The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Specialist role in IT jobs advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Applications Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Leeds region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Specialist
Rank 146 - 116
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Specialist 1 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 0.038% - 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% - 0.056%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
Average salary - - £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
- -6.25%
All Job Titles
Leeds
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2522 2038 1772
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 95.97% 97.28% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2057 1764 1516
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.06%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £24,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £49,750
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Applications Specialist
West Yorkshire

Applications Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds Applications Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Applications Specialist
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Applications Specialist across the Leeds region.

Leeds Applications Specialist Salary Trend

Applications Specialist
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds region that cited Applications 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 Applications Specialist in their job title.

1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
2 3 (75.00%) UNIX
2 3 (75.00%) JBoss
2 3 (75.00%) Apache
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) Perl
2 3 (75.00%) Introscope
2 3 (75.00%) CA Wily
2 3 (75.00%) Splunk
3 2 (50.00%) Terracotta
3 2 (50.00%) J2EE
3 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (25.00%) Service Management
4 1 (25.00%) Firewall
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) LAMP
4 1 (25.00%) Systems Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
4 1 (25.00%) IIS
4 1 (25.00%) XML
4 1 (25.00%) HTML

Applications Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds region that cited Applications 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 Applications Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (50.00%) J2EE
2 1 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) LAMP
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Apache
2 1 (25.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Introscope
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) CA Wily
1 3 (75.00%) Splunk
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) JBoss
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (50.00%) Terracotta