The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Support role in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire 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 19 June 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 Hampshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Support
Rank 80 92 99
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +7
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support 21 6 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 1.311% 0.386% 0.266%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.399% 0.415% 0.285%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 1 3
Average daily rate £238 £200 £130
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.75% +53.84%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Average hourly rate £20.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -30.00%
All Job Titles
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1501 1445 1755
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 93.70% 92.93% 93.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 787 689 752
Average daily rate £340 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.21% +7.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £513 £511 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 193 237
Average hourly rate £18.88 £20.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.62% -33.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.50 £11.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Applications Support
South East

Applications Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Southampton +6 14 £300 - 3
Winchester - - - -
Basingstoke - - - - 1
Fareham - - - - 1
Portsmouth - - - - 1
Applications Support
South East

Applications Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 14 (56.00%) SC Cleared
1 14 (56.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (32.00%) SQL
2 8 (32.00%) Oracle
3 7 (28.00%) Windows
4 6 (24.00%) Remedy
5 5 (20.00%) Windows XP
5 5 (20.00%) System Testing
6 4 (16.00%) SLA
6 4 (16.00%) BMC
6 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
6 4 (16.00%) Service Management
6 4 (16.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (16.00%) Data Analysis
6 4 (16.00%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (16.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (12.00%) Statistics
7 3 (12.00%) Application Packaging
7 3 (12.00%) Incident Management
7 3 (12.00%) Management Information System
7 3 (12.00%) ITIL
7 3 (12.00%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (12.00%) Retail
7 3 (12.00%) Configuration Management
8 2 (8.000%) Microsoft
8 2 (8.000%) Oracle 10g
8 2 (8.000%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (8.000%) IIS
8 2 (8.000%) T-SQL
8 2 (8.000%) C#

Applications Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 3 (12.00%) Application Packaging
2 2 (8.000%) .NET
3 1 (4.000%) Windows SharePoint Services
3 1 (4.000%) HTML
3 1 (4.000%) ASP.NET
3 1 (4.000%) COM
3 1 (4.000%) CSS
3 1 (4.000%) XML
3 1 (4.000%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.000%) IIS
2 1 (4.000%) Kentico
2 1 (4.000%) WordPress
2 1 (4.000%) DotNetNuke
2 1 (4.000%) Joomla!
2 1 (4.000%) CMS
2 1 (4.000%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.000%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (12.00%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (4.000%) Dynamics NAV
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (16.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (8.000%) Oracle 10g
2 2 (8.000%) Crystal Reports
2 2 (8.000%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 1 (4.000%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (12.00%) Retail
2 2 (8.000%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Statistics
1 3 (12.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (28.00%) Windows
2 5 (20.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.00%) System Testing
2 4 (16.00%) Service Management
2 4 (16.00%) Data Analysis
2 4 (16.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (12.00%) Incident Management
3 3 (12.00%) ITIL
3 3 (12.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (8.000%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (8.000%) Waterfall
4 2 (8.000%) Network Management
5 1 (4.000%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (4.000%) Analytics
5 1 (4.000%) Problem Management
5 1 (4.000%) Web Analytics
5 1 (4.000%) SEO
5 1 (4.000%) Data Management
5 1 (4.000%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 8 (32.00%) SQL
2 2 (8.000%) T-SQL
2 2 (8.000%) C#
2 2 (8.000%) PL/SQL
3 1 (4.000%) VB
3 1 (4.000%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 14 (56.00%) SC Cleared
1 14 (56.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Oracle
2 6 (24.00%) Remedy
3 4 (16.00%) BMC
4 2 (8.000%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.000%) Ektron
5 1 (4.000%) Google
5 1 (4.000%) Cognos
5 1 (4.000%) Hyperion
Hampshire
Skills required:- - Good technical skills in a multi application/platform environment , particularly related to support of application software - production support delivery experience - Previous SQL administration skills (or Oracle) -...
Sanderson
Rate: Market Rate
Posted: 18 June 2013
Hampshire, South East
Application Support Analyst SQL, ITIL, BMC Remedy My client based in Hampshire is seeking a Application Support Analyst... Experience using the BMC Remedy system will be a bonus...
Computer Futures
Posted: 19 June 2013
Southampton, South East
My client is a leading Public Sector organisation with offices in several locations. Due to a shortfall in resource, a number of application support analysts are required to...
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Rate: £15.00 - £20.00 per hour
Posted: 29 May 2013