West Lothian Applications Support Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Applications Support role in IT jobs within the West Lothian region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. 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 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Application Support
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Avonmouth Banbury Barnet Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Carlisle Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Cranleigh Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dunbartonshire Dunstable Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Fareham Farnborough Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Glastonbury Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Horsham Huddersfield Hungerford Huntingdon Ipswich Keighley Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewisham Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Neath Port Talbot Newbury Newcastle Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Poole Port Talbot Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Tamworth Telford Thame Trowbridge Tyne and Wear Uckfield UK Uxbridge Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welwyn Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	22	28
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching permanent IT job ads	14	20
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	6.452 %	6.135 %
Salaries quoted	8	0
Average minimum salary	£37,875	-
Average salary	£39,750	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£41,625	-
UK excluding London average salary	£32,422	£31,155
% change on same period last year	+4.06 %
Job Titles West Lothian
Matching permanent IT job ads	217	326
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.120 %	0.137 %
Salaries quoted	145	131
Average minimum salary	£32,991	£32,544
Average salary	£35,757	£34,910
% change on same period last year	+2.42 %
Average maximum salary	£38,522	£37,277
UK excluding London average salary	£38,058	£39,448
% change on same period last year	-3.52 %
Applications Support Scotland

Applications Support
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Applications Support across the West Lothian region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Applications Support
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Applications Support across the West Lothian region.

Applications Support
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Applications Support across the West Lothian region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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 West Lothian region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Livingston	+4	12	£39,667	-

Applications Support Scotland

Applications Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the West Lothian 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 10 (62.50 %) Genesys 2 8 (50.00 %) Oracle 3 7 (43.75 %) Java 3 7 (43.75 %) SQL 3 7 (43.75 %) .NET 4 5 (31.25 %) HTML 5 4 (25.00 %) VB.NET 5 4 (25.00 %) XML 6 3 (18.75 %) ASP 6 3 (18.75 %) JSP 6 3 (18.75 %) Data Analysis 6 3 (18.75 %) WebSphere 7 2 (12.50 %) Technical Architecture 7 2 (12.50 %) Billing 7 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server

7 2 (12.50 %) Crystal Reports 7 2 (12.50 %) VoIP 7 2 (12.50 %) 21 CFR Part 11 7 2 (12.50 %) SLA 7 2 (12.50 %) IBM 7 2 (12.50 %) Finance 7 2 (12.50 %) Validation 7 2 (12.50 %) E-business 7 2 (12.50 %) VXML 8 1 (6.250 %) Management Information System 8 1 (6.250 %) Telecoms 8 1 (6.250 %) Ab Initio 8 1 (6.250 %) ITIL Certification 8 1 (6.250 %) ITIL 8 1 (6.250 %) UNIX

Applications Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the West Lothian 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 7 (43.75 %) .NET 2 5 (31.25 %) HTML 3 4 (25.00 %) XML 4 3 (18.75 %) ASP 4 3 (18.75 %) JSP 4 3 (18.75 %) WebSphere 5 2 (12.50 %) VXML	Communications & Networking 1 2 (12.50 %) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server 1 2 (12.50 %) Crystal Reports 2 1 (6.250 %) Oracle 8/8i	General 1 2 (12.50 %) Finance 1 2 (12.50 %) Billing 2 1 (6.250 %) Telecoms 2 1 (6.250 %) Banking
Miscellaneous 1 1 (6.250 %) Management Information System	Operating Systems 1 1 (6.250 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (18.75 %) Data Analysis 2 2 (12.50 %) Technical Architecture 2 2 (12.50 %) E-business 2 2 (12.50 %) Validation 3 1 (6.250 %) ITIL 3 1 (6.250 %) CRM 3 1 (6.250 %) Data Protection	Programming Languages 1 7 (43.75 %) Java 1 7 (43.75 %) SQL 2 4 (25.00 %) VB.NET
Qualifications 1 1 (6.250 %) ITIL Certification 1 1 (6.250 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (12.50 %) 21 CFR Part 11 1 2 (12.50 %) SLA
Vendors 1 10 (62.50 %) Genesys 2 8 (50.00 %) Oracle 3 2 (12.50 %) IBM 4 1 (6.250 %) Ab Initio