The first table below looks at the demand for the Support 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 Support Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Specialist
Rank - 125 123
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Specialist 0 7 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds - 0.331% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.340% 0.057%
Number of salaries quoted 0 7 1
Average salary - £55,000 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +100.00%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Job Titles
Leeds
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2491 2057 1752
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 95.81% 97.40% 97.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2022 1784 1498
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%
Support Specialist
West Yorkshire

Support Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Support Specialist Salary Trend

Support Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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 9 (100.00%) ITIL
2 7 (77.78%) Problem Management
3 6 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (66.67%) Windows
4 5 (55.56%) Statistics
4 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
4 5 (55.56%) CTC Cleared
4 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
4 5 (55.56%) SLA
5 4 (44.44%) UNIX
5 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (22.22%) CentOS
6 2 (22.22%) XenApp
6 2 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (22.22%) F5
6 2 (22.22%) CCAA
6 2 (22.22%) Capacity Management
6 2 (22.22%) SCCM
6 2 (22.22%) Performance Management
6 2 (22.22%) Java
6 2 (22.22%) Opalis
6 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
6 2 (22.22%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (22.22%) Linux
6 2 (22.22%) MS Excel
6 2 (22.22%) SSL
6 2 (22.22%) BIG-IP
6 2 (22.22%) Cisco
6 2 (22.22%) Microsoft

Support Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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 2 (22.22%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) SSL
1 2 (22.22%) SAN
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
1 2 (22.22%) BIG-IP
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco ASA
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (44.44%) UNIX
3 2 (22.22%) CentOS
3 2 (22.22%) Linux
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) ITIL
2 7 (77.78%) Problem Management
3 6 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Capacity Management
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Management
4 2 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (22.22%) Change Management
5 1 (11.11%) Asset Management
5 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Java
1 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
1 5 (55.56%) CTC Cleared
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) CCAA
2 2 (22.22%) CCA
2 2 (22.22%) Citrix Certification
2 2 (22.22%) CCEA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (22.22%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Opalis
1 2 (22.22%) SCCM
2 1 (11.11%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 2 (22.22%) Citrix
1 2 (22.22%) Red Hat
1 2 (22.22%) VMware
1 2 (22.22%) F5