The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Support Specialist role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Applications Support Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Support Specialist
Rank 779 832 811
Rank change year-on-year
+53 -21
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Support Specialist 83 67 70
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.077% 0.056% 0.056%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.081% 0.059% 0.060%
Number of salaries quoted 56 60 57
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,250 £30,000 £30,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £45,000 £53,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £32,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102035 114410 117207
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.41% 94.80% 94.20%
Number of salaries quoted 84835 98106 99148
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

Applications Support Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Applications Support Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Applications Support Specialist
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Applications Support Specialist within the UK.

Applications Support Specialist Salary Trend

Applications Support Specialist
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Applications Support Specialist over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

Applications Support Specialist Salary Histogram

Applications Support Specialist
Top 23 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Support Specialist within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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
England +40 82 £37,500 +7.14%
London +51 28 £40,000 -
North West +24 21 £43,500 +8.75%
East of England +9 20 £37,500 +15.38%
Hertfordshire +27 19 £38,750 +3.33%
Cheshire - 15 £43,500 -
South East 0 12 £37,500 +15.38%
Harrow +9 10 £35,000 -12.50%
City of London +4 6 £36,500 -30.47%
Berkshire +1 5 £37,500 -16.66%
Hampshire - 5 £37,500 -
Southampton - 5 £37,500 -
Reading +2 4 £37,500 +15.38%
Manchester -16 4 £33,500 -16.25%
Watford - 4 £44,250 -
Rickmansworth -6 2 £37,500 -
Middlesex - 2 £35,000 -
Bedfordshire -18 1 £37,500 +7.14%
Birmingham -18 1 £45,000 +28.57%
West Midlands -20 1 £45,000 +28.57%
Scotland - 1 £42,500 -
Glasgow - 1 £42,500 -
Dunstable - 1 £37,500 -

Applications Support Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Applications 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 Applications Support Specialist in their job title.

1 72 (49.32%) SQL
2 65 (44.52%) Windows
3 59 (40.41%) Linux
4 58 (39.73%) Oracle
5 50 (34.25%) SQL Server
6 47 (32.19%) ITIL
7 41 (28.08%) UNIX
8 36 (24.66%) Finance
9 35 (23.97%) Java
10 33 (22.60%) .NET
11 31 (21.23%) MS Excel
12 29 (19.86%) Problem Management
13 27 (18.49%) Microsoft
14 24 (16.44%) ASP.NET
14 24 (16.44%) Incident Management
15 23 (15.75%) WebSphere
15 23 (15.75%) Banking
15 23 (15.75%) HTML
15 23 (15.75%) XML
16 21 (14.38%) MySQL
17 20 (13.70%) SLA
17 20 (13.70%) TCP/IP
18 19 (13.01%) Tomcat
19 18 (12.33%) JavaScript
19 18 (12.33%) DB2
19 18 (12.33%) HTTP
20 17 (11.64%) Risk Management
21 16 (10.96%) Service Delivery
21 16 (10.96%) Apache
21 16 (10.96%) AIX

Applications Support Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Applications 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 Applications Support Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 33 (22.60%) .NET
2 24 (16.44%) ASP.NET
3 23 (15.75%) WebSphere
3 23 (15.75%) HTML
3 23 (15.75%) XML
4 11 (7.534%) .NET Framework
5 9 (6.164%) J2EE
6 7 (4.795%) JSP
6 7 (4.795%) JSF
7 6 (4.110%) SOAP
8 5 (3.425%) XHTML
8 5 (3.425%) JDBC
8 5 (3.425%) REST
9 4 (2.740%) Stripes Framework
9 4 (2.740%) JSTL
9 4 (2.740%) Hibernate
9 4 (2.740%) Spring
9 4 (2.740%) Struts
9 4 (2.740%) Servlets
10 3 (2.055%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 19 (13.01%) Tomcat
2 16 (10.96%) Apache
3 12 (8.219%) IIS
4 11 (7.534%) WebLogic
4 11 (7.534%) SharePoint
5 7 (4.795%) WebSphere Application Server
6 4 (2.740%) SharePoint 2010
7 3 (2.055%) SAS
8 2 (1.370%) CMS
8 2 (1.370%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.685%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 1 (0.685%) MS Exchange
9 1 (0.685%) CICS
9 1 (0.685%) WebSphere MQ
9 1 (0.685%) Exchange Server 2007
9 1 (0.685%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.685%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.685%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 31 (21.23%) MS Excel
2 8 (5.479%) MS Office
3 3 (2.055%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.055%) MS Project
3 3 (2.055%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.740%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (1.370%) Taleo
2 2 (1.370%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.370%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.370%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.370%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.685%) LatentZero
3 1 (0.685%) Minerva
Communications & Networking
1 20 (13.70%) TCP/IP
2 18 (12.33%) HTTP
3 14 (9.589%) SMTP
4 13 (8.904%) POP3
5 12 (8.219%) Internet
6 8 (5.479%) Firewall
7 5 (3.425%) LAN
7 5 (3.425%) WAN
8 4 (2.740%) DNS
9 3 (2.055%) IMAP4
9 3 (2.055%) SAN
10 2 (1.370%) SSL
11 1 (0.685%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.685%) WLAN
11 1 (0.685%) DVB
11 1 (0.685%) Wireless
11 1 (0.685%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (34.25%) SQL Server
2 21 (14.38%) MySQL
3 18 (12.33%) DB2
4 6 (4.110%) RDBMS
5 4 (2.740%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (2.740%) Oracle 9i
5 4 (2.740%) Oracle 10g
6 3 (2.055%) GIS
6 3 (2.055%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (2.055%) Big Data
7 2 (1.370%) DB2 UDB
7 2 (1.370%) Oracle 8/8i
8 1 (0.685%) SQL Server 2000
8 1 (0.685%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.685%) MS Access
8 1 (0.685%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.685%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.685%) SQL Server 2008
8 1 (0.685%) Oracle 11g
8 1 (0.685%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
Development Applications
1 4 (2.740%) TortoiseSVN
1 4 (2.740%) NetBeans IDE
1 4 (2.740%) NetBeans
1 4 (2.740%) Subversion
1 4 (2.740%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 4 (2.740%) Eclipse
2 3 (2.055%) CruiseControl
2 3 (2.055%) TeamCity
2 3 (2.055%) Hudson
3 2 (1.370%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (24.66%) Finance
2 23 (15.75%) Banking
3 11 (7.534%) Telecoms
4 8 (5.479%) Financial Institution
5 6 (4.110%) Corporate Banking
5 6 (4.110%) Retail
6 5 (3.425%) Law
6 5 (3.425%) Legal
7 3 (2.055%) Billing
7 3 (2.055%) Games
8 2 (1.370%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.370%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.370%) Back Office
8 2 (1.370%) Advertising
9 1 (0.685%) Front Office
9 1 (0.685%) French Language
9 1 (0.685%) German Language
9 1 (0.685%) Italian Language
9 1 (0.685%) Spanish Language
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.795%) Management Information System
1 7 (4.795%) Digital Media
2 6 (4.110%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (4.110%) Blackberry
3 5 (3.425%) Open Source
4 4 (2.740%) Computer Science
4 4 (2.740%) Derivative
4 4 (2.740%) Client/Server
5 3 (2.055%) EPoS
5 3 (2.055%) Thin Client
5 3 (2.055%) Mathematics
5 3 (2.055%) Fat Client
5 3 (2.055%) SaaS
6 2 (1.370%) Data Integration
6 2 (1.370%) Online Banking
6 2 (1.370%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.370%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.685%) MPEG
7 1 (0.685%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.685%) STB
Operating Systems
1 65 (44.52%) Windows
2 59 (40.41%) Linux
3 41 (28.08%) UNIX
4 16 (10.96%) AIX
5 9 (6.164%) Windows Server 2003
6 7 (4.795%) Windows 7
7 5 (3.425%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (2.740%) Windows Server 2008
8 4 (2.740%) VMS
8 4 (2.740%) OpenVMS
9 3 (2.055%) Solaris
10 2 (1.370%) Windows 8
10 2 (1.370%) HPUX
11 1 (0.685%) Windows XP
11 1 (0.685%) Windows 2000
11 1 (0.685%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (32.19%) ITIL
2 29 (19.86%) Problem Management
3 24 (16.44%) Incident Management
4 17 (11.64%) Risk Management
5 16 (10.96%) Service Delivery
6 14 (9.589%) CRM
6 14 (9.589%) Performance Management
7 11 (7.534%) Disaster Recovery
8 10 (6.849%) Service Management
8 10 (6.849%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (3.425%) Business Continuity
9 5 (3.425%) Service Desk Management
9 5 (3.425%) Time Management
10 4 (2.740%) User Acceptance Testing
10 4 (2.740%) Change Management
10 4 (2.740%) OOP
10 4 (2.740%) E-Commerce
11 3 (2.055%) Project Management
11 3 (2.055%) UML
11 3 (2.055%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 72 (49.32%) SQL
2 35 (23.97%) Java
3 18 (12.33%) JavaScript
4 15 (10.27%) PHP
5 11 (7.534%) C#
6 10 (6.849%) PL/SQL
7 8 (5.479%) C++
8 7 (4.795%) VB
9 6 (4.110%) Perl
10 5 (3.425%) VBA
11 4 (2.740%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.740%) VB6
11 4 (2.740%) T-SQL
12 3 (2.055%) Python
12 3 (2.055%) VBScript
13 2 (1.370%) Bash shell
13 2 (1.370%) VB.NET
13 2 (1.370%) COBOL
13 2 (1.370%) C
14 1 (0.685%) JCL
Qualifications
1 9 (6.164%) Degree
2 4 (2.740%) Security Cleared
2 4 (2.740%) MCSE
2 4 (2.740%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (2.055%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (2.055%) MCITP
3 3 (2.055%) CFA
4 1 (0.685%) CCNA
4 1 (0.685%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.685%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (13.70%) SLA
2 3 (2.055%) QA
3 1 (0.685%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (2.055%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (2.055%) XenDesktop
2 2 (1.370%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.685%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.685%) XenApp
3 1 (0.685%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (4.110%) Nagios
2 4 (2.740%) Cacti
3 3 (2.055%) Zenoss
3 3 (2.055%) Puppet
4 2 (1.370%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 58 (39.73%) Oracle
2 27 (18.49%) Microsoft
3 15 (10.27%) JBoss
4 10 (6.849%) IBM
5 9 (6.164%) Citrix
6 8 (5.479%) Sybase
7 5 (3.425%) HP
7 5 (3.425%) Red Hat
8 4 (2.740%) Siebel
9 3 (2.055%) Cisco
9 3 (2.055%) Salesforce.com
9 3 (2.055%) TIBCO
9 3 (2.055%) VMware
9 3 (2.055%) hybris
10 2 (1.370%) Remedy
10 2 (1.370%) Sage
10 2 (1.370%) Hyperion
10 2 (1.370%) Informatica
11 1 (0.685%) Fidessa
11 1 (0.685%) SmartStream
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Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + bonus + bens
Posted: 25 May 2013
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Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + bonus + bens
Posted: 24 May 2013
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Salary: £0.00 - £60000.00
Posted: 22 May 2013
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The successful candidate will have proven application support experience within a live environment & experience of some/all of the following skills: UNIX Scripting, Linux, Java, .NET, SQL, Oracle,...
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Salary: £40000.00 - £47000.00 per annum + Excellent Package
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Salary: £40000.00 - £47000.00 per annum + Excellent package
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Salary: From £45,000 to £50,000 per annum Corporate Benefits incl. Health, Pen
Posted: 21 May 2013
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Salary: Competitive + Excellent Benefits
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Salary: From £32,000 to £35,000 per annum
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