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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Support
Rank 101 125 124
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -1
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 63 35 41
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East Midlands 2.049% 1.055% 1.148%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.158% 1.111% 1.194%
Number of salaries quoted 59 31 35
Average salary £26,000 £32,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% +8.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £25,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £34,500 £37,500 £46,500
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
All Job Titles
East Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2920 3149 3435
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East Midlands 94.99% 94.91% 96.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2504 2810 2954
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £22,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Applications Support
England

Applications Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands Applications Support Salary Trend

Applications Support
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Applications Support across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Leicestershire +13 21 £27,000 -10.00%
Northamptonshire +6 20 £23,000 -23.33%
Lincolnshire -1 13 £25,000 +25.00%
Derbyshire +9 10 £27,000 -22.85%
Nottinghamshire -13 7 £26,500 -20.89%
Applications Support
England

Applications Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 64 (53.78%) SQL
2 43 (36.13%) .NET
3 37 (31.09%) Microsoft
4 30 (25.21%) SQL Server
5 29 (24.37%) Java
5 29 (24.37%) Degree
6 25 (21.01%) MS Excel
7 23 (19.33%) ASP.NET
8 22 (18.49%) Oracle
8 22 (18.49%) Windows
9 20 (16.81%) ERP
9 20 (16.81%) EPoS
9 20 (16.81%) C#
10 17 (14.29%) Computer Science
11 15 (12.61%) SharePoint
11 15 (12.61%) Retail
12 14 (11.76%) VB
13 10 (8.403%) Back Office
14 9 (7.563%) Finance
14 9 (7.563%) Migration
14 9 (7.563%) T-SQL
14 9 (7.563%) MS Office
14 9 (7.563%) User Acceptance Testing
14 9 (7.563%) PCI DSS
15 8 (6.723%) IIS
15 8 (6.723%) SLA
15 8 (6.723%) WinForms
16 7 (5.882%) Sage
16 7 (5.882%) Epicor
16 7 (5.882%) CRM

Applications Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 43 (36.13%) .NET
2 23 (19.33%) ASP.NET
3 8 (6.723%) WinForms
4 7 (5.882%) ASP
4 7 (5.882%) WCF
5 5 (4.202%) Spring
6 4 (3.361%) Web Services
7 3 (2.521%) J2EE
7 3 (2.521%) XML
7 3 (2.521%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.681%) CSS
8 2 (1.681%) JDBC
8 2 (1.681%) HTML
8 2 (1.681%) XHTML
9 1 (0.840%) WPF
9 1 (0.840%) Apache Flex
Application Platforms
1 15 (12.61%) SharePoint
2 8 (6.723%) IIS
3 7 (5.882%) Windows Azure
4 6 (5.042%) Apache
4 6 (5.042%) Tomcat
4 6 (5.042%) CMS
5 5 (4.202%) SharePoint 2010
6 3 (2.521%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (2.521%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 25 (21.01%) MS Excel
2 9 (7.563%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.361%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (2.521%) Google Analytics
3 1 (0.840%) MFGPRO
3 1 (0.840%) Agresso
3 1 (0.840%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.840%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.042%) Internet
2 4 (3.361%) DHCP
2 4 (3.361%) DNS
3 2 (1.681%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (25.21%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.882%) Crystal Reports
2 7 (5.882%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (5.042%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (4.202%) Oracle 8/8i
5 4 (3.361%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.521%) SAP Data Services
7 2 (1.681%) Oracle 11g
7 2 (1.681%) SQL Server 2000
8 1 (0.840%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (3.361%) Visual Studio
1 4 (3.361%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (2.521%) MorphX
3 1 (0.840%) FogBugz
General
1 15 (12.61%) Retail
2 10 (8.403%) Back Office
3 9 (7.563%) Finance
4 5 (4.202%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.840%) Aerospace
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.81%) EPoS
2 17 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 5 (4.202%) E-Learning
3 5 (4.202%) Learning Management System
4 4 (3.361%) Data Extraction
5 3 (2.521%) Data Conversion
5 3 (2.521%) Statistics
6 2 (1.681%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.681%) Smartcard
7 1 (0.840%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 22 (18.49%) Windows
2 4 (3.361%) UNIX
3 1 (0.840%) Windows XP
3 1 (0.840%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (16.81%) ERP
2 9 (7.563%) Migration
2 9 (7.563%) User Acceptance Testing
3 7 (5.882%) CRM
3 7 (5.882%) ITIL
3 7 (5.882%) Analytics
3 7 (5.882%) Load Balancing
4 6 (5.042%) Software Testing
4 6 (5.042%) Data Transformation
4 6 (5.042%) Change Management
4 6 (5.042%) Data Analysis
5 5 (4.202%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (4.202%) Business Analysis
5 5 (4.202%) Requirements Management
5 5 (4.202%) Unit Testing
5 5 (4.202%) Time Management
6 4 (3.361%) Document Management
6 4 (3.361%) Project Management
7 3 (2.521%) Content Management
7 3 (2.521%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 64 (53.78%) SQL
2 29 (24.37%) Java
3 20 (16.81%) C#
4 14 (11.76%) VB
5 9 (7.563%) T-SQL
6 5 (4.202%) Delphi
7 4 (3.361%) VB.NET
8 3 (2.521%) VC++
8 3 (2.521%) C++
8 3 (2.521%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.521%) X++
9 2 (1.681%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.681%) PHP
10 1 (0.840%) C
10 1 (0.840%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 29 (24.37%) Degree
2 6 (5.042%) SC Cleared
2 6 (5.042%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.202%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (4.202%) MCP
4 1 (0.840%) MCAD
4 1 (0.840%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.563%) PCI DSS
2 8 (6.723%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.681%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.840%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 37 (31.09%) Microsoft
2 22 (18.49%) Oracle
3 7 (5.882%) Sage
3 7 (5.882%) Epicor
4 4 (3.361%) Business Objects
4 4 (3.361%) Citrix
4 4 (3.361%) VMware
5 3 (2.521%) SAP
5 3 (2.521%) Sitecore
5 3 (2.521%) Google
6 2 (1.681%) PeopleSoft
6 2 (1.681%) McAfee
6 2 (1.681%) Sophos
7 1 (0.840%) Open Text
7 1 (0.840%) BMC
7 1 (0.840%) Remedy
7 1 (0.840%) Baan
7 1 (0.840%) JD Edwards
7 1 (0.840%) Adobe
7 1 (0.840%) NetSuite
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