Bristol Applications Support Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Applications Support role in IT jobs within the Bristol 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 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Application Support
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alcester Altrincham Avonmouth Banbury Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Carlisle Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Cranleigh Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dunstable Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Glastonbury Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hungerford Huntingdon Keighley Kent Kettering King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewisham Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester March Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Neath Port Talbot Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Port Talbot Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Ives Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Thames Ditton Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welwyn Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Witney Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	115	81
Rank change on same period last year	-34
Matching permanent IT job ads	22	52
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.022 %
As % of the category below	0.747 %	1.858 %
Salaries quoted	16	50
Average minimum salary	£25,375	£25,840
Average salary	£27,844	£27,820
% change on same period last year	+0.08 %
Average maximum salary	£30,313	£29,800
UK excluding London average salary	£33,215	£31,970
% change on same period last year	+3.89 %
Job Titles Bristol
Matching permanent IT job ads	2945	2798
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.705 %	1.204 %
Salaries quoted	2625	2456
Average minimum salary	£31,620	£30,681
Average salary	£34,817	£33,870
% change on same period last year	+2.79 %
Average maximum salary	£38,014	£37,060
UK excluding London average salary	£38,208	£39,261
% change on same period last year	-2.68 %
Applications Support South West

Applications Support
Demand Trend

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

Applications Support
Salary Trend

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

Applications Support
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Applications Support across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

Applications Support
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Support within the Bristol region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Avonmouth	-	1	£23,500	-

Applications Support South West

Applications Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Bristol region that cited Applications Support 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 Support in their job title.

1 29 (51.79 %) SQL 2 28 (50.00 %) UNIX 3 25 (44.64 %) Oracle 4 24 (42.86 %) Finance 5 22 (39.29 %) SQL Server 6 15 (26.79 %) Sybase 7 12 (21.43 %) RDBMS 8 9 (16.07 %) .NET 8 9 (16.07 %) Informix 8 9 (16.07 %) Degree 9 8 (14.29 %) Java 9 8 (14.29 %) Microsoft 9 8 (14.29 %) SS7 10 7 (12.50 %) GSM 10 7 (12.50 %) VMS

10 7 (12.50 %) Perl 10 7 (12.50 %) C# 10 7 (12.50 %) LDAP 10 7 (12.50 %) Windows 10 7 (12.50 %) SIGTRAN 10 7 (12.50 %) Service Delivery 11 6 (10.71 %) Telecoms 11 6 (10.71 %) Linux 11 6 (10.71 %) SLA 11 6 (10.71 %) X.500 12 5 (8.929 %) ERP 12 5 (8.929 %) J2EE 13 4 (7.143 %) MS Excel 13 4 (7.143 %) Ingres 13 4 (7.143 %) Law

Applications Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Bristol region that cited Applications Support 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 Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 9 (16.07 %) .NET 2 5 (8.929 %) J2EE 3 4 (7.143 %) Spring 4 2 (3.571 %) J2SE 4 2 (3.571 %) Hibernate 5 1 (1.786 %) HTML 5 1 (1.786 %) ASP 5 1 (1.786 %) ASP.NET 5 1 (1.786 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 2 (3.571 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (1.786 %) CICS 2 1 (1.786 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (1.786 %) IIS
Applications 1 4 (7.143 %) MS Excel 2 2 (3.571 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (1.786 %) Pegasus Opera 1 1 (1.786 %) Sage MMS
Communications & Networking 1 8 (14.29 %) SS7 2 7 (12.50 %) LDAP 2 7 (12.50 %) GSM 2 7 (12.50 %) SIGTRAN 3 6 (10.71 %) X.500 4 1 (1.786 %) Nortel Meridian 4 1 (1.786 %) VLAN 4 1 (1.786 %) WAN 4 1 (1.786 %) VPN 4 1 (1.786 %) Intranet 4 1 (1.786 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 22 (39.29 %) SQL Server 2 12 (21.43 %) RDBMS 3 9 (16.07 %) Informix 4 4 (7.143 %) Ingres 5 2 (3.571 %) MySQL 5 2 (3.571 %) DB2 6 1 (1.786 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 1 (1.786 %) MS Access 6 1 (1.786 %) Crystal Enterprise
Development Applications 1 3 (5.357 %) JUnit	General 1 24 (42.86 %) Finance 2 6 (10.71 %) Telecoms 3 4 (7.143 %) Law 3 4 (7.143 %) Legal 4 3 (5.357 %) Banking 4 3 (5.357 %) Health 5 2 (3.571 %) Electric 5 2 (3.571 %) Marketing 6 1 (1.786 %) Pensions 6 1 (1.786 %) International Banking
Miscellaneous 1 2 (3.571 %) Computer Science 1 2 (3.571 %) Dutch Language 1 2 (3.571 %) French Language 1 2 (3.571 %) German Language 1 2 (3.571 %) Spanish Language 2 1 (1.786 %) IBM Mainframe 2 1 (1.786 %) Mainframe 2 1 (1.786 %) Management Information System	Operating Systems 1 28 (50.00 %) UNIX 2 7 (12.50 %) Windows 2 7 (12.50 %) VMS 3 6 (10.71 %) Linux 4 2 (3.571 %) FreeBSD 4 2 (3.571 %) Solaris 4 2 (3.571 %) Windows Server 2003 4 2 (3.571 %) SUSE 4 2 (3.571 %) Debian 4 2 (3.571 %) Red Hat Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (12.50 %) Service Delivery 2 5 (8.929 %) ERP 3 3 (5.357 %) OO 3 3 (5.357 %) CRM 3 3 (5.357 %) Agile Software Development 3 3 (5.357 %) Document Management 4 2 (3.571 %) Information Management 4 2 (3.571 %) Software Testing 4 2 (3.571 %) Problem Management 4 2 (3.571 %) Project Management 4 2 (3.571 %) BCP 4 2 (3.571 %) CAD 5 1 (1.786 %) Configuration Management 5 1 (1.786 %) Practice Management 5 1 (1.786 %) Validation 5 1 (1.786 %) Data Validation 5 1 (1.786 %) Software Engineering 5 1 (1.786 %) Knowledge Management	Programming Languages 1 29 (51.79 %) SQL 2 8 (14.29 %) Java 3 7 (12.50 %) Perl 3 7 (12.50 %) C# 4 3 (5.357 %) C 4 3 (5.357 %) VB 5 2 (3.571 %) Shell Script 6 1 (1.786 %) JCL 6 1 (1.786 %) PL/SQL
Qualifications 1 9 (16.07 %) Degree 2 2 (3.571 %) HNC 2 2 (3.571 %) HND 2 2 (3.571 %) ISEB 3 1 (1.786 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (1.786 %) MCSE 3 1 (1.786 %) MCSD	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (10.71 %) SLA
System Software 1 2 (3.571 %) Active Directory 2 1 (1.786 %) Terminal Server	Vendors 1 25 (44.64 %) Oracle 2 15 (26.79 %) Sybase 3 8 (14.29 %) Microsoft 4 3 (5.357 %) Interwoven 4 3 (5.357 %) Visualfiles 5 2 (3.571 %) Red Hat 5 2 (3.571 %) EMC 6 1 (1.786 %) Nortel 6 1 (1.786 %) Pegasus 6 1 (1.786 %) PeopleSoft 6 1 (1.786 %) Cognos 6 1 (1.786 %) Siebel 6 1 (1.786 %) IBM 6 1 (1.786 %) Agresso 6 1 (1.786 %) Sage 6 1 (1.786 %) StreamServe