The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Support role in IT jobs advertised for the Middlesex 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 22 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 Middlesex region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Support
Rank 49 52 74
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +22
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 9 6 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 1.718% 1.174% 0.286%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.800% 1.282% 0.311%
Number of salaries quoted 8 5 2
Average salary £36,000 £36,000 £53,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -32.39%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £32,500 £41,850
10% offered a salary of more than £46,900 £48,000 £64,650
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
All Job Titles
Middlesex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
500 468 643
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 95.42% 91.59% 91.86%
Number of salaries quoted 404 387 494
Average salary £47,500 £45,000 £43,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.55% +4.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £32,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Applications Support
South East

Applications Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex Applications Support Salary Trend

Applications Support
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Applications Support across the Middlesex region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Middlesex Applications Support Salary Histogram

Applications Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 23 (92.00%) SQL
2 21 (84.00%) Oracle
3 19 (76.00%) Windows
4 14 (56.00%) SQL Server
4 14 (56.00%) Microsoft
5 8 (32.00%) Finance
5 8 (32.00%) MS Office
6 7 (28.00%) XML
7 6 (24.00%) IIS
7 6 (24.00%) Oracle 8/8i
7 6 (24.00%) MS Excel
7 6 (24.00%) Degree
7 6 (24.00%) Stress Testing
7 6 (24.00%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (20.00%) Bash shell
8 5 (20.00%) Windows 7
8 5 (20.00%) JIRA
8 5 (20.00%) Hibernate
8 5 (20.00%) Nagios
8 5 (20.00%) Solaris
8 5 (20.00%) Linux
8 5 (20.00%) Apache
8 5 (20.00%) UNIX
8 5 (20.00%) DNS
8 5 (20.00%) J2EE
8 5 (20.00%) HTML
8 5 (20.00%) Java
9 4 (16.00%) PHP
9 4 (16.00%) .NET
9 4 (16.00%) MySQL

Applications Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 7 (28.00%) XML
2 5 (20.00%) Hibernate
2 5 (20.00%) J2EE
2 5 (20.00%) HTML
3 4 (16.00%) .NET
4 2 (8.000%) ASP.NET
5 1 (4.000%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 6 (24.00%) IIS
2 5 (20.00%) Apache
3 4 (16.00%) Tomcat
3 4 (16.00%) CMS
3 4 (16.00%) nginx
4 2 (8.000%) MS Exchange
5 1 (4.000%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (32.00%) MS Office
2 6 (24.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.00%) DNS
2 4 (16.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (8.000%) IMAP4
3 2 (8.000%) POP3
3 2 (8.000%) SMTP
3 2 (8.000%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (56.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (24.00%) Oracle 8/8i
3 4 (16.00%) MySQL
3 4 (16.00%) Oracle 11g
4 3 (12.00%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 8 (32.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (12.00%) Video on Demand
3 2 (8.000%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 19 (76.00%) Windows
2 5 (20.00%) Windows 7
2 5 (20.00%) Solaris
2 5 (20.00%) Linux
2 5 (20.00%) UNIX
3 2 (8.000%) Fedora
4 1 (4.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (24.00%) Stress Testing
2 4 (16.00%) ITIL
3 2 (8.000%) Service Management
4 1 (4.000%) Problem Management
4 1 (4.000%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 23 (92.00%) SQL
2 5 (20.00%) Bash shell
2 5 (20.00%) Java
3 4 (16.00%) PHP
4 2 (8.000%) VB
4 2 (8.000%) VB.NET
4 2 (8.000%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.000%) C#
4 2 (8.000%) C++
4 2 (8.000%) VB6
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) SLA
2 2 (8.000%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 21 (84.00%) Oracle
2 14 (56.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.00%) Red Hat