The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Specialist role in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Technical Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Specialist
Rank 304 296 293
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Specialist 14 28 41
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.119% 0.213% 0.271%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.128% 0.229% 0.289%
Number of salaries quoted 13 24 41
Average salary £62,500 £58,750 £90,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.38% -34.72%
90% offered a salary of more than £41,200 £31,500 £55,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £81,250 £97,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
All Job Titles
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
10921 12230 14187
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 92.83% 93.10% 93.61%
Number of salaries quoted 9422 11124 12765
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.54%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,521 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Technical Specialist
London

Technical Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Technical Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Specialist
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Technical Specialist across the City of London region.

City of London Technical Specialist Salary Trend

Technical Specialist
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Technical Specialist across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

City of London Technical Specialist Salary Histogram

Technical Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Technical 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 Technical Specialist in their job title.

1 14 (45.16%) UNIX
2 10 (32.26%) MS Office
2 10 (32.26%) Finance
3 9 (29.03%) Linux
3 9 (29.03%) Cisco
4 8 (25.81%) Sun
5 7 (22.58%) HP
5 7 (22.58%) SLA
5 7 (22.58%) Service Delivery
6 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
6 6 (19.35%) Active Directory
6 6 (19.35%) Windows
6 6 (19.35%) MS Excel
7 5 (16.13%) SharePoint
7 5 (16.13%) MCSE
7 5 (16.13%) Solaris
7 5 (16.13%) Oracle
7 5 (16.13%) DNS
7 5 (16.13%) IBM
7 5 (16.13%) MS Exchange
7 5 (16.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (16.13%) Exchange Server 2010
8 4 (12.90%) Lync
8 4 (12.90%) Unified Communications
8 4 (12.90%) SAP Business One
8 4 (12.90%) Cisco UCCE
8 4 (12.90%) Dialogic
8 4 (12.90%) Cisco CUCM
8 4 (12.90%) Windows Phone
8 4 (12.90%) MS PowerPoint

Technical Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Technical 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 Technical Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (3.226%) SOAP
1 1 (3.226%) Web Services
1 1 (3.226%) .NET
1 1 (3.226%) .NET Framework
1 1 (3.226%) JSON
1 1 (3.226%) LINQ
1 1 (3.226%) WCF
1 1 (3.226%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 5 (16.13%) SharePoint
1 5 (16.13%) MS Exchange
1 5 (16.13%) Exchange Server 2010
2 4 (12.90%) Lync
2 4 (12.90%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (3.226%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 10 (32.26%) MS Office
2 6 (19.35%) MS Excel
3 4 (12.90%) MS PowerPoint
3 4 (12.90%) MS Project
3 4 (12.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (12.90%) SAP Business One
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.13%) DNS
2 4 (12.90%) Unified Communications
2 4 (12.90%) IP Telephony
3 3 (9.677%) SAN
4 1 (3.226%) SMTP
4 1 (3.226%) DHCP
4 1 (3.226%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) SQL Server
General
1 10 (32.26%) Finance
2 2 (6.452%) Banking
3 1 (3.226%) Advertising
3 1 (3.226%) Games
3 1 (3.226%) Financial Institution
3 1 (3.226%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.226%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) IVR
1 4 (12.90%) Video Conferencing
1 4 (12.90%) iPhone
1 4 (12.90%) Blackberry
2 3 (9.677%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.226%) Replication
3 1 (3.226%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 14 (45.16%) UNIX
2 9 (29.03%) Linux
3 6 (19.35%) Windows
4 5 (16.13%) Solaris
5 4 (12.90%) Windows Phone
5 4 (12.90%) OpenVMS
6 3 (9.677%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (3.226%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (22.58%) Service Delivery
2 4 (12.90%) WFM
2 4 (12.90%) BCP
2 4 (12.90%) Project Management
2 4 (12.90%) ITIL
3 2 (6.452%) Change Management
4 1 (3.226%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (3.226%) MVC
4 1 (3.226%) SOA
4 1 (3.226%) Network Design
4 1 (3.226%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (3.226%) Project Planning
4 1 (3.226%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.226%) C#
1 1 (3.226%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) MCSE
1 5 (16.13%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (12.90%) MCITP
3 3 (9.677%) RHCE
3 3 (9.677%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.677%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.452%) Degree
5 1 (3.226%) CCVP
5 1 (3.226%) CCA
5 1 (3.226%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (3.226%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.226%) CCIE
5 1 (3.226%) CCNP
5 1 (3.226%) CCIP
5 1 (3.226%) CCDA
5 1 (3.226%) CCDP
5 1 (3.226%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (3.226%) CCEE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (22.58%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (19.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.226%) MetaFrame
2 1 (3.226%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 1 (3.226%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.226%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.226%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (12.90%) Cisco UCCE
1 4 (12.90%) Cisco CUCM
2 3 (9.677%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (6.452%) Tivoli
4 1 (3.226%) MAILsweeper
4 1 (3.226%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 9 (29.03%) Cisco
2 8 (25.81%) Sun
3 7 (22.58%) HP
4 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
5 5 (16.13%) Oracle
5 5 (16.13%) IBM
6 4 (12.90%) Dialogic
6 4 (12.90%) Mitel
6 4 (12.90%) Polycom
6 4 (12.90%) Nortel
6 4 (12.90%) Avaya
6 4 (12.90%) SAP
7 3 (9.677%) JBoss
7 3 (9.677%) Red Hat
8 2 (6.452%) Veritas
8 2 (6.452%) BMC
8 2 (6.452%) VMware
9 1 (3.226%) AppSense
9 1 (3.226%) NetApp
9 1 (3.226%) Citrix
City of London
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Posted: 15 May 2013
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Salary: Up to £70,000 per annum + Bonus/Benefits
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