West Yorkshire Support Specialist Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Support Specialist role in IT jobs within the West Yorkshire 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 Support Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Support Specialist
Location Abingdon Andover Aylesbury Banbury Barking Basingstoke Beaconsfield Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Cirencester City of London County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dudley Dunstable East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Exmouth Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenock Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hounslow Hull Ilford Inverclyde Isle of Man Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Redditch Rotherham Royston Runcorn Salford Scotland Sheffield Skipton Slough South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stirling Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Swindon Thame Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Wokingham Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	177	175
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching permanent IT job ads	11	24
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	0.217 %	0.413 %
Salaries quoted	8	21
Average minimum salary	£22,111	£30,714
Average salary	£25,889	£32,262
% change on same period last year	-19.75 %
Average maximum salary	£29,667	£33,810
UK excluding London average salary	£34,204	£31,655
% change on same period last year	+8.05 %
Job Titles West Yorkshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	5059	5811
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.723 %	2.422 %
Salaries quoted	4111	4850
Average minimum salary	£30,838	£31,131
Average salary	£33,335	£33,733
% change on same period last year	-1.17 %
Average maximum salary	£35,833	£36,336
UK excluding London average salary	£38,055	£39,430
% change on same period last year	-3.48 %
Support Specialist Yorkshire

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Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Support Specialist across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Support Specialist within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 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
Leeds	+9	8	£25,000	-26.55 %
Bradford	-13	3	£30,000	-
Wakefield	-	1	£18,000	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 14 (50.00 %) Windows 2 11 (39.29 %) Windows Server 2003 3 9 (32.14 %) TCP/IP 3 9 (32.14 %) Microsoft 4 8 (28.57 %) MS Excel 4 8 (28.57 %) Active Directory 4 8 (28.57 %) Microsoft Certification 5 7 (25.00 %) MS Exchange 5 7 (25.00 %) Cisco 5 7 (25.00 %) MCSE 5 7 (25.00 %) SQL Server 6 6 (21.43 %) ITIL 6 6 (21.43 %) Citrix 7 5 (17.86 %) CCNA 7 5 (17.86 %) Cisco Certification

7 5 (17.86 %) MS Office 7 5 (17.86 %) VPN 7 5 (17.86 %) LAN 7 5 (17.86 %) Windows XP 7 5 (17.86 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 5 (17.86 %) Finance 8 4 (14.29 %) DHCP 8 4 (14.29 %) WAN 8 4 (14.29 %) DNS 8 4 (14.29 %) ITIL Certification 9 3 (10.71 %) VERITAS 9 3 (10.71 %) Firewall 9 3 (10.71 %) HP 9 3 (10.71 %) CCNP 9 3 (10.71 %) ASP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 3 (10.71 %) ASP 2 1 (3.571 %) .NET Framework 2 1 (3.571 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 7 (25.00 %) MS Exchange 2 5 (17.86 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (7.143 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 2 (7.143 %) Lotus Notes 4 1 (3.571 %) IIS 4 1 (3.571 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 4 1 (3.571 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 8 (28.57 %) MS Excel 2 5 (17.86 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 9 (32.14 %) TCP/IP 2 5 (17.86 %) VPN 2 5 (17.86 %) LAN 3 4 (14.29 %) WAN 3 4 (14.29 %) DHCP 3 4 (14.29 %) DNS 4 3 (10.71 %) Firewall 4 3 (10.71 %) VLAN 4 3 (10.71 %) Cisco ASA 5 2 (7.143 %) Cisco PIX 5 2 (7.143 %) IPsec 5 2 (7.143 %) HTTPS 5 2 (7.143 %) SAN 5 2 (7.143 %) Internet 5 2 (7.143 %) HTTP 5 2 (7.143 %) SMTP 6 1 (3.571 %) IP Telephony 6 1 (3.571 %) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (25.00 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 2 (7.143 %) Visual Studio
General 1 5 (17.86 %) Finance 2 2 (7.143 %) Legal 2 2 (7.143 %) Front Office	Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.571 %) NHS 1 1 (3.571 %) Blackberry 1 1 (3.571 %) AS400
Operating Systems 1 14 (50.00 %) Windows 2 11 (39.29 %) Windows Server 2003 3 5 (17.86 %) Windows XP 4 3 (10.71 %) Windows 2000 4 3 (10.71 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 1 (3.571 %) Red Hat Linux 5 1 (3.571 %) Windows Vista 5 1 (3.571 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (21.43 %) ITIL 2 2 (7.143 %) Change Management 2 2 (7.143 %) Network Load Balancing 3 1 (3.571 %) Problem Management
Programming Languages 1 3 (10.71 %) SQL 2 1 (3.571 %) Shell Script 2 1 (3.571 %) C#	Qualifications 1 8 (28.57 %) Microsoft Certification 2 7 (25.00 %) MCSE 3 5 (17.86 %) CCNA 3 5 (17.86 %) Cisco Certification 4 4 (14.29 %) ITIL Certification 5 3 (10.71 %) CCNP 6 2 (7.143 %) MCP 6 2 (7.143 %) A+ Certification 7 1 (3.571 %) Citrix Certification 7 1 (3.571 %) MCSA 7 1 (3.571 %) IBM Certification 7 1 (3.571 %) Network+ Certification
System Software 1 8 (28.57 %) Active Directory 2 1 (3.571 %) MetaFrame 2 1 (3.571 %) Terminal Server 2 1 (3.571 %) Backup Exec 2 1 (3.571 %) Citrix Presentation Server	Systems Management 1 1 (3.571 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 9 (32.14 %) Microsoft 2 7 (25.00 %) Cisco 3 6 (21.43 %) Citrix 4 3 (10.71 %) VERITAS 4 3 (10.71 %) HP 5 2 (7.143 %) Lotus 6 1 (3.571 %) Red Hat 6 1 (3.571 %) Sage 6 1 (3.571 %) Symantec 6 1 (3.571 %) McAfee Security 6 1 (3.571 %) Wyse 6 1 (3.571 %) Dell 6 1 (3.571 %) IBM