East of England Applications Support Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Applications Support role in IT contracts within the East of England 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 in their job title over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Carlisle Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chorley City of London County Antrim Cumbria Derbyshire Docklands, London Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Preston Reading Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stirling Street Sunderland Surrey Swansea Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	122	128
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	12	32
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.032 %
As % of the category below	0.351 %	0.688 %
Daily rates quoted	9	8
Average minimum daily rate	£257	£263
Average daily rate	£274	£278
% change on same period last year	-1.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£291	£294
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£308
% change on same period last year	-2.95 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	7
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£23.00
Average hourly rate	-	£23.71
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£24.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.26	£21.30
% change on same period last year	-0.19 %
Job Titles East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	3416	4654
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.618 %	4.589 %
Daily rates quoted	1059	1422
Average minimum daily rate	£329	£322
Average daily rate	£351	£340
% change on same period last year	+3.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£373	£359
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	469	660
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.22	£25.65
Average hourly rate	£23.69	£26.85
% change on same period last year	-11.77 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.15	£28.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.85	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.14 %
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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 across the East of England 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 across the East of England region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The 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 5 September 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 across the East of England region.

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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 within the East of England region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
Hertfordshire	+22	7	£274	+36.87 %
Bedfordshire	+21	2	-	-
Essex	+1	2	£263	+75.00 %
Cambridgeshire	+12	2	£300	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, 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 20 (51.28 %) SQL 2 18 (46.15 %) Oracle 3 14 (35.90 %) UNIX 4 11 (28.21 %) SQL Server 5 8 (20.51 %) .NET 5 8 (20.51 %) J2EE 5 8 (20.51 %) PL/SQL 6 7 (17.95 %) Perl 6 7 (17.95 %) Java 7 6 (15.38 %) Shell Script 7 6 (15.38 %) WebSphere 8 5 (12.82 %) Orchard 8 5 (12.82 %) arcHouse 8 5 (12.82 %) Finance 8 5 (12.82 %) C#

8 5 (12.82 %) Linux 8 5 (12.82 %) SharePoint 8 5 (12.82 %) Oracle Discoverer 8 5 (12.82 %) Microsoft 9 4 (10.26 %) BusinessObjects 9 4 (10.26 %) Red Hat 9 4 (10.26 %) IBM 9 4 (10.26 %) J2SE 9 4 (10.26 %) JBoss 9 4 (10.26 %) VB 9 4 (10.26 %) AIX 9 4 (10.26 %) DB2 9 4 (10.26 %) ITIL 9 4 (10.26 %) WebSphere Application Server 9 4 (10.26 %) Business Objects

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, 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 8 (20.51 %) .NET 1 8 (20.51 %) J2EE 2 6 (15.38 %) WebSphere 3 4 (10.26 %) Middleware 3 4 (10.26 %) J2SE 4 3 (7.692 %) HTML 5 2 (5.128 %) XML 5 2 (5.128 %) ASP.NET 5 2 (5.128 %) JSP 5 2 (5.128 %) Application Packaging 6 1 (2.564 %) JRules 6 1 (2.564 %) Windows SharePoint Services 6 1 (2.564 %) .NET Framework 6 1 (2.564 %) Servlets 6 1 (2.564 %) Struts 6 1 (2.564 %) JavaBeans	Application Platforms 1 5 (12.82 %) SharePoint 2 4 (10.26 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 4 (10.26 %) JBoss 3 2 (5.128 %) BizTalk Server 3 2 (5.128 %) Content Management Server 3 2 (5.128 %) CMS 4 1 (2.564 %) Apache 4 1 (2.564 %) WebLogic 4 1 (2.564 %) IIS
Applications 1 2 (5.128 %) MS Office 2 1 (2.564 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 5 (12.82 %) arcHouse 2 3 (7.692 %) Oracle Financials 3 2 (5.128 %) Oracle EBS 3 2 (5.128 %) assyst 4 1 (2.564 %) Oracle General Ledger
Communications & Networking 1 2 (5.128 %) SMS 1 2 (5.128 %) Intranet 2 1 (2.564 %) BSS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (28.21 %) SQL Server 2 5 (12.82 %) Oracle Discoverer 3 4 (10.26 %) BusinessObjects 3 4 (10.26 %) SQL Server 2000 3 4 (10.26 %) DB2 4 3 (7.692 %) Crystal Reports 4 3 (7.692 %) Oracle Reports 4 3 (7.692 %) Oracle 9i 4 3 (7.692 %) Oracle 10g 5 2 (5.128 %) ETL 5 2 (5.128 %) GIS 5 2 (5.128 %) SQL Server 2005 5 2 (5.128 %) MS Access 5 2 (5.128 %) Datawarehouse 6 1 (2.564 %) Ingres 6 1 (2.564 %) TOAD
Development Applications 1 3 (7.692 %) Oracle Forms 2 2 (5.128 %) MSI 2 2 (5.128 %) Visual Studio	General 1 5 (12.82 %) Finance 2 1 (2.564 %) Games 2 1 (2.564 %) Marketing 2 1 (2.564 %) Telecoms
Miscellaneous 1 3 (7.692 %) N-Tier 1 3 (7.692 %) Management Information System 2 2 (5.128 %) CMDB 3 1 (2.564 %) Fat Client 3 1 (2.564 %) Thin Client	Operating Systems 1 14 (35.90 %) UNIX 2 5 (12.82 %) Linux 3 4 (10.26 %) Red Hat Linux 3 4 (10.26 %) AIX 4 3 (7.692 %) Windows 5 2 (5.128 %) Windows XP 6 1 (2.564 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (10.26 %) ITIL 2 3 (7.692 %) Configuration Management 2 3 (7.692 %) Project Management 2 3 (7.692 %) Service Management 2 3 (7.692 %) Incident Management 3 2 (5.128 %) Problem Management 3 2 (5.128 %) Time Management 3 2 (5.128 %) Content Management 3 2 (5.128 %) Service Delivery 4 1 (2.564 %) Stakeholder Management 4 1 (2.564 %) OO 4 1 (2.564 %) OOD 4 1 (2.564 %) SOA 4 1 (2.564 %) Data Analysis 4 1 (2.564 %) Business Analysis 4 1 (2.564 %) Data Protection	Programming Languages 1 20 (51.28 %) SQL 2 8 (20.51 %) PL/SQL 3 7 (17.95 %) Perl 3 7 (17.95 %) Java 4 6 (15.38 %) Shell Script 5 5 (12.82 %) C# 6 4 (10.26 %) VB 7 3 (7.692 %) Transact-SQL 8 2 (5.128 %) JavaScript 8 2 (5.128 %) VB.NET 8 2 (5.128 %) VB6 9 1 (2.564 %) C 9 1 (2.564 %) PHP
Qualifications 1 1 (2.564 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (5.128 %) SLA 2 1 (2.564 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 1 (2.564 %) QA
Vendors 1 18 (46.15 %) Oracle 2 5 (12.82 %) Microsoft 2 5 (12.82 %) Orchard 3 4 (10.26 %) IBM 3 4 (10.26 %) Red Hat 3 4 (10.26 %) Business Objects 4 3 (7.692 %) Ab Initio 5 2 (5.128 %) Chordiant 5 2 (5.128 %) Sybase 5 2 (5.128 %) Netezza 6 1 (2.564 %) Altiris 6 1 (2.564 %) Informatica 6 1 (2.564 %) ILOG