The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Support 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 in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Support
Rank 80 121 107
Rank change year-on-year
+41 -14
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 44 7 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 2.446% 0.349% 0.727%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.551% 0.365% 0.771%
Number of salaries quoted 28 5 9
Average salary £35,750 £25,000 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+43.00% -
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £22,000 £21,600
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £25,000 £40,500
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
All Job Titles
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1725 1916 1556
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 95.89% 95.42% 94.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1371 1684 1327
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £23,100 £23,000 £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
North West

Applications Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire Applications Support Salary Trend

Applications Support
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Applications Support across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cheshire Applications Support Salary Histogram

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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Macclesfield - 11 £35,000 -
Warrington - 6 £35,000 -
Crewe - 1 £25,000 -
Lymm - 1 £22,500 -
Applications Support
North West

Applications Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 49 (69.01%) Java
2 41 (57.75%) SQL
3 38 (53.52%) UNIX
4 32 (45.07%) Oracle
5 31 (43.66%) Linux
6 28 (39.44%) Banking
7 25 (35.21%) Incident Management
8 24 (33.80%) ITIL
9 21 (29.58%) Problem Management
9 21 (29.58%) Finance
10 19 (26.76%) Windows
11 18 (25.35%) Risk Management
12 15 (21.13%) WebSphere
13 14 (19.72%) DB2
13 14 (19.72%) Performance Management
14 13 (18.31%) .NET
14 13 (18.31%) C
15 12 (16.90%) Telecoms
16 9 (12.68%) Degree
16 9 (12.68%) Corporate Banking
16 9 (12.68%) SQL Server
16 9 (12.68%) PL/SQL
16 9 (12.68%) IBM
16 9 (12.68%) ITIL Certification
17 8 (11.27%) TCP/IP
17 8 (11.27%) Financial Institution
18 7 (9.859%) Shell Script
19 6 (8.451%) Citrix
19 6 (8.451%) Siebel
19 6 (8.451%) SharePoint

Applications Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 15 (21.13%) WebSphere
2 13 (18.31%) .NET
3 6 (8.451%) J2EE
4 4 (5.634%) Stripes Framework
4 4 (5.634%) JDBC
4 4 (5.634%) JSP
4 4 (5.634%) Servlets
4 4 (5.634%) Struts
4 4 (5.634%) Spring
4 4 (5.634%) JSF
4 4 (5.634%) Hibernate
4 4 (5.634%) JSTL
5 1 (1.408%) Apache Flex
5 1 (1.408%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.408%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 6 (8.451%) SharePoint
2 5 (7.042%) WebLogic Portal
2 5 (7.042%) WebLogic
3 4 (5.634%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.817%) CICS
Applications
1 3 (4.225%) MS Excel
1 3 (4.225%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.817%) Oracle CRM
2 1 (1.408%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.408%) SAP APO
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.27%) TCP/IP
2 4 (5.634%) SSL
3 2 (2.817%) Internet
3 2 (2.817%) FTP
4 1 (1.408%) Network Security
4 1 (1.408%) HTTP
4 1 (1.408%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (19.72%) DB2
2 9 (12.68%) SQL Server
3 5 (7.042%) RDBMS
4 4 (5.634%) Oracle 9i
4 4 (5.634%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 5 (7.042%) StarTeam
2 4 (5.634%) NetBeans IDE
2 4 (5.634%) TortoiseSVN
2 4 (5.634%) Eclipse
2 4 (5.634%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 4 (5.634%) Subversion
2 4 (5.634%) NetBeans
General
1 28 (39.44%) Banking
2 21 (29.58%) Finance
3 12 (16.90%) Telecoms
4 9 (12.68%) Corporate Banking
5 8 (11.27%) Financial Institution
6 4 (5.634%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.408%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.451%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.634%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (5.634%) Client/Server
2 4 (5.634%) Handset
3 3 (4.225%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.817%) Online Banking
4 2 (2.817%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.408%) IVR
5 1 (1.408%) Computer Science
5 1 (1.408%) VSAM
5 1 (1.408%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 38 (53.52%) UNIX
2 31 (43.66%) Linux
3 19 (26.76%) Windows
4 4 (5.634%) VMS
4 4 (5.634%) OpenVMS
4 4 (5.634%) AIX
5 3 (4.225%) Fedora
5 3 (4.225%) Ubuntu
5 3 (4.225%) Solaris
5 3 (4.225%) CentOS
5 3 (4.225%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.817%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (35.21%) Incident Management
2 24 (33.80%) ITIL
3 21 (29.58%) Problem Management
4 18 (25.35%) Risk Management
5 14 (19.72%) Performance Management
6 6 (8.451%) Change Management
7 5 (7.042%) Data Analysis
7 5 (7.042%) Time Management
8 4 (5.634%) ITIL V3
9 3 (4.225%) Configuration Management
9 3 (4.225%) Project Management
9 3 (4.225%) Asset Management
9 3 (4.225%) Data Management
9 3 (4.225%) Product Management
9 3 (4.225%) Continuous Improvement
10 2 (2.817%) CRM
10 2 (2.817%) Release Management
10 2 (2.817%) Test Management
10 2 (2.817%) Service Management
10 2 (2.817%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 49 (69.01%) Java
2 41 (57.75%) SQL
3 13 (18.31%) C
4 9 (12.68%) PL/SQL
5 7 (9.859%) Shell Script
6 4 (5.634%) C#
7 3 (4.225%) C++
7 3 (4.225%) COBOL
7 3 (4.225%) Bash shell
8 2 (2.817%) VB
9 1 (1.408%) VB6
9 1 (1.408%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.408%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.408%) JCL
Qualifications
1 9 (12.68%) Degree
1 9 (12.68%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (1.408%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.634%) QA
2 1 (1.408%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (2.817%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 32 (45.07%) Oracle
2 9 (12.68%) IBM
3 6 (8.451%) Citrix
3 6 (8.451%) Siebel
3 6 (8.451%) Remedy
4 5 (7.042%) MetaSolv
4 5 (7.042%) Convergys
4 5 (7.042%) Ab Initio
4 5 (7.042%) Amdocs
4 5 (7.042%) Business Objects
4 5 (7.042%) Cognos
4 5 (7.042%) Ascential
4 5 (7.042%) Informatica
4 5 (7.042%) MicroStrategy
4 5 (7.042%) TIBCO
4 5 (7.042%) Vitria
4 5 (7.042%) Jaspersoft
5 3 (4.225%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.408%) SAP
6 1 (1.408%) Microsoft
Cheshire
Very good knowledge around Microsoft technologies, specifically SQL Server and .net... - Experience of working with IBM BPM software (not essential but highly advantageous) - Knowledge of financial services (not...
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: Up to £55,000 per annum Overtime/On-Call, Banking Bonus and Comprehens
Posted: 23 May 2013
Lymm, Cheshire
My client is currently looking for a SQL, Windows, .Net, C#, VB6 Application Support Specialist to join their team supporting a global customer base... *Provide training sessions to...
Rullion IT Plus
Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 20 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
You will need: At least 4 years of experience of managing teams Experience with Microsoft Office products Working knowledge of JIRA Defect Tracking tool An understanding of issues...
Computer Futures
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 15 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
Cheshire, North West
Lead Application Support Analyst x2 - Mainframe, COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, DB2 - This is an excellent opportunity to progress a challenging, varied and stable career working for our leading...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £38000.00 - £45000.00 per annum + Excellent Package
Posted: 4 May 2013