The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Specialist role in IT jobs advertised for the England region. 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 23 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Specialist
Rank 628 630 644
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +14
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Specialist 210 236 230
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.209% 0.208% 0.193%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.221% 0.220% 0.204%
Number of salaries quoted 149 192 178
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £44,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% -9.09%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £60,000 £90,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,250 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.33% +7.14%
All Job Titles
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
95030 107492 112528
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 94.41% 94.80% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 79926 92829 95737
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Technical Specialist
UK

Technical Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Technical Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Specialist
Salary Trend

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

England Technical Specialist Salary Trend

Technical Specialist
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Technical Specialist across the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England Technical Specialist Salary Histogram

Technical Specialist
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Specialist within the England region over the 3 months to 23 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
London +36 94 £55,000 +37.50%
South East -11 37 £40,500 -10.00%
West Midlands +2 30 £45,000 +26.76%
East of England +5 15 £29,000 -18.88%
Yorkshire -9 9 £36,250 -3.33%
North West -34 9 £32,528 -5.71%
South West -1 4 £40,500 +20.89%
Midlands - 4 £37,500 -
East Midlands -7 3 £42,000 +12.00%
Technical Specialist
UK

Technical Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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.

1 179 (42.02%) Windows
2 142 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 106 (24.88%) VMware
4 92 (21.60%) Finance
5 90 (21.13%) Linux
6 89 (20.89%) Cisco
7 84 (19.72%) UNIX
8 80 (18.78%) MS Excel
9 75 (17.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 74 (17.37%) Citrix
11 72 (16.90%) Service Delivery
12 70 (16.43%) Solaris
13 68 (15.96%) ITIL
14 67 (15.73%) Windows Server 2003
15 65 (15.26%) Active Directory
16 64 (15.02%) Degree
17 63 (14.79%) MCSE
18 62 (14.55%) Windows Server 2008
19 58 (13.62%) MCITP
20 57 (13.38%) SQL Server
21 54 (12.68%) MS Office
21 54 (12.68%) SQL
21 54 (12.68%) MS Exchange
22 53 (12.44%) SLA
23 52 (12.21%) SAN
23 52 (12.21%) VMware Infrastructure
24 51 (11.97%) HP
25 49 (11.50%) Telecoms
26 45 (10.56%) SharePoint
27 43 (10.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Technical Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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 33 (7.746%) .NET
2 24 (5.634%) Web Services
3 19 (4.460%) HTML
4 16 (3.756%) CSS
5 14 (3.286%) ASP.NET
5 14 (3.286%) XML
6 11 (2.582%) WebSphere
6 11 (2.582%) Application Packaging
7 7 (1.643%) .NET Framework
8 6 (1.408%) J2EE
8 6 (1.408%) jQuery
8 6 (1.408%) JSON
8 6 (1.408%) ASP.NET MVC
9 5 (1.174%) SOAP
10 4 (0.939%) XSLT
10 4 (0.939%) LINQ
10 4 (0.939%) WCF
10 4 (0.939%) Memcached
10 4 (0.939%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 3 (0.704%) REST
Application Platforms
1 54 (12.68%) MS Exchange
2 45 (10.56%) SharePoint
3 40 (9.390%) Exchange Server 2010
4 30 (7.042%) Exchange Server 2007
5 29 (6.808%) Lync
6 16 (3.756%) Exchange Server 2003
7 14 (3.286%) SharePoint 2010
8 12 (2.817%) WebLogic
8 12 (2.817%) IIS
9 11 (2.582%) Tomcat
10 8 (1.878%) WebSphere Application Server
11 5 (1.174%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 5 (1.174%) Apache
12 4 (0.939%) WebSphere Process Server
13 3 (0.704%) Quickr
13 3 (0.704%) SharePoint Server
13 3 (0.704%) WebSphere Portal
13 3 (0.704%) Windows Azure
13 3 (0.704%) Amazon AWS
13 3 (0.704%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 80 (18.78%) MS Excel
2 54 (12.68%) MS Office
3 15 (3.521%) MS Visio
4 14 (3.286%) MS Project
5 10 (2.347%) MS PowerPoint
6 4 (0.939%) InfoPath
6 4 (0.939%) Office 365
7 3 (0.704%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.235%) RoboHelp
Business Applications
1 22 (5.164%) SAP Business One
2 13 (3.052%) Google Analytics
3 3 (0.704%) Pivotal CRM
4 2 (0.469%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.469%) Front Arena
4 2 (0.469%) SunGard AvantGard
4 2 (0.469%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.469%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.235%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.235%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.235%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.235%) Sage 1000
5 1 (0.235%) Tridion
5 1 (0.235%) Agresso
Communications & Networking
1 52 (12.21%) SAN
2 35 (8.216%) DNS
3 30 (7.042%) Firewall
4 22 (5.164%) TCP/IP
4 22 (5.164%) Unified Communications
5 17 (3.991%) VoIP
6 14 (3.286%) ADSL
6 14 (3.286%) Broadband
6 14 (3.286%) DPNSS
6 14 (3.286%) MGCP
6 14 (3.286%) SS7
6 14 (3.286%) Megaco
6 14 (3.286%) Q.931
6 14 (3.286%) H.323
6 14 (3.286%) Softswitch
6 14 (3.286%) NAS
7 13 (3.052%) IP Telephony
8 12 (2.817%) WAN
8 12 (2.817%) Wireless
9 11 (2.582%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (13.38%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.817%) MySQL
2 12 (2.817%) Big Data
3 9 (2.113%) SAP HANA
4 7 (1.643%) DB2
5 6 (1.408%) SQL Server 2005
6 4 (0.939%) Oracle 11g
6 4 (0.939%) SQL Server 2008
7 3 (0.704%) GIS
8 2 (0.469%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.469%) MS Access
8 2 (0.469%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.469%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.469%) DB2 UDB
8 2 (0.469%) Redis
9 1 (0.235%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.235%) PerformancePoint
9 1 (0.235%) SAP BI
9 1 (0.235%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.235%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 9 (2.113%) MSI
2 8 (1.878%) QuickTest Pro
2 8 (1.878%) LoadRunner
3 6 (1.408%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (0.939%) JUnit
4 4 (0.939%) Visual Studio
4 4 (0.939%) JIRA
4 4 (0.939%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.704%) Ant
6 2 (0.469%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.235%) Build Forge
7 1 (0.235%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 92 (21.60%) Finance
2 49 (11.50%) Telecoms
3 20 (4.695%) Retail
4 14 (3.286%) Manufacturing
4 14 (3.286%) Banking
5 10 (2.347%) Marketing
6 8 (1.878%) French Language
7 7 (1.643%) Military
7 7 (1.643%) Aerospace
7 7 (1.643%) Electronics
8 5 (1.174%) Advertising
9 4 (0.939%) Financial Institution
9 4 (0.939%) German Language
9 4 (0.939%) Local Government
10 3 (0.704%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.704%) Legal
11 2 (0.469%) Publishing
11 2 (0.469%) Front Office
12 1 (0.235%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.235%) Italian Language
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.042%) Clustering
2 21 (4.930%) Blackberry
3 20 (4.695%) iPhone
4 19 (4.460%) SaaS
5 12 (2.817%) IVR
6 10 (2.347%) Management Information System
6 10 (2.347%) Video Conferencing
6 10 (2.347%) Enterprise Storage
7 9 (2.113%) Computer Science
8 8 (1.878%) Replication
9 5 (1.174%) Chip and PIN
10 4 (0.939%) CMDB
10 4 (0.939%) Learning Management System
10 4 (0.939%) Statistics
11 3 (0.704%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.704%) Fat Client
11 3 (0.704%) Thin Client
12 2 (0.469%) Smartcard
12 2 (0.469%) Mathematics
12 2 (0.469%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 179 (42.02%) Windows
2 90 (21.13%) Linux
3 84 (19.72%) UNIX
4 70 (16.43%) Solaris
5 67 (15.73%) Windows Server 2003
6 62 (14.55%) Windows Server 2008
7 43 (10.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 26 (6.103%) AIX
9 23 (5.399%) HPUX
10 22 (5.164%) OpenVMS
11 20 (4.695%) Windows XP
12 18 (4.225%) Windows Phone
13 11 (2.582%) SUSE
14 5 (1.174%) Windows Vista
14 5 (1.174%) Windows 7
15 3 (0.704%) Android
15 3 (0.704%) Windows 2000
16 2 (0.469%) Windows NT
16 2 (0.469%) Windows 2000 Server
16 2 (0.469%) bada
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (16.90%) Service Delivery
2 68 (15.96%) ITIL
3 35 (8.216%) Project Management
4 31 (7.277%) Capacity Management
5 21 (4.930%) Change Management
6 17 (3.991%) Problem Management
7 14 (3.286%) Analytics
8 13 (3.052%) Waterfall
8 13 (3.052%) Business Analytics
8 13 (3.052%) Time Management
8 13 (3.052%) Disaster Recovery
9 12 (2.817%) SOA
9 12 (2.817%) E-Commerce
9 12 (2.817%) Performance Management
10 11 (2.582%) Root Cause Analysis
10 11 (2.582%) Technical Architecture
10 11 (2.582%) Performance Testing
10 11 (2.582%) Load Balancing
10 11 (2.582%) Migration
10 11 (2.582%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 54 (12.68%) SQL
2 38 (8.920%) Java
3 25 (5.869%) C#
4 21 (4.930%) JavaScript
5 9 (2.113%) PHP
6 8 (1.878%) Perl
7 7 (1.643%) T-SQL
8 6 (1.408%) VB
9 5 (1.174%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.174%) C++
10 4 (0.939%) C
10 4 (0.939%) Python
10 4 (0.939%) Ruby
11 3 (0.704%) Jython
11 3 (0.704%) VB6
11 3 (0.704%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.704%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.469%) ABAP
12 2 (0.469%) VBA
12 2 (0.469%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 75 (17.61%) Microsoft Certification
2 64 (15.02%) Degree
3 63 (14.79%) MCSE
4 58 (13.62%) MCITP
5 26 (6.103%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 20 (4.695%) Cisco Certification
7 19 (4.460%) MCTS
7 19 (4.460%) Security Cleared
8 17 (3.991%) MCP
9 14 (3.286%) HND
10 13 (3.052%) SC Cleared
10 13 (3.052%) ITIL Certification
11 12 (2.817%) CCNA
12 11 (2.582%) CCNP
13 9 (2.113%) Citrix Certification
14 8 (1.878%) ISEB
14 8 (1.878%) SAP Certification
15 6 (1.408%) DV Cleared
16 5 (1.174%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
16 5 (1.174%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (12.44%) SLA
2 19 (4.460%) QA
3 2 (0.469%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.235%) HL7
4 1 (0.235%) DICOM
4 1 (0.235%) ISO 9000
4 1 (0.235%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 65 (15.26%) Active Directory
2 52 (12.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (7.277%) Hyper-V
4 25 (5.869%) XenApp
5 14 (3.286%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 13 (3.052%) Microsoft App-V
7 6 (1.408%) MetaFrame
7 6 (1.408%) vSphere
8 5 (1.174%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.939%) VMware ESX
9 4 (0.939%) XenServer
10 3 (0.704%) Forefront TMG
10 3 (0.704%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.469%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.469%) Xen
11 2 (0.469%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.469%) Varnish
12 1 (0.235%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.235%) ISA Server
12 1 (0.235%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 33 (7.746%) SCCM
2 26 (6.103%) SCOM
3 16 (3.756%) NetBackup
4 12 (2.817%) SCVMM
5 10 (2.347%) Cisco UCCE
5 10 (2.347%) Cisco CUCM
6 6 (1.408%) ARCserve
6 6 (1.408%) SolarWinds Orion
7 5 (1.174%) Norton AntiVirus
8 4 (0.939%) Netcool
8 4 (0.939%) Tivoli
8 4 (0.939%) HP Quality Center
8 4 (0.939%) WSUS
9 3 (0.704%) HP UCMDB
10 2 (0.469%) OpenView
10 2 (0.469%) Unicenter
10 2 (0.469%) MAILsweeper
10 2 (0.469%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.469%) Puppet
11 1 (0.235%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 142 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 106 (24.88%) VMware
3 89 (20.89%) Cisco
4 74 (17.37%) Citrix
5 51 (11.97%) HP
6 42 (9.859%) IBM
7 40 (9.390%) Oracle
8 36 (8.451%) SAP
9 35 (8.216%) EMC
10 34 (7.981%) Sun
11 32 (7.512%) Nortel
11 32 (7.512%) NetApp
12 21 (4.930%) Dell
12 21 (4.930%) Red Hat
13 20 (4.695%) Veritas
14 19 (4.460%) Avaya
15 18 (4.225%) BT
15 18 (4.225%) Mitel
15 18 (4.225%) Dialogic
16 16 (3.756%) AppSense
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Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Hampshire
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Salary: £30000 - £32000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
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This is a chance to work for a Midlands based Microsoft Gold Partner providing support for a wide range of customers from SME organizations through to Blue-chip...
Trinity Expert Systems
Salary: From £25,000 to £38,000 per annum (dep on exp), plus bonus & benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
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Salary: £40000 to £50000 per annum - Excellent Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Hampshire, South East
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Castleford (M62), West Yorkshire
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inTalent
Salary: Upto £27K + benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
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Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + pension, 9.5% car allowance,
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Salary: £0 - £40,000 per year
Posted: 23 May 2013
New Malden, Surrey
Experience of Incident, Problem and Change Management... Technical skills in; Server security, backups, Solarwinds, sever patching, VMWare, SAN, NetApp, AD (Active Directory) Location: Based in New Malden, Surrey.
Nuffield Health
Salary: From £35,000 to £42,000 per annum + Benefits which include our own Gym
Posted: 7 May 2013
Central London / West End
Frontier Technology is a premier IT solution provider delivering cloud computing and on-premise solutions.As a Microsoft, Citrix, Symantec and Commvault Partner, we are the first choice...
Frontier Technology
Salary: From £40,000 to £55,000 per annum plus performance related bonus
Posted: 9 May 2013
City, London
This is a senior position, go to person for networking,multi talented with a broad range of infrastructure skills majoring in Cisco networking but with server and storage...
Coal IT Services
Salary: Up to £70,000 per annum + Bonus/Benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
Coventry, West Midlands (County)
Candidates will possess a significant number of the following key technology skills and certifications: Microsoft Hyper-V - Certified to MCSE, MCITP Level. Microsoft App-V, SCVMM, SCCM, SCOM,...
Trinity Expert Systems
Salary: From £45,000 to £75,000 per annum (dep on exp), bonus & benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Staines, South East
Proven experience of applying technical and ITIL best practice frameworks to the delivery and continual improvement of services... - Experience of working within an ITIL based service delivery model.
Centrica
Salary: Salary : Competitive base + bonus + benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
London
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Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum + Bonus and Benefits Package
Posted: 21 May 2013
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Salary: £33000 - £48000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
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Posted: 23 May 2013
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Salary: Salary + Benefits
Posted: 2 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
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Salary: £45000 to £55000 per annum - Excellent Benefits
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