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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Support
Rank 26 11 -
Rank change year-on-year
-15 -
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 3 3 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dunstable 2.632% 9.375% -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.778% 9.375% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 0
Average salary £26,000 £33,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-21.21% -
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
All Job Titles
Dunstable
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
108 32 23
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dunstable 94.74% 100.00% 71.88%
Number of salaries quoted 98 27 13
Average salary £43,000 £49,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.24% +40.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £33,000 £22,900
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £51,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Applications Support
Bedfordshire

Applications Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dunstable 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 Dunstable region.

Dunstable Applications Support Salary Trend

Applications Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Dunstable 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 4 (80.00%) Oracle
1 4 (80.00%) Java
1 4 (80.00%) PL/SQL
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) UNIX
2 3 (60.00%) WebLogic
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle 10g
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle OWB
3 2 (40.00%) Hibernate
3 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) SLA
3 2 (40.00%) BEA
3 2 (40.00%) Tivoli
3 2 (40.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (40.00%) JSP
3 2 (40.00%) Struts
3 2 (40.00%) XML
3 2 (40.00%) XSL
3 2 (40.00%) XSLT
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (40.00%) J2EE
3 2 (40.00%) Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Spring
3 2 (40.00%) JSF
3 2 (40.00%) Korn
3 2 (40.00%) Java EE

Applications Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Dunstable 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 (40.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (40.00%) JSP
1 2 (40.00%) Struts
1 2 (40.00%) XML
1 2 (40.00%) XSL
1 2 (40.00%) XSLT
1 2 (40.00%) J2EE
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
1 2 (40.00%) JSF
1 2 (40.00%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint Server
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle 10g
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle OWB
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
1 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) ERP
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
1 4 (80.00%) PL/SQL
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (40.00%) Korn
2 2 (40.00%) Bash shell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) BEA