Support Specialist Jobs in the West Midlands
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Support 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 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 advertised for the West Midlands region.

Location
 3 months to
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Specialist
Rank 191 178 162
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Support Specialist 13 7 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.259% 0.154% 0.336%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.270% 0.160% 0.351%
Number of salaries quoted 9 5 13
Average salary £40,995 £37,500 £28,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.31% +31.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,900 £35,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £41,796 £52,000 £46,300
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,309 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+6.20% +0.88%
All Job Titles
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 4823 4368 3992
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 95.92% 95.83% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3997 3832 3397
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £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%
Support Specialist
England

Support Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands Support Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Support Specialist
Salary Trend

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

West Midlands Support Specialist Salary Trend

Support Specialist
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Support Specialist across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Midlands Support Specialist Salary Histogram

Support Specialist
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Support Specialist within the West Midlands region 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
Birmingham -17 5 £45,000 +5.88%
Coventry - 5 £40,995 -
Warwickshire +7 3 £35,500 -
Support Specialist
England

Support Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region that cited 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 Support Specialist in their job title.

1 13 (46.43%) Linux
2 10 (35.71%) UNIX
3 9 (32.14%) Oracle
4 8 (28.57%) Active Directory
5 7 (25.00%) SQL Server
6 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
7 5 (17.86%) Java
7 5 (17.86%) Apache
7 5 (17.86%) Tomcat
7 5 (17.86%) Degree
8 4 (14.29%) SSH
8 4 (14.29%) Computer Science
8 4 (14.29%) AIX
8 4 (14.29%) Solaris
8 4 (14.29%) Perl
8 4 (14.29%) SQL
8 4 (14.29%) SSL
8 4 (14.29%) Back Office
8 4 (14.29%) Finance
8 4 (14.29%) Migration
8 4 (14.29%) SUSE
8 4 (14.29%) VMware
8 4 (14.29%) Control-M
9 3 (10.71%) WAN
9 3 (10.71%) DHCP
9 3 (10.71%) DNS
9 3 (10.71%) SharePoint
9 3 (10.71%) Red Hat
9 3 (10.71%) EPoS
9 3 (10.71%) SAP

Support Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region that cited 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 Support Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (3.571%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 5 (17.86%) Apache
1 5 (17.86%) Tomcat
2 3 (10.71%) SharePoint
3 2 (7.143%) MS Exchange
4 1 (3.571%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 2 (7.143%) MS Office
2 1 (3.571%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.571%) SAP R/3
1 1 (3.571%) SAP FI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) SSH
1 4 (14.29%) SSL
2 3 (10.71%) WAN
2 3 (10.71%) DHCP
2 3 (10.71%) DNS
3 1 (3.571%) Firewall
3 1 (3.571%) PBX
3 1 (3.571%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.571%) SAP BW
General
1 4 (14.29%) Back Office
1 4 (14.29%) Finance
2 3 (10.71%) French Language
2 3 (10.71%) Retail
3 1 (3.571%) Banking
3 1 (3.571%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Computer Science
2 3 (10.71%) EPoS
3 1 (3.571%) AS400
3 1 (3.571%) Fixed Income
3 1 (3.571%) E-Learning
3 1 (3.571%) SCORM
3 1 (3.571%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.571%) Life Science
3 1 (3.571%) iSeries
3 1 (3.571%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 13 (46.43%) Linux
2 10 (35.71%) UNIX
3 4 (14.29%) AIX
3 4 (14.29%) Solaris
3 4 (14.29%) SUSE
4 3 (10.71%) Windows
4 3 (10.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.571%) Windows XP
5 1 (3.571%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (3.571%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (14.29%) Migration
2 3 (10.71%) ITIL
3 2 (7.143%) Incident Management
3 2 (7.143%) Service Management
4 1 (3.571%) Workflow
4 1 (3.571%) SIEM
4 1 (3.571%) Project Planning
4 1 (3.571%) Problem Management
4 1 (3.571%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.86%) Java
2 4 (14.29%) Perl
2 4 (14.29%) SQL
3 2 (7.143%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.571%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.571%) C#
4 1 (3.571%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) Degree
2 2 (7.143%) MCITP
3 1 (3.571%) CCNA
3 1 (3.571%) CISSP
3 1 (3.571%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.571%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.571%) SCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.571%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (3.571%) SLA
1 1 (3.571%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.143%) Hyper-V
2 2 (7.143%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.571%) ISA Server
3 1 (3.571%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Control-M
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) Oracle
2 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 4 (14.29%) VMware
4 3 (10.71%) Red Hat
4 3 (10.71%) SAP
5 1 (3.571%) HP
2nd/3rd Line Support Specialist - MCITP (Enterprise Administrator)
Coventry, West Midlands (County)
IT Support, Managed Services, Exchange, Windows Server, Helpdesk, Field Support, Implementations, Microsoft, Windows, Virtualisation, VMware, Citrix, Remote Support, 2nd Line Support, SQL, VCP, MCITP, MCSE / MCSA, Active Directory /...
Stafford-Sharp Associates
Salary: From £25,000 to £28,000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
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