The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Specialist role in IT jobs advertised for the Staines region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Support Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Staines region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Specialist
Rank 43 45 58
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Specialist 3 18 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staines 1.277% 4.000% 1.993%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.333% 4.276% 2.200%
Number of salaries quoted 3 16 11
Average salary £53,500 £46,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.05% +9.41%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,309 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+6.20% +0.88%
All Job Titles
Staines
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
225 421 500
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staines 95.74% 93.56% 90.58%
Number of salaries quoted 174 372 471
Average salary £56,500 £46,500 £44,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.50% +5.68%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £35,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £57,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Support Specialist
Surrey

Support Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staines Support Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Support Specialist
Salary Trend

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

Staines Support Specialist Salary Trend

Support Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Staines region that cited Support 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 Support Specialist in their job title.

1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Clustering
1 3 (100.00%) NetBackup
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) MySQL
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) VMware ESX
2 2 (66.67%) RHCE
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) vSphere
2 2 (66.67%) Memcached
2 2 (66.67%) Varnish
2 2 (66.67%) Escenic
2 2 (66.67%) Puppet
2 2 (66.67%) FWSM
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Data Guard
3 1 (33.33%) Veritas
3 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle 9i
3 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) ISO 9001

Support Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Staines region that cited Support 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 Support Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) Memcached
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Escenic
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (66.67%) FWSM
2 1 (33.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle 9i
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Clustering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 1 (33.33%) Load Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
1 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) RHCE
2 1 (33.33%) SAP Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO 9001
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware ESX
1 2 (66.67%) vSphere
1 2 (66.67%) Varnish
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) NetBackup
2 2 (66.67%) Puppet
3 1 (33.33%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Veritas
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) HP