The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Support role in IT contracts advertised for the Essex 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 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 Job Titles advertised for the Essex 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
Application Support
Rank 40 36 47
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +11
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support 9 10 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 2.143% 2.451% 0.255%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.350% 2.604% 0.267%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 1
Average daily rate £350 £363 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.44% +3.57%
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
-4.16% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Average hourly rate - £26.64 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.50 £20.00 £23.75
% change year-on-year
-7.50% -15.78%
All Job Titles
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
383 384 374
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 91.19% 94.12% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 186 169
Average daily rate £313 £288 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.69% -4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £160 £105 £78
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 58 75
Average hourly rate £30.00 £27.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -1.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.45 £13.00 £13.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.10 £41.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Applications Support
East of England

Applications Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex 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 Essex region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex Applications Support Hourly Rate Trend

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 Essex 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
Southend-on-Sea - 2 £120 -
Harlow +1 1 £700 +180.00%
Colchester - 1 £350 -
Applications Support
East of England

Applications Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 6 (66.67%) .NET
1 6 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 4 (44.44%) Windows
3 3 (33.33%) Capacity Management
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (33.33%) WCF
3 3 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 3 (33.33%) Documentum
3 3 (33.33%) HTTP
3 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 3 (33.33%) Java
3 3 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (33.33%) IIS
3 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 3 (33.33%) Publishing
3 3 (33.33%) Content Management
3 3 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing
4 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 2 (22.22%) QA
4 2 (22.22%) Information Management
4 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Project Planning
4 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
4 2 (22.22%) Change Management
4 2 (22.22%) Problem Management
4 2 (22.22%) Open Source
5 1 (11.11%) Change Control
5 1 (11.11%) Workflow

Applications Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 6 (66.67%) .NET
2 3 (33.33%) WCF
2 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) SharePoint
1 3 (33.33%) Documentum
1 3 (33.33%) IIS
2 1 (11.11%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) HTTP
1 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (33.33%) Publishing
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
1 2 (22.22%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 3 (33.33%) Capacity Management
2 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 3 (33.33%) Content Management
2 3 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing
3 2 (22.22%) Information Management
3 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Project Planning
3 2 (22.22%) Change Management
3 2 (22.22%) Problem Management
4 1 (11.11%) Change Control
4 1 (11.11%) Workflow
4 1 (11.11%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA