) Windows 8 9 (11.84 %) Oracle 10g 8 9 (11.84 %) Project Management 8 9 (11.84 %) Oracle Application Server 9 8 (10.53 %) VBA

10 7 (9.211 %) MS Office 10 7 (9.211 %) Tomcat 10 7 (9.211 %) MS Access 10 7 (9.211 %) Lagan 10 7 (9.211 %) SQL Server 2005 10 7 (9.211 %) Degree 11 6 (7.895 %) GIS 11 6 (7.895 %) Oracle 9i 11 6 (7.895 %) Oracle Reports 11 6 (7.895 %) Oracle Discoverer 11 6 (7.895 %) ASP 11 6 (7.895 %) ITIL 11 6 (7.895 %) WebServices 11 6 (7.895 %) HTML 12 5 (6.579 %) Unix

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing Applications Support also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Applications Support. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 17 (22.37 %) .NET 2 14 (18.42 %) XML 3 6 (7.895 %) HTML 3 6 (7.895 %) WebServices 3 6 (7.895 %) ASP 4 3 (3.947 %) ASP.NET 4 3 (3.947 %) JDBC 4 3 (3.947 %) JSP 4 3 (3.947 %) SOAP 4 3 (3.947 %) J2EE 4 3 (3.947 %) ODBC 4 3 (3.947 %) XHTML 5 1 (1.316 %) Java RMI 5 1 (1.316 %) Middleware 5 1 (1.316 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 9 (11.84 %) Oracle Application Server 2 7 (9.211 %) Tomcat 3 3 (3.947 %) SharePoint 3 3 (3.947 %) Tamino 4 2 (2.632 %) CMS
Applications 1 7 (9.211 %) MS Office 2 3 (3.947 %) MS Excel 3 1 (1.316 %) MS Visio 3 1 (1.316 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 1 (1.316 %) Microsoft CRM 1 1 (1.316 %) Oracle Applications
Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (17.11 %) SQL Server 2 9 (11.84 %) Oracle 10g 3 7 (9.211 %) SQL Server 2005 3 7 (9.211 %) MS Access 4 6 (7.895 %) Oracle 9i 4 6 (7.895 %) Oracle Discoverer 4 6 (7.895 %) Oracle Reports 4 6 (7.895 %) GIS 5 4 (5.263 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 2 (2.632 %) Crystal Reports 6 2 (2.632 %) DTS 7 1 (1.316 %) BusinessObjects	Development Applications 1 1 (1.316 %) Oracle Forms
General 1 5 (6.579 %) Automotive 2 4 (5.263 %) Government 2 4 (5.263 %) Local Government 3 3 (3.947 %) Legal 4 2 (2.632 %) Law 4 2 (2.632 %) Finance 5 1 (1.316 %) Telecoms 5 1 (1.316 %) Health 5 1 (1.316 %) Insurance	Operating Systems 1 10 (13.16 %) Windows 2 5 (6.579 %) Unix 3 1 (1.316 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (14.47 %) Migration 2 9 (11.84 %) Project Management 3 6 (7.895 %) ITIL 4 5 (6.579 %) Information Management 5 4 (5.263 %) Data Migration 5 4 (5.263 %) Change Management 5 4 (5.263 %) OOD 6 3 (3.947 %) Service Management 6 3 (3.947 %) Content Management 7 2 (2.632 %) Web Development 7 2 (2.632 %) Data Protection 7 2 (2.632 %) UML 8 1 (1.316 %) CRM 8 1 (1.316 %) ERP 8 1 (1.316 %) Configuration Management	Programming Languages 1 12 (15.79 %) Java 1 12 (15.79 %) SQL 2 11 (14.47 %) VB 3 10 (13.16 %) Delphi 4 8 (10.53 %) VBA 5 3 (3.947 %) JavaScript 5 3 (3.947 %) VBScript 6 2 (2.632 %) Transact-SQL 7 1 (1.316 %) C++
Qualifications 1 7 (9.211 %) Degree 2 1 (1.316 %) MCP 2 1 (1.316 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (3.947 %) SLA
Vendors 1 22 (28.95 %) Oracle 1 22 (28.95 %) Microsoft 2 7 (9.211 %) Lagan 3 4 (5.263 %) Remedy 4 3 (3.947 %) SAP 5 2 (2.632 %) Interwoven 5 2 (2.632 %) ESRI 5 2 (2.632 %) Open Text 5 2 (2.632 %) Northgate 6 1 (1.316 %) Red Hat 6 1 (1.316 %) Citrix 6 1 (1.316 %) Cognos 6 1 (1.316 %) Siebel 6 1 (1.316 %) Business Objects