The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Support role in IT jobs advertised for the Dorset 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 20 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 Dorset region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Support
Rank 61 62 44
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -18
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 11 1 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dorset 1.639% 0.202% 2.805%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.690% 0.208% 2.931%
Number of salaries quoted 11 0 9
Average salary £30,000 - £29,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 - £19,900
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 - £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £32,200 £32,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-0.92% +8.33%
All Job Titles
Dorset
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
651 481 580
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dorset 97.02% 96.98% 95.71%
Number of salaries quoted 561 376 434
Average salary £35,500 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.23% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,450 £23,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,000 £55,000 £45,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
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 Dorset region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Dorset 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 Dorset region.

Dorset Applications Support Salary Trend

Applications Support
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Applications Support across the Dorset region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Dorset 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 Dorset region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Bournemouth - 6 £37,500 -
Poole +10 3 £28,500 -
Weymouth - 2 £30,000 -
Applications Support
South West

Applications Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Dorset 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 7 (63.64%) .NET
2 6 (54.55%) SQL
2 6 (54.55%) Finance
3 5 (45.45%) Retail
3 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
4 4 (36.36%) ITIL
5 3 (27.27%) Business Objects
5 3 (27.27%) IIS
5 3 (27.27%) Java
5 3 (27.27%) Windows
5 3 (27.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (27.27%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (18.18%) Spanish Language
6 2 (18.18%) QA
6 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
6 2 (18.18%) Degree
6 2 (18.18%) JIRA
6 2 (18.18%) Problem Management
6 2 (18.18%) Test Scripting
6 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (18.18%) Change Control
6 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (18.18%) Oracle Retail
6 2 (18.18%) Spring
6 2 (18.18%) Migration
6 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Service Management
6 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
6 2 (18.18%) MVC
6 2 (18.18%) JMeter

Applications Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Dorset 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 7 (63.64%) .NET
2 2 (18.18%) Spring
3 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET
3 1 (9.091%) Web Services
3 1 (9.091%) Spring MVC
Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) MS Excel
2 1 (9.091%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (9.091%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Extranet
2 1 (9.091%) LAN
2 1 (9.091%) WAN
2 1 (9.091%) TCP/IP
2 1 (9.091%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
2 3 (27.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (27.27%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (9.091%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
1 2 (18.18%) JMeter
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle Forms
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 5 (45.45%) Retail
3 2 (18.18%) Spanish Language
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 1 (9.091%) UNIX
2 1 (9.091%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) ITIL
2 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
2 2 (18.18%) Problem Management
2 2 (18.18%) Test Scripting
2 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (18.18%) Change Control
2 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (18.18%) Migration
2 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
2 2 (18.18%) Service Management
2 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
2 2 (18.18%) MVC
2 2 (18.18%) E-Commerce
2 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
3 1 (9.091%) ERP
3 1 (9.091%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) Java
3 1 (9.091%) PL/SQL
3 1 (9.091%) VB.NET
3 1 (9.091%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
1 2 (18.18%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Business Objects
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) IBM
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.091%) JD Edwards
3 1 (9.091%) SAP