The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Specialist role in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Support Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Specialist
Rank 81 91 102
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Specialist 4 4 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.373% 0.291% 0.197%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.389% 0.305% 0.207%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 3
Average salary - £27,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -26.66%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Job Titles
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1027 1312 1452
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 95.71% 95.56% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 596 960 1055
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Support Specialist
Scotland

Support Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Support Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Support Specialist
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Support Specialist across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Support Specialist Salary Trend

Support Specialist
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Support 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 Support Specialist in their job title.

1 3 (60.00%) SQL
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) Time Management
2 2 (40.00%) VB.NET
2 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) DHCP
2 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Law
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Document Management
3 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) MS Office
3 1 (20.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
3 1 (20.00%) ATM
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management

Support Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Support 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 Support Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Office
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) DHCP
2 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) ATM
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Law
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Time Management
2 1 (20.00%) Document Management
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) VB.NET
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Excellent knowledge of network protocols DCHP, DNS etc. Previous experience of supporting, configuring and installing software on Microsoft Servers. Knowledge of Microsoft Office products, Active Directory, SQL and...
Net Talent
Posted: 15 May 2013