The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Applications Engineer 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 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
Applications Engineer
Rank 487 531 543
Rank change year-on-year
+44 +12
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Engineer 25 26 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.059% 0.049% 0.022%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.064% 0.052% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 5
Average daily rate £303 £343 £570
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.56% -39.91%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £285 £414
10% offered a daily rate of more than £355 £343 £708
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £400 -
% change year-on-year
-31.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 1
Average hourly rate £37.80 £42.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.05% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £32.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year
+18.12% -36.00%
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
39141 49545 51375
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.52% 92.60% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 22991 28027 28527
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £246 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2036 2429 2720
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.21 £11.17 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Applications Engineer
UK

Applications Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Applications Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Applications Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Applications Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Applications Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England Applications Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Applications Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Applications Engineer across the England region.

England Applications Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Applications Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Engineer within the 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
West Midlands +18 14 - -
London +6 5 £350 +2.18%
North West - 2 £275 -
South West - 2 - -
South East - 1 £331 -
East of England - 1 - -
Applications Engineer
UK

Applications Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Applications Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 19 (45.24%) SAP
1 19 (45.24%) Project Management
2 18 (42.86%) Manufacturing
2 18 (42.86%) PLM
2 18 (42.86%) ENOVIA
3 10 (23.81%) Validation
3 10 (23.81%) Requirements Management
3 10 (23.81%) Time Management
3 10 (23.81%) ClearQuest
3 10 (23.81%) Windows
3 10 (23.81%) ClearCase
3 10 (23.81%) Rational DOORS
4 9 (21.43%) ERP
4 9 (21.43%) Automotive
5 8 (19.05%) Change Management
5 8 (19.05%) Data Modelling
5 8 (19.05%) Teamcenter
6 7 (16.67%) Windchill
7 6 (14.29%) Microsoft
8 5 (11.90%) Oracle
8 5 (11.90%) SQL
8 5 (11.90%) Security Cleared
8 5 (11.90%) Degree
9 4 (9.524%) Finance
9 4 (9.524%) Middleware
10 3 (7.143%) Telecoms
10 3 (7.143%) C
10 3 (7.143%) UNIX
10 3 (7.143%) Visual Studio
10 3 (7.143%) Linux

Applications Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Applications Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (9.524%) Middleware
2 2 (4.762%) Application Packaging
2 2 (4.762%) .NET
3 1 (2.381%) OLE
3 1 (2.381%) ASP
3 1 (2.381%) COM
3 1 (2.381%) Web Services
3 1 (2.381%) XML
3 1 (2.381%) MFC
3 1 (2.381%) Ajax
3 1 (2.381%) MIDP
3 1 (2.381%) WinForms
3 1 (2.381%) WPF
3 1 (2.381%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.381%) WebLogic
1 1 (2.381%) IIS
1 1 (2.381%) SharePoint
1 1 (2.381%) Apache
1 1 (2.381%) Tomcat
1 1 (2.381%) Amazon AWS
1 1 (2.381%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 7 (16.67%) Windchill
2 1 (2.381%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.381%) InfoPath
2 1 (2.381%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 18 (42.86%) ENOVIA
2 8 (19.05%) Teamcenter
3 2 (4.762%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (2.381%) SAP HR
4 1 (2.381%) SAP FI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.762%) 4G
1 2 (4.762%) LTE
1 2 (4.762%) 3G
2 1 (2.381%) SAN
2 1 (2.381%) Internet
2 1 (2.381%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.381%) LDAP
2 1 (2.381%) NFC
2 1 (2.381%) NAS
2 1 (2.381%) HSPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.143%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (4.762%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (4.762%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.762%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.381%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.381%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (2.381%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (2.381%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (2.381%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 10 (23.81%) ClearQuest
1 10 (23.81%) ClearCase
1 10 (23.81%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (7.143%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.381%) Ant
3 1 (2.381%) Eclipse
3 1 (2.381%) Maven
3 1 (2.381%) Subversion
General
1 18 (42.86%) Manufacturing
2 9 (21.43%) Automotive
3 4 (9.524%) Finance
4 3 (7.143%) Telecoms
4 3 (7.143%) Banking
5 1 (2.381%) Law
5 1 (2.381%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.381%) Retail
5 1 (2.381%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.762%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (4.762%) NHS
2 1 (2.381%) Blackberry
2 1 (2.381%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.381%) Handset
2 1 (2.381%) 3D Graphics
2 1 (2.381%) CMDB
2 1 (2.381%) iPhone
2 1 (2.381%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (23.81%) Windows
2 3 (7.143%) UNIX
2 3 (7.143%) Linux
3 2 (4.762%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (2.381%) HPUX
4 1 (2.381%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.381%) Windows Phone 7
4 1 (2.381%) Android
4 1 (2.381%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (2.381%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.381%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (45.24%) Project Management
2 18 (42.86%) PLM
3 10 (23.81%) Validation
3 10 (23.81%) Requirements Management
3 10 (23.81%) Time Management
4 9 (21.43%) ERP
5 8 (19.05%) Change Management
5 8 (19.05%) Data Modelling
6 2 (4.762%) Software Engineering
6 2 (4.762%) ITIL
6 2 (4.762%) CAD
6 2 (4.762%) Configuration Management
6 2 (4.762%) Service Management
6 2 (4.762%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (2.381%) Process Management
7 1 (2.381%) Regression Testing
7 1 (2.381%) ITSM
7 1 (2.381%) OOD
7 1 (2.381%) SOA
7 1 (2.381%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.90%) SQL
2 3 (7.143%) C
2 3 (7.143%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.762%) C#
4 1 (2.381%) VBScript
4 1 (2.381%) VB.NET
4 1 (2.381%) C++
4 1 (2.381%) Perl
4 1 (2.381%) Korn
Qualifications
1 5 (11.90%) Security Cleared
1 5 (11.90%) Degree
2 3 (7.143%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.381%) ISEB
System Software
1 2 (4.762%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.381%) NFS
2 1 (2.381%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (2.381%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (2.381%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (2.381%) SCCM
1 1 (2.381%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 19 (45.24%) SAP
2 6 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 5 (11.90%) Oracle
4 2 (4.762%) Hyperion
5 1 (2.381%) Cisco
5 1 (2.381%) Altiris
5 1 (2.381%) VMware
5 1 (2.381%) Akamai
Basildon, Essex
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