The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Support 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 Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Support Engineer
Rank 508 526 548
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +22
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support Engineer 24 19 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.055% 0.036% 0.056%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.060% 0.039% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 6
Average daily rate £370 £463 £405
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +14.19%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £355 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £435 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £301 - £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
Average hourly rate £175.00 - £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £175.00 £21.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+713.95% -14.00%
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
40014 49001 53004
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.47% 92.53% 92.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23687 27821 29587
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £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 1959 2399 2806
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.68 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.74% -6.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.25 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £40.00 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Applications Support Engineer
UK

Applications Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Applications Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Applications Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Applications Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Applications Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Applications Support Engineer across the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England Applications Support Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Applications Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Applications Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Applications Support 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 Support Engineer within the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +30 11 £433 -6.48% 13
South East +35 9 £308 - 4
South West +31 1 £295 - 3
West Midlands +5 1 - -
North West - 1 - - 4
Yorkshire - - - - 2
East Midlands - - - - 2
East of England - - - - 1
Applications Support Engineer
UK

Applications Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Applications Support 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 Support Engineer in their job title.

1 25 (54.35%) SQL
2 22 (47.83%) SQL Server
2 22 (47.83%) Windows
3 17 (36.96%) Microsoft
4 15 (32.61%) .NET
5 14 (30.43%) Linux
5 14 (30.43%) Oracle
6 12 (26.09%) ITIL
7 10 (21.74%) C#
8 9 (19.57%) T-SQL
8 9 (19.57%) MS Excel
8 9 (19.57%) Citrix
8 9 (19.57%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (17.39%) Internet
9 8 (17.39%) VMware
9 8 (17.39%) Active Directory
9 8 (17.39%) IIS
10 7 (15.22%) Java
10 7 (15.22%) Banking
10 7 (15.22%) Front Office
10 7 (15.22%) Workflow
10 7 (15.22%) Incident Management
10 7 (15.22%) Problem Management
10 7 (15.22%) Release Management
11 6 (13.04%) DV Cleared
11 6 (13.04%) Security Cleared
11 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (13.04%) Windows Server 2008
12 5 (10.87%) SQL Server 2008
12 5 (10.87%) Capacity Management

Applications Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Applications Support 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 Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (32.61%) .NET
2 5 (10.87%) Middleware
2 5 (10.87%) ASP.NET
3 3 (6.522%) ASP
3 3 (6.522%) Web Services
4 2 (4.348%) HTML
4 2 (4.348%) CSS
4 2 (4.348%) SOAP
4 2 (4.348%) RESTful
5 1 (2.174%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (2.174%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 1 (2.174%) XML
5 1 (2.174%) J2EE
5 1 (2.174%) Drools
5 1 (2.174%) Software Packaging
5 1 (2.174%) WCF
5 1 (2.174%) Java EE
5 1 (2.174%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 8 (17.39%) IIS
2 4 (8.696%) SharePoint
3 3 (6.522%) Apache
4 2 (4.348%) Tomcat
5 1 (2.174%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (2.174%) MS Exchange
5 1 (2.174%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (2.174%) WebLogic
5 1 (2.174%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (2.174%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (19.57%) MS Excel
2 2 (4.348%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.39%) Internet
2 4 (8.696%) Intranet
3 3 (6.522%) HTTP
3 3 (6.522%) VPN
4 1 (2.174%) SDH
4 1 (2.174%) SAN
4 1 (2.174%) DSL
4 1 (2.174%) Megaco
4 1 (2.174%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (47.83%) SQL Server
2 5 (10.87%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (8.696%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (6.522%) Oracle ODI
4 3 (6.522%) SQL Server 2012
4 3 (6.522%) MySQL
4 3 (6.522%) QlikView
4 3 (6.522%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (4.348%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (2.174%) Big Data
6 1 (2.174%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (2.174%) OLAP
6 1 (2.174%) Oracle 11g
6 1 (2.174%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.174%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (8.696%) Subversion
1 4 (8.696%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.174%) MSI
2 1 (2.174%) Ant
2 1 (2.174%) StarTeam
General
1 7 (15.22%) Banking
1 7 (15.22%) Front Office
2 2 (4.348%) Finance
2 2 (4.348%) Investment Banking
3 1 (2.174%) Retail
3 1 (2.174%) Publishing
3 1 (2.174%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.696%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.174%) Open Source
2 1 (2.174%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 22 (47.83%) Windows
2 14 (30.43%) Linux
3 6 (13.04%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (10.87%) UNIX
5 3 (6.522%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (4.348%) Windows XP
7 1 (2.174%) Windows 7
7 1 (2.174%) CentOS
7 1 (2.174%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.174%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (26.09%) ITIL
2 9 (19.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (15.22%) Workflow
3 7 (15.22%) Incident Management
3 7 (15.22%) Problem Management
3 7 (15.22%) Release Management
4 5 (10.87%) Capacity Management
4 5 (10.87%) Knowledge Management
4 5 (10.87%) Change Management
4 5 (10.87%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (8.696%) Software Testing
6 3 (6.522%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (6.522%) Automated Testing
6 3 (6.522%) Service Management
7 2 (4.348%) Multithreading
8 1 (2.174%) Change Control
8 1 (2.174%) Analytics
8 1 (2.174%) ERP
8 1 (2.174%) CRM
8 1 (2.174%) Benchmarking
Programming Languages
1 25 (54.35%) SQL
2 10 (21.74%) C#
3 9 (19.57%) T-SQL
4 7 (15.22%) Java
5 5 (10.87%) Shell Script
6 3 (6.522%) C
7 2 (4.348%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.348%) PHP
7 2 (4.348%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.174%) Scala
8 1 (2.174%) VBScript
8 1 (2.174%) VB
8 1 (2.174%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.174%) Jython
Qualifications
1 6 (13.04%) DV Cleared
1 6 (13.04%) Security Cleared
1 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.174%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (2.174%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.696%) QA
System Software
1 8 (17.39%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.87%) VMware ESX
3 4 (8.696%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.174%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.174%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.174%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 5 (10.87%) Control-M
1 5 (10.87%) BladeLogic
1 5 (10.87%) WMI
2 4 (8.696%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 4 (8.696%) SCCM
2 4 (8.696%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 17 (36.96%) Microsoft
2 14 (30.43%) Oracle
3 9 (19.57%) Citrix
4 8 (17.39%) VMware
5 5 (10.87%) Altiris
6 4 (8.696%) Hummingbird
6 4 (8.696%) LANDesk
6 4 (8.696%) Sitecore
7 2 (4.348%) Siebel
7 2 (4.348%) Charles River
8 1 (2.174%) Cisco
8 1 (2.174%) IBM
8 1 (2.174%) Red Hat
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