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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Support
Rank 48 63 40
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -23
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 3 8 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 0.838% 1.569% 4.334%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.870% 1.619% 4.502%
Number of salaries quoted 3 8 7
Average salary £40,000 £25,429 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+57.30% -27.34%
90% offered a salary of more than £38,000 £21,500 £30,500
10% offered a salary of more than £42,000 £30,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £31,500 £32,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-3.07% +8.33%
All Job Titles
Liverpool
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
345 494 311
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 96.37% 96.86% 96.28%
Number of salaries quoted 294 432 247
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,500 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Applications Support
Merseyside

Applications Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool Applications Support Salary Trend

Applications Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (50.00%) Back Office
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 2 (33.33%) ERP
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Lawson
3 2 (33.33%) MS Office
3 2 (33.33%) SAP
3 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) AIX
3 2 (33.33%) T-SQL
3 2 (33.33%) VBA
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle
3 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Change Management
3 2 (33.33%) OutlookSoft
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (33.33%) Northgate
3 2 (33.33%) NorthgateArinso
3 2 (33.33%) SAP BPC
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (16.67%) Hudson
4 1 (16.67%) Database Security
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 1 (16.67%) Resource Management
4 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing

Applications Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 3 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (16.67%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Office
2 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Lawson
1 2 (33.33%) SAP BPC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Ant
1 1 (16.67%) Hudson
General
1 3 (50.00%) Back Office
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) AIX
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) ERP
1 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
1 2 (33.33%) Change Management
1 2 (33.33%) Migration
1 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
2 1 (16.67%) Resource Management
2 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Database Security
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) T-SQL
2 2 (33.33%) VBA
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) Java
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
1 2 (33.33%) SAP
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) OutlookSoft
1 2 (33.33%) Northgate
1 2 (33.33%) NorthgateArinso