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This section looks at the demand for the Applications Support role in IT jobs within the England 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 last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

 Application Support
Location
3 months to 16 May 2008Same period last year
Rank105113
Rank change on same period last yearUp+8
Matching permanent IT job ads36573668
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled1.793 %1.624 %
As % of the category below2.049 %1.870 %
Salaries quoted29642699
Average minimum salary£37,690£39,395
Average salary£40,855£42,789
% change on same period last year-4.51 %
Average maximum salary£44,021£46,183
UK excluding London average salary£31,322£31,506
% change on same period last year-0.58 %
Job Titles EnglandJob Titles
England
Matching permanent IT job ads178494196128
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled87.52 %86.83 %
Salaries quoted146905156319
Average minimum salary£39,397£40,817
Average salary£43,124£44,597
% change on same period last year-3.30 %
Average maximum salary£46,851£48,377
UK excluding London average salary£38,585£39,157
% change on same period last year-1.46 %
Applications Support UKApplications Support
UK

Applications Support
Demand Trend

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

England Applications Support Demand Trend

Applications Support
Salary Trend

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

England Applications Support Salary Trend

Applications Support
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Applications Support across the England region over the past 3 months.

England Applications Support Salary Histogram

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 England region over the past 3 months.

RankLocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
1LondonDown-12057£49,320+0.22 %
2South EastUp+73658£33,428-0.73 %
3East of EnglandUp+47210£32,097+2.87 %
4South WestDown-7179£32,150-5.23 %
5North WestDown-27145£28,315-0.43 %
6West MidlandsDown-21131£27,370-5.16 %
7East MidlandsUp+38130£29,515-5.21 %
8YorkshireDown-6120£26,574-9.96 %
9MidlandsDown-321£38,667+12.57 %
10North EastUp+113£26,750-11.81 %
Applications Support UKApplications Support
UK

Applications Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the England region citing Applications Support also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Applications Support.

13732 (52.25 %)SQL
22309 (32.33 %)Unix
32054 (28.76 %)Finance
41782 (24.95 %)Windows
51709 (23.93 %)Oracle
61459 (20.43 %)SQL Server
71233 (17.26 %)Banking
81050 (14.70 %)Front Office
9968 (13.55 %).NET
10919 (12.87 %)Java
11846 (11.85 %)ITIL
12827 (11.58 %)Sybase
13810 (11.34 %)Microsoft
14731 (10.24 %)Derivative
15675 (9.451 %)VB
16566 (7.925 %)Perl
17554 (7.757 %)C#
18549 (7.687 %)Degree
19541 (7.575 %)Investment Banking
20510 (7.141 %)MS Excel
21465 (6.511 %)Solaris
22462 (6.469 %)Equities
23460 (6.441 %)VBA
24445 (6.231 %)XML
25436 (6.105 %)Linux
26423 (5.923 %)Fixed Income
27413 (5.783 %)HTML
28372 (5.209 %)RDBMS
29368 (5.153 %)SLA
30328 (4.593 %)MS Office

Applications Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the England region citing Applications Support also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Applications Support. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1968 (13.55 %).NET
2445 (6.231 %)XML
3413 (5.783 %)HTML
4311 (4.355 %)J2EE
5305 (4.271 %)ASP
6283 (3.962 %)ASP.NET
7276 (3.864 %)WebSphere
8155 (2.170 %)WebServices
9132 (1.848 %)JSP
1091 (1.274 %)CSS
1179 (1.106 %)XSLT
1268 (0.952 %)Middleware
1364 (0.896 %).NET Framework
1459 (0.826 %)XHTML
1553 (0.742 %)EJB
1647 (0.658 %)FIX Protocol
1746 (0.644 %)COM+
1845 (0.630 %)XSL
1944 (0.616 %)Struts
2041 (0.574 %)Hibernate
Application Platforms
1294 (4.116 %)IIS
2227 (3.178 %)WebLogic
3195 (2.730 %)Apache
4180 (2.520 %)Tomcat
5176 (2.464 %)SharePoint
686 (1.204 %)BizTalk Server
762 (0.868 %)MQSeries
858 (0.812 %)Lotus Notes
956 (0.784 %)Exchange Server 2003
1055 (0.770 %)JBoss
1152 (0.728 %)MS Exchange
1243 (0.602 %)WebSphere MQ
1340 (0.560 %)WebSphere Application Server
1431 (0.434 %)CMS
1530 (0.420 %)Exchange Server 2000
1629 (0.406 %)Oracle Application Server
1727 (0.378 %)IBM HTTP Server
1826 (0.364 %)LiveLink
1924 (0.336 %)Lotus Domino
2018 (0.252 %)Rendezvous
Applications
1510 (7.141 %)MS Excel
2328 (4.593 %)MS Office
330 (0.420 %)MS Visio
424 (0.336 %)MS PowerPoint
59 (0.126 %)AutoCAD
66 (0.084 %)Photoshop
75 (0.070 %)Acrobat
84 (0.056 %)MS Project
92 (0.028 %)Fireworks
92 (0.028 %)CA Clarity
92 (0.028 %)CATIA
101 (0.014 %)Windchill
101 (0.014 %)DeltaView
Business Applications
173 (1.022 %)Oracle Applications
271 (0.994 %)MarketView
363 (0.882 %)Summit
451 (0.714 %)Fidessa
548 (0.672 %)Microsoft CRM
642 (0.588 %)Oracle Financials
730 (0.420 %)Great Plains
828 (0.392 %)Misys Opics
927 (0.378 %)Dynamics GP
1026 (0.364 %)Oracle EBS
1124 (0.336 %)Dynamics CRM
1221 (0.294 %)Brady Trinity
1320 (0.280 %)Navision
1419 (0.266 %)LongView
1419 (0.266 %)Endur
1419 (0.266 %)Minerva
1419 (0.266 %)InvestOne
1518 (0.252 %)RMDS
1617 (0.238 %)BPCS
1617 (0.238 %)Loan IQ
Communications & Networking
1184 (2.576 %)TCP/IP
2182 (2.548 %)Internet
390 (1.260 %)Intranet
485 (1.190 %)WAN
563 (0.882 %)LAN
661 (0.854 %)Firewall
755 (0.770 %)HTTP
844 (0.616 %)VPN
938 (0.532 %)SAN
1035 (0.490 %)FTP
1130 (0.420 %)DNS
1225 (0.350 %)Extranet
1323 (0.322 %)WINS
1418 (0.252 %)SSL
1515 (0.210 %)SMTP
1515 (0.210 %)BSS
1614 (0.196 %)SMS
1614 (0.196 %)LDAP
1713 (0.182 %)Broadband
1713 (0.182 %)Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
11459 (20.43 %)SQL Server
2372 (5.209 %)RDBMS
3244 (3.416 %)SQL Server 2000
4233 (3.262 %)SQL Server 2005
5211 (2.954 %)Crystal Reports
6165 (2.310 %)DB2
7134 (1.876 %)MS Access
8119 (1.666 %)Oracle 8/8i
9118 (1.652 %)Datawarehouse
10110 (1.540 %)Oracle Reports
11105 (1.470 %)SQL Server 7
12102 (1.428 %)BusinessObjects
13101 (1.414 %)MySQL
13101 (1.414 %)Oracle 10g
1477 (1.078 %)Oracle 9i
1561 (0.854 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1657 (0.798 %)ETL
1753 (0.742 %)DTS
1849 (0.686 %)Ingres
1935 (0.490 %)GIS
Development Applications
1124 (1.736 %)ClearCase
275 (1.050 %)Visual Studio
358 (0.812 %)Oracle Forms
448 (0.672 %)Ant
544 (0.616 %)Eclipse
625 (0.350 %)PVCS
721 (0.294 %)JUnit
721 (0.294 %)Dreamweaver
815 (0.210 %)Flash
913 (0.182 %)JDeveloper
1012 (0.168 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1012 (0.168 %)ClearQuest
118 (0.112 %)MSI
118 (0.112 %)ProC
125 (0.070 %)Oracle Developer 2000
134 (0.056 %)PowerBuilder
134 (0.056 %)FrontPage
143 (0.042 %)JIRA
143 (0.042 %)QARun
152 (0.028 %)Subversion
General
12054 (28.76 %)Finance
21233 (17.26 %)Banking
31050 (14.70 %)Front Office
4541 (7.575 %)Investment Banking
5295 (4.130 %)Back Office
6228 (3.192 %)Insurance
7204 (2.856 %)Health
8148 (2.072 %)Financial Institution
9139 (1.946 %)Pensions
10135 (1.890 %)Education
11103 (1.442 %)Retail
1291 (1.274 %)Telecoms
1385 (1.190 %)Government
1480 (1.120 %)Marketing
1577 (1.078 %)Law
1672 (1.008 %)Legal
1769 (0.966 %)Manufacturing
1860 (0.840 %)Billing
1937 (0.518 %)Publishing
2035 (0.490 %)Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1731 (10.24 %)Derivative
2462 (6.469 %)Equities
3423 (5.923 %)Fixed Income
4247 (3.458 %)Equity Derivative
5240 (3.360 %)Asset Management
6217 (3.038 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
7106 (1.484 %)Credit Derivative
8104 (1.456 %)Client/Server
999 (1.386 %)Computer Science
1075 (1.050 %)Fund Management
1172 (1.008 %)French Language
1266 (0.924 %)Management Information System
1360 (0.840 %)AS400
1459 (0.826 %)German Language
1556 (0.784 %)Interest Rate Derivative
1654 (0.756 %)Mathematics
1744 (0.616 %)EPoS
1841 (0.574 %)NHS
1938 (0.532 %)Statistics
2031 (0.434 %)Credit Risk
Operating Systems
12309 (32.33 %)Unix
21782 (24.95 %)Windows
3465 (6.511 %)Solaris
4436 (6.105 %)Linux
5265 (3.710 %)Windows 2000
6177 (2.478 %)Windows Server 2003
7166 (2.324 %)Windows XP
8135 (1.890 %)Windows NT
9116 (1.624 %)VMS
1097 (1.358 %)AIX
1196 (1.344 %)HPUX
1223 (0.322 %)FreeBSD
1322 (0.308 %)MVS
1414 (0.196 %)OS/400
1511 (0.154 %)zOS
169 (0.126 %)SUSE
176 (0.084 %)Fedora
176 (0.084 %)OpenVMS
185 (0.070 %)Mac OS X
185 (0.070 %)Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1846 (11.85 %)ITIL
2284 (3.976 %)Investment Management
3226 (3.164 %)Problem Management
3226 (3.164 %)Project Management
4213 (2.982 %)Business Analysis
5186 (2.604 %)Release Management
6172 (2.408 %)CRM
7155 (2.170 %)Incident Management
8130 (1.820 %)ERP
9127 (1.778 %)Software Engineering
10126 (1.764 %)Risk Management
11124 (1.736 %)Service Delivery
12122 (1.708 %)Change Management
13104 (1.456 %)Disaster Recovery
14100 (1.400 %)OO
14100 (1.400 %)User Acceptance Testing
1595 (1.330 %)Business Intelligence
1694 (1.316 %)E-Commerce
1694 (1.316 %)Electronic Trading
1790 (1.260 %)Web Development
Programming Languages
13732 (52.25 %)SQL
2919 (12.87 %)Java
3675 (9.451 %)VB
4566 (7.925 %)Perl
5554 (7.757 %)C#
6460 (6.441 %)VBA
7309 (4.327 %)PL/SQL
8288 (4.032 %)C++
9280 (3.920 %)Shell Script
10245 (3.430 %)JavaScript
11220 (3.080 %)Transact-SQL
12179 (2.506 %)VB.NET
13163 (2.282 %)C
14159 (2.226 %)VB6
15106 (1.484 %)PHP
1672 (1.008 %)VBScript
1753 (0.742 %)RPG
1848 (0.672 %)Korn
1943 (0.602 %)COBOL
2030 (0.420 %)VC++
Qualifications
1549 (7.687 %)Degree
2125 (1.750 %)Microsoft Certification
396 (1.344 %)ITIL Certification
470 (0.980 %)MCSE
551 (0.714 %)MCP
618 (0.252 %)MCDBA
714 (0.196 %)Oracle Certification
813 (0.182 %)PRINCE2 Certification
813 (0.182 %)OCP
912 (0.168 %)CCNA
912 (0.168 %)HND
912 (0.168 %)MCSA
912 (0.168 %)Cisco Certification
1010 (0.140 %)ACCA
1010 (0.140 %)CIMA
115 (0.070 %)MCAD
115 (0.070 %)MCSD
115 (0.070 %)CCNP
124 (0.056 %)ISEB
124 (0.056 %)A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1368 (5.153 %)SLA
260 (0.840 %)QA
313 (0.182 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
46 (0.084 %)HL7
55 (0.070 %)ISO8583
64 (0.056 %)MiFID
71 (0.014 %)GCP
System Software
1211 (2.954 %)Active Directory
237 (0.518 %)Terminal Services
313 (0.182 %)Oracle RAC
412 (0.168 %)MetaFrame
58 (0.112 %)ISA Server
66 (0.084 %)NetBackup
73 (0.042 %)NDS
73 (0.042 %)Citrix Presentation Server
82 (0.028 %)Oracle RMAN
91 (0.014 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
91 (0.014 %)Orbix
91 (0.014 %)MSMQ
Systems Management
135 (0.490 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
233 (0.462 %)CONTROL-M
320 (0.280 %)AutoSys
320 (0.280 %)OpenView
320 (0.280 %)Tivoli
411 (0.154 %)SCOM
59 (0.126 %)Netcool
68 (0.112 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
77 (0.098 %)BMC PATROL
86 (0.084 %)CA SiteMinder
86 (0.084 %)OVSD
95 (0.070 %)DameWare
104 (0.056 %)BMC Marimba
104 (0.056 %)AppManager
104 (0.056 %)MOM
113 (0.042 %)ZENworks
113 (0.042 %)Netcool/Proviso
122 (0.028 %)OpenView Configuration Management
131 (0.014 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
131 (0.014 %)Unicenter
Vendors
11709 (23.93 %)Oracle
2827 (11.58 %)Sybase
3810 (11.34 %)Microsoft
4161 (2.254 %)Citrix
5156 (2.184 %)IBM
6147 (2.058 %)Reuters
7135 (1.890 %)Siebel
8134 (1.876 %)Remedy
9129 (1.806 %)Sun
9129 (1.806 %)BEA
10126 (1.764 %)SAP
11122 (1.708 %)Bloomberg
12102 (1.428 %)Business Objects
1390 (1.260 %)Murex
1485 (1.190 %)HP
1485 (1.190 %)Sage
1570 (0.980 %)LatentZero
1661 (0.854 %)Charles River
1758 (0.812 %)Lotus
1758 (0.812 %)Cognos
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