The first table below looks at the demand for Application Packaging skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Application Packaging over the 3 months to 23 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 of the Application Development category for the Bedfordshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Packaging
Rank - - 42
Contract jobs citing Application Packaging 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire - - 0.340%
As % of the Application Development category - - 1.205%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £305
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £315 £300
% change year-on-year
-1.58% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £34.63 £24.00
% change year-on-year
-6.13% +44.27%
All Application Development
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
38 48 83
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 20.32% 17.33% 28.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 28 40
Average daily rate £350 £325 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% +62.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £450 £395
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
Average hourly rate - £190.00 £47.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +300.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Application Packaging
East of England

Application Packaging
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Application Packaging across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Bedfordshire Application Packaging Jobs Demand Trend

Application Packaging
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Application Packaging across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Application Packaging Daily Rate Trend

Application Packaging
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Application Packaging also 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 that cited Application Packaging.

1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (50.00%) Back Office
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) DMZ
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) IIS

Application Packaging
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Application Packaging also 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 that cited Application Packaging. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) DMZ
General
1 1 (50.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Technical Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) VMware
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
Dunstable, Bedfordshire
required by my financial services client based in the Dunstable area of Bedfordshire. Essential skills include. 3 + years application packaging which must include strong App-V experience sequencing...
Unite Human Resources
Rate: From £300 to £350 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013