The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Applications Support 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 in their job title over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Application Support
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank132133107
Rank change year-on-year
Up+1Down-26
Matching permanent IT job ads228023272002
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK1.881 %1.907 %2.102 %
As % of the Job Titles category1.986 %2.024 %2.253 %
Number of salaries quoted196819551647
Average salary£38,500£40,000£42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.75 %-5.88 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,500£22,500£22,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£70,000£72,500
UK excluding London average salary£32,500£30,000£28,000
% change year-on-year
+8.33 %+7.14 %
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
11478411495588866
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK94.71 %94.21 %93.33 %
Number of salaries quoted984679705973610
Average salary£42,500£42,500£42,500
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£26,500£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£75,000£72,500
UK excluding London average salary£38,000£37,500£36,500
% change year-on-year
+1.33 %+2.73 %

Applications Support
Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Applications Support Salary Trend

Applications Support
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Applications Support over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 within the UK.

Applications Support Salary Histogram

Applications Support
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandNo change02144£40,000-
LondonDown-131242£45,000-14.28 %
City of LondonUp+2380£42,500-19.04 %
South EastDown-7351£32,500+3.17 %
East of EnglandUp+47214£35,000+2.94 %
BerkshireNo change0128£35,000+16.66 %
SurreyDown-2779£32,500-
West MidlandsUp+2777£30,750+11.81 %
South WestDown-4976£31,500+9.56 %
North WestDown-5476£28,000+12.00 %
ScotlandDown-1573£33,000-
YorkshireDown-667£27,500-
HampshireUp+1664£31,000-4.61 %
ManchesterDown-2856£31,250+38.88 %
BedfordshireUp+3855£35,000-
ReadingUp+545£30,000-
West YorkshireDown-1442£27,500-5.98 %
HertfordshireUp+2141£40,000+14.28 %
EssexDown-840£41,250+26.92 %
East MidlandsDown-237£32,500+13.04 %
LutonUp+1836£37,500+108.33 %
CambridgeshireUp+535£30,000-10.44 %
SuffolkUp+2833£28,000-6.66 %
BristolDown-2430£32,500+18.18 %
WarwickshireNo change029£27,000+25.58 %
LeedsDown-1128£28,750-4.16 %
BracknellUp+1326£40,500+47.27 %
CambridgeUp+1223£30,000-7.69 %
GlasgowDown-2222£31,750-3.05 %
BirminghamDown-1221£36,500+5.79 %

Applications Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

12693 (60.35 %)SQL
21378 (30.88 %)SQL Server
31359 (30.46 %)Finance
41346 (30.17 %)UNIX
51270 (28.46 %)Windows
61232 (27.61 %)Oracle
7931 (20.87 %).NET
8876 (19.63 %)Java
9791 (17.73 %)ITIL
10752 (16.85 %)Microsoft
11697 (15.62 %)Linux
12567 (12.71 %)C#
13561 (12.57 %)Banking
14506 (11.34 %)XML
15504 (11.30 %)Degree
16493 (11.05 %)MS Excel
17468 (10.49 %)Front Office
18420 (9.413 %)Perl
19414 (9.278 %)HTML
20374 (8.382 %)JavaScript
21346 (7.754 %)ASP.NET
22331 (7.418 %)IIS
23306 (6.858 %)Investment Banking
24303 (6.791 %)SLA
25286 (6.410 %)Sybase
26268 (6.006 %)VB
27264 (5.917 %)MS Office
28256 (5.737 %)Apache
29251 (5.625 %)Problem Management
30248 (5.558 %)Shell Script

Applications Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1931 (20.87 %).NET
2506 (11.34 %)XML
3414 (9.278 %)HTML
4346 (7.754 %)ASP.NET
5202 (4.527 %)WebSphere
6183 (4.101 %)J2EE
7170 (3.810 %)ASP
7170 (3.810 %)Web Services
8164 (3.675 %)CSS
9132 (2.958 %)Middleware
1098 (2.196 %)SOAP
1174 (1.658 %)XSLT
1263 (1.412 %)Spring
1354 (1.210 %)Ajax
1452 (1.165 %)JSP
1544 (0.986 %).NET Framework
1643 (0.964 %)FIX Protocol
1643 (0.964 %)jQuery
1736 (0.807 %)Java EE
1834 (0.762 %)Hibernate
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1331 (7.418 %)IIS
2256 (5.737 %)Apache
3246 (5.513 %)SharePoint
4232 (5.199 %)Tomcat
5189 (4.236 %)WebLogic
678 (1.748 %)CMS
774 (1.658 %)BizTalk Server
867 (1.502 %)MS Exchange
964 (1.434 %)WebSphere MQ
964 (1.434 %)GlassFish
1039 (0.874 %)WebSphere Application Server
1135 (0.784 %)WorkSite
1226 (0.583 %)MQSeries
1226 (0.583 %)SharePoint 2010
1325 (0.560 %)Exchange Server 2003
1325 (0.560 %)SAS
1423 (0.515 %)ESB
1521 (0.471 %)FileNet
1620 (0.448 %)Lotus Notes
1620 (0.448 %)JCAPS
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1493 (11.05 %)MS Excel
2264 (5.917 %)MS Office
353 (1.188 %)MS Visio
436 (0.807 %)MS PowerPoint
526 (0.583 %)Spreadsheet
618 (0.403 %)MATLAB
710 (0.224 %)Windchill
710 (0.224 %)InfoPath
88 (0.179 %)MS Project
92 (0.045 %)AutoCAD
92 (0.045 %)ProjectWise
101 (0.022 %)Final Cut Pro
101 (0.022 %)FastStats
101 (0.022 %)Revit
101 (0.022 %)Photoshop
101 (0.022 %)CATIA
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
172 (1.614 %)Oracle Applications
243 (0.964 %)Dynamics CRM
339 (0.874 %)Oracle EBS R12
428 (0.628 %)Oracle EBS
526 (0.583 %)ION MarketView
620 (0.448 %)Dynamics NAV
718 (0.403 %)LatentZero
718 (0.403 %)JDE World
718 (0.403 %)SunGard Stream Clearvision
816 (0.359 %)Oracle 11i
914 (0.314 %)LongView
1013 (0.291 %)Visualfiles
1111 (0.247 %)Oracle General Ledger
1111 (0.247 %)Oracle Financials
1210 (0.224 %)BASE24
139 (0.202 %)Aligne
148 (0.179 %)Front Arena
148 (0.179 %)Dynamics AX
148 (0.179 %)Summit
157 (0.157 %)RMDS
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1169 (3.788 %)TCP/IP
2110 (2.465 %)Firewall
391 (2.039 %)Internet
473 (1.636 %)HTTP
548 (1.076 %)VPN
642 (0.941 %)Intranet
741 (0.919 %)Broadband
840 (0.896 %)Extranet
936 (0.807 %)SAN
1035 (0.784 %)LAN
1133 (0.740 %)WAN
1232 (0.717 %)DNS
1318 (0.403 %)Wireless
1417 (0.381 %)NAS
1516 (0.359 %)DHCP
1615 (0.336 %)LTE
1615 (0.336 %)FTP
1714 (0.314 %)LDAP
1813 (0.291 %)SSL
1911 (0.247 %)ATM
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11378 (30.88 %)SQL Server
2246 (5.513 %)SQL Server 2005
3198 (4.437 %)SQL Server 2008
4138 (3.093 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
5126 (2.824 %)RDBMS
6116 (2.600 %)Oracle 8/8i
7108 (2.420 %)SQL Server Integration Services
8103 (2.308 %)Crystal Reports
999 (2.219 %)MySQL
1094 (2.107 %)Data Warehouse
1181 (1.815 %)DB2
1271 (1.591 %)Oracle 10g
1355 (1.233 %)SQL Server 2000
1454 (1.210 %)Oracle Reports
1551 (1.143 %)ETL
1641 (0.919 %)Oracle 11g
1731 (0.695 %)QlikView
1828 (0.628 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1927 (0.605 %)TOAD
2026 (0.583 %)MS Access
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
178 (1.748 %)Visual Studio
276 (1.703 %)JIRA
348 (1.076 %)Subversion
447 (1.053 %)Ant
534 (0.762 %)ClearCase
629 (0.650 %)VSS/SourceSafe
728 (0.628 %)Team Foundation Server
728 (0.628 %)MSI
826 (0.583 %)Eclipse
919 (0.426 %)Git (software)
1018 (0.403 %)Hudson
1116 (0.359 %)JDeveloper
1212 (0.269 %)PowerBuilder
1311 (0.247 %)Oracle Forms
1410 (0.224 %)NetBeans
159 (0.202 %)Maven
159 (0.202 %)JUnit
166 (0.134 %)ProC
166 (0.134 %)FitNesse
166 (0.134 %)NUnit
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11359 (30.46 %)Finance
2561 (12.57 %)Banking
3468 (10.49 %)Front Office
4306 (6.858 %)Investment Banking
5190 (4.258 %)Back Office
6116 (2.600 %)Retail
790 (2.017 %)Legal
882 (1.838 %)Financial Institution
976 (1.703 %)Law
1071 (1.591 %)Manufacturing
1167 (1.502 %)Telecoms
1235 (0.784 %)Advertising
1333 (0.740 %)Spanish Language
1427 (0.605 %)Billing
1427 (0.605 %)Publishing
1526 (0.583 %)Marketing
1622 (0.493 %)Games
1721 (0.471 %)Italian Language
1820 (0.448 %)Electronics
1820 (0.448 %)General Ledger
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1227 (5.087 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
2213 (4.774 %)Equities
3183 (4.101 %)Derivative
4154 (3.451 %)Fixed Income
5106 (2.376 %)Computer Science
6103 (2.308 %)Management Information System
797 (2.174 %)Client/Server
878 (1.748 %)Hedge funds
963 (1.412 %)iSeries
1058 (1.300 %)Equity Derivative
1149 (1.098 %)SaaS
1239 (0.874 %)Market Risk
1335 (0.784 %)SWIFT
1434 (0.762 %)AS400
1533 (0.740 %)CMDB
1632 (0.717 %)Credit Derivative
1730 (0.672 %)Credit Risk
1826 (0.583 %)EPoS
1826 (0.583 %)Wiki
1924 (0.538 %)Replication
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11346 (30.17 %)UNIX
21270 (28.46 %)Windows
3697 (15.62 %)Linux
4231 (5.177 %)Windows Server 2003
5211 (4.729 %)Windows Server 2008
6198 (4.437 %)Solaris
7116 (2.600 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
892 (2.062 %)Windows XP
977 (1.726 %)Windows 7
1047 (1.053 %)AIX
1133 (0.740 %)HPUX
1231 (0.695 %)Windows Vista
1329 (0.650 %)Windows 2000
1421 (0.471 %)Oracle Linux
1421 (0.471 %)Windows 2000 Server
1515 (0.336 %)NetWare
1612 (0.269 %)SUSE
179 (0.202 %)CentOS
179 (0.202 %)VMS
187 (0.157 %)Ubuntu
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1791 (17.73 %)ITIL
2251 (5.625 %)Problem Management
3217 (4.863 %)Service Management
4211 (4.729 %)Incident Management
5199 (4.460 %)Change Management
6196 (4.393 %)CRM
7191 (4.281 %)Business Intelligence
8181 (4.056 %)E-Commerce
9143 (3.205 %)Root Cause Analysis
10134 (3.003 %)Asset Management
11132 (2.958 %)ERP
12131 (2.936 %)Project Management
13122 (2.734 %)Service Delivery
14113 (2.532 %)Document Management
15105 (2.353 %)Release Management
16102 (2.286 %)User Acceptance Testing
1799 (2.219 %)Workflow
1895 (2.129 %)OO
1991 (2.039 %)Business Analysis
2085 (1.905 %)Risk Management
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
12693 (60.35 %)SQL
2876 (19.63 %)Java
3567 (12.71 %)C#
4420 (9.413 %)Perl
5374 (8.382 %)JavaScript
6268 (6.006 %)VB
7248 (5.558 %)Shell Script
8242 (5.424 %)C++
9241 (5.401 %)VB.NET
10238 (5.334 %)PL/SQL
11174 (3.900 %)T-SQL
12146 (3.272 %)VBA
13136 (3.048 %)Python
14126 (2.824 %)PHP
15111 (2.488 %)VB6
16103 (2.308 %)C
1794 (2.107 %)VBScript
1861 (1.367 %)Bash shell
1959 (1.322 %)PowerShell
2048 (1.076 %)Korn
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1504 (11.30 %)Degree
289 (1.995 %)ITIL Certification
368 (1.524 %)Microsoft Certification
445 (1.009 %)MCSE
540 (0.896 %)Security Cleared
627 (0.605 %)MCP
723 (0.515 %)SC Cleared
819 (0.426 %)MCTS
819 (0.426 %)MOS
918 (0.403 %)Cisco Certification
918 (0.403 %)MCITP
1017 (0.381 %)ISEB
1017 (0.381 %)CCNA
1111 (0.247 %)ISTQB
128 (0.179 %)HND
128 (0.179 %)MCSA
137 (0.157 %)MCDST
137 (0.157 %)HNC
146 (0.134 %)Oracle Certification
155 (0.112 %)MCPD
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1303 (6.791 %)SLA
286 (1.927 %)QA
319 (0.426 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
413 (0.291 %)ISO 8583
54 (0.090 %)COBIT
54 (0.090 %)ISO/IEC 27001
63 (0.067 %)Data Quality
72 (0.045 %)Solvency II
81 (0.022 %)PCI DSS
81 (0.022 %)ISO 9001
81 (0.022 %)Basel II
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1140 (3.138 %)Active Directory
225 (0.560 %)VMware Infrastructure
225 (0.560 %)Terminal Services
322 (0.493 %)XenApp
420 (0.448 %)Hyper-V
511 (0.247 %)NDS
610 (0.224 %)ISA Server
79 (0.202 %)Sendmail
86 (0.134 %)ClearTrust
95 (0.112 %)vSphere
95 (0.112 %)Squid
95 (0.112 %)Citrix Presentation Server
95 (0.112 %)Xen
95 (0.112 %)Oracle RAC
95 (0.112 %)VMware ESX
103 (0.067 %)XenDesktop
103 (0.067 %)VMware Server
112 (0.045 %)RACF
112 (0.045 %)Terminal Server
112 (0.045 %)Nmap
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
144 (0.986 %)Control-M
217 (0.381 %)CA SiteMinder
314 (0.314 %)Tivoli
314 (0.314 %)SCCM
410 (0.224 %)Tivoli Monitoring
410 (0.224 %)vCenter
58 (0.179 %)Nagios
67 (0.157 %)SCOM
76 (0.134 %)BMC PATROL
76 (0.134 %)MOM
85 (0.112 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
85 (0.112 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
94 (0.090 %)Backup Exec
94 (0.090 %)OpenView
94 (0.090 %)ServiceCenter
103 (0.067 %)Puppet
103 (0.067 %)Sun Identity Manager
103 (0.067 %)HP Quality Center
103 (0.067 %)OVSD
103 (0.067 %)HP Data Protector
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11232 (27.61 %)Oracle
2752 (16.85 %)Microsoft
3286 (6.410 %)Sybase
4151 (3.384 %)IBM
5147 (3.294 %)JBoss
6115 (2.577 %)Citrix
7110 (2.465 %)VMware
8109 (2.443 %)Sun
9107 (2.398 %)SAP
1096 (2.152 %)Business Objects
1193 (2.084 %)Red Hat
1266 (1.479 %)HP
1361 (1.367 %)TIBCO
1450 (1.121 %)Charles River
1540 (0.896 %)Remedy
1639 (0.874 %)Cognos
1736 (0.807 %)Bloomberg
1835 (0.784 %)thinkFolio
1933 (0.740 %)JD Edwards
1933 (0.740 %)Sage