The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Specialist role in IT jobs advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Applications 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 South East region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Specialist
Rank 392 398 376
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -22
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Specialist 43 46 49
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.194% 0.191% 0.218%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.204% 0.200% 0.231%
Number of salaries quoted 38 37 41
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,850 £30,000 £34,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,500 £70,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- -2.59%
All Job Titles
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
21074 22975 21253
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 94.88% 95.23% 94.43%
Number of salaries quoted 17479 19844 18264
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Applications Specialist
England

Applications Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Applications Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Applications Specialist
Salary Trend

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

South East Applications Specialist Salary Trend

Applications Specialist
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Applications Specialist across the South East region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

South East Applications Specialist Salary Histogram

Applications Specialist
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Specialist within the South East 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
Berkshire +8 11 £37,500 -16.66%
Hampshire +4 10 £33,250 -52.50%
Surrey +5 7 £40,000 -
Buckinghamshire -5 5 £24,500 -18.33%
Middlesex - 4 £36,000 -
Oxfordshire -16 3 £40,000 +22.72%
Kent -17 3 £80,000 -
Applications Specialist
England

Applications Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East region that cited Applications 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 Applications Specialist in their job title.

1 33 (41.25%) SQL
2 28 (35.00%) Oracle
3 24 (30.00%) SQL Server
4 19 (23.75%) Linux
5 17 (21.25%) Microsoft
6 13 (16.25%) ITIL
7 12 (15.00%) Windows
7 12 (15.00%) Finance
8 11 (13.75%) Degree
8 11 (13.75%) SharePoint
8 11 (13.75%) Java
9 9 (11.25%) Crystal Reports
9 9 (11.25%) PL/SQL
9 9 (11.25%) User Acceptance Testing
10 8 (10.00%) MS Office
10 8 (10.00%) Business Objects
10 8 (10.00%) .NET
10 8 (10.00%) TCP/IP
10 8 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (10.00%) Retail
10 8 (10.00%) Manufacturing
11 7 (8.750%) Service Delivery
11 7 (8.750%) Telecoms
11 7 (8.750%) WebSphere
11 7 (8.750%) ERP
11 7 (8.750%) J2EE
11 7 (8.750%) Digital Media
12 6 (7.500%) WebSphere Portal
12 6 (7.500%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (7.500%) MySQL

Applications Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East region that cited Applications 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 Applications Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (10.00%) .NET
2 7 (8.750%) WebSphere
2 7 (8.750%) J2EE
3 6 (7.500%) JSP
4 5 (6.250%) Web Services
4 5 (6.250%) XML
4 5 (6.250%) HTML
5 4 (5.000%) Spring MVC
5 4 (5.000%) Ajax
5 4 (5.000%) Spring
5 4 (5.000%) Hibernate
6 3 (3.750%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.250%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.250%) CSS
7 1 (1.250%) SOAP
7 1 (1.250%) WCF
7 1 (1.250%) WF
Application Platforms
1 11 (13.75%) SharePoint
2 6 (7.500%) WebSphere Portal
2 6 (7.500%) IIS
3 4 (5.000%) SharePoint 2010
3 4 (5.000%) Apache
3 4 (5.000%) Tomcat
4 3 (3.750%) WebLogic
5 2 (2.500%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (1.250%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (1.250%) MediaWiki
Applications
1 8 (10.00%) MS Office
2 5 (6.250%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (7.500%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (5.000%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (2.500%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (2.500%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (1.250%) SAP Business One
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (5.000%) HTTP
3 2 (2.500%) DNS
3 2 (2.500%) LAN
3 2 (2.500%) WLAN
3 2 (2.500%) WAN
3 2 (2.500%) IMAP4
3 2 (2.500%) POP3
3 2 (2.500%) SMTP
3 2 (2.500%) VLAN
3 2 (2.500%) Firewall
3 2 (2.500%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (11.25%) Crystal Reports
3 6 (7.500%) MySQL
3 6 (7.500%) Data Mining
3 6 (7.500%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (7.500%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (5.000%) DB2
4 4 (5.000%) RDBMS
5 3 (3.750%) Big Data
6 2 (2.500%) Oracle 8/8i
6 2 (2.500%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.250%) DB2 UDB
7 1 (1.250%) MS Access
7 1 (1.250%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (3.750%) Subversion
General
1 12 (15.00%) Finance
2 8 (10.00%) Retail
2 8 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 7 (8.750%) Telecoms
4 4 (5.000%) Marketing
5 3 (3.750%) Korean Language
6 2 (2.500%) French Language
6 2 (2.500%) German Language
6 2 (2.500%) Italian Language
6 2 (2.500%) Spanish Language
6 2 (2.500%) General Ledger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.750%) Digital Media
2 6 (7.500%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.750%) Computer Science
4 2 (2.500%) iPad
4 2 (2.500%) iPhone
4 2 (2.500%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.250%) Data Integration
5 1 (1.250%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 19 (23.75%) Linux
2 12 (15.00%) Windows
3 4 (5.000%) UNIX
4 2 (2.500%) Android
5 1 (1.250%) AIX
5 1 (1.250%) HPUX
5 1 (1.250%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (16.25%) ITIL
2 9 (11.25%) User Acceptance Testing
3 8 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (8.750%) Service Delivery
4 7 (8.750%) ERP
5 6 (7.500%) E-Commerce
5 6 (7.500%) CRM
5 6 (7.500%) Technical Architecture
6 5 (6.250%) WFM
6 5 (6.250%) Service Desk Management
7 4 (5.000%) MVC
8 3 (3.750%) Quality Management
8 3 (3.750%) Migration
8 3 (3.750%) Incident Management
8 3 (3.750%) QMS
8 3 (3.750%) Data Migration
8 3 (3.750%) Security Testing
9 2 (2.500%) Mobile Device Management
9 2 (2.500%) Security Management
10 1 (1.250%) Document Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (41.25%) SQL
2 11 (13.75%) Java
3 9 (11.25%) PL/SQL
4 6 (7.500%) PHP
4 6 (7.500%) C#
5 5 (6.250%) C++
5 5 (6.250%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.250%) T-SQL
5 5 (6.250%) C
6 3 (3.750%) VB6
6 3 (3.750%) VB
6 3 (3.750%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.250%) VBA
7 1 (1.250%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (13.75%) Degree
2 4 (5.000%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.750%) GIAC
3 3 (3.750%) CISSP
3 3 (3.750%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.750%) CTC Cleared
4 2 (2.500%) MCSE
4 2 (2.500%) MCITP
4 2 (2.500%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.500%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.500%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.750%) ISO 9001
2 2 (2.500%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.500%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 28 (35.00%) Oracle
2 17 (21.25%) Microsoft
3 8 (10.00%) Business Objects
4 6 (7.500%) Cognos
4 6 (7.500%) Unica
4 6 (7.500%) VMware
4 6 (7.500%) ILOG
5 5 (6.250%) JBoss
6 4 (5.000%) Sybase
6 4 (5.000%) Siebel
7 2 (2.500%) Hyperion
7 2 (2.500%) Apple
8 1 (1.250%) HP
8 1 (1.250%) SAP
Southampton, South East
Due to continued success and expansion they are now seeking an ITIL specialist to ensure that their IT support function delivers the best service to the business possible...
Novate IT
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + bonus + bens
Posted: 18 May 2013
Southampton, Hampshire
Due to continued success and expansion they are now seeking an ITIL specialist to ensure that their IT support function delivers the best service to the business possible...
Novate IT Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + bonus + bens
Posted: 17 May 2013
Farnborough, South East
Most tasks will involve supporting their client base however there will also be some Project and Pre-Sales tasks.The successful candidate will have the following skills and...
Salary: £21000 - £23000 per annum
Posted: 18 May 2013