The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Support role in IT jobs advertised for the Glasgow 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 19 June 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 Glasgow region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Support
Rank 39 63 31
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -32
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 56 20 59
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 4.534% 2.281% 5.745%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.754% 2.478% 6.057%
Number of salaries quoted 37 13 40
Average salary £32,500 £27,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.18% -8.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £21,550 £27,450
10% offered a salary of more than £38,500 £36,700 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £32,000 £32,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-1.53% +8.33%
All Job Titles
Glasgow
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1178 807 974
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 95.38% 92.02% 94.84%
Number of salaries quoted 774 569 761
Average salary £40,000 £36,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £53,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Applications Support
Scotland

Applications Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow Applications Support Salary Trend

Applications Support
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Applications Support across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Glasgow Applications Support Salary Histogram

Applications Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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 62 (75.61%) SQL Server
2 50 (60.98%) Oracle
3 43 (52.44%) Java
3 43 (52.44%) SQL
4 38 (46.34%) UNIX
5 35 (42.68%) ITIL
6 34 (41.46%) .NET
7 32 (39.02%) C#
8 29 (35.37%) XML
9 27 (32.93%) Windows
9 27 (32.93%) ASP.NET
10 23 (28.05%) Finance
11 20 (24.39%) Linux
12 19 (23.17%) Shell Script
13 18 (21.95%) Web Services
13 18 (21.95%) VB
13 18 (21.95%) VB.NET
14 16 (19.51%) SLA
15 15 (18.29%) Banking
16 14 (17.07%) Investment Banking
17 12 (14.63%) Change Management
17 12 (14.63%) Incident Management
17 12 (14.63%) Delphi
18 11 (13.41%) ASP
19 10 (12.20%) DHTML
19 10 (12.20%) HTML
19 10 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
20 9 (10.98%) Investment Management
20 9 (10.98%) Sybase
20 9 (10.98%) Microsoft

Applications Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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 34 (41.46%) .NET
2 29 (35.37%) XML
3 27 (32.93%) ASP.NET
4 18 (21.95%) Web Services
5 11 (13.41%) ASP
6 10 (12.20%) DHTML
6 10 (12.20%) HTML
7 9 (10.98%) WebSphere
8 7 (8.537%) CSS
8 7 (8.537%) SOAP
9 5 (6.098%) AppFabric
10 4 (4.878%) NHibernate
11 1 (1.220%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 1 (1.220%) REST
11 1 (1.220%) .NET Framework
11 1 (1.220%) WSE
Application Platforms
1 8 (9.756%) BizTalk Server
2 7 (8.537%) IIS
3 4 (4.878%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.878%) Apache
4 1 (1.220%) LiveLink
4 1 (1.220%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.220%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (7.317%) MS Excel
2 5 (6.098%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (4.878%) BusinessWorks
2 2 (2.439%) MFGPRO
3 1 (1.220%) Movex
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.439%) LAN
1 2 (2.439%) WAN
1 2 (2.439%) Firewall
2 1 (1.220%) VPN
2 1 (1.220%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (75.61%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.317%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (6.098%) RDBMS
4 3 (3.659%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (3.659%) SQL Server 2000
4 3 (3.659%) Oracle 8/8i
5 2 (2.439%) MySQL
5 2 (2.439%) DB2
5 2 (2.439%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (2.439%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.439%) SQL Server 2012
6 1 (1.220%) Oracle 11g
6 1 (1.220%) Informix
General
1 23 (28.05%) Finance
2 15 (18.29%) Banking
3 14 (17.07%) Investment Banking
4 7 (8.537%) Private Banking
5 2 (2.439%) Front Office
5 2 (2.439%) Back Office
6 1 (1.220%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.220%) Retail
6 1 (1.220%) Billing
6 1 (1.220%) Dutch Language
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.756%) CMDB
2 2 (2.439%) N-Tier
2 2 (2.439%) LIMS
2 2 (2.439%) Data Extraction
3 1 (1.220%) Reference Data
3 1 (1.220%) Clustering
3 1 (1.220%) Statistics
3 1 (1.220%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.220%) Smartcard
3 1 (1.220%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 38 (46.34%) UNIX
2 27 (32.93%) Windows
3 20 (24.39%) Linux
4 3 (3.659%) Windows XP
4 3 (3.659%) Solaris
5 2 (2.439%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (2.439%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.220%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (42.68%) ITIL
2 12 (14.63%) Change Management
2 12 (14.63%) Incident Management
3 10 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (10.98%) Investment Management
5 8 (9.756%) Problem Management
5 8 (9.756%) Business Analysis
5 8 (9.756%) Project Management
5 8 (9.756%) Configuration Management
5 8 (9.756%) ERP
6 7 (8.537%) Root Cause Analysis
7 6 (7.317%) Data Transformation
7 6 (7.317%) System Testing
7 6 (7.317%) Security Management
7 6 (7.317%) Service Delivery
7 6 (7.317%) ETL
8 4 (4.878%) Performance Management
8 4 (4.878%) CRM
9 3 (3.659%) Document Management
10 2 (2.439%) OO
Programming Languages
1 43 (52.44%) Java
1 43 (52.44%) SQL
2 32 (39.02%) C#
3 19 (23.17%) Shell Script
4 18 (21.95%) VB
4 18 (21.95%) VB.NET
5 12 (14.63%) Delphi
6 6 (7.317%) JavaScript
6 6 (7.317%) Perl
7 3 (3.659%) C++
7 3 (3.659%) VBA
8 2 (2.439%) COBOL
8 2 (2.439%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (4.878%) Degree
2 2 (2.439%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.220%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.220%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (19.51%) SLA
2 1 (1.220%) QA
2 1 (1.220%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (3.659%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.220%) Samba
Vendors
1 50 (60.98%) Oracle
2 9 (10.98%) Sybase
2 9 (10.98%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.878%) JBoss
3 4 (4.878%) TIBCO
4 2 (2.439%) SAP
4 2 (2.439%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.439%) IBM
5 1 (1.220%) Tradeweb
5 1 (1.220%) MarketAxess
5 1 (1.220%) VMware
5 1 (1.220%) eSpeed
5 1 (1.220%) CQG
5 1 (1.220%) Reuters
5 1 (1.220%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.220%) Sage
5 1 (1.220%) Informatica
5 1 (1.220%) Citrix
5 1 (1.220%) Cisco
Glasgow, Scotland
Key Requirements A third level qualification from a Computer Science based background or similar discipline (Grade 2.1 or above). Good SQL experience gained either on the year...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 29 May 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
This large enterprise organisation has an opportunity for an Application Support Analyst to join their growing team.The correct candidates will possess good strong SQL Server Skills and...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
One of the largest enterprise orgnaisations in Glasgow is recruiting for a SQL Shift Analyst to join their ever expanding team... This is the ideal position for an...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £18000.00 - £30000.00 per annum
Posted: 28 May 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
This large enterprise organisation has an opportunity for an Application Support Analyst to join their growing team.The correct candidates will possess good strong SQL Server Skills and...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £20000.00 - £30000.00 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
Key Requirements A third level qualification from a Computer Science based background or similar discipline (Grade 2.1 or above). Good SQL experience gained either on the year...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £20000.00 - £30000.00 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £20000.00 - £26000.00 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £18000.00 - £24000.00 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £35000.00 - £45000.00 per annum
Posted: 11 June 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
IT Human Resources
Posted: 21 May 2013