The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Specialist role in IT jobs advertised for the Essex 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 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Specialist
Rank 85 99 100
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Specialist 2 5 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 0.199% 0.364% 0.160%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.203% 0.374% 0.168%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 2
Average salary £37,500 £50,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.00% +11.11%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,309 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+6.20% +0.88%
All Job Titles
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
983 1337 1189
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 97.71% 97.24% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 844 1100 998
Average salary £39,500 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.33% -
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%
Support Specialist
East of England

Support Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex Support Specialist Salary Trend

Support Specialist
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Support Specialist across the Essex region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Essex Support Specialist Salary Histogram

Support Specialist
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 5 (83.33%) Oracle
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle Applications
2 4 (66.67%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (16.67%) Backup Exec
3 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
3 1 (16.67%) MS Office
3 1 (16.67%) Windows
3 1 (16.67%) DHCP
3 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (16.67%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Veritas
3 1 (16.67%) Symantec
3 1 (16.67%) Norton AntiVirus
3 1 (16.67%) Sophos
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management

Support Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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.

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle Applications
2 4 (66.67%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DHCP
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
1 1 (16.67%) Change Management
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Backup Exec
1 1 (16.67%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Veritas
2 1 (16.67%) Symantec
2 1 (16.67%) Sophos