The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Support 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 in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Support
Rank 260 246 242
Rank change year-on-year
-14 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support 282 393 424
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.678% 0.737% 0.755%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.734% 0.796% 0.814%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 220 227
Average daily rate £350 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £179 £212 £272
10% offered a daily rate of more than £478 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
- -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 27 19
Average hourly rate £19.00 £17.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.57% -22.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.15 £16.30 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £34.30 £45.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £20.00 £23.75
% change year-on-year
+3.75% -15.78%
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
38421 49352 52077
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.41% 92.53% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22588 27902 28893
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 1983 2412 2765
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 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.86 £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 Support
UK

Applications Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Applications Support Jobs Demand Trend

Applications Support
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Applications Support Daily Rate Trend

Applications Support
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Applications Support across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Applications Support Daily Rate Histogram

Applications Support
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Applications Support Hourly Rate Trend

Applications Support
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Applications Support across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Applications Support Hourly Rate Histogram

Applications Support
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 England region over the 3 months to 24 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
London -31 170 £400 -5.88%
South East +27 51 £325 +44.44%
Yorkshire +7 27 £176 -30.88%
East of England +13 13 £438 +75.00%
North West -4 11 £275 -17.91%
South West +27 6 £298 +32.22%
East Midlands -6 2 £392 +23.30%
North East +8 1 - -
West Midlands +2 1 £240 -14.66%
Applications Support
UK

Applications Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

1 316 (52.49%) SQL
2 224 (37.21%) Windows
3 173 (28.74%) SQL Server
4 165 (27.41%) ITIL
5 146 (24.25%) .NET
6 139 (23.09%) UNIX
7 135 (22.43%) Finance
8 131 (21.76%) Oracle
9 115 (19.10%) Microsoft
10 103 (17.11%) Linux
11 100 (16.61%) Banking
12 96 (15.95%) C#
13 89 (14.78%) IIS
14 86 (14.29%) Java
15 75 (12.46%) Front Office
16 66 (10.96%) Incident Management
17 65 (10.80%) MS Excel
18 53 (8.804%) MS Office
19 52 (8.638%) Windows Server 2003
19 52 (8.638%) Investment Banking
20 50 (8.306%) Windows Server 2008
21 49 (8.140%) SharePoint
22 45 (7.475%) T-SQL
22 45 (7.475%) Problem Management
23 41 (6.811%) Retail
24 40 (6.645%) Security Cleared
25 39 (6.478%) VBA
25 39 (6.478%) HTML
25 39 (6.478%) ASP.NET
26 38 (6.312%) CRM

Applications Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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
1 146 (24.25%) .NET
2 39 (6.478%) HTML
2 39 (6.478%) ASP.NET
3 36 (5.980%) XML
3 36 (5.980%) Middleware
4 32 (5.316%) WebSphere
5 28 (4.651%) CSS
6 21 (3.488%) Web Services
7 19 (3.156%) J2EE
8 14 (2.326%) .NET Framework
8 14 (2.326%) ASP
9 12 (1.993%) COM
10 7 (1.163%) WinForms
11 6 (0.997%) WCF
11 6 (0.997%) JSP
12 5 (0.831%) SOAP
12 5 (0.831%) XSL
12 5 (0.831%) FIX Protocol
13 4 (0.664%) Ajax
13 4 (0.664%) FIXML
Application Platforms
1 89 (14.78%) IIS
2 49 (8.140%) SharePoint
3 26 (4.319%) Tomcat
3 26 (4.319%) Apache
4 14 (2.326%) WebLogic
5 12 (1.993%) WebSphere MQ
6 11 (1.827%) WebSphere Application Server
7 9 (1.495%) BizTalk Server
8 8 (1.329%) FileNet
9 7 (1.163%) SAS
9 7 (1.163%) CMS
9 7 (1.163%) SharePoint 2010
10 6 (0.997%) IBM HTTP Server
10 6 (0.997%) Documentum
11 5 (0.831%) GlassFish
12 4 (0.664%) Alfresco
12 4 (0.664%) SharePoint Server
12 4 (0.664%) WorkSite
12 4 (0.664%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.664%) Rendezvous
Applications
1 65 (10.80%) MS Excel
2 53 (8.804%) MS Office
3 6 (0.997%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.498%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (1.329%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (1.329%) Kondor+
2 7 (1.163%) Lawson
2 7 (1.163%) RMDS
2 7 (1.163%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.831%) Endur
3 5 (0.831%) Oracle Applications
3 5 (0.831%) Capstone
3 5 (0.831%) Tesseract
3 5 (0.831%) Minerva
3 5 (0.831%) Sentinel
4 4 (0.664%) Oracle EBS R12
4 4 (0.664%) Aligne
4 4 (0.664%) 3000 Xtra
4 4 (0.664%) ZaiNet
4 4 (0.664%) LatentZero
5 3 (0.498%) FLEXCUBE
5 3 (0.498%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 3 (0.498%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.332%) ION MarketView
Communications & Networking
1 23 (3.821%) Firewall
2 20 (3.322%) FTP
2 20 (3.322%) HTTP
3 19 (3.156%) Internet
4 18 (2.990%) TCP/IP
5 10 (1.661%) VPN
6 7 (1.163%) SSL
6 7 (1.163%) SSH
7 6 (0.997%) SAN
7 6 (0.997%) DNS
8 5 (0.831%) LAN
8 5 (0.831%) HTTPS
9 4 (0.664%) Intranet
10 2 (0.332%) 3G
10 2 (0.332%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.332%) LDAP
10 2 (0.332%) Broadband
11 1 (0.166%) WAN
11 1 (0.166%) DHCP
11 1 (0.166%) TELNET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (28.74%) SQL Server
2 29 (4.817%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 29 (4.817%) SQL Server 2008
3 27 (4.485%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 17 (2.824%) MS Access
5 15 (2.492%) MySQL
6 13 (2.159%) SQL Server 2005
7 11 (1.827%) Oracle 8/8i
7 11 (1.827%) Crystal Reports
7 11 (1.827%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (1.495%) RDBMS
9 8 (1.329%) Oracle 10g
10 7 (1.163%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 7 (1.163%) Sybase ASE
11 6 (0.997%) QlikView
12 4 (0.664%) BusinessObjects XI
12 4 (0.664%) Oracle 11g
12 4 (0.664%) DB2
12 4 (0.664%) Oracle Reports
13 3 (0.498%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 16 (2.658%) Team Foundation Server
2 11 (1.827%) Visual Studio
3 9 (1.495%) JIRA
4 8 (1.329%) InstallShield
5 7 (1.163%) PowerBuilder
6 6 (0.997%) Talend Open Studio
7 5 (0.831%) CruiseControl
7 5 (0.831%) Subversion
7 5 (0.831%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.664%) WinDbg
9 3 (0.498%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.498%) JMeter
9 3 (0.498%) MSI
10 2 (0.332%) Serena SBM
11 1 (0.166%) Ant
11 1 (0.166%) Oracle APEX
11 1 (0.166%) Selenium
11 1 (0.166%) StarTeam
11 1 (0.166%) TortoiseSVN
11 1 (0.166%) TestNG
General
1 135 (22.43%) Finance
2 100 (16.61%) Banking
3 75 (12.46%) Front Office
4 52 (8.638%) Investment Banking
5 41 (6.811%) Retail
6 22 (3.654%) Legal
7 19 (3.156%) Law
8 17 (2.824%) Back Office
9 9 (1.495%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.163%) Publishing
11 6 (0.997%) Billing
12 5 (0.831%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.664%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.498%) Marketing
15 2 (0.332%) General Ledger
15 2 (0.332%) Electronics
16 1 (0.166%) Advertising
16 1 (0.166%) Local Government
16 1 (0.166%) Retail Banking
16 1 (0.166%) Corporate Banking
Miscellaneous
1 31 (5.150%) Fixed Income
2 29 (4.817%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 16 (2.658%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (2.658%) Derivative
4 15 (2.492%) Equities
5 14 (2.326%) EPoS
6 13 (2.159%) Credit Risk
7 9 (1.495%) Open Source
8 8 (1.329%) Client/Server
9 7 (1.163%) SWIFT
9 7 (1.163%) Data Integration
9 7 (1.163%) Smart Meter
10 6 (0.997%) Clustering
10 6 (0.997%) Management Information System
10 6 (0.997%) Mainframe
11 5 (0.831%) Mathematics
12 4 (0.664%) EFT
13 3 (0.498%) N-Tier
13 3 (0.498%) NHS
13 3 (0.498%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 224 (37.21%) Windows
2 139 (23.09%) UNIX
3 103 (17.11%) Linux
4 52 (8.638%) Windows Server 2003
5 50 (8.306%) Windows Server 2008
6 23 (3.821%) Windows XP
6 23 (3.821%) Windows 7
7 11 (1.827%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (1.661%) Solaris
9 8 (1.329%) Windows Vista
10 3 (0.498%) Windows 8
11 2 (0.332%) Windows 2000 Server
11 2 (0.332%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.332%) Windows 2000
12 1 (0.166%) Windows NT
12 1 (0.166%) AIX
12 1 (0.166%) HPUX
12 1 (0.166%) Tru64
12 1 (0.166%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (27.41%) ITIL
2 66 (10.96%) Incident Management
3 45 (7.475%) Problem Management
4 38 (6.312%) CRM
5 31 (5.150%) Change Management
6 30 (4.983%) Workflow
7 29 (4.817%) Root Cause Analysis
8 24 (3.987%) E-Commerce
9 22 (3.654%) Service Management
10 21 (3.488%) Service Delivery
10 21 (3.488%) Capacity Management
11 20 (3.322%) Release Management
12 19 (3.156%) Document Management
12 19 (3.156%) Disaster Recovery
13 18 (2.990%) ETL
14 17 (2.824%) Asset Management
14 17 (2.824%) Change Control
15 16 (2.658%) Analytics
15 16 (2.658%) Investment Management
15 16 (2.658%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 316 (52.49%) SQL
2 96 (15.95%) C#
3 86 (14.29%) Java
4 45 (7.475%) T-SQL
5 39 (6.478%) VBA
6 33 (5.482%) Shell Script
7 31 (5.150%) VB
8 29 (4.817%) VBScript
9 27 (4.485%) JavaScript
10 22 (3.654%) Perl
11 21 (3.488%) PL/SQL
12 15 (2.492%) VB6
13 14 (2.326%) VB.NET
13 14 (2.326%) C++
14 12 (1.993%) PowerShell
15 7 (1.163%) Python
15 7 (1.163%) PHP
16 5 (0.831%) C
17 2 (0.332%) Bash shell
18 1 (0.166%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 40 (6.645%) Security Cleared
2 34 (5.648%) Degree
3 13 (2.159%) SC Cleared
3 13 (2.159%) ITIL Certification
3 13 (2.159%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (1.993%) DV Cleared
5 6 (0.997%) ISEB
6 4 (0.664%) BC Cleared
7 3 (0.498%) MCP
7 3 (0.498%) MOS
8 2 (0.332%) MCITP
8 2 (0.332%) MCDST
8 2 (0.332%) MCSA
9 1 (0.166%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.166%) Sun Certification
9 1 (0.166%) MCT
9 1 (0.166%) MCSE
9 1 (0.166%) HNC
9 1 (0.166%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.980%) SLA
2 8 (1.329%) QA
3 3 (0.498%) ISO 9001
3 3 (0.498%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (0.498%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 35 (5.814%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.993%) XenApp
2 12 (1.993%) XenDesktop
3 8 (1.329%) Microsoft App-V
3 8 (1.329%) VMware ESX
4 7 (1.163%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.831%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.664%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.498%) Terminal Services
8 2 (0.332%) OpenSSO
9 1 (0.166%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.166%) Cronacle
Systems Management
1 17 (2.824%) Control-M
2 10 (1.661%) SCCM
3 8 (1.329%) WSUS
4 7 (1.163%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 7 (1.163%) BladeLogic
4 7 (1.163%) WMI
5 5 (0.831%) DameWare
6 4 (0.664%) SCVMM
6 4 (0.664%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 4 (0.664%) OpenView
7 3 (0.498%) Foglight
7 3 (0.498%) Tivoli
7 3 (0.498%) HP SIM
7 3 (0.498%) Zenoss
8 2 (0.332%) ServiceCenter
8 2 (0.332%) Nagios
9 1 (0.166%) BMC PATROL
9 1 (0.166%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 131 (21.76%) Oracle
2 115 (19.10%) Microsoft
3 32 (5.316%) Citrix
4 30 (4.983%) SAP
5 25 (4.153%) VMware
6 23 (3.821%) IBM
7 16 (2.658%) Sybase
7 16 (2.658%) Business Objects
8 13 (2.159%) Reuters
9 12 (1.993%) Bloomberg
9 12 (1.993%) Remedy
10 11 (1.827%) Salesforce.com
11 9 (1.495%) HP
11 9 (1.495%) Charles River
12 8 (1.329%) Lotus
12 8 (1.329%) Red Hat
12 8 (1.329%) SunGard
13 7 (1.163%) ATG
13 7 (1.163%) Hummingbird
13 7 (1.163%) Kronos
City, London
Linux, eTrading, Perl, Python, SQL, Support Analyst... Network and firewall infrastructure knowledge is also very desirable, as well as an understanding of Windows. The ability to analyse network...
Thomson Keene Associates
Rate: £500 - £550 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Milton Keynes, Thames Valley
Experience of writing SQL queries* Experience with RDBMS* Experience with supporting Java and .NET applications * Experience of data architectureA good understanding of web and business intelligence technology would...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £250 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 4 May 2013
Yorkshire and the Humber
You will be involved in software development (C#, ASP.NET and T-SQL), service design, application support and maintenance, change requests, incident resolution, testing and technical support for...
Amoria Bond
Posted: 11 May 2013
London
Application Support Analyst - Cash EquitiesOur global client require a proven Application Support Analyst - Cash Equities to join a team and focus on providing strong application support across the...
Rate: £475 - £495 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Southampton, Hampshire
The Application Support Analyst will be working closely with the Application Support Team and will be responsible for supporting bespoke applications in a Windows based environment. The Application...
Haybrook IT Resourcing Ltd
Rate: From £15 to £23 per hour
Posted: 21 May 2013
Yorkshire and the Humber
The Support Analyst must be able to demonstrate the following:*Strong IT skills, especially MS Office*Advanced knowledge of MS Excel (2007 onwards)*Ideally experience in support, e...
Amoria Bond
Posted: 25 May 2013
City, London
Requirements/respnsbilities: - Oracle 10/11g (SQL Server 2008 may be considered) - PL/SQL - Scripting: Python, Runy Powershell (at least one of these) - Writing complex SQL Scripts / stored procedures...
Aston Carter
Rate: market rate
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
Applications Support/Data Analysis/SQL/MS Excel/MS Access/Data Manipulation/ERP/Oracle/SAP/Financial & Cost Reporting Systems/EcoSys/Hyperion/Primavera/Timberline. YOU MUST HAVE EXCEPTIONAL DATA MANIPULATION &...
Reed Technology
Rate: £250 per day + NEGOTIABLE
Posted: 23 May 2013
London
Oracle 10/11 experience preferable. SQL Server 2008 experience... Python. Ruby. Powershell. Windows Server 2003/2008 troubleshooting and configuration. ITIL qualified (desirable) In return the successful Application Support...
ComputAppoint
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
City, London
The Principal Responsibilities of this position are: - Incident management o Participate in Cash Equities IT critical incident management event... - Problem management o Confirm the actual impact for Cash...
iKas International
Rate: £400 - £495 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Yorkshire and the Humber
To be successful in the position you will have the following:* Previously managed an IT Team delivering Software in a pressurised commercial operation.* Have experience of large scale...
Amoria Bond
Posted: 1 May 2013
City of London
The team works closely with Front Office, Equity, Commodity, FX, Rates or Credit and other business area's to provide technology solutions. Successful candidates will have the following...
Real Staffing
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Southampton, Hampshire
To Support senior officers by undertaking appropriate research and analysis, providing the outline of a range of possible solutions and recommendations for action on day to day service...
Experis IT
Rate: £100 - £200 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
Surrey, South East
Job Title Cerner Application Support Specialist Location Surrey South West LondonSalary 280 - 300 per dayDescription My client, an NHS Trust in Surrey South West London is looking to...
E-Resourcing
Rate: £280 - £300 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Southampton, South East
Large government organisation is looking to hire 3 Application Support Analysts on 6 months contracts to perform the day to day management of software configuration, change requests, system...
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £250 - £350 per day
Posted: 25 May 2013