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The table below looks at the demand for the Applications Support role in IT jobs within the South East region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. 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 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

 Application Support
Location
3 months to
5 Sep 2008
Same period last year
Rank125191
Rank change on same period last yearUp+66
Matching permanent IT job ads573432
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.317 %0.181 %
As % of the category below1.721 %0.970 %
Salaries quoted500368
Average minimum salary£31,509£30,652
Average salary£33,955£32,802
% change on same period last year+3.51 %
Average maximum salary£36,401£34,952
UK excluding London average salary£32,422£31,155
% change on same period last year+4.06 %
South East IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
South East
Matching permanent IT job ads3329944550
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled18.43 %18.68 %
Salaries quoted2727436851
Average minimum salary£36,341£37,608
Average salary£39,635£40,790
% change on same period last year-2.83 %
Average maximum salary£42,929£43,972
UK excluding London average salary£38,058£39,448
% change on same period last year-3.52 %
Applications Support EnglandApplications Support
England

Applications Support
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Applications Support across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

South East Applications Support Demand Trend

Applications Support
Salary Trend

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

South East Applications Support Salary Trend

Applications Support
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Applications Support across the South East region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

South East Applications Support Salary Histogram

Applications Support
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Support within the South East region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
BerkshireUp+52184£34,323-1.96 %
HampshireUp+44103£36,975+16.24 %
SurreyUp+3896£31,652+3.63 %
OxfordshireUp+4469£30,316+22.40 %
BuckinghamshireUp+3240£38,868+18.71 %
West SussexUp+5133£29,157-6.13 %
KentUp+726£35,100+15.55 %
MiddlesexUp+1216£34,156-5.17 %
East SussexUp+159£25,714+15.13 %
Applications Support EnglandApplications Support
England

Applications Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the South East 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.

1514 (41.12 %)SQL
2381 (30.48 %)Windows
3377 (30.16 %)SQL Server
4324 (25.92 %)Oracle
5287 (22.96 %)Finance
6273 (21.84 %)UNIX
7225 (18.00 %).NET
8202 (16.16 %)Java
9195 (15.60 %)Microsoft
10146 (11.68 %)VB
11139 (11.12 %)IIS
12132 (10.56 %)C#
12132 (10.56 %)MS Excel
13129 (10.32 %)Windows Server 2003
14115 (9.200 %)Linux
15112 (8.960 %)Solaris
16104 (8.320 %)ITIL
17102 (8.160 %)J2EE
18101 (8.080 %)HTML
1998 (7.840 %)JavaScript
2094 (7.520 %)SQL Server 2000
2189 (7.120 %)XML
2288 (7.040 %)SLA
2381 (6.480 %)Degree
2477 (6.160 %)WebSphere
2576 (6.080 %)ASP
2674 (5.920 %)CRM
2772 (5.760 %)Siebel
2772 (5.760 %)C++
2871 (5.680 %)ASP.NET

Applications Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the South East 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.

South East IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
1225 (18.00 %).NET
2102 (8.160 %)J2EE
3101 (8.080 %)HTML
489 (7.120 %)XML
577 (6.160 %)WebSphere
676 (6.080 %)ASP
771 (5.680 %)ASP.NET
832 (2.560 %).NET Framework
920 (1.600 %)EDI
920 (1.600 %)COM+
1019 (1.520 %)CSS
1117 (1.360 %)Middleware
1216 (1.280 %)WebServices
1314 (1.120 %)COM
1314 (1.120 %)XSL
1314 (1.120 %)XSLT
149 (0.720 %)Spring
156 (0.480 %)LAMP
165 (0.400 %)Hibernate
165 (0.400 %)WAP
South East IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1139 (11.12 %)IIS
263 (5.040 %)Apache
358 (4.640 %)SharePoint
453 (4.240 %)Tomcat
536 (2.880 %)WebLogic
621 (1.680 %)MS Exchange
718 (1.440 %)BizTalk Server
815 (1.200 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
913 (1.040 %)JBoss
1012 (0.960 %)WebSphere Application Server
1111 (0.880 %)Commerce Server
1210 (0.800 %)SharePoint Server 2007
1210 (0.800 %)Commerce Server 2007
139 (0.720 %)Exchange Server 2003
139 (0.720 %)WebSphere MQ
139 (0.720 %)Lotus Notes
148 (0.640 %)SAS
148 (0.640 %)CMS
148 (0.640 %)LiveLink
156 (0.480 %)FormScape
South East IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
1132 (10.56 %)MS Excel
235 (2.800 %)MS Office
312 (0.960 %)Spreadsheet
44 (0.320 %)AutoCAD
44 (0.320 %)Photoshop
53 (0.240 %)MS Project
53 (0.240 %)MS Visio
62 (0.160 %)MS PowerPoint
South East IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
131 (2.480 %)Dynamics CRM
226 (2.080 %)Oracle Applications
319 (1.520 %)Microsoft CRM
418 (1.440 %)Oracle Financials
516 (1.280 %)Dynamics GP
612 (0.960 %)ResourceLink
711 (0.880 %)Great Plains
88 (0.640 %)Applix TM1
97 (0.560 %)Navision
97 (0.560 %)Oracle 11i
106 (0.480 %)Axapta
115 (0.400 %)Dynamics NAV
115 (0.400 %)Dynamics AX
124 (0.320 %)SAP R/3
124 (0.320 %)Retail-J
132 (0.160 %)Oracle General Ledger
132 (0.160 %)Sophis VALUE
132 (0.160 %)BPCS
132 (0.160 %)HiPortfolio
132 (0.160 %)Endur
South East IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
165 (5.200 %)Internet
234 (2.720 %)TCP/IP
324 (1.920 %)FTP
423 (1.840 %)Intranet
518 (1.440 %)Extranet
617 (1.360 %)BSS
617 (1.360 %)HTTP
715 (1.200 %)WAN
715 (1.200 %)LAN
811 (0.880 %)DNS
910 (0.800 %)SMTP
109 (0.720 %)Firewall
117 (0.560 %)Broadband
126 (0.480 %)VoIP
133 (0.240 %)GPRS
133 (0.240 %)GSM
133 (0.240 %)POP3
133 (0.240 %)Wireless
133 (0.240 %)3G
133 (0.240 %)HSPA
South East IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
1377 (30.16 %)SQL Server
294 (7.520 %)SQL Server 2000
368 (5.440 %)SQL Server 2005
456 (4.480 %)DB2
541 (3.280 %)Crystal Reports
639 (3.120 %)RDBMS
732 (2.560 %)MS Access
829 (2.320 %)Oracle 10g
926 (2.080 %)Datawarehouse
926 (2.080 %)Oracle 9i
1023 (1.840 %)DTS
1122 (1.760 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1221 (1.680 %)Oracle 8/8i
1320 (1.600 %)Oracle Reports
1418 (1.440 %)MySQL
1513 (1.040 %)BusinessObjects
1612 (0.960 %)GIS
1710 (0.800 %)OLAP
189 (0.720 %)Oracle OLAP
197 (0.560 %)SQL Server Integration Services
South East IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
113 (1.040 %)Dreamweaver
212 (0.960 %)Visual Studio
38 (0.640 %)Oracle Forms
47 (0.560 %)ProC
47 (0.560 %)QARun
54 (0.320 %)Eclipse
62 (0.160 %)Ant
71 (0.080 %)Flash
71 (0.080 %)Visual Studio Team System
South East IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1287 (22.96 %)Finance
255 (4.400 %)Health
347 (3.760 %)Pensions
445 (3.600 %)Telecoms
544 (3.520 %)Banking
630 (2.400 %)Insurance
727 (2.160 %)Billing
727 (2.160 %)Marketing
825 (2.000 %)Government
924 (1.920 %)Retail
1023 (1.840 %)Financial Institution
1120 (1.600 %)Education
1218 (1.440 %)Construction
1312 (0.960 %)Manufacturing
149 (0.720 %)Back Office
157 (0.560 %)General Ledger
165 (0.400 %)Local Government
165 (0.400 %)Legal
174 (0.320 %)Pharmaceutical
174 (0.320 %)Music
South East IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
156 (4.480 %)French Language
237 (2.960 %)German Language
324 (1.920 %)Client/Server
420 (1.600 %)Spanish Language
519 (1.520 %)Computer Science
519 (1.520 %)Italian Language
616 (1.280 %)Blackberry
712 (0.960 %)VAX
811 (0.880 %)Management Information System
99 (0.720 %)Credit Risk
108 (0.640 %)AS400
108 (0.640 %)Statistics
117 (0.560 %)Clustering
126 (0.480 %)Replication
126 (0.480 %)EPoS
135 (0.400 %)NHS
135 (0.400 %)Credit Derivative
135 (0.400 %)Data Protection Act
135 (0.400 %)Mathematics
144 (0.320 %)Japanese Language
South East IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1381 (30.48 %)Windows
2273 (21.84 %)UNIX
3129 (10.32 %)Windows Server 2003
4115 (9.200 %)Linux
5112 (8.960 %)Solaris
643 (3.440 %)AIX
740 (3.200 %)Windows XP
833 (2.640 %)FreeBSD
926 (2.080 %)Windows 2000
1022 (1.760 %)Windows Vista
1121 (1.680 %)Windows 2000 Server
1216 (1.280 %)HPUX
1312 (0.960 %)Red Hat Linux
146 (0.480 %)MVS
155 (0.400 %)Windows Server 2008
155 (0.400 %)SUSE
155 (0.400 %)Debian
164 (0.320 %)Mac OS X
172 (0.160 %)Fedora
172 (0.160 %)Ubuntu
South East IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1104 (8.320 %)ITIL
274 (5.920 %)CRM
350 (4.000 %)Business Intelligence
444 (3.520 %)ERP
540 (3.200 %)User Acceptance Testing
638 (3.040 %)Release Management
736 (2.880 %)Web Development
835 (2.800 %)Security Cleared
931 (2.480 %)Document Management
1025 (2.000 %)Service Delivery
1124 (1.920 %)Migration
1124 (1.920 %)Fault Management
1223 (1.840 %)Business Analysis
1322 (1.760 %)Data Migration
1322 (1.760 %)E-Commerce
1419 (1.520 %)Project Management
1518 (1.440 %)Configuration Management
1518 (1.440 %)Risk Management
1518 (1.440 %)Workflow
1518 (1.440 %)SC Cleared
South East IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1514 (41.12 %)SQL
2202 (16.16 %)Java
3146 (11.68 %)VB
4132 (10.56 %)C#
598 (7.840 %)JavaScript
672 (5.760 %)C++
759 (4.720 %)PL/SQL
858 (4.640 %)Perl
955 (4.400 %)Transact-SQL
1053 (4.240 %)VB6
1146 (3.680 %)VBA
1245 (3.600 %)VB.NET
1339 (3.120 %)Shell Script
1426 (2.080 %)PHP
1525 (2.000 %)VBScript
1525 (2.000 %)C
1615 (1.200 %)Korn
1711 (0.880 %)Python
1810 (0.800 %)RPG
198 (0.640 %)Tcl
South East IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
181 (6.480 %)Degree
219 (1.520 %)Microsoft Certification
37 (0.560 %)Cisco Certification
37 (0.560 %)ITIL Certification
37 (0.560 %)MCSE
37 (0.560 %)CCNA
46 (0.480 %)MCP
55 (0.400 %)MCDBA
55 (0.400 %)ACCA
55 (0.400 %)CIMA
64 (0.320 %)Oracle Certification
64 (0.320 %)CCNP
64 (0.320 %)MCSA
73 (0.240 %)MCITP
82 (0.160 %)MCTS
82 (0.160 %)MCSD
82 (0.160 %)HND
82 (0.160 %)ISEB
91 (0.080 %)PRINCE2 Certification
South East IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
188 (7.040 %)SLA
29 (0.720 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
29 (0.720 %)QA
35 (0.400 %)ISO27001
41 (0.080 %)ISO8583
South East IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
164 (5.120 %)Active Directory
22 (0.160 %)ISA Server
22 (0.160 %)MailMarshal
22 (0.160 %)Citrix Presentation Server
22 (0.160 %)VMware Infrastructure
South East IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
110 (0.800 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
24 (0.320 %)Tivoli
33 (0.240 %)CONTROL-M
33 (0.240 %)CA SiteMinder
33 (0.240 %)SCCM
42 (0.160 %)OpenView
51 (0.080 %)Netcool
51 (0.080 %)HP Data Protector
51 (0.080 %)OVSD
South East IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
1324 (25.92 %)Oracle
2195 (15.60 %)Microsoft
372 (5.760 %)Siebel
456 (4.480 %)Sybase
554 (4.320 %)Citrix
631 (2.480 %)SAP
728 (2.240 %)IBM
818 (1.440 %)Symantec
916 (1.280 %)Sun
1015 (1.200 %)PeopleSoft
1015 (1.200 %)Sage
1114 (1.120 %)Pegasus
1213 (1.040 %)Business Objects
1312 (0.960 %)Red Hat
1411 (0.880 %)EMC
1411 (0.880 %)Cognos
1510 (0.800 %)Remedy
1510 (0.800 %)Sitecore
169 (0.720 %)MKS
169 (0.720 %)Genesys