The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Support role in IT jobs advertised for the Devon 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 18 June 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 Devon region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Support
Rank 41 35 48
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +13
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 1 12 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Devon 0.341% 4.270% 0.676%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.377% 4.348% 0.691%
Number of salaries quoted 1 12 3
Average salary £37,500 £22,500 £17,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+66.66% +28.57%
UK excluding London average salary £32,000 £32,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-1.53% +8.33%
All Job Titles
Devon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
265 276 434
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Devon 90.44% 98.22% 97.75%
Number of salaries quoted 218 228 385
Average salary £33,000 £30,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a salary of more than £21,000 £22,500 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £40,500 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Applications Support
South West

Applications Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Devon 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 Devon region.

Devon Applications Support Salary Trend

Applications Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Devon 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 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (33.33%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) X++
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Release Management
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Photoshop
2 1 (33.33%) IIS
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) Apache
2 1 (33.33%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) Ethernet
2 1 (33.33%) HTTP
2 1 (33.33%) SSL
2 1 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) EMC
2 1 (33.33%) SAN

Applications Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Devon 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 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
2 1 (33.33%) Fireworks
2 1 (33.33%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Ethernet
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
General
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) OO
1 1 (33.33%) ERP
1 1 (33.33%) Information Management
1 1 (33.33%) Web Development
1 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
1 1 (33.33%) Release Management
1 1 (33.33%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
1 1 (33.33%) X++
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) EMC
2 1 (33.33%) NetApp
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) VMware