The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Support 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 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Support
Rank 66 47 53
Rank change year-on-year
-19 +6
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support 14 14 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 1.463% 1.811% 0.877%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.544% 1.902% 0.922%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 6
Average daily rate £275 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% +8.99%
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
-4.16% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.50 £20.00 £23.75
% change year-on-year
-7.50% -15.78%
All Job Titles
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
907 736 651
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 94.78% 95.21% 95.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 350 379
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 £210 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 37 20
Average hourly rate £14.00 £20.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.00% +14.28%
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
Scotland

Applications Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow Applications Support Daily Rate Trend

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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow Applications Support Hourly Rate Trend

Applications Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 25 (86.21%) SQL
2 24 (82.76%) UNIX
3 19 (65.52%) Finance
3 19 (65.52%) Oracle
4 18 (62.07%) SQL Server
4 18 (62.07%) ITIL
5 14 (48.28%) SLA
6 13 (44.83%) RDBMS
6 13 (44.83%) Windows
6 13 (44.83%) Sybase
7 9 (31.03%) Banking
8 8 (27.59%) WebSphere
8 8 (27.59%) Java
9 5 (17.24%) ETL
9 5 (17.24%) Service Management
9 5 (17.24%) Avaloq
10 4 (13.79%) Wealth Management
10 4 (13.79%) TIBCO
10 4 (13.79%) .NET
11 3 (10.34%) ASP.NET
12 2 (6.897%) MySQL
12 2 (6.897%) Linux
12 2 (6.897%) SOA
12 2 (6.897%) JavaScript
12 2 (6.897%) Microsoft
12 2 (6.897%) Temenos
12 2 (6.897%) Service Delivery
12 2 (6.897%) Security Cleared
12 2 (6.897%) Data Transformation
13 1 (3.448%) Analytics

Applications Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 8 (27.59%) WebSphere
2 4 (13.79%) .NET
3 3 (10.34%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.448%) HTML
Business Applications
1 1 (3.448%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.448%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (62.07%) SQL Server
2 13 (44.83%) RDBMS
3 2 (6.897%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.448%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (65.52%) Finance
2 9 (31.03%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.448%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 24 (82.76%) UNIX
2 13 (44.83%) Windows
3 2 (6.897%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (62.07%) ITIL
2 5 (17.24%) ETL
2 5 (17.24%) Service Management
3 4 (13.79%) Wealth Management
4 2 (6.897%) SOA
4 2 (6.897%) Service Delivery
4 2 (6.897%) Data Transformation
5 1 (3.448%) Analytics
5 1 (3.448%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (3.448%) System Testing
5 1 (3.448%) Information Management
5 1 (3.448%) Data Analysis
5 1 (3.448%) Business Analysis
5 1 (3.448%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 25 (86.21%) SQL
2 8 (27.59%) Java
3 2 (6.897%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.448%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (6.897%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.448%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (48.28%) SLA
Vendors
1 19 (65.52%) Oracle
2 13 (44.83%) Sybase
3 5 (17.24%) Avaloq
4 4 (13.79%) TIBCO
5 2 (6.897%) Microsoft
5 2 (6.897%) Temenos
6 1 (3.448%) Google
6 1 (3.448%) Citrix