The first table below looks at the demand for the Product Specialist role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Product Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Product Specialist
Rank 819 866 796
Rank change year-on-year
+47 -70
Permanent jobs requiring a Product Specialist 40 46 68
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.037% 0.038% 0.056%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.039% 0.040% 0.059%
Number of salaries quoted 20 29 51
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -10.71%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,200 £26,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
101379 114752 114698
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.43% 94.76% 94.23%
Number of salaries quoted 84338 98449 96828
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%

Product Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Product Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Product Specialist
Salary Trend

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

Product Specialist Salary Trend

Product Specialist
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Product Specialist over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 within the UK.

Product Specialist Salary Histogram

Product Specialist
Top 26 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Specialist within the UK over the 3 months to 20 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 +17 37 £40,000 +6.66%
London +30 18 £37,500 -
North West +9 7 £40,000 +100.00%
South East +7 7 £57,500 +64.28%
Cheshire +4 5 £40,000 +100.00%
Berkshire - 5 £55,000 -
City of London +1 4 £40,000 +6.66%
West Midlands - 3 £33,750 -
Wales - 3 £32,500 -
South Wales - 3 £32,500 -
Reading - 3 £55,000 -
Chester -13 2 £40,000 +100.00%
Oxfordshire -18 2 £60,000 -
Cwmbran - 2 £32,500 -
Manchester - 2 £40,000 -
Abingdon - 2 £60,000 -
Warrington - 2 - -
Torfaen - 2 £32,500 -
South West - 1 £40,000 -
Warwickshire - 1 - -
Staffordshire - 1 £27,500 -
Warwick - 1 - -
Stoke-on-Trent - 1 £27,500 -
Newport - 1 £32,500 -
Bristol - 1 £40,000 -
Birmingham - 1 £40,000 -

Product Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Product 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 Product Specialist in their job title.

1 24 (27.91%) SQL
2 22 (25.58%) Degree
3 21 (24.42%) Content Management
4 19 (22.09%) Java
4 19 (22.09%) German Language
5 18 (20.93%) French Language
5 18 (20.93%) Workflow
6 17 (19.77%) Oracle
7 14 (16.28%) Microsoft
7 14 (16.28%) Marketing
8 13 (15.12%) Finance
9 11 (12.79%) CMS
9 11 (12.79%) Retail
10 10 (11.63%) SEO
11 9 (10.47%) Cisco
11 9 (10.47%) CRM
11 9 (10.47%) SQL Server
12 8 (9.302%) ERP
12 8 (9.302%) Documentum
12 8 (9.302%) Internet
12 8 (9.302%) Project Management
12 8 (9.302%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (9.302%) Life Science
12 8 (9.302%) Product Management
12 8 (9.302%) Software Deployment
13 7 (8.140%) SunGard
14 6 (6.977%) UNIX
14 6 (6.977%) NHS
14 6 (6.977%) Management Information System
15 5 (5.814%) Risk Management

Product Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (5.814%) HTML
1 5 (5.814%) CSS
2 3 (3.488%) XML
2 3 (3.488%) Flash
3 2 (2.326%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.326%) jQuery
3 2 (2.326%) .NET
3 2 (2.326%) J2EE
3 2 (2.326%) ASP.NET
3 2 (2.326%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 11 (12.79%) CMS
2 8 (9.302%) Documentum
3 4 (4.651%) IIS
4 3 (3.488%) SharePoint
4 3 (3.488%) DotNetNuke
5 2 (2.326%) WebLogic
5 2 (2.326%) Apache
5 2 (2.326%) Tomcat
5 2 (2.326%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (1.163%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (4.651%) MS Excel
2 3 (3.488%) PaintShop Pro
2 3 (3.488%) Photoshop
3 2 (2.326%) MS Office
3 2 (2.326%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (5.814%) Front Arena
2 3 (3.488%) SunGard AvantGard
3 1 (1.163%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.163%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.163%) SAP CO
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.302%) Internet
2 2 (2.326%) Firewall
2 2 (2.326%) Wireless
3 1 (1.163%) NetScaler
3 1 (1.163%) 3G
3 1 (1.163%) HTTP
3 1 (1.163%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.47%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.326%) OLAP
2 2 (2.326%) Crystal Reports
2 2 (2.326%) MySQL
2 2 (2.326%) Big Data
2 2 (2.326%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.163%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (1.163%) SQLPlus
3 1 (1.163%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.163%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.163%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (1.163%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (1.163%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (1.163%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.163%) DB2
Development Applications
1 3 (3.488%) Dreamweaver
2 2 (2.326%) QuickTest Pro
2 2 (2.326%) JIRA
2 2 (2.326%) Selenium
3 1 (1.163%) RequisitePro
General
1 19 (22.09%) German Language
2 18 (20.93%) French Language
3 14 (16.28%) Marketing
4 13 (15.12%) Finance
5 11 (12.79%) Retail
6 8 (9.302%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (4.651%) Front Office
8 2 (2.326%) Italian Language
9 1 (1.163%) Spanish Language
9 1 (1.163%) Legal
9 1 (1.163%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.163%) Publishing
9 1 (1.163%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.302%) Life Science
2 6 (6.977%) NHS
2 6 (6.977%) Management Information System
3 5 (5.814%) Computer Science
3 5 (5.814%) Hedge funds
4 3 (3.488%) E-Learning
5 2 (2.326%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.326%) Open Source
5 2 (2.326%) SaaS
5 2 (2.326%) Derivative
5 2 (2.326%) Statistics
5 2 (2.326%) Mathematics
5 2 (2.326%) Physics
6 1 (1.163%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.163%) Blackberry
6 1 (1.163%) Online Games
6 1 (1.163%) e-Health
6 1 (1.163%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.977%) UNIX
2 5 (5.814%) Windows
3 4 (4.651%) Linux
4 2 (2.326%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (24.42%) Content Management
2 18 (20.93%) Workflow
3 10 (11.63%) SEO
4 9 (10.47%) CRM
5 8 (9.302%) Project Management
5 8 (9.302%) ERP
5 8 (9.302%) Product Management
5 8 (9.302%) Software Deployment
6 5 (5.814%) Time Management
6 5 (5.814%) User Acceptance Testing
6 5 (5.814%) Risk Management
7 4 (4.651%) ITIL
7 4 (4.651%) Agile Software Development
7 4 (4.651%) Business Development
8 3 (3.488%) Automated Testing
8 3 (3.488%) Business Analysis
8 3 (3.488%) Software Testing
8 3 (3.488%) Web Design
8 3 (3.488%) Service Management
8 3 (3.488%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 24 (27.91%) SQL
2 19 (22.09%) Java
3 4 (4.651%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.326%) VBScript
4 2 (2.326%) VB
4 2 (2.326%) C
4 2 (2.326%) C#
4 2 (2.326%) Python
5 1 (1.163%) VBA
5 1 (1.163%) Perl
5 1 (1.163%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (25.58%) Degree
2 3 (3.488%) ISEB
3 2 (2.326%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.163%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.651%) QA
2 1 (1.163%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.163%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.163%) XenApp
1 1 (1.163%) XenServer
1 1 (1.163%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (2.326%) SCCM
2 1 (1.163%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 17 (19.77%) Oracle
2 14 (16.28%) Microsoft
3 9 (10.47%) Cisco
4 7 (8.140%) SunGard
5 2 (2.326%) EMC
5 2 (2.326%) Sybase
5 2 (2.326%) Avaya
5 2 (2.326%) Juniper
5 2 (2.326%) NetApp
5 2 (2.326%) Riverbed
5 2 (2.326%) F5
5 2 (2.326%) Blue Coat
5 2 (2.326%) Brocade
5 2 (2.326%) Tandberg
6 1 (1.163%) MarketAxess
6 1 (1.163%) Twitter
6 1 (1.163%) JD Edwards
6 1 (1.163%) VMware
6 1 (1.163%) AppSense
6 1 (1.163%) Cognizant
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