The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Specialist role in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Applications Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 advertised for the West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Specialist
Rank 202 187 169
Rank change year-on-year
-15 -18
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Specialist 5 2 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.101% 0.044% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.105% 0.046% 0.025%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 1
Average salary £45,000 £35,000 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.57% +11.11%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
- -6.25%
All Job Titles
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
4760 4322 3982
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 95.87% 95.98% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3980 3784 3409
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £25,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Applications Specialist
England

Applications Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands Applications Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Applications Specialist
Salary Trend

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

West Midlands Applications Specialist Salary Trend

Applications Specialist
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Specialist within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 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
Birmingham -20 5 £45,000 +28.57%
Applications Specialist
England

Applications Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region that cited Applications 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 Specialist in their job title.

1 5 (50.00%) Java
1 5 (50.00%) UNIX
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (40.00%) Migration
2 4 (40.00%) SUSE
2 4 (40.00%) SSH
2 4 (40.00%) SSL
2 4 (40.00%) AIX
2 4 (40.00%) Solaris
2 4 (40.00%) Perl
2 4 (40.00%) Oracle
2 4 (40.00%) EPoS
2 4 (40.00%) Control-M
3 3 (30.00%) Degree
4 2 (20.00%) Load Balancing
4 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (20.00%) Retail
4 2 (20.00%) PCI DSS
4 2 (20.00%) Back Office
5 1 (10.00%) Finance
5 1 (10.00%) Middleware
5 1 (10.00%) ITIL
5 1 (10.00%) SQL
5 1 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (10.00%) Life Science
5 1 (10.00%) Problem Management
5 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
5 1 (10.00%) Derivative
5 1 (10.00%) Fixed Income

Applications Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region that cited Applications 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 Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (10.00%) Middleware
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) SSL
1 4 (40.00%) SSH
General
1 2 (20.00%) Back Office
1 2 (20.00%) Retail
2 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) EPoS
2 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (10.00%) Life Science
3 1 (10.00%) Fixed Income
3 1 (10.00%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) UNIX
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (40.00%) SUSE
2 4 (40.00%) AIX
2 4 (40.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (10.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (10.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (40.00%) Perl
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle