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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Support
Rank 73 75 62
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -13
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support 2 7 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 0.276% 0.744% 1.771%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.285% 0.776% 1.836%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 15
Average salary £31,250 £22,500 £27,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+38.88% -16.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,250 £18,300 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £32,250 £26,000 £32,100
UK excluding London average salary £32,000 £32,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-1.53% +8.33%
All Job Titles
South Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
701 902 817
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 96.82% 95.86% 96.46%
Number of salaries quoted 608 743 672
Average salary £33,000 £34,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.94% +4.61%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £22,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £44,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Applications Support
Yorkshire

Applications Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire Applications Support Salary Trend

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 Yorkshire 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
Sheffield +3 1 £32,500 +44.44%
Applications Support
Yorkshire

Applications Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 3 (60.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) IIS
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) T-SQL
2 2 (40.00%) VB.NET
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (20.00%) RAD
3 1 (20.00%) CRM
3 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (20.00%) Client/Server
3 1 (20.00%) SLA
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (20.00%) HP
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (20.00%) MSI
3 1 (20.00%) VBA
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (20.00%) Perl
3 1 (20.00%) PHP
3 1 (20.00%) ITSM
3 1 (20.00%) Workflow
3 1 (20.00%) SUSE
3 1 (20.00%) Debian
3 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL

Applications Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 3 (60.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MSI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (20.00%) SUSE
2 1 (20.00%) Debian
2 1 (20.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) RAD
1 1 (20.00%) CRM
1 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (20.00%) ITSM
1 1 (20.00%) Workflow
1 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
1 2 (40.00%) T-SQL
1 2 (40.00%) VB.NET
2 1 (20.00%) VBA
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) Perl
2 1 (20.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) HP
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat