The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Specialist role in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Support Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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 Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Specialist
Rank 108 94 89
Rank change year-on-year
-14 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Specialist 5 3 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.300% 0.206% 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.316% 0.214% 0.080%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 1
Average salary £45,000 £37,500 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.00% +19.04%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Job Titles
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1580 1400 1253
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 94.78% 96.35% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1325 1247 1089
Average salary £41,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.33% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Support Specialist
West Midlands

Support Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham Support Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Support Specialist
Salary Trend

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

Birmingham Support Specialist Salary Trend

Support Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region that cited Support 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 Support Specialist in their job title.

1 5 (50.00%) Java
1 5 (50.00%) UNIX
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (40.00%) AIX
2 4 (40.00%) Solaris
2 4 (40.00%) Perl
2 4 (40.00%) Oracle
2 4 (40.00%) SUSE
2 4 (40.00%) SSL
2 4 (40.00%) Control-M
2 4 (40.00%) SSH
2 4 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) Windows
3 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (10.00%) CISSP
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (10.00%) EPoS
4 1 (10.00%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (10.00%) Windows 2000
4 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
4 1 (10.00%) Windows XP
4 1 (10.00%) MS Exchange
4 1 (10.00%) LAN
4 1 (10.00%) WAN
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (10.00%) MS Office
4 1 (10.00%) SQL

Support Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region that cited Support 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 Support Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (10.00%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Office
1 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) SSL
1 4 (40.00%) SSH
2 1 (10.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) Wireless
2 1 (10.00%) LAN
2 1 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (10.00%) Back Office
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
1 1 (10.00%) Banking
1 1 (10.00%) Retail
1 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) EPoS
1 1 (10.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (10.00%) Handset
1 1 (10.00%) Fixed Income
1 1 (10.00%) PDA
1 1 (10.00%) Derivative
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (10.00%) iPhone
1 1 (10.00%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) UNIX
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (40.00%) AIX
2 4 (40.00%) Solaris
2 4 (40.00%) SUSE
3 2 (20.00%) Windows
4 1 (10.00%) Windows 2000
4 1 (10.00%) Windows XP
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (10.00%) Android
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (10.00%) Windows 7
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Phone 7
4 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (10.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (10.00%) Fault Management
3 1 (10.00%) Time Management
3 1 (10.00%) SIEM
3 1 (10.00%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (40.00%) Perl
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) CCNA
1 1 (10.00%) CISSP
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (10.00%) SCSA
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) MobileIron
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Cisco Firewalls including FWSM and ASAs in multiple context modes. Cisco Loadbalancers including ACE and CSS. Checkpoint Firewalls. Fortigate Firewalls. Understanding of routing protocols including OSPF and BGP...
Aximis (West) Limited
Salary: Up to £50K basic + Car Allow + Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013