The first table below looks at the demand for assyst skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited assyst 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 of the Business Applications category 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
Axios Systems assyst
Rank 505 523 537
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +14
Contract jobs citing assyst 7 34 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.017% 0.064% 0.032%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.198% 0.740% 0.370%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 7 3
Average daily rate - £475 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +72.72%
UK excluding London average daily rate £127 £175 £275
% change year-on-year
-27.71% -36.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
Average hourly rate £17.50 £22.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-22.22% +60.71%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £22.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-22.22% +50.00%
All Business Applications
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
3543 4592 4863
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 8.375% 8.582% 8.778%
Number of daily rates quoted 1887 2355 2527
Average daily rate £450 £450 £463
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £300 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £438 £420
% change year-on-year
-2.85% +4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 56 86
Average hourly rate £37.80 £34.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.17% +70.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.25 £14.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £62.50 £57.50 £38.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £22.50 £21.96
% change year-on-year
+68.00% +2.45%
assyst
UK

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Jobs Demand Trend

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

England assyst Jobs Demand Trend

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Daily Rate Trend

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

England assyst Daily Rate Trend

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

England assyst Hourly Rate Trend

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing assyst 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
South West +26 2 - -
London -10 2 - -
South East - 2 - -
North West - 1 - -
assyst
UK

assyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing assyst also 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 that cited assyst.

1 8 (53.33%) ITIL
2 7 (46.67%) Windows
3 6 (40.00%) SAP
4 5 (33.33%) MS Exchange
4 5 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 5 (33.33%) Citrix
4 5 (33.33%) Service Management
5 4 (26.67%) Finance
5 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
5 4 (26.67%) Blackberry
5 4 (26.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 4 (26.67%) SQL
6 3 (20.00%) PL/SQL
6 3 (20.00%) Business Objects
6 3 (20.00%) UNIX
6 3 (20.00%) Linux
6 3 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 3 (20.00%) Manufacturing
6 3 (20.00%) Banking
6 3 (20.00%) Logistics
6 3 (20.00%) Dimensional Modelling
6 3 (20.00%) BusinessObjects XI
6 3 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (13.33%) iPad
7 2 (13.33%) Exchange Server 2003
7 2 (13.33%) SecurID
7 2 (13.33%) CMS
7 2 (13.33%) Wireless
7 2 (13.33%) Change Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing assyst also 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 that cited assyst. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (6.667%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 5 (33.33%) MS Exchange
2 4 (26.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 3 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (13.33%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (13.33%) CMS
5 1 (6.667%) SharePoint
5 1 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) MS Office
2 1 (6.667%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Wireless
1 2 (13.33%) 3G
1 2 (13.33%) WAN
2 1 (6.667%) SAN
2 1 (6.667%) DHCP
2 1 (6.667%) DNS
2 1 (6.667%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) BusinessObjects XI
2 2 (13.33%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (13.33%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (6.667%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.667%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (6.667%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (6.667%) QuickTest Pro
1 1 (6.667%) Selenium
1 1 (6.667%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (6.667%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 3 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (6.667%) Law
3 1 (6.667%) Legal
3 1 (6.667%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Business Objects Consultant
2 2 (13.33%) Service Desk Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Business Consultant
2 2 (13.33%) Team Leader
2 2 (13.33%) Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Consultant
2 2 (13.33%) Service Analyst
3 1 (6.667%) Test Analyst
3 1 (6.667%) Business Developer
3 1 (6.667%) Business Analyst
3 1 (6.667%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (6.667%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) Change Manager
3 1 (6.667%) Business Objects Developer
3 1 (6.667%) Crystal Reports Developer
3 1 (6.667%) Senior Test Analyst
3 1 (6.667%) Incident Manager
3 1 (6.667%) Report Developer
3 1 (6.667%) Problem Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Blackberry
2 2 (13.33%) iPad
2 2 (13.33%) SecurID
3 1 (6.667%) Thin Client
3 1 (6.667%) Clustering
3 1 (6.667%) Fat Client
3 1 (6.667%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Windows
2 3 (20.00%) UNIX
2 3 (20.00%) Linux
3 2 (13.33%) Windows XP
4 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) ITIL
2 5 (33.33%) Service Management
3 3 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (20.00%) Logistics
3 3 (20.00%) Dimensional Modelling
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (13.33%) Change Management
4 2 (13.33%) Project Management
5 1 (6.667%) PRINCE2
5 1 (6.667%) ITSM
5 1 (6.667%) Service Delivery
5 1 (6.667%) Risk Management
5 1 (6.667%) Information Security
5 1 (6.667%) Content Management
5 1 (6.667%) Supplier Management
5 1 (6.667%) Software Testing
5 1 (6.667%) Business Analysis
5 1 (6.667%) Problem Management
5 1 (6.667%) Release Management
5 1 (6.667%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (6.667%) VBScript
3 1 (6.667%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (6.667%) ISEB
1 1 (6.667%) ISEB Practitioner
1 1 (6.667%) ISTQB
1 1 (6.667%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.667%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.667%) VMware ESX
2 1 (6.667%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (6.667%) XenApp
2 1 (6.667%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (6.667%) ZENworks
1 1 (6.667%) NetBackup
1 1 (6.667%) HP SIM
1 1 (6.667%) SCCM
1 1 (6.667%) SCOM
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) SAP
2 5 (33.33%) Citrix
3 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
4 3 (20.00%) Business Objects
5 2 (13.33%) Cognos
5 2 (13.33%) HP
6 1 (6.667%) Oracle
6 1 (6.667%) Dell
6 1 (6.667%) EMC
6 1 (6.667%) Novell
6 1 (6.667%) Remedy
6 1 (6.667%) Sophos
6 1 (6.667%) Wyse
6 1 (6.667%) VMware