Applications Support Jobs in the North West
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

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

Location
 3 months to
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Support
Rank 136 166 117
Rank change year-on-year
+30 -49
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 121 79 126
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 1.675% 1.099% 1.871%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.754% 1.146% 1.959%
Number of salaries quoted 99 69 112
Average salary £35,000 £27,500 £24,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+27.27% +11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £21,500 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £40,000 £33,000
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
All Job Titles
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 6899 6891 6432
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 95.51% 95.87% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5861 6087 5695
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £22,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Applications Support
England

Applications Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West Applications Support Salary Trend

Applications Support
Salary Histogram

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

North West Applications Support Salary Histogram

Applications Support
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Support within the North West region over the 3 months to 22 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
Manchester +2 65 £27,500 -8.33%
Cheshire +48 45 £35,750 +43.00%
Merseyside +17 3 £40,000 +54.05%
Lancashire - 1 £50,000 -
Applications Support
England

Applications Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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.

1 143 (63.84%) SQL
2 84 (37.50%) Oracle
3 80 (35.71%) Java
4 73 (32.59%) .NET
5 64 (28.57%) UNIX
6 62 (27.68%) Microsoft
7 61 (27.23%) Windows
8 60 (26.79%) ITIL
9 54 (24.11%) Finance
10 53 (23.66%) Linux
10 53 (23.66%) SQL Server
11 48 (21.43%) C#
12 43 (19.20%) Problem Management
13 37 (16.52%) ASP.NET
14 30 (13.39%) VB.NET
15 29 (12.95%) XML
15 29 (12.95%) Incident Management
16 28 (12.50%) Banking
17 27 (12.05%) SharePoint
18 24 (10.71%) MS Excel
19 23 (10.27%) T-SQL
20 21 (9.375%) Degree
21 20 (8.929%) PL/SQL
21 20 (8.929%) TCP/IP
22 19 (8.482%) Risk Management
23 18 (8.036%) IBM
24 17 (7.589%) JavaScript
24 17 (7.589%) DB2
24 17 (7.589%) WebSphere
25 16 (7.143%) MS Office

Applications Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 73 (32.59%) .NET
2 37 (16.52%) ASP.NET
3 29 (12.95%) XML
4 17 (7.589%) WebSphere
5 15 (6.696%) J2EE
6 9 (4.018%) HTML
7 8 (3.571%) Web Services
8 7 (3.125%) WCF
9 6 (2.679%) CSS
10 5 (2.232%) JSON
10 5 (2.232%) JSP
10 5 (2.232%) SOAP
10 5 (2.232%) Struts
10 5 (2.232%) XHTML
11 4 (1.786%) Servlets
11 4 (1.786%) JDBC
11 4 (1.786%) Stripes Framework
11 4 (1.786%) JSTL
11 4 (1.786%) Spring
11 4 (1.786%) JSF
Application Platforms
1 27 (12.05%) SharePoint
2 14 (6.250%) WebLogic
3 7 (3.125%) Tomcat
4 6 (2.679%) CMS
5 5 (2.232%) WebLogic Portal
6 4 (1.786%) IIS
6 4 (1.786%) CICS
7 3 (1.339%) Orchard CMS
7 3 (1.339%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (0.446%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 24 (10.71%) MS Excel
2 16 (7.143%) MS Office
3 1 (0.446%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 7 (3.125%) SAP MM
2 5 (2.232%) SAP CO
2 5 (2.232%) Oracle Applications
2 5 (2.232%) SAP FI/CO
2 5 (2.232%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.893%) SAP PP
3 2 (0.893%) Lawson
3 2 (0.893%) SAP SD
3 2 (0.893%) SAP APO
3 2 (0.893%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.893%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.893%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.893%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.893%) Oracle CRM
3 2 (0.893%) MFGPRO
4 1 (0.446%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.446%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.446%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.446%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.929%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.679%) DNS
2 6 (2.679%) DHCP
3 4 (1.786%) SSL
4 3 (1.339%) HTTP
5 2 (0.893%) FTP
5 2 (0.893%) Internet
6 1 (0.446%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (23.66%) SQL Server
2 17 (7.589%) DB2
3 14 (6.250%) RDBMS
4 10 (4.464%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (3.125%) SQL Server 2005
5 7 (3.125%) SQL Server 2008
6 4 (1.786%) Oracle 9i
6 4 (1.786%) TOAD
6 4 (1.786%) Oracle 10g
6 4 (1.786%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.339%) RavenDB
7 3 (1.339%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.339%) Oracle 8/8i
8 2 (0.893%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (0.893%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.446%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
9 1 (0.446%) Oracle 11g
9 1 (0.446%) DataStage
9 1 (0.446%) MS Access
9 1 (0.446%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 8 (3.571%) Visual Studio
1 8 (3.571%) Ant
1 8 (3.571%) Hudson
2 5 (2.232%) StarTeam
3 4 (1.786%) Eclipse
3 4 (1.786%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 4 (1.786%) TortoiseSVN
3 4 (1.786%) NetBeans
3 4 (1.786%) Subversion
3 4 (1.786%) NetBeans IDE
General
1 54 (24.11%) Finance
2 28 (12.50%) Banking
3 15 (6.696%) Telecoms
4 10 (4.464%) Financial Institution
5 9 (4.018%) Corporate Banking
6 6 (2.679%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.786%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (1.786%) Back Office
8 3 (1.339%) Retail
8 3 (1.339%) Legal
9 1 (0.446%) Dutch Language
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.125%) Enterprise Software
1 7 (3.125%) Management Information System
2 4 (1.786%) Client/Server
2 4 (1.786%) Mainframe
2 4 (1.786%) Handset
3 3 (1.339%) IBM Mainframe
4 2 (0.893%) FMCG
4 2 (0.893%) Online Banking
4 2 (0.893%) Computer Science
5 1 (0.446%) VSAM
5 1 (0.446%) IVR
5 1 (0.446%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 64 (28.57%) UNIX
2 61 (27.23%) Windows
3 53 (23.66%) Linux
4 9 (4.018%) AIX
5 5 (2.232%) CentOS
5 5 (2.232%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.232%) Solaris
6 4 (1.786%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (1.786%) VMS
6 4 (1.786%) OpenVMS
7 3 (1.339%) Fedora
7 3 (1.339%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.339%) Windows NT
8 1 (0.446%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (26.79%) ITIL
2 43 (19.20%) Problem Management
3 29 (12.95%) Incident Management
4 19 (8.482%) Risk Management
5 15 (6.696%) Release Management
6 14 (6.250%) Performance Management
7 10 (4.464%) Service Delivery
8 9 (4.018%) User Acceptance Testing
8 9 (4.018%) Configuration Management
9 8 (3.571%) Change Management
10 7 (3.125%) Time Management
10 7 (3.125%) CRM
11 6 (2.679%) Business Continuity
11 6 (2.679%) Data Analysis
11 6 (2.679%) Asset Management
11 6 (2.679%) ITIL V3
12 5 (2.232%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (2.232%) Change Control
12 5 (2.232%) Service Management
13 4 (1.786%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 143 (63.84%) SQL
2 80 (35.71%) Java
3 48 (21.43%) C#
4 30 (13.39%) VB.NET
5 23 (10.27%) T-SQL
6 20 (8.929%) PL/SQL
7 17 (7.589%) JavaScript
8 13 (5.804%) C
9 7 (3.125%) Shell Script
9 7 (3.125%) VBA
10 5 (2.232%) VB
10 5 (2.232%) COBOL
11 4 (1.786%) C++
11 4 (1.786%) Perl
12 3 (1.339%) Bash shell
12 3 (1.339%) JCL
12 3 (1.339%) Python
13 2 (0.893%) VC++
13 2 (0.893%) VBScript
14 1 (0.446%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (9.375%) Degree
2 9 (4.018%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (0.893%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (0.893%) SAP Certification
4 1 (0.446%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.446%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.911%) SLA
2 8 (3.571%) QA
System Software
1 6 (2.679%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (0.893%) Tivoli
2 1 (0.446%) NetBackup
2 1 (0.446%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 84 (37.50%) Oracle
2 62 (27.68%) Microsoft
3 18 (8.036%) IBM
4 12 (5.357%) SAP
5 8 (3.571%) Citrix
6 7 (3.125%) Cognos
7 6 (2.679%) Siebel
7 6 (2.679%) Business Objects
7 6 (2.679%) Remedy
7 6 (2.679%) Northgate
8 5 (2.232%) Jaspersoft
8 5 (2.232%) Ab Initio
8 5 (2.232%) Amdocs
8 5 (2.232%) MetaSolv
8 5 (2.232%) Convergys
8 5 (2.232%) Ascential
8 5 (2.232%) Informatica
8 5 (2.232%) MicroStrategy
8 5 (2.232%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.232%) Vitria
Application Support Analyst - IBM BPM - SQL (MANCHESTER)
Manchester, Lancashire
You will be responsible for all incident and problem management issues. Your core responsibilities will include: - Close liasion with the business users - Ensure maximum availability and serviceability - Close...
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Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Excellent benefits
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SQL Application Support Analyst / C# / Manchester
Manchester, Lancashire
You shall provide support on the SQL software systems developed in house which is based on the Microsoft platform. VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET, XML and Distributed Application...
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Salary: £24000 - £28000 per annum + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 20 May 2013
Application Support Analyst
Manchester, Lancashire
Suitable applicants will possess an IT or numerical science degree or equivalent experience, have excellent communication skills and be able to demonstrate the potential to build successful careers...
FDM Group
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 29 April 2013
Application Support Analyst
Manchester, Lancashire
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The Guinness Partnership
Salary: £29,797 + Benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
Web Applications Support Analyst
Manchester, North West
You must be able to demonstrate expertise in the following technologies: EpiServer/Sharepoint (or other CMS exposure). SQL Server/SQL/T-SQL, ASP. Net, C#, XML, HTML v4/...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £25000.00 - £35000.00 per annum + Pension, Healthcare.
Posted: 9 May 2013
Web Applications Support Analyst
Manchester, North West
You must be able to demonstrate expertise in the following technologies: EpiServer/Sharepoint (or other CMS exposure). SQL Server/SQL/T-SQL, ASP. Net, C#, XML, HTML v4/...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + Pension, Healthcare,
Posted: 8 May 2013
Application Support Lead (.Net / MS SQL / IIS) Salford £40K
Salford, North West
Microsoft / Windows / Server / IIS / SQL Server / Oracle / Applications)... We are looking for a bright and articulate individual with relevant commercial experience within an Enterprise Application Support role and...
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Application Support Lead (.Net / MS SQL / IIS) Salford £40K
Salford, Lancashire
Microsoft / Windows / Server / IIS / SQL Server / Oracle / Applications)... We are looking for a bright and articulate individual with relevant commercial experience within an Enterprise Application Support role and...
Ascent People Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Lead Application Support (SQL / Scripting) Manchester £40K
Manchester, Lancashire
Microsoft / Windows / Server / IIS / SQL Server / Oracle / Applications)... We are looking for a bright and articulate individual with relevant commercial experience within an Enterprise Application Support role and...
Ascent People Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 19 May 2013
Lead Application Support (SQL / Scripting) Manchester £40K
Manchester, North West
Microsoft / Windows / Server / IIS / SQL Server / Oracle / Applications)... We are looking for a bright and articulate individual with relevant commercial experience within an Enterprise Application Support role and...
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Graduate Application Support Analyst
Manchester, North West
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Salary: £21,000 - £24,000 per year
Posted: 22 May 2013
Application Support - SQL, Windows, .Net, C#, VB6 - URGENT
Lymm, Cheshire
My client is currently looking for a SQL, Windows, .Net, C#, VB6 Application Support Specialist to join their team supporting a global customer base... *Provide training sessions to...
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Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Lead Application Support Specialist x5 - ITIL - Cheshire
Cheshire, North West
The successful candidate will have proven application support experience within a live environment & experience of some/all of the following skills: UNIX Scripting, Linux, Java, .NET, SQL, Oracle,...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £40000.00 - £47000.00 per annum + Excellent Package
Posted: 18 May 2013
Lead Application Support Specialist x5 - ITIL - Cheshire
Cheshire
The successful candidate will have proven application support experience within a live environment & experience of some/all of the following skills: UNIX Scripting, Linux, Java, .NET, SQL, Oracle,...
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Salary: £40000.00 - £47000.00 per annum + Excellent Package
Posted: 17 May 2013
Application Support (SQL, ITIL, IBM BPM)
North West
My client requires an Application Support (SQL, ITIL, IBM BPM) to support a large trade management application. The successful Application Support (SQL, Relational databases, IBM BPM) will manage...
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: Up to £55,000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Application Support Manager - £50,000 +
Stockport, North West
This is a fantastic opportunity to work for a well established and growing company. This role is responsible for the management of the 3rd and 4th Line support...
Computer Futures
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
IT / Application Support Manager - £55k
Cheshire, North West
You will need: At least 4 years of experience of managing teams Experience with Microsoft Office products Working knowledge of JIRA Defect Tracking tool An understanding of issues...
Computer Futures
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Lead Application Support Specialist - ITIL - Cheshire
Cheshire, North West
Lead Application Support Specialist - ITIL, UNIX Scripting, Linux, SQL, Java, Incident Management, Problem Management - This is an excellent opportunity to progress a challenging, varied and stable career working...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £40000.00 - £47000.00 per annum + Excellent package
Posted: 3 May 2013
Application Support Specialist (.NET, SQL, Live Support)
North West
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ANSON MCCADE
Salary: Up to £55,000 per annum + package
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Application Support Specialist
Manchester, Lancashire
A candidate must have knowledge and experience in languages like HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, ASP.Net, C#, JSON, SOAP, Odata and REST including software development methods, tools and...
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Salary: From £32,000 to £35,000 per annum
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Lead Application Support Developer
Manchester, Lancashire
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Salary: £46000 per annum
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Mainframe Application Support - COBOL, CICS, JCL - Cheshire
Cheshire, North West
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