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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Specialist
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Specialist 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £40,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+8.00% +7.14%
All Job Titles
Sheffield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
515 597 554
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 96.80% 96.29% 97.36%
Number of salaries quoted 449 514 470
Average salary £35,000 £34,000 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.94% +3.03%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £22,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £44,300 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Technical Specialist
South Yorkshire

Technical Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield Technical Specialist Salary Trend

Technical Specialist
Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 3 (75.00%) IBM
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Clustering
3 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
3 1 (25.00%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Perl

Technical Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) WebSphere MQ
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Perl
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) IBM