The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Support Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Applications Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Gloucestershire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Support Engineer
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 0.727% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.763% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £295 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £295 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-9.23% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £21.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -14.00%
All Job Titles
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
262 621 398
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 95.27% 92.83% 93.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 366 159
Average daily rate £380 £400 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% +33.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £276 £170
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 33 61
Average hourly rate £16.50 £25.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.00% -23.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £21.00 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £37.40 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Applications Support Engineer
South West

Applications Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire Applications Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Applications Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Gloucestershire Applications Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Applications Support Engineer
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 Engineer within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Cheltenham - 1 £295 -
Applications Support Engineer
South West

Applications Support Engineer
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region that cited Applications Support Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 5 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) QlikView
2 4 (80.00%) C
2 4 (80.00%) Oracle
2 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Service Management
3 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (60.00%) SQL
4 2 (40.00%) Windows
5 1 (20.00%) Drools
5 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (20.00%) Scala
5 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
5 1 (20.00%) MySQL
5 1 (20.00%) Java
5 1 (20.00%) Windows XP
5 1 (20.00%) ITIL
5 1 (20.00%) Benchmarking
5 1 (20.00%) MSI
5 1 (20.00%) Software Packaging

Applications Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region that cited Applications Support Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (20.00%) Drools
1 1 (20.00%) Software Packaging
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) QlikView
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MSI
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (20.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Service Management
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Benchmarking
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) C
2 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) Scala
3 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle