The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Support role in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. 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 20 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 Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Support
Rank 117 113 113
Rank change year-on-year
-4 0
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 6 17 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.346% 0.850% 0.623%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.367% 0.873% 0.652%
Number of salaries quoted 5 17 13
Average salary £21,000 £30,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-30.00% -20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,000 £24,600 £23,100
10% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £37,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £32,200 £32,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-0.92% +8.33%
All Job Titles
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1637 1948 1995
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 94.41% 97.35% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1470 1668 1825
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £28,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £53,650 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Applications Support
Cambridgeshire

Applications Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge Applications Support Jobs Demand Trend

Applications Support
Salary Trend

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

Cambridge Applications Support Salary Trend

Applications Support
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Applications Support across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Cambridge Applications Support Salary Histogram

Applications Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 27 (67.50%) Oracle
1 27 (67.50%) Linux
2 25 (62.50%) WebLogic
2 25 (62.50%) Middleware
3 24 (60.00%) WebSphere
4 23 (57.50%) WebCenter
5 22 (55.00%) Oracle Fusion
5 22 (55.00%) IBM
5 22 (55.00%) SharePoint
6 21 (52.50%) Microsoft
7 20 (50.00%) IIS
8 19 (47.50%) MS Excel
9 18 (45.00%) Finance
10 16 (40.00%) ITIL
11 14 (35.00%) DNS
12 13 (32.50%) Documaker
13 12 (30.00%) WebSphere MQ
14 11 (27.50%) JRules
15 10 (25.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
16 9 (22.50%) Java
17 8 (20.00%) .NET
18 7 (17.50%) SQL
19 6 (15.00%) Informatica
19 6 (15.00%) UNIX
20 5 (12.50%) XML
20 5 (12.50%) C#
20 5 (12.50%) Oracle Applications
20 5 (12.50%) Service Delivery
20 5 (12.50%) BPMN
21 4 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Applications Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 25 (62.50%) Middleware
2 24 (60.00%) WebSphere
3 23 (57.50%) WebCenter
4 22 (55.00%) Oracle Fusion
5 12 (30.00%) WebSphere MQ
6 11 (27.50%) JRules
7 8 (20.00%) .NET
8 5 (12.50%) XML
9 4 (10.00%) HTML
9 4 (10.00%) CSS
10 3 (7.500%) Web Services
10 3 (7.500%) ASP.NET
11 2 (5.000%) CGI
11 2 (5.000%) LAMP
11 2 (5.000%) .NET Framework
12 1 (2.500%) JSP
12 1 (2.500%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 25 (62.50%) WebLogic
2 22 (55.00%) SharePoint
3 20 (50.00%) IIS
4 10 (25.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
5 2 (5.000%) Apache
5 2 (5.000%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (47.50%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 13 (32.50%) Documaker
2 5 (12.50%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 14 (35.00%) DNS
2 3 (7.500%) HTTP
3 1 (2.500%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.000%) Crystal Reports
1 2 (5.000%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (2.500%) solidDB
2 1 (2.500%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (2.500%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (2.500%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.000%) Subversion
General
1 18 (45.00%) Finance
2 3 (7.500%) Financial Institution
3 1 (2.500%) Advertising
Operating Systems
1 27 (67.50%) Linux
2 6 (15.00%) UNIX
3 4 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (7.500%) Windows
5 2 (5.000%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (2.500%) Windows Vista
6 1 (2.500%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (40.00%) ITIL
2 5 (12.50%) Service Delivery
2 5 (12.50%) BPMN
3 3 (7.500%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (5.000%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (5.000%) Business Continuity
4 2 (5.000%) BCP
4 2 (5.000%) ERP
4 2 (5.000%) Business Analysis
4 2 (5.000%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (2.500%) OO
5 1 (2.500%) OOD
5 1 (2.500%) CRM
5 1 (2.500%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (22.50%) Java
2 7 (17.50%) SQL
3 5 (12.50%) C#
4 3 (7.500%) VB.NET
5 2 (5.000%) Perl
6 1 (2.500%) VB
6 1 (2.500%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.500%) QA
1 1 (2.500%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (7.500%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 2 (5.000%) Control-M
2 2 (5.000%) Oracle Identity Manager
2 2 (5.000%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 27 (67.50%) Oracle
2 22 (55.00%) IBM
3 21 (52.50%) Microsoft
4 6 (15.00%) Informatica
5 4 (10.00%) Red Hat
6 2 (5.000%) Sybase
7 1 (2.500%) Sun