Canary Wharf Applications Support Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Applications Support role in IT jobs within the Canary Wharf region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT job ads that have cited Applications Support in their job title over the 3 months to 9 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Andover Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London County Antrim Coventry Cranleigh Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Dunbartonshire Dunstable Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Fareham Farnborough Farnham Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Horsham Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Keighley Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liversedge Livingston London Lothian Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes Maidenhead Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Rochester Romford Royston Rugby Sale Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Tamworth Thame Trowbridge Tyne and Wear Uckfield UK Upminster Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 9 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	33	40
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching permanent IT job ads	54	59
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.028 %	0.025 %
As % of the category below	6.214 %	4.671 %
Salaries quoted	39	41
Average minimum salary	£57,821	£49,512
Average salary	£60,282	£52,317
% change on same period last year	+15.22 %
Average maximum salary	£62,744	£55,122
UK excluding London average salary	£31,398	£30,902
% change on same period last year	+1.60 %
Job Titles Canary Wharf
Matching permanent IT job ads	869	1263
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.447 %	0.526 %
Salaries quoted	708	873
Average minimum salary	£53,569	£58,458
Average salary	£57,533	£63,289
% change on same period last year	-9.09 %
Average maximum salary	£61,497	£68,120
UK excluding London average salary	£38,190	£39,485
% change on same period last year	-3.27 %
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Applications Support
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Applications Support across the Canary Wharf 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 citing Applications Support across the Canary Wharf region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Applications Support across the Canary Wharf region over the 3 months to 9 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 July 2008, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 57 (65.52 %) Banking 2 49 (56.32 %) SQL 3 44 (50.57 %) Investment Banking 4 36 (41.38 %) Unix 5 32 (36.78 %) Finance 6 25 (28.74 %) Sybase 7 24 (27.59 %) Front Office 8 19 (21.84 %) Perl 9 18 (20.69 %) VBA 10 17 (19.54 %) Fixed Income 11 13 (14.94 %) Derivative 11 13 (14.94 %) Reuters 11 13 (14.94 %) Linux 12 11 (12.64 %) PHP 12 11 (12.64 %) Windows

13 10 (11.49 %) SLA 13 10 (11.49 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 13 10 (11.49 %) Disaster Recovery 14 9 (10.34 %) GL TRADE 14 9 (10.34 %) Oracle 15 8 (9.195 %) SQL Server 15 8 (9.195 %) Degree 16 7 (8.046 %) ASP 17 6 (6.897 %) Sun 17 6 (6.897 %) Solaris 17 6 (6.897 %) Shell Script 17 6 (6.897 %) Service Management 17 6 (6.897 %) Service Delivery 17 6 (6.897 %) Financial Institution 17 6 (6.897 %) Back Office

Applications Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 July 2008, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 7 (8.046 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 1 (1.149 %) IIS
Business Applications 1 1 (1.149 %) HiInvest 1 1 (1.149 %) Decalog 1 1 (1.149 %) LongView	Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (9.195 %) SQL Server 2 2 (2.299 %) Oracle 9i 2 2 (2.299 %) DTS 2 2 (2.299 %) SQL Server 7 3 1 (1.149 %) RDBMS 3 1 (1.149 %) Oracle 10g
General 1 57 (65.52 %) Banking 2 44 (50.57 %) Investment Banking 3 32 (36.78 %) Finance 4 24 (27.59 %) Front Office 5 6 (6.897 %) Back Office 5 6 (6.897 %) Financial Institution 6 1 (1.149 %) Private Banking 6 1 (1.149 %) Education	Miscellaneous 1 17 (19.54 %) Fixed Income 2 13 (14.94 %) Derivative 3 10 (11.49 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 4 5 (5.747 %) Equities 5 2 (2.299 %) Asset Management 5 2 (2.299 %) Equity Derivative 5 2 (2.299 %) Market Risk 6 1 (1.149 %) Client/Server 6 1 (1.149 %) Fund Management 6 1 (1.149 %) Management Information System 6 1 (1.149 %) Exotic Derivative
Operating Systems 1 36 (41.38 %) Unix 2 13 (14.94 %) Linux 3 11 (12.64 %) Windows 4 6 (6.897 %) Solaris 5 3 (3.448 %) HPUX 6 1 (1.149 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (11.49 %) Disaster Recovery 2 6 (6.897 %) Service Management 2 6 (6.897 %) Service Delivery 3 5 (5.747 %) ITIL 4 3 (3.448 %) Risk Management 5 2 (2.299 %) Business Analysis 5 2 (2.299 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 2 (2.299 %) System Testing 6 1 (1.149 %) Investment Management 6 1 (1.149 %) Electronic Trading 6 1 (1.149 %) Incident Management 6 1 (1.149 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 49 (56.32 %) SQL 2 19 (21.84 %) Perl 3 18 (20.69 %) VBA 4 11 (12.64 %) PHP 5 6 (6.897 %) Shell Script 6 4 (4.598 %) VB 7 3 (3.448 %) PL/SQL 8 2 (2.299 %) AWK	Qualifications 1 8 (9.195 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 10 (11.49 %) SLA 2 3 (3.448 %) QA	Vendors 1 25 (28.74 %) Sybase 2 13 (14.94 %) Reuters 3 9 (10.34 %) Oracle 3 9 (10.34 %) GL TRADE 4 6 (6.897 %) Sun 5 3 (3.448 %) HP 5 3 (3.448 %) GUPTA 6 2 (2.299 %) Red Hat 7 1 (1.149 %) Charles River 7 1 (1.149 %) LatentZero 7 1 (1.149 %) thinkFolio