Wiltshire Applications Support Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Applications Support role in IT jobs within the Wiltshire 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Application Support
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Andover Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Cranleigh Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Dunbartonshire Dunstable Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Fareham Farnborough Farnham Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Horsham Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Keighley Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Sale Salford Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield 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 Thame Trowbridge Tyne and Wear Uckfield UK Upminster Uxbridge Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	74	84
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching permanent IT job ads	46	25
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	2.219 %	1.325 %
Salaries quoted	36	25
Average minimum salary	£27,722	£30,440
Average salary	£29,306	£32,760
% change on same period last year	-10.54 %
Average maximum salary	£30,889	£35,080
UK excluding London average salary	£31,652	£30,569
% change on same period last year	+3.54 %
Job Titles Wiltshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	2073	1887
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.094 %	0.773 %
Salaries quoted	1767	1632
Average minimum salary	£31,738	£31,462
Average salary	£35,116	£34,556
% change on same period last year	+1.62 %
Average maximum salary	£38,494	£37,650
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
Applications Support South West

Applications Support
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Applications Support across the Wiltshire 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 Applications Support across the Wiltshire region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Applications Support across the Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Applications Support within the Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Swindon	+3	22	£36,962	+0.21 %
Chippenham	-13	13	£22,917	+10.70 %
Trowbridge	-7	2	£22,500	-33.82 %

Applications Support South West

Applications Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Wiltshire 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 48 (42.11 %) SQL 2 36 (31.58 %) SQL Server 3 30 (26.32 %) UNIX 4 28 (24.56 %) Windows 4 28 (24.56 %) .NET 5 25 (21.93 %) Microsoft 5 25 (21.93 %) Finance 6 22 (19.30 %) Oracle 6 22 (19.30 %) ITIL 7 19 (16.67 %) Back Office 8 18 (15.79 %) Systems Analysis 8 18 (15.79 %) SLA 9 17 (14.91 %) C# 10 16 (14.04 %) Java 11 15 (13.16 %) Windows 2000

12 12 (10.53 %) SQL Server 2000 13 10 (8.772 %) PDA 13 10 (8.772 %) HP 13 10 (8.772 %) MS Excel 13 10 (8.772 %) MS Office 14 9 (7.895 %) C++ 14 9 (7.895 %) VC++ 14 9 (7.895 %) Blackberry 15 8 (7.018 %) SQL Server 2005 16 5 (4.386 %) Incident Management 16 5 (4.386 %) Scrum 16 5 (4.386 %) Agile Software Development 16 5 (4.386 %) TDD 16 5 (4.386 %) Middleware 16 5 (4.386 %) TIBCO

Applications Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Wiltshire 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 28 (24.56 %) .NET 2 5 (4.386 %) Middleware 3 4 (3.509 %) HTML 3 4 (3.509 %) XML 4 3 (2.632 %) JDBC 4 3 (2.632 %) JSP 4 3 (2.632 %) JavaBeans 4 3 (2.632 %) Spring 4 3 (2.632 %) Drools 5 2 (1.754 %) JPA 5 2 (1.754 %) XSLT 6 1 (0.877 %) WebServices 6 1 (0.877 %) ASP 6 1 (0.877 %) ASP.NET 6 1 (0.877 %) CSS 6 1 (0.877 %) Jini	Application Platforms 1 5 (4.386 %) BizTalk Server 2 3 (2.632 %) JBoss 3 1 (0.877 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 10 (8.772 %) MS Office 1 10 (8.772 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 4 (3.509 %) Navision 2 1 (0.877 %) Singl.eView
Communications & Networking 1 1 (0.877 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 36 (31.58 %) SQL Server 2 12 (10.53 %) SQL Server 2000 3 8 (7.018 %) SQL Server 2005 4 3 (2.632 %) EDRMS 4 3 (2.632 %) BusinessObjects 4 3 (2.632 %) SQL Server 7 5 1 (0.877 %) Datawarehouse 5 1 (0.877 %) Oracle 10g 5 1 (0.877 %) Oracle OWB
Development Applications 1 3 (2.632 %) Ant 1 3 (2.632 %) Log4j 2 1 (0.877 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 1 (0.877 %) Oracle Forms	General 1 25 (21.93 %) Finance 2 19 (16.67 %) Back Office 3 3 (2.632 %) Local Government 3 3 (2.632 %) Government 4 2 (1.754 %) Health 4 2 (1.754 %) Banking 5 1 (0.877 %) Retail 5 1 (0.877 %) Pensions
Miscellaneous 1 10 (8.772 %) PDA 2 9 (7.895 %) Blackberry 3 1 (0.877 %) Management Information System	Operating Systems 1 30 (26.32 %) UNIX 2 28 (24.56 %) Windows 3 15 (13.16 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (0.877 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (0.877 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 22 (19.30 %) ITIL 2 18 (15.79 %) Systems Analysis 3 5 (4.386 %) Scrum 3 5 (4.386 %) Agile Software Development 3 5 (4.386 %) TDD 3 5 (4.386 %) Incident Management 4 4 (3.509 %) Business Analysis 4 4 (3.509 %) OO 5 3 (2.632 %) CRM 5 3 (2.632 %) PRINCE2 5 3 (2.632 %) Security Management 5 3 (2.632 %) Project Planning 6 2 (1.754 %) Workflow 6 2 (1.754 %) Service Delivery 6 2 (1.754 %) Change Management 7 1 (0.877 %) Fund Management	Programming Languages 1 48 (42.11 %) SQL 2 17 (14.91 %) C# 3 16 (14.04 %) Java 4 9 (7.895 %) C++ 4 9 (7.895 %) VC++ 5 5 (4.386 %) C 6 2 (1.754 %) PL/SQL 6 2 (1.754 %) Shell Script 6 2 (1.754 %) VB.NET 7 1 (0.877 %) VBA 7 1 (0.877 %) VB6 7 1 (0.877 %) Transact-SQL 7 1 (0.877 %) VB 7 1 (0.877 %) Perl
Qualifications 1 3 (2.632 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 18 (15.79 %) SLA
Systems Management 1 1 (0.877 %) Tivoli 1 1 (0.877 %) AutoSys	Vendors 1 25 (21.93 %) Microsoft 2 22 (19.30 %) Oracle 3 10 (8.772 %) HP 4 5 (4.386 %) TIBCO 5 3 (2.632 %) Lagan 5 3 (2.632 %) Civica 5 3 (2.632 %) Business Objects 6 1 (0.877 %) Citrix 6 1 (0.877 %) Informatica