The first table below looks at the demand for the 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 Support Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Specialist
Rank 109 129 119
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -10
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Specialist 17 5 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.953% 0.250% 0.060%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.995% 0.261% 0.063%
Number of salaries quoted 6 3 1
Average salary £43,500 £20,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+117.50% -38.46%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,309 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+6.20% +0.88%
All Job Titles
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1708 1914 1578
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 95.74% 95.60% 94.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1355 1680 1344
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £22,500 £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%
Support Specialist
North West

Support Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire Support Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Support Specialist
Salary Trend

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

Cheshire Support Specialist Salary Trend

Support Specialist
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Support Specialist within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Knutsford - 2 £40,000 -
Support Specialist
North West

Support Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region that cited 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 Support Specialist in their job title.

1 22 (84.62%) Incident Management
2 20 (76.92%) Banking
2 20 (76.92%) SQL
3 19 (73.08%) Problem Management
4 18 (69.23%) Risk Management
5 14 (53.85%) WebSphere
5 14 (53.85%) Performance Management
5 14 (53.85%) UNIX
6 12 (46.15%) Java
6 12 (46.15%) Oracle
6 12 (46.15%) Linux
6 12 (46.15%) Finance
7 9 (34.62%) Windows
8 8 (30.77%) DB2
8 8 (30.77%) Financial Institution
9 7 (26.92%) IBM
10 6 (23.08%) ITIL
10 6 (23.08%) Corporate Banking
11 5 (19.23%) Citrix
12 4 (15.38%) Oracle 10g
12 4 (15.38%) Tomcat
12 4 (15.38%) Oracle 9i
12 4 (15.38%) Client/Server
12 4 (15.38%) Eclipse
12 4 (15.38%) VMS
12 4 (15.38%) OpenVMS
12 4 (15.38%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 4 (15.38%) GAMP
12 4 (15.38%) GMP
12 4 (15.38%) AIX

Support Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region that cited 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 Support Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (53.85%) WebSphere
2 4 (15.38%) JDBC
2 4 (15.38%) JSP
2 4 (15.38%) Servlets
2 4 (15.38%) Struts
2 4 (15.38%) .NET
2 4 (15.38%) JSTL
2 4 (15.38%) Stripes Framework
2 4 (15.38%) Spring
2 4 (15.38%) JSF
2 4 (15.38%) Hibernate
3 2 (7.692%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 4 (15.38%) Tomcat
2 1 (3.846%) CICS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.692%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (30.77%) DB2
2 4 (15.38%) Oracle 10g
2 4 (15.38%) Oracle 9i
2 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Eclipse
1 4 (15.38%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 4 (15.38%) TortoiseSVN
1 4 (15.38%) NetBeans IDE
1 4 (15.38%) Subversion
1 4 (15.38%) NetBeans
General
1 20 (76.92%) Banking
2 12 (46.15%) Finance
3 8 (30.77%) Financial Institution
4 6 (23.08%) Corporate Banking
5 4 (15.38%) Manufacturing
5 4 (15.38%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Client/Server
1 4 (15.38%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.692%) Online Banking
3 1 (3.846%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.846%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.846%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 14 (53.85%) UNIX
2 12 (46.15%) Linux
3 9 (34.62%) Windows
4 4 (15.38%) VMS
4 4 (15.38%) OpenVMS
4 4 (15.38%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (84.62%) Incident Management
2 19 (73.08%) Problem Management
3 18 (69.23%) Risk Management
4 14 (53.85%) Performance Management
5 6 (23.08%) ITIL
6 4 (15.38%) Change Management
6 4 (15.38%) GAP Analysis
6 4 (15.38%) Document Management
6 4 (15.38%) Validation
6 4 (15.38%) Risk Assessment
7 2 (7.692%) Service Management
7 2 (7.692%) Time Management
8 1 (3.846%) ITIL V3
Programming Languages
1 20 (76.92%) SQL
2 12 (46.15%) Java
3 4 (15.38%) PL/SQL
4 2 (7.692%) COBOL
5 1 (3.846%) JCL
5 1 (3.846%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (7.692%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 4 (15.38%) GAMP
1 4 (15.38%) GMP
1 4 (15.38%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (7.692%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 12 (46.15%) Oracle
2 7 (26.92%) IBM
3 5 (19.23%) Citrix
4 2 (7.692%) Cognizant
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
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
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