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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Specialist
Rank 82 80 51
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -29
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Specialist 2 1 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 0.223% 0.137% 0.895%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.229% 0.141% 0.911%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 4
Average salary £40,500 £52,500 £24,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-22.85% +118.75%
UK excluding London average salary £40,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+8.00% +7.14%
All Job Titles
Guildford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
875 710 439
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 97.55% 96.99% 98.21%
Number of salaries quoted 730 683 408
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,700 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £50,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Technical Specialist
Surrey

Technical Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford Technical Specialist Salary Trend

Technical Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford 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 4 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 3 (75.00%) SOA
2 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 3 (75.00%) IIS
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Web Services
2 3 (75.00%) DHCP
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (75.00%) VPN
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) Citrix
3 2 (50.00%) Sun
3 2 (50.00%) XML
3 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (50.00%) Business Objects
3 2 (50.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) SUSE
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (50.00%) WAN
3 2 (50.00%) GIS

Technical Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford 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 3 (75.00%) .NET
1 3 (75.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) Application Packaging
3 1 (25.00%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) IIS
2 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (50.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (50.00%) Lync
3 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2000
3 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (25.00%) Apache
3 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
3 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Office
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) DHCP
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (75.00%) VPN
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
3 2 (50.00%) WAN
3 2 (50.00%) SAN
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco IPT
3 2 (50.00%) IP Telephony
3 2 (50.00%) NAS
4 1 (25.00%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) GIS
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Thin Client
1 2 (50.00%) Smartcard
1 2 (50.00%) Blackberry
1 2 (50.00%) Clustering
1 2 (50.00%) IVR
1 2 (50.00%) PKI
1 2 (50.00%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) SUSE
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 2000 Server
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Vista
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 2000
3 1 (25.00%) Windows XP
3 1 (25.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) SOA
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (50.00%) Capacity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Quality Management
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) CITP
2 2 (50.00%) BC Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
1 2 (50.00%) SCOM
1 2 (50.00%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) Citrix
2 2 (50.00%) Sun
2 2 (50.00%) Business Objects
2 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) JBoss
3 1 (25.00%) Avaya