Applications Support Contracts in Aberdeen
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Support role in IT contracts advertised for the Aberdeen region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Applications Support in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 Aberdeen region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Support
Rank 25 16 26
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +10
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support 1 11 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen 0.629% 5.759% 1.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.685% 6.322% 1.156%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 0
Average daily rate - £263 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
-4.16% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.50 £20.00 £23.75
% change year-on-year
-7.50% -15.78%
All Job Titles
Aberdeen
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 146 174 173
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen 91.82% 91.10% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 72 66
Average daily rate £350 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £150 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £455 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 17
Average hourly rate £15.77 £17.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.23% +13.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £14.30 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.60 £33.10 £31.01
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Applications Support
Scotland

Applications Support
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Applications Support across the Aberdeen region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Aberdeen Applications Support Jobs Demand Trend

Applications Support
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Applications Support across the Aberdeen region.

Aberdeen Applications Support Daily Rate Trend

Applications Support
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Applications Support across the Aberdeen region.

Aberdeen Applications Support Hourly Rate Trend

Applications Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen 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 contract IT job ads sampled with Applications Support in their job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 1 (33.33%) Fat Client
3 1 (33.33%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Xcelsius
3 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
3 1 (33.33%) VBA
3 1 (33.33%) J2EE
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (33.33%) MS Access
3 1 (33.33%) Data Mining
3 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (33.33%) SLA
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) HP
3 1 (33.33%) Thin Client
3 1 (33.33%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (33.33%) Business Objects
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) UNIX
3 1 (33.33%) C
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL

Applications Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen 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 contract IT job ads sampled with Applications Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) J2EE
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Xcelsius
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (33.33%) MS Access
1 1 (33.33%) Data Mining
1 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (33.33%) Crystal Reports
General
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Fat Client
1 1 (33.33%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) VBA
2 1 (33.33%) C
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) Business Objects
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