The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Support role in IT jobs advertised for the Essex 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 22 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 Essex region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Support
Rank 76 69 63
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -6
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 11 40 38
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 1.099% 2.859% 3.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.126% 2.939% 3.223%
Number of salaries quoted 10 32 23
Average salary £40,000 £41,250 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.03% +26.92%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,800 £20,000 £20,900
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
All Job Titles
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
977 1361 1179
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 97.60% 97.28% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 845 1113 980
Average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.66% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £24,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Applications Support
East of England

Applications Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex Applications Support Salary Trend

Applications Support
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Applications Support across the Essex region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Essex 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 Essex region over the 3 months to 22 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
Brentwood -8 7 £42,500 +123.68%
Colchester +12 1 £22,000 +10.00%
Basildon -13 1 £34,000 -2.85%
Wickford - 1 - -
Applications Support
East of England

Applications Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 21 (80.77%) SQL
2 17 (65.38%) Finance
2 17 (65.38%) Windows
3 16 (61.54%) .NET
3 16 (61.54%) Oracle
4 15 (57.69%) Java
5 13 (50.00%) SQL Server
5 13 (50.00%) XML
6 11 (42.31%) IIS
6 11 (42.31%) E-Commerce
6 11 (42.31%) Change Control
7 10 (38.46%) GlassFish
7 10 (38.46%) SQL Server 2005
7 10 (38.46%) SQL Server 2008
7 10 (38.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (38.46%) JBoss
7 10 (38.46%) Apache
7 10 (38.46%) Tomcat
7 10 (38.46%) JSP
7 10 (38.46%) SOAP
7 10 (38.46%) WebLogic
7 10 (38.46%) J2EE
7 10 (38.46%) HTML
7 10 (38.46%) Firewall
8 9 (34.62%) RDBMS
8 9 (34.62%) Oracle 8/8i
8 9 (34.62%) Oracle 10g
8 9 (34.62%) Incident Management
8 9 (34.62%) Degree
8 9 (34.62%) ESB

Applications Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 16 (61.54%) .NET
2 13 (50.00%) XML
3 10 (38.46%) JSP
3 10 (38.46%) SOAP
3 10 (38.46%) J2EE
3 10 (38.46%) HTML
4 1 (3.846%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 11 (42.31%) IIS
2 10 (38.46%) GlassFish
2 10 (38.46%) Apache
2 10 (38.46%) Tomcat
2 10 (38.46%) WebLogic
3 9 (34.62%) ESB
4 1 (3.846%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 1 (3.846%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.846%) GoldMine
1 1 (3.846%) ResourceLink
1 1 (3.846%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.846%) SalesLogix
1 1 (3.846%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (3.846%) Pivotal CRM
Communications & Networking
1 10 (38.46%) Firewall
2 1 (3.846%) LDAP
2 1 (3.846%) Internet
2 1 (3.846%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 10 (38.46%) SQL Server 2005
2 10 (38.46%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (34.62%) RDBMS
3 9 (34.62%) Oracle 8/8i
3 9 (34.62%) Oracle 10g
3 9 (34.62%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (3.846%) EDMS
General
1 17 (65.38%) Finance
2 1 (3.846%) Law
2 1 (3.846%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.692%) AS400
2 1 (3.846%) Wiki
2 1 (3.846%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 17 (65.38%) Windows
2 10 (38.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (19.23%) Linux
4 1 (3.846%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (3.846%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (3.846%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) E-Commerce
1 11 (42.31%) Change Control
2 9 (34.62%) Incident Management
3 2 (7.692%) ERP
3 2 (7.692%) Configuration Management
4 1 (3.846%) Network Load Balancing
4 1 (3.846%) Wealth Management
4 1 (3.846%) Performance Testing
4 1 (3.846%) Time Management
4 1 (3.846%) Workflow
4 1 (3.846%) UML
4 1 (3.846%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 21 (80.77%) SQL
2 15 (57.69%) Java
3 2 (7.692%) VBA
4 1 (3.846%) COBOL
4 1 (3.846%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.846%) VBScript
4 1 (3.846%) VB
4 1 (3.846%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.846%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.846%) MetaFrame
Vendors
1 16 (61.54%) Oracle
2 10 (38.46%) JBoss
3 1 (3.846%) NetSuite
3 1 (3.846%) StreamServe
3 1 (3.846%) VMware
3 1 (3.846%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.846%) Citrix
3 1 (3.846%) Sage
3 1 (3.846%) Salesforce.com