The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Specialist role in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Support Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Specialist
Rank 149 138 134
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Specialist 12 18 24
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.363% 0.528% 0.667%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.382% 0.560% 0.709%
Number of salaries quoted 9 12 17
Average salary £35,000 £30,500 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.75% -8.95%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,200 £28,500 £25,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £40,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,309 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+6.20% +0.88%
All Job Titles
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
3143 3212 3386
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 95.10% 94.19% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1979 2309 2549
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £56,500 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Support Specialist
UK

Support Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Support Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Support Specialist
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Support Specialist across the Scotland region.

Scotland Support Specialist Salary Trend

Support Specialist
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Support Specialist across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Scotland Support Specialist Salary Histogram

Support Specialist
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Support Specialist within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Edinburgh +2 5 £35,000 +27.27%
Glasgow -14 5 £27,500 -23.07% 2
Support Specialist
UK

Support Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region that cited Support 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 Support Specialist in their job title.

1 12 (46.15%) SQL
2 8 (30.77%) Java
2 8 (30.77%) .NET
2 8 (30.77%) Oracle
2 8 (30.77%) Perl
2 8 (30.77%) UNIX
2 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 6 (23.08%) Solaris
3 6 (23.08%) MS Excel
3 6 (23.08%) Finance
3 6 (23.08%) WebSphere
4 5 (19.23%) Windows
4 5 (19.23%) MS Office
4 5 (19.23%) Change Management
5 4 (15.38%) Ab Initio
5 4 (15.38%) Configuration Management
5 4 (15.38%) MQSeries
5 4 (15.38%) SQLPlus
5 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
5 4 (15.38%) ASP.NET
5 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
5 4 (15.38%) Ant
5 4 (15.38%) WMQI
5 4 (15.38%) Subversion
5 4 (15.38%) Hudson
5 4 (15.38%) Jenkins
6 3 (11.54%) QMS
6 3 (11.54%) System Testing
6 3 (11.54%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (11.54%) QA

Support Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region that cited Support 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 Support Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (30.77%) .NET
2 6 (23.08%) WebSphere
3 4 (15.38%) ASP.NET
4 2 (7.692%) CSS
4 2 (7.692%) SOAP
4 2 (7.692%) XML
4 2 (7.692%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 4 (15.38%) MQSeries
1 4 (15.38%) WMQI
2 2 (7.692%) ESB
2 2 (7.692%) WebSphere Portal
2 2 (7.692%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (7.692%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (7.692%) WebSphere Process Server
3 1 (3.846%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (23.08%) MS Excel
2 5 (19.23%) MS Office
3 3 (11.54%) MS Project
3 3 (11.54%) MS Visio
3 3 (11.54%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (7.692%) Sage 200
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) DNS
2 2 (7.692%) SAN
2 2 (7.692%) LAN
2 2 (7.692%) WAN
2 2 (7.692%) DHCP
2 2 (7.692%) HTTP
2 2 (7.692%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.846%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
1 4 (15.38%) SQLPlus
2 2 (7.692%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.846%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Ant
1 4 (15.38%) Subversion
1 4 (15.38%) Hudson
1 4 (15.38%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (23.08%) Finance
2 1 (3.846%) Law
2 1 (3.846%) Banking
2 1 (3.846%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.692%) Symmetrix
1 2 (7.692%) Data Extraction
2 1 (3.846%) Symmetrix DMX
2 1 (3.846%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 8 (30.77%) UNIX
2 6 (23.08%) Solaris
3 5 (19.23%) Windows
4 3 (11.54%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (11.54%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (7.692%) AIX
5 2 (7.692%) Linux
5 2 (7.692%) Windows XP
6 1 (3.846%) Windows 7
6 1 (3.846%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (19.23%) Change Management
2 4 (15.38%) Configuration Management
3 3 (11.54%) QMS
3 3 (11.54%) System Testing
3 3 (11.54%) Quality Management
4 2 (7.692%) Time Management
4 2 (7.692%) Customer Engagement
4 2 (7.692%) Network Management
4 2 (7.692%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (7.692%) Incident Management
4 2 (7.692%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (7.692%) Release Management
4 2 (7.692%) Service Management
4 2 (7.692%) ERP
4 2 (7.692%) ITSM
4 2 (7.692%) Workflow
5 1 (3.846%) Document Management
5 1 (3.846%) ITIL
5 1 (3.846%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) SQL
2 8 (30.77%) Java
2 8 (30.77%) Perl
3 2 (7.692%) C#
3 2 (7.692%) VBScript
3 2 (7.692%) VB.NET
3 2 (7.692%) Korn
3 2 (7.692%) Bourne shell
4 1 (3.846%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.846%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.846%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) QA
2 2 (7.692%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
1 8 (30.77%) Oracle
2 4 (15.38%) Ab Initio
3 3 (11.54%) EMC
3 3 (11.54%) NetApp
4 2 (7.692%) Sage
4 2 (7.692%) McAfee
4 2 (7.692%) Brocade
4 2 (7.692%) Lumension
4 2 (7.692%) Cisco
4 2 (7.692%) IBM
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
This is a full time role that oversees the day-to-day support, maintenance, development and integration of Network Management systems... - Data extraction and code developing I.e...
EXCELerate
Salary: From £45,000 to £50,000 per annum Corporate Benefits incl. Health, Pen
Posted: 11 June 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Good understanding and working knowledge of Microsoft Windows 2003/2008 Enterprise Architecture, Windows XP/7 Desktop and supporting products... - Also of advatange is scripting experience (Bourne/Korn shell,...
EXCELerate
Salary: Up to £50,000 per annum Corporate Benefits incl. Health, Pension
Posted: 11 June 2013
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