The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Support Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Applications Support Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 Glasgow 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Support Analyst
Rank 70 45 58
Rank change year-on-year
-25 +13
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support Analyst 12 12 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 1.268% 1.552% 0.706%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.342% 1.630% 0.743%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 5
Average daily rate £275 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £268 £250 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £315 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £315
% change year-on-year
-8.33% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.75 £19.00
% change year-on-year
+26.76% -6.57%
All Job Titles
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
894 736 673
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 94.50% 95.21% 95.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 344 387
Average daily rate £338 £319 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.79% -8.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £214 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £446 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 37 21
Average hourly rate £14.00 £22.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-37.77% +18.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £35.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Applications Support Analyst
Scotland

Applications Support Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow Applications Support Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Applications Support Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Applications Support Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Applications Support Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Applications Support Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Applications Support Analyst
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region that cited Applications Support Analyst 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 Analyst in their job title.

1 22 (91.67%) SQL
1 22 (91.67%) UNIX
2 20 (83.33%) Finance
3 19 (79.17%) ITIL
4 17 (70.83%) Oracle
4 17 (70.83%) SQL Server
5 14 (58.33%) Sybase
5 14 (58.33%) Windows
5 14 (58.33%) RDBMS
5 14 (58.33%) SLA
6 9 (37.50%) Banking
7 7 (29.17%) WebSphere
7 7 (29.17%) Java
8 5 (20.83%) ETL
8 5 (20.83%) Service Management
8 5 (20.83%) Avaloq
9 4 (16.67%) Wealth Management
9 4 (16.67%) TIBCO
10 2 (8.333%) Temenos
10 2 (8.333%) Service Delivery
11 1 (4.167%) SOA
11 1 (4.167%) User Acceptance Testing
11 1 (4.167%) System Testing
11 1 (4.167%) Data Analysis
11 1 (4.167%) Business Analysis
11 1 (4.167%) Business Continuity
11 1 (4.167%) Security Cleared
11 1 (4.167%) Data Transformation

Applications Support Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region that cited Applications Support Analyst 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 Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (29.17%) WebSphere
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (70.83%) SQL Server
2 14 (58.33%) RDBMS
General
1 20 (83.33%) Finance
2 9 (37.50%) Banking
Operating Systems
1 22 (91.67%) UNIX
2 14 (58.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (79.17%) ITIL
2 5 (20.83%) ETL
2 5 (20.83%) Service Management
3 4 (16.67%) Wealth Management
4 2 (8.333%) Service Delivery
5 1 (4.167%) SOA
5 1 (4.167%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (4.167%) System Testing
5 1 (4.167%) Data Analysis
5 1 (4.167%) Business Analysis
5 1 (4.167%) Business Continuity
5 1 (4.167%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 22 (91.67%) SQL
2 7 (29.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (4.167%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (58.33%) SLA
Vendors
1 17 (70.83%) Oracle
2 14 (58.33%) Sybase
3 5 (20.83%) Avaloq
4 4 (16.67%) TIBCO
5 2 (8.333%) Temenos