The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical 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 Technical Specialist 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 South East region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Specialist
Rank 403 388 373
Rank change year-on-year
-15 -15
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Specialist 38 50 46
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.171% 0.211% 0.204%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.181% 0.221% 0.216%
Number of salaries quoted 29 43 37
Average salary £40,500 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £36,400 £29,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £62,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
All Job Titles
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
21050 22607 21256
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 94.89% 95.23% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 17463 19538 18266
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%
Technical Specialist
England

Technical Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East Technical Specialist Salary Trend

Technical Specialist
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Technical Specialist across the South East region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

South East Technical Specialist Salary Histogram

Technical Specialist
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Specialist within the South East region over the 3 months to 21 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 +6 12 £43,250 +5.48%
Surrey +11 11 £43,750 -2.77%
Hampshire -3 7 £37,500 +7.14%
Kent -26 3 £45,000 -10.00%
Buckinghamshire - 3 £38,500 -
Middlesex - 1 £36,000 -
Technical Specialist
England

Technical Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 56 (48.70%) Microsoft
2 50 (43.48%) Windows
3 48 (41.74%) Linux
3 48 (41.74%) ITIL
4 42 (36.52%) VMware
5 40 (34.78%) MS Excel
6 37 (32.17%) Citrix
7 36 (31.30%) Service Delivery
8 33 (28.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 32 (27.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 28 (24.35%) UNIX
10 28 (24.35%) MCSE
11 26 (22.61%) SAN
12 25 (21.74%) Capacity Management
13 23 (20.00%) Active Directory
13 23 (20.00%) Solaris
14 22 (19.13%) AIX
14 22 (19.13%) SLA
14 22 (19.13%) NetApp
14 22 (19.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 21 (18.26%) Cisco
16 20 (17.39%) HPUX
16 20 (17.39%) Oracle
17 19 (16.52%) MCITP
18 18 (15.65%) EMC
19 17 (14.78%) SQL
20 16 (13.91%) MCTS
21 15 (13.04%) Clustering
22 14 (12.17%) .NET
22 14 (12.17%) JavaScript

Technical Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 14 (12.17%) .NET
2 12 (10.43%) CSS
2 12 (10.43%) HTML
3 11 (9.565%) XML
4 6 (5.217%) ASP.NET
5 5 (4.348%) XSLT
6 3 (2.609%) Memcached
6 3 (2.609%) Web Services
7 2 (1.739%) JSP
7 2 (1.739%) JMS
7 2 (1.739%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.739%) Ajax
7 2 (1.739%) SAP Basis
7 2 (1.739%) HTML5
7 2 (1.739%) Application Packaging
7 2 (1.739%) REST
8 1 (0.870%) Spring Batch
8 1 (0.870%) Spring Integration
8 1 (0.870%) Oracle ADF
8 1 (0.870%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 9 (7.826%) MS Exchange
1 9 (7.826%) Exchange Server 2010
2 8 (6.957%) SharePoint
2 8 (6.957%) IIS
3 5 (4.348%) Exchange Server 2003
4 4 (3.478%) SharePoint Server
4 4 (3.478%) SharePoint 2010
4 4 (3.478%) Exchange Server 2007
5 3 (2.609%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 2 (1.739%) NetWeaver
6 2 (1.739%) WebLogic
6 2 (1.739%) Apache
6 2 (1.739%) CMS
6 2 (1.739%) Lync
7 1 (0.870%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.870%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.870%) Escenic
7 1 (0.870%) Exchange Server 2000
7 1 (0.870%) Live Communications Server
7 1 (0.870%) AquaLogic
Applications
1 40 (34.78%) MS Excel
2 13 (11.30%) MS Office
3 5 (4.348%) InfoPath
4 2 (1.739%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.870%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.739%) Tridion
1 2 (1.739%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.870%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.870%) Pivotal CRM
2 1 (0.870%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 26 (22.61%) SAN
2 13 (11.30%) TCP/IP
3 8 (6.957%) Intrusion Detection
4 7 (6.087%) Firewall
4 7 (6.087%) DNS
5 5 (4.348%) Wireless
6 3 (2.609%) Unified Communications
6 3 (2.609%) VPN
6 3 (2.609%) DHCP
7 2 (1.739%) VoIP
7 2 (1.739%) WAN
7 2 (1.739%) Cisco IPT
7 2 (1.739%) IP Telephony
7 2 (1.739%) NAS
8 1 (0.870%) FWSM
8 1 (0.870%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.870%) LDAP
8 1 (0.870%) Internet
8 1 (0.870%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.217%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.478%) Oracle 11g
2 4 (3.478%) Big Data
3 3 (2.609%) MySQL
4 2 (1.739%) GIS
4 2 (1.739%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.739%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.739%) PerformancePoint
4 2 (1.739%) Redis
5 1 (0.870%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.870%) DB2 UDB
5 1 (0.870%) MS Access
5 1 (0.870%) DB2
5 1 (0.870%) SAP BI
5 1 (0.870%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.870%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.870%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (3.478%) Visual Studio
1 4 (3.478%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (0.870%) Maven
General
1 14 (12.17%) Finance
2 8 (6.957%) Telecoms
3 7 (6.087%) French Language
4 4 (3.478%) Advertising
4 4 (3.478%) German Language
5 3 (2.609%) Marketing
6 2 (1.739%) Retail
7 1 (0.870%) Italian Language
7 1 (0.870%) Spanish Language
7 1 (0.870%) Back Office
7 1 (0.870%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.04%) Clustering
2 7 (6.087%) Replication
3 6 (5.217%) Computer Science
4 5 (4.348%) SaaS
5 3 (2.609%) Blackberry
6 2 (1.739%) Thin Client
6 2 (1.739%) Smartcard
6 2 (1.739%) PKI
6 2 (1.739%) IVR
6 2 (1.739%) Fat Client
7 1 (0.870%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.870%) Data Integration
7 1 (0.870%) Blog
7 1 (0.870%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 50 (43.48%) Windows
2 48 (41.74%) Linux
3 32 (27.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 28 (24.35%) UNIX
5 23 (20.00%) Solaris
6 22 (19.13%) AIX
7 20 (17.39%) HPUX
8 10 (8.696%) SUSE
9 7 (6.087%) Windows XP
10 6 (5.217%) Windows Server 2003
11 5 (4.348%) Windows Server 2008
12 4 (3.478%) Windows Vista
13 3 (2.609%) Windows NT
14 2 (1.739%) Windows 2000
14 2 (1.739%) Windows 2000 Server
15 1 (0.870%) Windows 7
15 1 (0.870%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (41.74%) ITIL
2 36 (31.30%) Service Delivery
3 25 (21.74%) Capacity Management
4 13 (11.30%) Change Management
5 8 (6.957%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (6.087%) Migration
6 7 (6.087%) Process Management
6 7 (6.087%) Service Management
6 7 (6.087%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (4.348%) Problem Management
8 4 (3.478%) SOA
8 4 (3.478%) User Stories
9 3 (2.609%) Information Security
9 3 (2.609%) Penetration Testing
9 3 (2.609%) Software Engineering
9 3 (2.609%) CRM
9 3 (2.609%) UML
9 3 (2.609%) OOP
10 2 (1.739%) E-Commerce
10 2 (1.739%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 17 (14.78%) SQL
2 14 (12.17%) JavaScript
3 11 (9.565%) Java
4 6 (5.217%) C#
5 3 (2.609%) C++
5 3 (2.609%) PHP
5 3 (2.609%) PL/SQL
5 3 (2.609%) C
6 2 (1.739%) ABAP
6 2 (1.739%) Perl
6 2 (1.739%) Python
6 2 (1.739%) Ruby
6 2 (1.739%) Scala
7 1 (0.870%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.870%) VBA
7 1 (0.870%) VB
7 1 (0.870%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.870%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 33 (28.70%) Microsoft Certification
2 28 (24.35%) MCSE
3 22 (19.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 19 (16.52%) MCITP
5 16 (13.91%) MCTS
6 11 (9.565%) Degree
6 11 (9.565%) ITIL Certification
7 7 (6.087%) MCP
8 4 (3.478%) Security Cleared
9 3 (2.609%) MCDST
9 3 (2.609%) CISSP
10 2 (1.739%) CITP
10 2 (1.739%) SC Cleared
10 2 (1.739%) BC Cleared
10 2 (1.739%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.870%) CISM
11 1 (0.870%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (19.13%) SLA
2 2 (1.739%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.870%) HL7
3 1 (0.870%) DICOM
3 1 (0.870%) QA
System Software
1 23 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 11 (9.565%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.609%) Forefront TMG
4 2 (1.739%) XenApp
4 2 (1.739%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (1.739%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.870%) XenDesktop
5 1 (0.870%) vSphere
5 1 (0.870%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.870%) Varnish
5 1 (0.870%) VMware ESX
5 1 (0.870%) Squid
5 1 (0.870%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.870%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 10 (8.696%) SCCM
2 5 (4.348%) SCOM
3 4 (3.478%) NetBackup
4 2 (1.739%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.870%) Puppet
5 1 (0.870%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 56 (48.70%) Microsoft
2 42 (36.52%) VMware
3 37 (32.17%) Citrix
4 22 (19.13%) NetApp
5 21 (18.26%) Cisco
6 20 (17.39%) Oracle
7 18 (15.65%) EMC
8 14 (12.17%) IBM
9 12 (10.43%) HP
10 11 (9.565%) Riverbed
10 11 (9.565%) Dell
10 11 (9.565%) Red Hat
11 9 (7.826%) Sun
12 7 (6.087%) Hitachi
13 3 (2.609%) Business Objects
13 3 (2.609%) Veritas
13 3 (2.609%) Salesforce.com
13 3 (2.609%) Intel
14 2 (1.739%) CheckPoint
14 2 (1.739%) SAP
Hampshire
Desirable experience/qualities: - Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 - Active Directory - Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 7 - Microsoft Exchange 2010 (with PowerShell scripting) - Citrix XenApp or Terminal Services...
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Salary: £30000 - £32000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
Hampshire, South East
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Websense, Inc... Update the Knowledge Base with solutions as appropriate.Adhere to company policies and procedures regarding customer handling processes, service entitlement verification, customer registration, and problem escalation...
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Salary: £0 - £40,000 per year
Posted: 20 May 2013
Staines, South East
Proven experience of applying technical and ITIL best practice frameworks to the delivery and continual improvement of services... - Experience of working within an ITIL based service delivery model.
Centrica
Salary: Salary : Competitive base + bonus + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Southern England, South East
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Salary: £41,000 to £51,000
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