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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Specialist
Rank 557 557 573
Rank change year-on-year
0 +16
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Specialist 52 83 63
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.119% 0.154% 0.110%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.128% 0.164% 0.117%
Number of salaries quoted 42 50 52
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% -19.04%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £32,500 £37,600
10% offered a salary of more than £90,000 £60,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
- -6.25%
All Job Titles
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
40744 50505 53832
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 93.41% 93.86% 93.60%
Number of salaries quoted 34331 43869 45250
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £31,500 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Applications Specialist
England

Applications Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London Applications Specialist Salary Trend

Applications Specialist
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Applications Specialist across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London Applications Specialist Salary Histogram

Applications Specialist
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Specialist within the London region over the 3 months to 17 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
City of London -5 15 £60,000 +18.81%
Harrow +3 9 £35,000 -12.50%
Uxbridge -2 1 £40,000 +23.07%
Applications Specialist
England

Applications Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the London 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 43 (44.33%) Windows
2 37 (38.14%) SQL
3 32 (32.99%) Finance
4 31 (31.96%) SQL Server
5 29 (29.90%) .NET
6 27 (27.84%) Oracle
6 27 (27.84%) Microsoft
7 24 (24.74%) Java
8 19 (19.59%) ITIL
8 19 (19.59%) MS Excel
9 18 (18.56%) SLA
9 18 (18.56%) TCP/IP
10 17 (17.53%) ASP.NET
11 16 (16.49%) Linux
11 16 (16.49%) JavaScript
11 16 (16.49%) Degree
12 14 (14.43%) Law
12 14 (14.43%) HTML
12 14 (14.43%) MySQL
12 14 (14.43%) IIS
12 14 (14.43%) HTTP
13 13 (13.40%) XML
13 13 (13.40%) Legal
14 12 (12.37%) Information Security
14 12 (12.37%) J2EE
14 12 (12.37%) PHP
14 12 (12.37%) Project Management
15 11 (11.34%) Citrix
15 11 (11.34%) C#
15 11 (11.34%) .NET Framework

Applications Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the London 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 29 (29.90%) .NET
2 17 (17.53%) ASP.NET
3 14 (14.43%) HTML
4 13 (13.40%) XML
5 12 (12.37%) J2EE
6 11 (11.34%) .NET Framework
7 10 (10.31%) WebSphere
8 3 (3.093%) Razor View Engine
8 3 (3.093%) Application Packaging
8 3 (3.093%) HTML5
8 3 (3.093%) DHTML
8 3 (3.093%) CSS
9 2 (2.062%) XHTML
9 2 (2.062%) Web Dynpro
9 2 (2.062%) JSP
9 2 (2.062%) SOAP
9 2 (2.062%) REST
9 2 (2.062%) JSF
9 2 (2.062%) SAP BSP
9 2 (2.062%) SAP ALE
Application Platforms
1 14 (14.43%) IIS
2 8 (8.247%) Tomcat
3 7 (7.216%) SharePoint
3 7 (7.216%) Apache
4 6 (6.186%) WebSphere Portal
5 4 (4.124%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (3.093%) WebLogic
6 3 (3.093%) CMS
7 2 (2.062%) SAP Portal
7 2 (2.062%) Lotus Notes
8 1 (1.031%) MS Exchange
8 1 (1.031%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (1.031%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 1 (1.031%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.031%) Amazon AWS
8 1 (1.031%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (1.031%) WorkSite
8 1 (1.031%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 19 (19.59%) MS Excel
2 10 (10.31%) MS Office
3 2 (2.062%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 2 (2.062%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.031%) PeopleSoft Financials
2 1 (1.031%) SAP CRM
2 1 (1.031%) LatentZero
2 1 (1.031%) Minerva
2 1 (1.031%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.031%) ION MarketView
2 1 (1.031%) Oracle iProcurement
Communications & Networking
1 18 (18.56%) TCP/IP
2 14 (14.43%) HTTP
3 10 (10.31%) SMTP
4 9 (9.278%) POP3
4 9 (9.278%) Internet
5 8 (8.247%) Firewall
6 4 (4.124%) Extranet
6 4 (4.124%) DNS
7 3 (3.093%) Intranet
7 3 (3.093%) DHCP
7 3 (3.093%) LAN
7 3 (3.093%) WAN
8 2 (2.062%) VPN
8 2 (2.062%) SSL
8 2 (2.062%) SAN
9 1 (1.031%) DVB
9 1 (1.031%) NetScaler
9 1 (1.031%) IMAP4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (31.96%) SQL Server
2 14 (14.43%) MySQL
3 3 (3.093%) DB2
3 3 (3.093%) GIS
3 3 (3.093%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (3.093%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (2.062%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.031%) SAP BW
5 1 (1.031%) DB2 UDB
5 1 (1.031%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (1.031%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (1.031%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (3.093%) Visual Studio
1 3 (3.093%) CruiseControl
1 3 (3.093%) JIRA
1 3 (3.093%) TeamCity
1 3 (3.093%) Hudson
General
1 32 (32.99%) Finance
2 14 (14.43%) Law
3 13 (13.40%) Legal
4 7 (7.216%) Retail
5 6 (6.186%) Advertising
6 4 (4.124%) Banking
7 3 (3.093%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.093%) Multimedia
7 3 (3.093%) Billing
7 3 (3.093%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.062%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.031%) Front Office
9 1 (1.031%) Games
9 1 (1.031%) General Ledger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.31%) Management Information System
1 10 (10.31%) Computer Science
2 6 (6.186%) Open Source
3 5 (5.155%) Blackberry
4 4 (4.124%) Mathematics
5 3 (3.093%) Derivative
5 3 (3.093%) Fat Client
5 3 (3.093%) Thin Client
5 3 (3.093%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.062%) SaaS
6 2 (2.062%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.062%) Cryptography
7 1 (1.031%) Statistics
7 1 (1.031%) Data Integration
7 1 (1.031%) Video on Demand
7 1 (1.031%) PACS
7 1 (1.031%) STB
7 1 (1.031%) Streaming Video
7 1 (1.031%) MPEG
7 1 (1.031%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 43 (44.33%) Windows
2 16 (16.49%) Linux
3 9 (9.278%) UNIX
3 9 (9.278%) Windows 7
4 7 (7.216%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (5.155%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (2.062%) Mac OS X
6 2 (2.062%) Solaris
7 1 (1.031%) AIX
7 1 (1.031%) HPUX
7 1 (1.031%) Windows 2000
7 1 (1.031%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (19.59%) ITIL
2 12 (12.37%) Project Management
2 12 (12.37%) Information Security
3 10 (10.31%) Business Analysis
3 10 (10.31%) CRM
4 9 (9.278%) E-Commerce
5 8 (8.247%) Practice Management
5 8 (8.247%) Problem Management
6 7 (7.216%) Knowledge Management
6 7 (7.216%) Technical Architecture
6 7 (7.216%) Business Development
7 6 (6.186%) MVC
7 6 (6.186%) Service Management
8 5 (5.155%) OOP
8 5 (5.155%) Security Architecture
9 4 (4.124%) OWASP
9 4 (4.124%) Workflow
9 4 (4.124%) Software Engineering
10 3 (3.093%) Requirements Analysis
10 3 (3.093%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 37 (38.14%) SQL
2 24 (24.74%) Java
3 16 (16.49%) JavaScript
4 12 (12.37%) PHP
5 11 (11.34%) C#
6 7 (7.216%) Perl
6 7 (7.216%) T-SQL
7 6 (6.186%) C
8 4 (4.124%) PL/SQL
8 4 (4.124%) VBA
8 4 (4.124%) Python
8 4 (4.124%) PowerShell
8 4 (4.124%) VBScript
8 4 (4.124%) VB
9 3 (3.093%) C++
10 2 (2.062%) ABAP
10 2 (2.062%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 16 (16.49%) Degree
2 9 (9.278%) CISSP
3 7 (7.216%) CISM
4 4 (4.124%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (4.124%) MCSE
5 3 (3.093%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.093%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.093%) MCITP
6 1 (1.031%) MOS
6 1 (1.031%) CEH
6 1 (1.031%) CCEE
6 1 (1.031%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (18.56%) SLA
2 2 (2.062%) QA
System Software
1 5 (5.155%) Active Directory
1 5 (5.155%) XenApp
2 4 (4.124%) XenDesktop
3 3 (3.093%) XenServer
3 3 (3.093%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.093%) Terminal Server
4 2 (2.062%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.031%) Terminal Services
5 1 (1.031%) Nmap
5 1 (1.031%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (7.216%) Nagios
2 5 (5.155%) Cacti
3 4 (4.124%) Zenoss
4 3 (3.093%) Puppet
5 1 (1.031%) Nessus
5 1 (1.031%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 27 (27.84%) Oracle
1 27 (27.84%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.34%) Citrix
3 6 (6.186%) ILOG
3 6 (6.186%) HP
3 6 (6.186%) Unica
4 4 (4.124%) Sybase
4 4 (4.124%) SAP
5 3 (3.093%) JBoss
5 3 (3.093%) Cisco
5 3 (3.093%) Salesforce.com
5 3 (3.093%) Altiris
6 2 (2.062%) Bloomberg
6 2 (2.062%) Remedy
6 2 (2.062%) Hummingbird
6 2 (2.062%) VMware
6 2 (2.062%) IBM
6 2 (2.062%) Lotus
7 1 (1.031%) Sage
7 1 (1.031%) Sun
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