England Applications Support Specialist Contracts

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

Application Support Specialist
Location Alderley Edge Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cheshire City of London East of England England Gloucestershire Hertfordshire Lancashire London Manchester Milton Keynes North West Paisley Renfrewshire Scotland South East South West Surrey UK Watford West Midlands	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	528	598
Rank change on same period last year	+70
Matching contract IT job ads	31	35
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.041 %	0.035 %
As % of the category below	0.049 %	0.041 %
Daily rates quoted	13	10
Average minimum daily rate	£357	£380
Average daily rate	£368	£388
% change on same period last year	-4.91 %
Average maximum daily rate	£380	£395
UK excluding London average daily rate	£284	£362
% change on same period last year	-21.46 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£24.00
Average hourly rate	-	£25.17
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£26.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	£25.17
% change on same period last year	-
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 Specialist 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 Specialist
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Applications Support Specialist 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 Specialist 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 Specialist 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 Specialist across the England region.

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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 Specialist 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	+58	13	£467	+23.07 %
South East	+47	6	£325	-18.75 %
North West	-1	5	£180	-
East of England	+6	4	£375	-
West Midlands	-	2	-	-
South West	-	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 Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title.

1 30 (51.72 %) SQL 2 20 (34.48 %) UNIX 3 17 (29.31 %) .NET 4 16 (27.59 %) Java 5 13 (22.41 %) J2EE 5 13 (22.41 %) Oracle 5 13 (22.41 %) Finance 6 11 (18.97 %) DB2 7 10 (17.24 %) WebSphere 8 9 (15.52 %) Perl 8 9 (15.52 %) Shell Script 9 8 (13.79 %) Reuters 9 8 (13.79 %) Bloomberg 9 8 (13.79 %) IBM 9 8 (13.79 %) WebSphere Application Server

10 6 (10.34 %) SQL Server 10 6 (10.34 %) Linux 10 6 (10.34 %) Middleware 10 6 (10.34 %) Equities 10 6 (10.34 %) Web Development 11 5 (8.621 %) Fund Management 11 5 (8.621 %) Reference Data 11 5 (8.621 %) Pharmaceutical 11 5 (8.621 %) Front Office 11 5 (8.621 %) Red Hat 11 5 (8.621 %) JBoss 11 5 (8.621 %) Windows 11 5 (8.621 %) AIX 11 5 (8.621 %) VB.NET 12 4 (6.897 %) ITIL

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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 Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 17 (29.31 %) .NET 2 13 (22.41 %) J2EE 3 10 (17.24 %) WebSphere 4 6 (10.34 %) Middleware 5 4 (6.897 %) J2SE 6 3 (5.172 %) JMS 6 3 (5.172 %) XML 6 3 (5.172 %) ASP.NET 6 3 (5.172 %) JDBC 6 3 (5.172 %) HTML 6 3 (5.172 %) FIX Protocol 7 2 (3.448 %) SAP XI 7 2 (3.448 %) Struts 7 2 (3.448 %) WebServices 7 2 (3.448 %) EJB 7 2 (3.448 %) ASP 8 1 (1.724 %) CSS 8 1 (1.724 %) JSP 8 1 (1.724 %) SOAP 8 1 (1.724 %) XSD	Application Platforms 1 8 (13.79 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 5 (8.621 %) JBoss 3 3 (5.172 %) SharePoint 4 2 (3.448 %) MS Exchange 4 2 (3.448 %) Oracle HTTP Server 4 2 (3.448 %) BizTalk Server 4 2 (3.448 %) Lotus Domino 4 2 (3.448 %) WebLogic 4 2 (3.448 %) IIS 4 2 (3.448 %) IBM HTTP Server 5 1 (1.724 %) Tomcat 5 1 (1.724 %) MQSeries 5 1 (1.724 %) iPlanet
Applications 1 1 (1.724 %) MS Office 1 1 (1.724 %) MS Excel 1 1 (1.724 %) Acrobat	Business Applications 1 1 (1.724 %) SAP WM 1 1 (1.724 %) Endur
Communications & Networking 1 4 (6.897 %) HTTP 1 4 (6.897 %) SSL 2 3 (5.172 %) Intranet 3 2 (3.448 %) TCP/IP 3 2 (3.448 %) DNS 3 2 (3.448 %) HTTPS 4 1 (1.724 %) Internet 4 1 (1.724 %) BSS 4 1 (1.724 %) FTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (18.97 %) DB2 2 6 (10.34 %) SQL Server 3 5 (8.621 %) Reference Data 4 4 (6.897 %) MS Access 5 3 (5.172 %) RDBMS 6 2 (3.448 %) Oracle 10g 6 2 (3.448 %) Oracle 11g 7 1 (1.724 %) MySQL 7 1 (1.724 %) SQLPlus 7 1 (1.724 %) EDRMS 7 1 (1.724 %) GIS
Development Applications 1 2 (3.448 %) Visual Studio 1 2 (3.448 %) JDeveloper 1 2 (3.448 %) XMLSpy 2 1 (1.724 %) JUnit 2 1 (1.724 %) Flash 2 1 (1.724 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 2 1 (1.724 %) Eclipse 2 1 (1.724 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 13 (22.41 %) Finance 2 5 (8.621 %) Pharmaceutical 2 5 (8.621 %) Front Office 3 4 (6.897 %) Telecoms 3 4 (6.897 %) Government 4 2 (3.448 %) Publishing 5 1 (1.724 %) Games 5 1 (1.724 %) Banking 5 1 (1.724 %) Health 5 1 (1.724 %) Construction
Miscellaneous 1 6 (10.34 %) Equities 2 4 (6.897 %) Informatics 3 3 (5.172 %) VWAP 4 1 (1.724 %) W3C 4 1 (1.724 %) AS400 4 1 (1.724 %) Fixed Income 4 1 (1.724 %) Chemistry 4 1 (1.724 %) Biology 4 1 (1.724 %) Life Science	Operating Systems 1 20 (34.48 %) UNIX 2 6 (10.34 %) Linux 3 5 (8.621 %) Windows 3 5 (8.621 %) AIX 4 2 (3.448 %) Solaris 5 1 (1.724 %) FreeBSD 5 1 (1.724 %) Windows NT 5 1 (1.724 %) Windows XP 5 1 (1.724 %) MVS
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (10.34 %) Web Development 2 5 (8.621 %) Fund Management 3 4 (6.897 %) Security Cleared 3 4 (6.897 %) ITIL 3 4 (6.897 %) Agile Software Development 4 3 (5.172 %) Project Management 4 3 (5.172 %) SC Cleared 4 3 (5.172 %) Algorithmic Trading 5 2 (3.448 %) Content Management 6 1 (1.724 %) Systems Analysis 6 1 (1.724 %) Business Analysis 6 1 (1.724 %) Supplier Management 6 1 (1.724 %) Incident Management 6 1 (1.724 %) Enterprise Architecture 6 1 (1.724 %) Technical Architecture 6 1 (1.724 %) Service Management 6 1 (1.724 %) CMMI 6 1 (1.724 %) Migration 6 1 (1.724 %) Scrum 6 1 (1.724 %) RAD	Programming Languages 1 30 (51.72 %) SQL 2 16 (27.59 %) Java 3 9 (15.52 %) Perl 3 9 (15.52 %) Shell Script 4 5 (8.621 %) VB.NET 5 3 (5.172 %) VB 5 3 (5.172 %) C# 6 2 (3.448 %) JavaScript 7 1 (1.724 %) PHP 7 1 (1.724 %) PL/SQL 7 1 (1.724 %) ABAP 7 1 (1.724 %) VBA
Qualifications 1 3 (5.172 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (5.172 %) SLA 2 1 (1.724 %) QA
System Software 1 2 (3.448 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 1 (1.724 %) CONTROL-M
Vendors 1 13 (22.41 %) Oracle 2 8 (13.79 %) IBM 2 8 (13.79 %) Reuters 2 8 (13.79 %) Bloomberg 3 5 (8.621 %) Red Hat 4 4 (6.897 %) Microsoft 5 3 (5.172 %) Sybase 5 3 (5.172 %) SAP 5 3 (5.172 %) Spotfire 6 2 (3.448 %) Lotus 6 2 (3.448 %) Ab Initio 7 1 (1.724 %) GL TRADE 7 1 (1.724 %) JD Edwards 7 1 (1.724 %) Agresso 7 1 (1.724 %) Primavera 7 1 (1.724 %) Open Text 7 1 (1.724 %) Cognos 7 1 (1.724 %) Siebel 7 1 (1.724 %) Adobe 7 1 (1.724 %) Sun