East Midlands Technical Specialist Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Technical Specialist 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 Technical Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Technical Specialist
Location Andover Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cheshire Chesterfield Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Daresbury Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnham Fife Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Harlow Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hull Isle of Man Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Rotherham Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Stirling Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	166	157
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching permanent IT job ads	10	30
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	0.218 %	0.559 %
Salaries quoted	10	29
Average minimum salary	£36,083	£33,966
Average salary	£37,958	£38,483
% change on same period last year	-1.36 %
Average maximum salary	£39,833	£43,000
UK excluding London average salary	£36,751	£37,120
% change on same period last year	-0.99 %
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 %
Technical Specialist England

Technical Specialist
Demand Trend

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

Technical Specialist
Salary Trend

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

Technical Specialist
Salary Histogram

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

Technical Specialist
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Specialist 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
Nottinghamshire	+1	4	£31,375	+1.41 %
Northamptonshire	+5	4	£55,000	+129.16 %
Derbyshire	+4	2	£24,750	-48.33 %
Leicestershire	0	1	£28,000	-20.28 %
Lincolnshire	-	1	£32,500	-

Technical Specialist England

Technical Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the East Midlands region that cited Technical Specialist 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 Technical Specialist in their job title.

1 22 (59.46 %) Windows 2 11 (29.73 %) UNIX 2 11 (29.73 %) VERITAS 3 10 (27.03 %) SQL Server 2005 3 10 (27.03 %) Active Directory 3 10 (27.03 %) SQL Server 2000 3 10 (27.03 %) SQL Server 3 10 (27.03 %) DNS 4 9 (24.32 %) DHCP 4 9 (24.32 %) ITIL 4 9 (24.32 %) Windows Server 2003 4 9 (24.32 %) Clustering 4 9 (24.32 %) Backup Exec 5 8 (21.62 %) Microsoft 5 8 (21.62 %) LAN

5 8 (21.62 %) WAN 6 7 (18.92 %) Oracle 7 6 (16.22 %) Service Management 7 6 (16.22 %) Project Management 7 6 (16.22 %) PRINCE2 7 6 (16.22 %) AIX 7 6 (16.22 %) German Language 7 6 (16.22 %) Italian Language 7 6 (16.22 %) Spanish Language 7 6 (16.22 %) Problem Management 8 5 (13.51 %) IBM 8 5 (13.51 %) MS Exchange 8 5 (13.51 %) HP 9 4 (10.81 %) Nortel 9 4 (10.81 %) Microsoft Certification

Technical Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the East Midlands region that cited Technical Specialist 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 Technical Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (5.405 %) XML 2 1 (2.703 %) HTML 2 1 (2.703 %) .NET 2 1 (2.703 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 5 (13.51 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (5.405 %) IIS 3 1 (2.703 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 4 (10.81 %) MS Excel 2 1 (2.703 %) Acrobat 2 1 (2.703 %) RoboHelp 2 1 (2.703 %) Paint Shop Pro 2 1 (2.703 %) Adobe Captivate 2 1 (2.703 %) Photoshop 2 1 (2.703 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 4 (10.81 %) Nortel Periphonics
Communications & Networking 1 10 (27.03 %) DNS 2 9 (24.32 %) DHCP 3 8 (21.62 %) LAN 3 8 (21.62 %) WAN 4 4 (10.81 %) SAN 4 4 (10.81 %) Symposium 4 4 (10.81 %) Nortel Meridian 5 3 (8.108 %) Internet 6 2 (5.405 %) TCP/IP 7 1 (2.703 %) VoIP 7 1 (2.703 %) VLAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (27.03 %) SQL Server 1 10 (27.03 %) SQL Server 2000 1 10 (27.03 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (2.703 %) Oracle 10g
Development Applications 1 1 (2.703 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 4 (10.81 %) Pensions 2 3 (8.108 %) Finance 2 3 (8.108 %) Health 2 3 (8.108 %) Banking 3 1 (2.703 %) Insurance
Miscellaneous 1 9 (24.32 %) Clustering 2 6 (16.22 %) German Language 2 6 (16.22 %) Italian Language 2 6 (16.22 %) Spanish Language 3 4 (10.81 %) IVR 4 2 (5.405 %) AS400 5 1 (2.703 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 22 (59.46 %) Windows 2 11 (29.73 %) UNIX 3 9 (24.32 %) Windows Server 2003 4 6 (16.22 %) AIX 5 3 (8.108 %) Solaris 5 3 (8.108 %) Linux 5 3 (8.108 %) Windows 2000 6 2 (5.405 %) HPUX 7 1 (2.703 %) Tru64 7 1 (2.703 %) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (24.32 %) ITIL 2 6 (16.22 %) PRINCE2 2 6 (16.22 %) Project Management 2 6 (16.22 %) Service Management 2 6 (16.22 %) Problem Management 3 1 (2.703 %) Release Management 3 1 (2.703 %) Change Management 3 1 (2.703 %) Web Design	Programming Languages 1 4 (10.81 %) SQL 2 1 (2.703 %) ActionScript 2 1 (2.703 %) JavaScript 2 1 (2.703 %) RPG
Qualifications 1 4 (10.81 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (8.108 %) MCSA 3 2 (5.405 %) MCP 4 1 (2.703 %) MCSE 4 1 (2.703 %) Citrix Certification 4 1 (2.703 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 4 1 (2.703 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.703 %) QA
System Software 1 10 (27.03 %) Active Directory 2 9 (24.32 %) Backup Exec 3 4 (10.81 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 2 (5.405 %) NetBackup 4 2 (5.405 %) ISA Server 5 1 (2.703 %) VMware ESX 5 1 (2.703 %) MetaFrame 5 1 (2.703 %) Citrix Presentation Server	Systems Management 1 3 (8.108 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 2 (5.405 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 1 (2.703 %) HP Data Protector
Vendors 1 11 (29.73 %) VERITAS 2 8 (21.62 %) Microsoft 3 7 (18.92 %) Oracle 4 5 (13.51 %) HP 4 5 (13.51 %) IBM 5 4 (10.81 %) Genesys 5 4 (10.81 %) VMware 5 4 (10.81 %) Nortel 6 3 (8.108 %) Citrix 7 2 (5.405 %) Dell 7 2 (5.405 %) Cisco 7 2 (5.405 %) JD Edwards 8 1 (2.703 %) PlateSpin 8 1 (2.703 %) Adobe 8 1 (2.703 %) EMC