The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical 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 Technical Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Specialist
Rank 140 132 107
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -25
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Specialist 6 2 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 0.228% 0.095% 0.443%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.239% 0.097% 0.456%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 7
Average salary £33,500 £37,500 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.66% +50.00%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
All Job Titles
Leeds
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2515 2056 1753
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 95.77% 97.44% 97.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2041 1780 1490
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 £48,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Technical Specialist
West Yorkshire

Technical Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Technical Specialist Salary Trend

Technical Specialist
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Technical Specialist across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Leeds Technical Specialist Salary Histogram

Technical Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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 10 (58.82%) Windows
2 9 (52.94%) Linux
2 9 (52.94%) VMware
3 7 (41.18%) ITIL
3 7 (41.18%) MS Excel
3 7 (41.18%) Problem Management
3 7 (41.18%) Capacity Management
4 6 (35.29%) Capacity Planning
4 6 (35.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (35.29%) UNIX
4 6 (35.29%) SAN
5 5 (29.41%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (23.53%) Performance Management
6 4 (23.53%) Finance
6 4 (23.53%) Asset Management
6 4 (23.53%) SQL
6 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
7 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
7 3 (17.65%) HP
7 3 (17.65%) MS Exchange
7 3 (17.65%) EMC
7 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
7 3 (17.65%) vSphere
7 3 (17.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (11.76%) Exchange Server 2003
8 2 (11.76%) Marketing
8 2 (11.76%) Clustering
8 2 (11.76%) Retail

Technical Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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 2 (11.76%) .NET
2 1 (5.882%) Web Services
2 1 (5.882%) XML
2 1 (5.882%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 3 (17.65%) MS Exchange
2 2 (11.76%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.882%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (5.882%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (5.882%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 7 (41.18%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.882%) RoboHelp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) SAN
2 1 (5.882%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.882%) Intranet
2 1 (5.882%) Firewall
2 1 (5.882%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.882%) MS Access
2 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 4 (23.53%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Marketing
2 2 (11.76%) Retail
3 1 (5.882%) Publishing
3 1 (5.882%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Clustering
2 1 (5.882%) NHS
2 1 (5.882%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.882%) Graphic Design
2 1 (5.882%) Statistics
2 1 (5.882%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 10 (58.82%) Windows
2 9 (52.94%) Linux
3 6 (35.29%) UNIX
4 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (17.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (5.882%) SUSE
5 1 (5.882%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) ITIL
1 7 (41.18%) Problem Management
1 7 (41.18%) Capacity Management
2 6 (35.29%) Capacity Planning
3 5 (29.41%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (23.53%) Performance Management
4 4 (23.53%) Asset Management
5 1 (5.882%) OO
5 1 (5.882%) Information Security
5 1 (5.882%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (5.882%) TDD
5 1 (5.882%) Service Delivery
5 1 (5.882%) Load Balancing
5 1 (5.882%) Software Engineering
5 1 (5.882%) Incident Management
5 1 (5.882%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) T-SQL
3 1 (5.882%) VB
3 1 (5.882%) C#
3 1 (5.882%) Perl
3 1 (5.882%) VB6
3 1 (5.882%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (5.882%) CCNA
1 1 (5.882%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (5.882%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (5.882%) MCSE
1 1 (5.882%) Degree
1 1 (5.882%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.882%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (5.882%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.882%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 3 (17.65%) vSphere
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (5.882%) VMware ESX
4 1 (5.882%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (5.882%) XenApp
4 1 (5.882%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 1 (5.882%) Nagios
1 1 (5.882%) SCOM
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) VMware
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
3 3 (17.65%) HP
3 3 (17.65%) EMC
4 2 (11.76%) Dell
5 1 (5.882%) Citrix
5 1 (5.882%) SAP