East Midlands Applications Support Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Applications Support role in IT jobs within the East Midlands region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Application Support
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Andover Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Cranleigh Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Dunbartonshire Dunstable Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Fareham Farnborough Farnham Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Horsham Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Keighley Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Sale Salford Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Thame Trowbridge Tyne and Wear Uckfield UK Upminster Uxbridge Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	85	135
Rank change on same period last year	+50
Matching permanent IT job ads	103	53
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.054 %	0.022 %
As % of the category below	2.246 %	0.987 %
Salaries quoted	96	46
Average minimum salary	£26,865	£25,266
Average salary	£28,479	£27,106
% change on same period last year	+5.06 %
Average maximum salary	£30,093	£28,947
UK excluding London average salary	£31,652	£30,569
% change on same period last year	+3.54 %
Job Titles East Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	4586	5371
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.421 %	2.199 %
Salaries quoted	3895	4467
Average minimum salary	£32,139	£31,427
Average salary	£34,828	£33,959
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Average maximum salary	£37,517	£36,492
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
Applications Support England

Applications Support
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Applications Support across the East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Applications Support
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Applications Support across the East Midlands region.

Applications Support
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Applications Support across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Applications Support
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Support within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Leicestershire	+49	53	£24,308	-13.70 %
Nottinghamshire	+8	20	£32,559	+22.15 %
Northamptonshire	+7	13	£37,450	+40.94 %
Lincolnshire	-	12	£28,170	-
Derbyshire	+2	12	£33,000	+21.04 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the East Midlands 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.

1 140 (61.40 %) SQL 2 137 (60.09 %) Windows 3 86 (37.72 %) Java 4 59 (25.88 %) .NET 5 54 (23.68 %) Microsoft 6 50 (21.93 %) SQL Server 7 45 (19.74 %) Active Directory 8 44 (19.30 %) Windows XP 9 43 (18.86 %) C# 10 40 (17.54 %) LAN 10 40 (17.54 %) WAN 10 40 (17.54 %) MS Excel 11 37 (16.23 %) MS Office 11 37 (16.23 %) Degree 12 33 (14.47 %) ITIL

13 32 (14.04 %) Oracle 14 31 (13.60 %) TCP/IP 15 30 (13.16 %) MCP 15 30 (13.16 %) MCSE 15 30 (13.16 %) VB 15 30 (13.16 %) Microsoft Certification 16 29 (12.72 %) MS Access 17 23 (10.09 %) Finance 17 23 (10.09 %) IIS 18 22 (9.649 %) ASP.NET 19 21 (9.211 %) J2EE 19 21 (9.211 %) ERP 20 19 (8.333 %) VBA 21 16 (7.018 %) Manufacturing 22 15 (6.579 %) CRM

Applications Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the East Midlands 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 59 (25.88 %) .NET 2 22 (9.649 %) ASP.NET 3 21 (9.211 %) J2EE 4 14 (6.140 %) ASP 5 13 (5.702 %) WebServices 5 13 (5.702 %) HTML 6 12 (5.263 %) JSP 6 12 (5.263 %) COM+ 7 3 (1.316 %) CSS 7 3 (1.316 %) XML 8 1 (0.439 %) ActiveX 8 1 (0.439 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 23 (10.09 %) IIS 2 10 (4.386 %) Tomcat 3 8 (3.509 %) BizTalk Server 4 7 (3.070 %) SharePoint 5 2 (0.877 %) ColdFusion 6 1 (0.439 %) CICS 6 1 (0.439 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 40 (17.54 %) MS Excel 2 37 (16.23 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 4 (1.754 %) Oracle Financials 1 4 (1.754 %) Oracle 11i 1 4 (1.754 %) Oracle Applications 2 1 (0.439 %) Oracle Payroll 2 1 (0.439 %) Oracle Manufacturing
Communications & Networking 1 40 (17.54 %) LAN 1 40 (17.54 %) WAN 2 31 (13.60 %) TCP/IP 3 12 (5.263 %) Intranet 3 12 (5.263 %) Internet 4 9 (3.947 %) LDAP 4 9 (3.947 %) SSL 4 9 (3.947 %) X.500 5 4 (1.754 %) Firewall 5 4 (1.754 %) VPN 6 3 (1.316 %) VoIP 7 1 (0.439 %) Extranet 7 1 (0.439 %) BSS 7 1 (0.439 %) Network Security	Database & Business Intelligence 1 50 (21.93 %) SQL Server 2 29 (12.72 %) MS Access 3 10 (4.386 %) SQL Server 2005 4 9 (3.947 %) Oracle 10g 4 9 (3.947 %) Oracle 9i 5 8 (3.509 %) Crystal Reports 5 8 (3.509 %) SQL Server 2000 6 5 (2.193 %) SQL Server 7 7 3 (1.316 %) Informix 7 3 (1.316 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 3 (1.316 %) BusinessObjects 8 1 (0.439 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 9 (3.947 %) PVCS 2 7 (3.070 %) Visual Studio 3 2 (0.877 %) Flash	General 1 23 (10.09 %) Finance 2 16 (7.018 %) Manufacturing 3 13 (5.702 %) Retail 4 7 (3.070 %) Banking 5 6 (2.632 %) Pensions 6 4 (1.754 %) Legal 7 3 (1.316 %) Health 8 1 (0.439 %) Education 8 1 (0.439 %) Front Office 8 1 (0.439 %) Telecoms 8 1 (0.439 %) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous 1 2 (0.877 %) Mainframe 1 2 (0.877 %) AS400 1 2 (0.877 %) E-Learning 2 1 (0.439 %) Statistics	Operating Systems 1 137 (60.09 %) Windows 2 44 (19.30 %) Windows XP 3 10 (4.386 %) Linux 4 9 (3.947 %) UNIX 5 5 (2.193 %) Windows NT 6 1 (0.439 %) FreeBSD 6 1 (0.439 %) AIX 6 1 (0.439 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 33 (14.47 %) ITIL 2 21 (9.211 %) ERP 3 15 (6.579 %) CRM 4 6 (2.632 %) OOP 4 6 (2.632 %) Disaster Recovery 5 5 (2.193 %) Business Intelligence 6 4 (1.754 %) E-Commerce 6 4 (1.754 %) Problem Management 7 3 (1.316 %) Logistics 7 3 (1.316 %) Web Development 8 2 (0.877 %) Performance Management 8 2 (0.877 %) Project Management 8 2 (0.877 %) E-business 8 2 (0.877 %) Web Design 9 1 (0.439 %) PLM 9 1 (0.439 %) Asset Management 9 1 (0.439 %) Migration 9 1 (0.439 %) Service Management 9 1 (0.439 %) CAD 9 1 (0.439 %) SOA	Programming Languages 1 140 (61.40 %) SQL 2 86 (37.72 %) Java 3 43 (18.86 %) C# 4 30 (13.16 %) VB 5 19 (8.333 %) VBA 6 12 (5.263 %) VB.NET 7 6 (2.632 %) C 8 4 (1.754 %) PL/SQL 9 2 (0.877 %) RPG 9 2 (0.877 %) JavaScript 9 2 (0.877 %) COBOL 9 2 (0.877 %) VBScript 10 1 (0.439 %) JCL 10 1 (0.439 %) DHTML 10 1 (0.439 %) C++ 10 1 (0.439 %) Perl
Qualifications 1 37 (16.23 %) Degree 2 30 (13.16 %) Microsoft Certification 2 30 (13.16 %) MCP 2 30 (13.16 %) MCSE 3 11 (4.825 %) ITIL Certification 4 4 (1.754 %) Oracle Certification 5 3 (1.316 %) CCNP 5 3 (1.316 %) CCNA 5 3 (1.316 %) Cisco Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 11 (4.825 %) SLA
System Software 1 45 (19.74 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 54 (23.68 %) Microsoft 2 32 (14.04 %) Oracle 3 13 (5.702 %) SAP 4 9 (3.947 %) Citrix 5 3 (1.316 %) Avaya 5 3 (1.316 %) Sage 5 3 (1.316 %) Cisco 5 3 (1.316 %) Business Objects 6 2 (0.877 %) Docent 6 2 (0.877 %) SumTotal 7 1 (0.439 %) TIBCO 7 1 (0.439 %) Micro Focus