The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Support Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Dorset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Applications Support Analyst 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 Dorset 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Support Analyst
Rank - 33 35
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support Analyst 0 1 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset - 0.368% 2.500%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.403% 2.614%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 7
Average daily rate - £150 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -52.38%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £290 £315
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -7.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.75 £19.00
% change year-on-year
+26.76% -6.57%
All Job Titles
Dorset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
203 248 306
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset 95.75% 91.18% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 143 167
Average daily rate £350 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £275 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £505 £475 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 21 14
Average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.00% +47.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.00 £11.38
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £40.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Applications Support Analyst
South West

Applications Support Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dorset Applications Support Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Applications Support Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Dorset Applications Support Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Applications Support Analyst
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset region that cited Applications Support Analyst 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 Analyst in their job title.

1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) SLA
1 2 (100.00%) Sun
1 2 (100.00%) Peregrine
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
1 2 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) CMDB
1 2 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceCenter
1 2 (100.00%) Demand Management

Applications Support Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

General
1 2 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (100.00%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 2 (100.00%) Demand Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Sun
1 2 (100.00%) Peregrine