England Applications Support Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Applications Support Analyst role in IT contracts within the 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 Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Application Support Analyst
Location Berkshire Birmingham Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Canary Wharf Cannock City of London Docklands, London Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Leatherhead Leeds London Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Shropshire South East South West Staffordshire Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Trowbridge UK Wales West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	339	369
Rank change on same period last year	+30
Matching contract IT job ads	241	304
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.321 %	0.308 %
As % of the category below	0.383 %	0.360 %
Daily rates quoted	102	109
Average minimum daily rate	£337	£353
Average daily rate	£374	£383
% change on same period last year	-2.36 %
Average maximum daily rate	£411	£413
UK excluding London average daily rate	£313	£296
% change on same period last year	+5.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	18	26
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.47	£22.19
Average hourly rate	£26.26	£23.18
% change on same period last year	+13.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.05	£24.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.40	£22.75
% change on same period last year	+29.24 %
Job Titles England
Matching contract IT job ads	62967	84384
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	83.93 %	85.37 %
Daily rates quoted	21223	25739
Average minimum daily rate	£380	£392
Average daily rate	£406	£417
% change on same period last year	-2.70 %
Average maximum daily rate	£432	£443
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	5392	6927
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.06	£24.67
Average hourly rate	£23.68	£26.20
% change on same period last year	-9.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.30	£27.73
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Applications Support Analyst UK

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.

Applications Support Analyst
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Applications Support Analyst across the 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 Analyst across the 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 Analyst across the England region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 England 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 England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Support Analyst within the England region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
London	+20	170	£387	-2.03 %
South East	+28	24	£302	+28.45 %
East Midlands	+16	11	£280	-
North West	0	9	£400	-
West Midlands	+13	8	£245	-
South West	+31	8	£200	-
North East	-	5	£500	-
Midlands	+11	3	-	-
East of England	-4	2	£255	-8.52 %
Yorkshire	+10	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

1 282 (55.40 %) SQL 2 184 (36.15 %) UNIX 3 143 (28.09 %) Banking 4 128 (25.15 %) Oracle 5 112 (22.00 %) Front Office 6 103 (20.24 %) Finance 7 92 (18.07 %) Investment Banking 8 85 (16.70 %) Windows 9 78 (15.32 %) SQL Server 10 74 (14.54 %) Sybase 11 71 (13.95 %) .NET 12 64 (12.57 %) Perl 13 62 (12.18 %) Fixed Income 14 57 (11.20 %) Microsoft 15 55 (10.81 %) Java

16 51 (10.02 %) Linux 17 50 (9.823 %) Equities 18 44 (8.644 %) VB 19 41 (8.055 %) Solaris 19 41 (8.055 %) Derivative 20 39 (7.662 %) C# 21 38 (7.466 %) PL/SQL 22 33 (6.483 %) ITIL 23 32 (6.287 %) Problem Management 24 31 (6.090 %) Shell Script 25 30 (5.894 %) Bloomberg 26 27 (5.305 %) HTML 27 24 (4.715 %) Degree 27 24 (4.715 %) Back Office 28 23 (4.519 %) XML

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 71 (13.95 %) .NET 2 27 (5.305 %) HTML 3 23 (4.519 %) XML 4 17 (3.340 %) ASP 4 17 (3.340 %) ASP.NET 5 11 (2.161 %) FIX Protocol 6 10 (1.965 %) Middleware 6 10 (1.965 %) CSS 6 10 (1.965 %) J2EE 7 8 (1.572 %) JSP 7 8 (1.572 %) XSLT 8 7 (1.375 %) Swing 9 6 (1.179 %) .NET Framework 10 5 (0.982 %) WebSphere 11 4 (0.786 %) WAP 12 3 (0.589 %) ODBC 13 2 (0.393 %) XSL 13 2 (0.393 %) WSH 13 2 (0.393 %) WebServices 13 2 (0.393 %) Hibernate	Application Platforms 1 21 (4.126 %) SharePoint 2 17 (3.340 %) IIS 3 16 (3.143 %) Apache 4 10 (1.965 %) Tomcat 5 7 (1.375 %) Oracle Workflow 6 6 (1.179 %) BizTalk Server 6 6 (1.179 %) WebLogic 7 5 (0.982 %) JBoss 7 5 (0.982 %) MQSeries 8 4 (0.786 %) MS Exchange 8 4 (0.786 %) Lotus Notes 8 4 (0.786 %) Content Management Server 9 3 (0.589 %) Commerce Server 10 2 (0.393 %) WebSphere MQ 10 2 (0.393 %) Rendezvous 10 2 (0.393 %) CMS 10 2 (0.393 %) Exchange Server 2000 10 2 (0.393 %) ColdFusion 10 2 (0.393 %) WebSphere Message Broker 11 1 (0.196 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 20 (3.929 %) MS Excel 2 12 (2.358 %) MS Office 3 3 (0.589 %) MS Visio 3 3 (0.589 %) Spreadsheet 4 1 (0.196 %) MS PowerPoint 4 1 (0.196 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 8 (1.572 %) Oracle EBS 1 8 (1.572 %) Endur 2 6 (1.179 %) Findur 3 4 (0.786 %) Oracle Financials 3 4 (0.786 %) Microsoft CRM 3 4 (0.786 %) Advent Geneva 4 3 (0.589 %) arcHouse 4 3 (0.589 %) Movex 5 2 (0.393 %) Oracle HRMS 5 2 (0.393 %) Oracle Applications 5 2 (0.393 %) Oracle Payroll 5 2 (0.393 %) MAXIMO 5 2 (0.393 %) Great Plains 5 2 (0.393 %) Navision 5 2 (0.393 %) RMDS 5 2 (0.393 %) Oracle iRecruitment 5 2 (0.393 %) assyst 5 2 (0.393 %) Misys Midas 5 2 (0.393 %) Bond Adapt 5 2 (0.393 %) Sophis VALUE
Communications & Networking 1 18 (3.536 %) Internet 2 15 (2.947 %) Intranet 3 9 (1.768 %) LAN 3 9 (1.768 %) WAN 4 6 (1.179 %) Extranet 5 5 (0.982 %) BIG-IP 6 4 (0.786 %) SMS 6 4 (0.786 %) TCP/IP 7 3 (0.589 %) DNS 7 3 (0.589 %) Broadband 7 3 (0.589 %) HTTP 7 3 (0.589 %) Firewall 8 1 (0.196 %) IMAP 8 1 (0.196 %) Cisco PIX 8 1 (0.196 %) FTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 78 (15.32 %) SQL Server 2 19 (3.733 %) SQL Server 2000 3 16 (3.143 %) RDBMS 4 15 (2.947 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 15 (2.947 %) SQL Server 2005 5 14 (2.750 %) Crystal Reports 6 11 (2.161 %) BusinessObjects 7 9 (1.768 %) MS Access 8 8 (1.572 %) DTS 9 7 (1.375 %) Oracle 10g 9 7 (1.375 %) Oracle Discoverer 9 7 (1.375 %) Oracle 9i 10 6 (1.179 %) Oracle Reports 11 5 (0.982 %) Ingres 12 4 (0.786 %) MySQL 12 4 (0.786 %) TOAD 12 4 (0.786 %) EDRMS 12 4 (0.786 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 12 4 (0.786 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 12 4 (0.786 %) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 3 (0.589 %) Oracle Forms 1 3 (0.589 %) PowerBuilder 1 3 (0.589 %) ClearQuest 2 2 (0.393 %) JIRA 2 2 (0.393 %) Eclipse 2 2 (0.393 %) Ant 2 2 (0.393 %) JUnit 2 2 (0.393 %) Visual Studio 3 1 (0.196 %) PVCS 3 1 (0.196 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 1 (0.196 %) TestDirector 3 1 (0.196 %) Flash 3 1 (0.196 %) Oracle APEX 3 1 (0.196 %) MSI	General 1 143 (28.09 %) Banking 2 112 (22.00 %) Front Office 3 103 (20.24 %) Finance 4 92 (18.07 %) Investment Banking 5 24 (4.715 %) Back Office 6 15 (2.947 %) Government 7 12 (2.358 %) Local Government 8 10 (1.965 %) Health 9 5 (0.982 %) Financial Institution 9 5 (0.982 %) Retail 10 3 (0.589 %) Legal 10 3 (0.589 %) Pensions 10 3 (0.589 %) Insurance 10 3 (0.589 %) Pharmaceutical 11 2 (0.393 %) Telecoms 11 2 (0.393 %) Education 11 2 (0.393 %) Publishing 11 2 (0.393 %) FMCG 12 1 (0.196 %) Law 12 1 (0.196 %) Private Banking
Miscellaneous 1 62 (12.18 %) Fixed Income 2 50 (9.823 %) Equities 3 41 (8.055 %) Derivative 4 19 (3.733 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 5 8 (1.572 %) Equity Derivative 6 7 (1.375 %) Statistics 6 7 (1.375 %) Management Information System 6 7 (1.375 %) Credit Risk 7 6 (1.179 %) Replication 8 5 (0.982 %) AS400 8 5 (0.982 %) Market Risk 8 5 (0.982 %) Interest Rate Derivative 9 4 (0.786 %) Mainframe 9 4 (0.786 %) PDA 10 3 (0.589 %) N-Tier 10 3 (0.589 %) French Language 11 2 (0.393 %) E-Learning 11 2 (0.393 %) Credit Derivative 12 1 (0.196 %) Computer Science 12 1 (0.196 %) Dutch Language	Operating Systems 1 184 (36.15 %) UNIX 2 85 (16.70 %) Windows 3 51 (10.02 %) Linux 4 41 (8.055 %) Solaris 5 14 (2.750 %) Windows XP 6 9 (1.768 %) Windows 2000 7 5 (0.982 %) Windows NT 8 4 (0.786 %) Windows Server 2003 8 4 (0.786 %) HPUX 9 3 (0.589 %) AIX 10 1 (0.196 %) Mac OS X Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 33 (6.483 %) ITIL 2 32 (6.287 %) Problem Management 3 21 (4.126 %) Investment Management 4 19 (3.733 %) Asset Management 5 18 (3.536 %) Algorithmic Trading 6 17 (3.340 %) Release Management 6 17 (3.340 %) CRM 7 15 (2.947 %) Service Delivery 7 15 (2.947 %) Incident Management 8 13 (2.554 %) User Acceptance Testing 9 12 (2.358 %) Time Management 10 11 (2.161 %) Change Management 10 11 (2.161 %) Risk Management 11 10 (1.965 %) Scrum 11 10 (1.965 %) Business Continuity 11 10 (1.965 %) Agile Software Development 12 9 (1.768 %) Extreme Programming 12 9 (1.768 %) Workflow 12 9 (1.768 %) Project Management 12 9 (1.768 %) E-Commerce	Programming Languages 1 282 (55.40 %) SQL 2 64 (12.57 %) Perl 3 55 (10.81 %) Java 4 44 (8.644 %) VB 5 39 (7.662 %) C# 6 38 (7.466 %) PL/SQL 7 31 (6.090 %) Shell Script 8 18 (3.536 %) VB6 9 17 (3.340 %) Transact-SQL 10 16 (3.143 %) VB.NET 10 16 (3.143 %) C 10 16 (3.143 %) C++ 11 11 (2.161 %) VBA 12 8 (1.572 %) VBScript 13 7 (1.375 %) JavaScript 14 4 (0.786 %) PHP 14 4 (0.786 %) Korn 15 3 (0.589 %) AWK 16 2 (0.393 %) Tcl 17 1 (0.196 %) PowerHouse
Qualifications 1 24 (4.715 %) Degree 2 3 (0.589 %) ITIL Certification 3 2 (0.393 %) PhD 4 1 (0.196 %) ISEB 4 1 (0.196 %) Microsoft Certification 4 1 (0.196 %) MCP 4 1 (0.196 %) HND	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 9 (1.768 %) SLA 2 2 (0.393 %) QA
System Software 1 7 (1.375 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 12 (2.358 %) AutoSys 2 3 (0.589 %) Tivoli 2 3 (0.589 %) SCOM 3 2 (0.393 %) OVSD 3 2 (0.393 %) OpenView 4 1 (0.196 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 4 1 (0.196 %) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors 1 128 (25.15 %) Oracle 2 74 (14.54 %) Sybase 3 57 (11.20 %) Microsoft 4 30 (5.894 %) Bloomberg 5 22 (4.322 %) Reuters 6 19 (3.733 %) JD Edwards 7 14 (2.750 %) Siebel 7 14 (2.750 %) Sophis 8 11 (2.161 %) OpenLink 8 11 (2.161 %) Business Objects 9 10 (1.965 %) Remedy 9 10 (1.965 %) GL TRADE 10 8 (1.572 %) Citrix 11 7 (1.375 %) SAP 11 7 (1.375 %) HP 11 7 (1.375 %) thinkFolio 12 6 (1.179 %) Murex 12 6 (1.179 %) TIBCO 13 5 (0.982 %) Red Hat 13 5 (0.982 %) Fidessa