The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Specialist role in IT jobs advertised for the Reading 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 24 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 Reading region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Specialist
Rank 123 123 112
Rank change year-on-year
0 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Specialist 10 9 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 0.461% 0.398% 0.477%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.485% 0.418% 0.509%
Number of salaries quoted 8 8 9
Average salary £43,250 £47,500 £24,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.94% +93.87%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
All Job Titles
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2062 2151 1768
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 95.07% 95.01% 93.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1675 1848 1424
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Technical Specialist
Berkshire

Technical Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Technical Specialist Salary Trend

Technical Specialist
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Technical Specialist across the Reading region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Reading Technical Specialist Salary Histogram

Technical Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 19 (76.00%) AIX
1 19 (76.00%) HPUX
1 19 (76.00%) Solaris
1 19 (76.00%) Linux
1 19 (76.00%) UNIX
1 19 (76.00%) SAN
2 13 (52.00%) Windows
3 8 (32.00%) Red Hat
3 8 (32.00%) SUSE
3 8 (32.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (28.00%) Replication
4 7 (28.00%) Clustering
4 7 (28.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (28.00%) Hitachi
4 7 (28.00%) EMC
4 7 (28.00%) Sun
5 4 (16.00%) SaaS
5 4 (16.00%) Big Data
5 4 (16.00%) User Stories
6 3 (12.00%) German Language
7 2 (8.000%) Degree
7 2 (8.000%) Computer Science
7 2 (8.000%) French Language
7 2 (8.000%) Product Marketing
7 2 (8.000%) Memcached
7 2 (8.000%) REST
7 2 (8.000%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (8.000%) Redis
7 2 (8.000%) Test Automation
7 2 (8.000%) Product Management

Technical Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 (8.000%) Memcached
1 2 (8.000%) REST
2 1 (4.000%) CSS
2 1 (4.000%) XML
2 1 (4.000%) HTML
Applications
1 1 (4.000%) MS Office
1 1 (4.000%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 19 (76.00%) SAN
2 1 (4.000%) Internet
2 1 (4.000%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) Big Data
2 2 (8.000%) Redis
2 2 (8.000%) Hadoop
General
1 3 (12.00%) German Language
2 2 (8.000%) French Language
2 2 (8.000%) Marketing
3 1 (4.000%) Italian Language
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Replication
1 7 (28.00%) Clustering
2 4 (16.00%) SaaS
3 2 (8.000%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 19 (76.00%) AIX
1 19 (76.00%) HPUX
1 19 (76.00%) Solaris
1 19 (76.00%) Linux
1 19 (76.00%) UNIX
2 13 (52.00%) Windows
3 8 (32.00%) SUSE
3 8 (32.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.000%) Windows 2000
4 1 (4.000%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (16.00%) User Stories
3 2 (8.000%) Product Marketing
3 2 (8.000%) Test Automation
3 2 (8.000%) Product Management
3 2 (8.000%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (8.000%) Software Engineering
4 1 (4.000%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.000%) Scala
1 2 (8.000%) Ruby
1 2 (8.000%) Python
1 2 (8.000%) C
1 2 (8.000%) C#
1 2 (8.000%) C++
1 2 (8.000%) Java
1 2 (8.000%) PHP
2 1 (4.000%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.000%) Degree
2 1 (4.000%) MCP
2 1 (4.000%) MCSE
2 1 (4.000%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.000%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.000%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.000%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (8.000%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (4.000%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Red Hat
2 7 (28.00%) Hitachi
2 7 (28.00%) EMC
2 7 (28.00%) Sun
3 1 (4.000%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.000%) HP
Reading, UK, Thames Valley
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Posted: 24 May 2013