The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Support role in IT jobs advertised for the Slough 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 21 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 Slough region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Support
Rank 61 54 53
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -1
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 5 18 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Slough 0.727% 2.719% 0.416%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.763% 2.970% 0.464%
Number of salaries quoted 3 18 2
Average salary £46,000 £36,000 £27,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+27.77% +29.72%
UK excluding London average salary £32,000 £32,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-1.53% +8.33%
All Job Titles
Slough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
655 606 431
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Slough 95.20% 91.54% 89.60%
Number of salaries quoted 555 469 345
Average salary £49,000 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.88% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £31,550 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Applications Support
Berkshire

Applications Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Slough 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 Slough region.

Slough Applications Support Salary Trend

Applications Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Slough 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 12 (100.00%) SQL
1 12 (100.00%) Oracle
1 12 (100.00%) XML
1 12 (100.00%) ITIL
1 12 (100.00%) TOAD
1 12 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 9 (75.00%) SaaS
2 9 (75.00%) Waterfall
2 9 (75.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 9 (75.00%) SSL
2 9 (75.00%) IBM
2 9 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (75.00%) MS Excel
2 9 (75.00%) SOA
2 9 (75.00%) ETL
2 9 (75.00%) S/MIME
2 9 (75.00%) Salesforce.com
2 9 (75.00%) WebSphere MQ
2 9 (75.00%) Middleware
2 9 (75.00%) Data Security
2 9 (75.00%) ASP.NET
2 9 (75.00%) COM
2 9 (75.00%) UML
2 9 (75.00%) Apache
2 9 (75.00%) Tomcat
2 9 (75.00%) IIS
2 9 (75.00%) VB
2 9 (75.00%) .NET
2 9 (75.00%) C#
3 8 (66.67%) JavaScript

Applications Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Slough 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 12 (100.00%) XML
1 12 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 9 (75.00%) Middleware
2 9 (75.00%) ASP.NET
2 9 (75.00%) COM
2 9 (75.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 9 (75.00%) WebSphere MQ
1 9 (75.00%) Apache
1 9 (75.00%) Tomcat
1 9 (75.00%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (75.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (75.00%) SSL
1 9 (75.00%) S/MIME
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (100.00%) TOAD
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle 9i
2 3 (25.00%) SQLPlus
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle 10g
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle 11g
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 9 (75.00%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) ITIL
2 9 (75.00%) Waterfall
2 9 (75.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 9 (75.00%) SOA
2 9 (75.00%) ETL
2 9 (75.00%) Data Security
2 9 (75.00%) UML
3 3 (25.00%) Document Management
3 3 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) SQL
2 9 (75.00%) VB
2 9 (75.00%) C#
3 8 (66.67%) JavaScript
4 3 (25.00%) PL/SQL
4 3 (25.00%) Java
4 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) COBIT
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Oracle
2 9 (75.00%) IBM
2 9 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (75.00%) Salesforce.com
3 3 (25.00%) SAP
3 3 (25.00%) Sage
Slough, Thames Valley
You will be used to working with a broad range of technologies, including: Java/ EJB/ WebLogic/ JSP/ DHTML/ JavaScript/ SQL Server... Responsibilities: Deliver high quality problem analysis Communicate...
greywood
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + bens
Posted: 10 May 2013