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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Support
Rank 106 104 125
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +21
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 36 41 42
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 1.472% 1.619% 1.230%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.569% 1.681% 1.316%
Number of salaries quoted 25 28 37
Average salary £35,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £24,400 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £41,500 £46,500 £46,000
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
All Job Titles
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2294 2439 3192
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 93.82% 96.29% 93.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1869 1978 2595
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +3.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £59,500 £59,000
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 Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Applications Support Salary Trend

Applications Support
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Applications Support across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire 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
Watford +13 7 £35,000 -12.50%
Rickmansworth -4 6 £37,500 -11.76%
Hemel Hempstead 0 3 £30,000 -40.00%
Hertford - 1 £35,000 -
St Albans - 1 £27,500 -
Bishop's Stortford - 1 £30,000 -
Applications Support
East of England

Applications Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 42 (47.73%) SQL
2 30 (34.09%) Linux
3 28 (31.82%) Windows
4 27 (30.68%) UNIX
5 25 (28.41%) Oracle
6 23 (26.14%) SQL Server
7 21 (23.86%) ITIL
7 21 (23.86%) Tomcat
8 20 (22.73%) Microsoft
9 19 (21.59%) Apache
10 18 (20.45%) JBoss
10 18 (20.45%) AIX
11 17 (19.32%) .NET
11 17 (19.32%) Finance
12 14 (15.91%) MS Office
13 13 (14.77%) IIS
13 13 (14.77%) Sage
14 12 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
14 12 (13.64%) Java
15 11 (12.50%) VB
15 11 (12.50%) E-Commerce
15 11 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
16 10 (11.36%) Games
16 10 (11.36%) Service Delivery
17 9 (10.23%) Degree
17 9 (10.23%) PL/SQL
18 8 (9.091%) J2EE
18 8 (9.091%) MS Excel
18 8 (9.091%) Automotive
18 8 (9.091%) CODA

Applications Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 17 (19.32%) .NET
2 8 (9.091%) J2EE
3 6 (6.818%) JSP
4 4 (4.545%) WebSphere
4 4 (4.545%) ASP.NET
5 3 (3.409%) ASP
6 2 (2.273%) Web Services
6 2 (2.273%) XML
7 1 (1.136%) HTML
7 1 (1.136%) EJB
7 1 (1.136%) CSS
7 1 (1.136%) Middleware
7 1 (1.136%) NHibernate
7 1 (1.136%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.136%) WCF
7 1 (1.136%) Ajax
7 1 (1.136%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 21 (23.86%) Tomcat
2 19 (21.59%) Apache
3 13 (14.77%) IIS
4 5 (5.682%) Oracle Application Server
5 4 (4.545%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (2.273%) Jetty
6 2 (2.273%) MS Exchange
7 1 (1.136%) SharePoint
7 1 (1.136%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 14 (15.91%) MS Office
2 8 (9.091%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.545%) Taleo
2 2 (2.273%) SAP Business One
2 2 (2.273%) Pegasus Opera
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.818%) Firewall
2 5 (5.682%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.545%) DNS
4 3 (3.409%) HTTP
5 2 (2.273%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (2.273%) SNMP
5 2 (2.273%) VPN
5 2 (2.273%) LAN
5 2 (2.273%) VoIP
6 1 (1.136%) WLAN
6 1 (1.136%) WAN
6 1 (1.136%) DHCP
6 1 (1.136%) SAN
6 1 (1.136%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (26.14%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.818%) MySQL
3 4 (4.545%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (3.409%) DB2
4 3 (3.409%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (3.409%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (3.409%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (2.273%) SQL Server 2000
6 1 (1.136%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (3.409%) Subversion
2 1 (1.136%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 17 (19.32%) Finance
2 10 (11.36%) Games
3 8 (9.091%) Automotive
4 6 (6.818%) Retail
5 5 (5.682%) Advertising
6 3 (3.409%) Legal
7 1 (1.136%) Banking
7 1 (1.136%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.136%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.136%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.409%) Management Information System
1 3 (3.409%) Mathematics
2 2 (2.273%) Online Games
3 1 (1.136%) E-Learning
3 1 (1.136%) NHS
3 1 (1.136%) CCTV
3 1 (1.136%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 30 (34.09%) Linux
2 28 (31.82%) Windows
3 27 (30.68%) UNIX
4 18 (20.45%) AIX
5 11 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
6 7 (7.955%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (3.409%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (3.409%) Windows 7
7 3 (3.409%) Windows 8
8 1 (1.136%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (23.86%) ITIL
2 12 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (12.50%) E-Commerce
4 10 (11.36%) Service Delivery
5 6 (6.818%) Data Analysis
5 6 (6.818%) Asset Management
5 6 (6.818%) Service Management
6 5 (5.682%) Document Management
7 4 (4.545%) Project Management
7 4 (4.545%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (4.545%) PRINCE2
8 3 (3.409%) CRM
8 3 (3.409%) QMS
8 3 (3.409%) Customer Engagement
9 2 (2.273%) Change Control
9 2 (2.273%) Root Cause Analysis
9 2 (2.273%) ITSM
9 2 (2.273%) ETL
10 1 (1.136%) SOA
10 1 (1.136%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 42 (47.73%) SQL
2 12 (13.64%) Java
3 11 (12.50%) VB
4 9 (10.23%) PL/SQL
5 5 (5.682%) Shell Script
6 4 (4.545%) C#
7 3 (3.409%) T-SQL
7 3 (3.409%) Perl
8 2 (2.273%) Korn
8 2 (2.273%) JCL
8 2 (2.273%) VBA
9 1 (1.136%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.136%) C
9 1 (1.136%) VBScript
9 1 (1.136%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.136%) VB6
Qualifications
1 9 (10.23%) Degree
2 3 (3.409%) CFA
3 2 (2.273%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.273%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.273%) MCSE
3 2 (2.273%) MCSA
3 2 (2.273%) CCNA
3 2 (2.273%) MCP
4 1 (1.136%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.409%) QA
2 2 (2.273%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.273%) Terminal Server
1 2 (2.273%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.136%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (2.273%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 25 (28.41%) Oracle
2 20 (22.73%) Microsoft
3 18 (20.45%) JBoss
4 13 (14.77%) Sage
5 8 (9.091%) CODA
6 6 (6.818%) Pegasus
7 5 (5.682%) Cognos
8 3 (3.409%) Cisco
8 3 (3.409%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.273%) Altiris
9 2 (2.273%) NetSuite
9 2 (2.273%) Avaya
9 2 (2.273%) Symantec
9 2 (2.273%) IBM
9 2 (2.273%) Business Objects
9 2 (2.273%) SAP
10 1 (1.136%) HP
10 1 (1.136%) Progress
10 1 (1.136%) VMware
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
Experienced web server applications support analyst (IIS, .net applications - C#, VB/.net in a Web farm). Must have platforms experience - Windows 2003 and 2008 or RedHat Linux and...
Green Thompson Consulting
Salary: From £30,000 to £45,000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Hertfordshire
Proficient with the application of automated (software) tools which enable selective access to information held within some form of database or data warehouse (eg SQL/Oracle)... Just to...
ComputaCenter
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 20 May 2013
Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire £30,000 - £45,000 per annum A leader in retail is looking for an application support analyst to work within their Hertfordshire office; the company has staff...
Marcus Donald People
Salary: £30000 to £45000 per annum - benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013