The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Support role in IT contracts advertised for the East of England 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 East of England 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 104 113 116
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +3
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support 16 18 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.734% 0.613% 0.387%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.785% 0.651% 0.408%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 6
Average daily rate £250 £250 £319
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -21.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £123 £154 £306
10% offered a daily rate of more than £660 £363 £338
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
-4.16% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
Average hourly rate £53.00 £27.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+96.29% -1.81%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.50 £20.00 £23.75
% change year-on-year
-7.50% -15.78%
All Job Titles
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2038 2765 2452
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 93.49% 94.14% 94.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1044 1303 1080
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £463 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 285 319
Average hourly rate £24.90 £25.75 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.30% +25.60%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £42.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Applications Support
England

Applications Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England Applications Support Daily Rate Trend

Applications Support
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Applications Support across the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

East of England Applications Support Daily Rate Histogram

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 East of England region.

East of England Applications Support Hourly Rate Trend

Applications Support
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 within the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Essex -4 9 £350 -3.44%
Hertfordshire +13 3 £240 -
Cambridgeshire +9 2 £230 +48.38%
Bedfordshire - 2 £525 -
Applications Support
England

Applications Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 16 (53.33%) SQL
2 12 (40.00%) .NET
3 9 (30.00%) SQL Server
3 9 (30.00%) Windows
4 7 (23.33%) T-SQL
5 6 (20.00%) IIS
5 6 (20.00%) Service Delivery
6 5 (16.67%) ASP.NET
6 5 (16.67%) ITIL
6 5 (16.67%) Java
6 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
6 5 (16.67%) WCF
7 4 (13.33%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (13.33%) HTTP
8 3 (10.00%) Content Management
8 3 (10.00%) Finance
8 3 (10.00%) Publishing
8 3 (10.00%) Configuration Management
8 3 (10.00%) TCP/IP
8 3 (10.00%) Documentum
8 3 (10.00%) Linux
8 3 (10.00%) SharePoint
8 3 (10.00%) Oracle
8 3 (10.00%) Problem Management
8 3 (10.00%) Network Load Balancing
8 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (10.00%) Capacity Management
9 2 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC 4
9 2 (6.667%) Open Source
9 2 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC

Applications Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 12 (40.00%) .NET
2 5 (16.67%) ASP.NET
2 5 (16.67%) WCF
3 2 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 2 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (6.667%) ASP
4 1 (3.333%) CSS
4 1 (3.333%) Web Services
4 1 (3.333%) XML
4 1 (3.333%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 6 (20.00%) IIS
2 3 (10.00%) Documentum
2 3 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (6.667%) Apache
3 2 (6.667%) LiveLink
4 1 (3.333%) CMS
4 1 (3.333%) MS Exchange
4 1 (3.333%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (3.333%) Confluence
4 1 (3.333%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (3.333%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.667%) SAP FI
1 2 (6.667%) SAP CO
1 2 (6.667%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (3.333%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (3.333%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) HTTP
2 3 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.333%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.667%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (6.667%) OLAP
3 1 (3.333%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (3.333%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (3.333%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (3.333%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.333%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (3.333%) JIRA
General
1 3 (10.00%) Finance
1 3 (10.00%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.667%) Open Source
1 2 (6.667%) Computer Science
2 1 (3.333%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (30.00%) Windows
2 4 (13.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (10.00%) Linux
3 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (3.333%) Windows XP
4 1 (3.333%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 5 (16.67%) ITIL
3 3 (10.00%) Content Management
3 3 (10.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (10.00%) Problem Management
3 3 (10.00%) Network Load Balancing
3 3 (10.00%) Capacity Management
4 2 (6.667%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (6.667%) Software Engineering
4 2 (6.667%) Project Planning
4 2 (6.667%) Business Analysis
4 2 (6.667%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (6.667%) MVC
4 2 (6.667%) Change Management
4 2 (6.667%) Information Management
4 2 (6.667%) Service Management
5 1 (3.333%) Workflow
5 1 (3.333%) Time Management
5 1 (3.333%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 16 (53.33%) SQL
2 7 (23.33%) T-SQL
3 5 (16.67%) Java
4 2 (6.667%) VB
4 2 (6.667%) C#
5 1 (3.333%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (6.667%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.667%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.333%) ISA Server
1 1 (3.333%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.333%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) Oracle
3 2 (6.667%) SAP
3 2 (6.667%) Remedy
4 1 (3.333%) VMware
4 1 (3.333%) Atlassian