East Midlands Applications Support Analyst Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Applications Support Analyst role in IT contracts within the East Midlands region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Applications Support Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Application Support Analyst
Location Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Cheshire City of London Crawley Docklands, London Durham East Midlands East of England England Gatwick Glasgow Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Merseyside Milton Keynes Newcastle North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Sunderland Surrey Tadworth Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	79	94
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	10	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	0.623 %	0.362 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£250	-
Average daily rate	£250	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£250	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£288	£239
% change on same period last year	+20.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.67	£17.67
Average hourly rate	£30.42	£21.33
% change on same period last year	+42.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.17	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.84	£22.13
% change on same period last year	-5.85 %
Job Titles East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	1604	1935
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.241 %	1.944 %
Daily rates quoted	481	355
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£330
Average daily rate	£371	£348
% change on same period last year	+6.77 %
Average maximum daily rate	£392	£365
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£353
% change on same period last year	+0.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	203	308
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.14	£18.60
Average hourly rate	£19.40	£20.45
% change on same period last year	-5.16 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.65	£22.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.74	£25.24
% change on same period last year	-5.93 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Applications Support Analyst across the East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Applications Support Analyst across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Applications Support Analyst across the East Midlands region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Applications Support Analyst across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Support Analyst within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 6 October 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 Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Northamptonshire	+8	8	£250	-
Nottinghamshire	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 13 (76.47 %) SQL Server 2 11 (64.71 %) SQL 3 10 (58.82 %) HTML 3 10 (58.82 %) Oracle 4 7 (41.18 %) XML 4 7 (41.18 %) UNIX 4 7 (41.18 %) Microsoft 5 6 (35.29 %) Solaris 6 5 (29.41 %) ASP 6 5 (29.41 %) Windows 6 5 (29.41 %) VB 6 5 (29.41 %) SharePoint 6 5 (29.41 %) Ingres 6 5 (29.41 %) Web Development 7 4 (23.53 %) MS Excel

8 3 (17.65 %) Linux 8 3 (17.65 %) .NET 8 3 (17.65 %) Perl 8 3 (17.65 %) Local Government 8 3 (17.65 %) Change Management 8 3 (17.65 %) Government 9 2 (11.76 %) .NET Framework 9 2 (11.76 %) Finance 9 2 (11.76 %) Crystal Reports 9 2 (11.76 %) LAN 9 2 (11.76 %) WAN 9 2 (11.76 %) Cisco 9 2 (11.76 %) Citrix 9 2 (11.76 %) Commerce Server 10 1 (5.882 %) Windows Server 2003

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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.

Application Development 1 10 (58.82 %) HTML 2 7 (41.18 %) XML 3 5 (29.41 %) ASP 4 3 (17.65 %) .NET 5 2 (11.76 %) .NET Framework 6 1 (5.882 %) XSLT 6 1 (5.882 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 5 (29.41 %) SharePoint 2 2 (11.76 %) Commerce Server 3 1 (5.882 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 4 (23.53 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (5.882 %) Navision 1 1 (5.882 %) Academy Housing 1 1 (5.882 %) arcHouse
Communications & Networking 1 2 (11.76 %) LAN 1 2 (11.76 %) WAN 2 1 (5.882 %) Intranet 2 1 (5.882 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (76.47 %) SQL Server 2 5 (29.41 %) Ingres 3 2 (11.76 %) Crystal Reports 4 1 (5.882 %) BusinessObjects
General 1 3 (17.65 %) Government 1 3 (17.65 %) Local Government 2 2 (11.76 %) Finance 3 1 (5.882 %) Banking	Miscellaneous 1 1 (5.882 %) Mainframe 1 1 (5.882 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 7 (41.18 %) UNIX 2 6 (35.29 %) Solaris 3 5 (29.41 %) Windows 4 3 (17.65 %) Linux 5 1 (5.882 %) Windows XP 5 1 (5.882 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (29.41 %) Web Development 2 3 (17.65 %) Change Management 3 1 (5.882 %) Incident Management 3 1 (5.882 %) E-Commerce
Programming Languages 1 11 (64.71 %) SQL 2 5 (29.41 %) VB 3 3 (17.65 %) Perl 4 1 (5.882 %) JavaScript	Vendors 1 10 (58.82 %) Oracle 2 7 (41.18 %) Microsoft 3 2 (11.76 %) Citrix 3 2 (11.76 %) Cisco 4 1 (5.882 %) Business Objects 4 1 (5.882 %) Progress 4 1 (5.882 %) Agresso 4 1 (5.882 %) Anite 4 1 (5.882 %) Northgate 4 1 (5.882 %) Capita 4 1 (5.882 %) Orchard