The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Support Specialist role in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Applications Support Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Support Specialist
Rank 105 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support Specialist 15 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.838% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.876% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
Average salary £43,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £32,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
All Job Titles
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1713 1844 1561
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 95.75% 95.69% 94.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1350 1624 1327
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £22,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Applications Support Specialist
North West

Applications Support Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire Applications Support Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Applications Support Specialist
Salary Trend

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

Cheshire Applications Support Specialist Salary Trend

Applications Support Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region that cited Applications 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 Applications Support Specialist in their job title.

1 19 (100.00%) Banking
1 19 (100.00%) Incident Management
2 17 (89.47%) SQL
3 16 (84.21%) Risk Management
3 16 (84.21%) Problem Management
4 14 (73.68%) Performance Management
5 12 (63.16%) WebSphere
5 12 (63.16%) UNIX
6 10 (52.63%) Java
6 10 (52.63%) Oracle
6 10 (52.63%) Linux
7 9 (47.37%) Finance
8 8 (42.11%) Windows
9 7 (36.84%) DB2
10 6 (31.58%) IBM
10 6 (31.58%) Corporate Banking
10 6 (31.58%) Financial Institution
11 5 (26.32%) ITIL
12 4 (21.05%) SQL Server
12 4 (21.05%) Tomcat
12 4 (21.05%) Oracle 9i
12 4 (21.05%) Client/Server
12 4 (21.05%) Eclipse
12 4 (21.05%) VMS
12 4 (21.05%) OpenVMS
12 4 (21.05%) VSS/SourceSafe
12 4 (21.05%) JDBC
12 4 (21.05%) JSP
12 4 (21.05%) Servlets
12 4 (21.05%) Struts

Applications Support Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region that cited Applications 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 Applications Support Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (63.16%) WebSphere
2 4 (21.05%) JSTL
2 4 (21.05%) Stripes Framework
2 4 (21.05%) JDBC
2 4 (21.05%) JSP
2 4 (21.05%) Servlets
2 4 (21.05%) Struts
2 4 (21.05%) Hibernate
2 4 (21.05%) Spring
2 4 (21.05%) JSF
3 2 (10.53%) .NET
3 2 (10.53%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 4 (21.05%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (36.84%) DB2
2 4 (21.05%) Oracle 9i
2 4 (21.05%) Oracle 10g
2 4 (21.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 4 (21.05%) Eclipse
1 4 (21.05%) NetBeans
1 4 (21.05%) Subversion
1 4 (21.05%) TortoiseSVN
1 4 (21.05%) NetBeans IDE
General
1 19 (100.00%) Banking
2 9 (47.37%) Finance
3 6 (31.58%) Financial Institution
3 6 (31.58%) Corporate Banking
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Client/Server
1 4 (21.05%) Management Information System
2 2 (10.53%) Online Banking
3 1 (5.263%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.263%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 12 (63.16%) UNIX
2 10 (52.63%) Linux
3 8 (42.11%) Windows
4 4 (21.05%) AIX
4 4 (21.05%) VMS
4 4 (21.05%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Incident Management
2 16 (84.21%) Problem Management
2 16 (84.21%) Risk Management
3 14 (73.68%) Performance Management
4 5 (26.32%) ITIL
5 4 (21.05%) Change Management
6 2 (10.53%) Service Management
6 2 (10.53%) Time Management
7 1 (5.263%) ITIL V3
Programming Languages
1 17 (89.47%) SQL
2 10 (52.63%) Java
3 4 (21.05%) PL/SQL
4 1 (5.263%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) ITIL Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 10 (52.63%) Oracle
2 6 (31.58%) IBM
3 4 (21.05%) Citrix
Cheshire
The successful candidate will have proven application support experience within a live environment & experience of some/all of the following skills: UNIX Scripting, Linux, Java, .NET, SQL, Oracle,...
HAYS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Salary: £40000.00 - £47000.00 per annum + Excellent Package
Posted: 17 May 2013
Cheshire, North West
The successful candidate will have proven application support experience within a live environment & experience of some/all of the following skills: UNIX Scripting, Linux, Java, .NET, SQL, Oracle,...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £40000.00 - £47000.00 per annum + Excellent Package
Posted: 18 May 2013
Cheshire, North West
Lead Application Support Specialist - ITIL, UNIX Scripting, Linux, SQL, Java, Incident Management, Problem Management - This is an excellent opportunity to progress a challenging, varied and stable career working...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £40000.00 - £47000.00 per annum + Excellent package
Posted: 3 May 2013