Applications Support Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Support role in IT contracts advertised for the London 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 London 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 218 185 196
Rank change year-on-year
-33 +11
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support 174 261 284
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.790% 0.967% 0.926%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.856% 1.046% 1.001%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 173 162
Average daily rate £375 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.76% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £250 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £513 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
-4.16% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 5
Average hourly rate £19.00 £17.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.57% -22.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.38 £17.35 £21.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.38 £40.64 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.50 £20.00 £23.75
% change year-on-year
-7.50% -15.78%
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 20317 24960 28380
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.22% 92.51% 92.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13701 16102 18232
Average daily rate £450 £445 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.12% -6.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 621 671
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Applications Support
England

Applications Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

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

London 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 London region.

London 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 London 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
City of London -23 53 £425 -
Docklands, London +2 1 - -
Canary Wharf -5 1 £450 -
Croydon - 1 £225 -
Hayes - 1 £200 -
Hounslow - 1 £375 -
Applications Support
England

Applications Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

1 186 (53.60%) SQL
2 136 (39.19%) Windows
3 108 (31.12%) SQL Server
4 96 (27.67%) UNIX
5 94 (27.09%) Finance
6 84 (24.21%) Banking
7 77 (22.19%) Oracle
8 75 (21.61%) .NET
9 74 (21.33%) Front Office
10 73 (21.04%) Microsoft
11 69 (19.88%) ITIL
12 63 (18.16%) Linux
13 58 (16.71%) C#
14 51 (14.70%) MS Excel
15 49 (14.12%) IIS
16 45 (12.97%) Java
17 44 (12.68%) Investment Banking
18 40 (11.53%) Incident Management
19 39 (11.24%) MS Office
20 38 (10.95%) VBA
21 37 (10.66%) Windows Server 2008
22 34 (9.798%) Windows Server 2003
23 33 (9.510%) CRM
24 32 (9.222%) Fixed Income
25 31 (8.934%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
26 27 (7.781%) VBScript
27 26 (7.493%) SharePoint
28 25 (7.205%) T-SQL
28 25 (7.205%) JavaScript
28 25 (7.205%) HTML

Applications Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 75 (21.61%) .NET
2 25 (7.205%) HTML
2 25 (7.205%) Middleware
3 22 (6.340%) ASP.NET
4 21 (6.052%) WebSphere
5 19 (5.476%) CSS
6 16 (4.611%) XML
7 12 (3.458%) .NET Framework
8 9 (2.594%) ASP
8 9 (2.594%) COM
8 9 (2.594%) J2EE
8 9 (2.594%) Web Services
9 6 (1.729%) JSP
10 5 (1.441%) FIX Protocol
10 5 (1.441%) XSL
11 4 (1.153%) ODBC
11 4 (1.153%) WSDL
11 4 (1.153%) FIXML
11 4 (1.153%) OLE DB
12 3 (0.865%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 49 (14.12%) IIS
2 26 (7.493%) SharePoint
3 18 (5.187%) Tomcat
4 15 (4.323%) Apache
5 10 (2.882%) WebSphere MQ
6 7 (2.017%) SharePoint 2010
6 7 (2.017%) BizTalk Server
7 6 (1.729%) WebSphere Application Server
8 5 (1.441%) WebLogic
9 4 (1.153%) FileNet
9 4 (1.153%) Rendezvous
9 4 (1.153%) Progress Apama
9 4 (1.153%) Alfresco
9 4 (1.153%) SharePoint Server
9 4 (1.153%) WorkSite
10 3 (0.865%) Oracle Coherence
10 3 (0.865%) WebLogic Portal
10 3 (0.865%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
10 3 (0.865%) MSMQ
10 3 (0.865%) MQSeries
Applications
1 51 (14.70%) MS Excel
2 39 (11.24%) MS Office
3 6 (1.729%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.288%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.017%) RMDS
1 7 (2.017%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (2.017%) Kondor+
2 5 (1.441%) Capstone
2 5 (1.441%) Tesseract
2 5 (1.441%) Minerva
2 5 (1.441%) Sentinel
2 5 (1.441%) Dynamics AX
2 5 (1.441%) Endur
3 4 (1.153%) Aligne
3 4 (1.153%) 3000 Xtra
3 4 (1.153%) ZaiNet
3 4 (1.153%) LatentZero
4 3 (0.865%) FLEXCUBE
5 2 (0.576%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.576%) Global One
5 2 (0.576%) CSG Singleview
5 2 (0.576%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.576%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.576%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.035%) Internet
2 9 (2.594%) HTTP
3 8 (2.305%) Firewall
4 6 (1.729%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.153%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.865%) VPN
7 2 (0.576%) LDAP
7 2 (0.576%) SAN
7 2 (0.576%) DNS
8 1 (0.288%) SSH
8 1 (0.288%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.288%) TELNET
8 1 (0.288%) FTP
8 1 (0.288%) LAN
8 1 (0.288%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (31.12%) SQL Server
2 24 (6.916%) SQL Server 2008
3 17 (4.899%) MS Access
4 16 (4.611%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 14 (4.035%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 11 (3.170%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (2.882%) Oracle 8/8i
8 9 (2.594%) SQL Server 2005
8 9 (2.594%) MySQL
9 7 (2.017%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 6 (1.729%) Sybase ASE
11 5 (1.441%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.441%) Crystal Reports
12 3 (0.865%) BusinessObjects XI
12 3 (0.865%) SQL Server 2012
12 3 (0.865%) Big Data
12 3 (0.865%) Oracle 10g
13 2 (0.576%) DB2
13 2 (0.576%) Oracle Reports
13 2 (0.576%) DTS
Development Applications
1 11 (3.170%) Team Foundation Server
2 8 (2.305%) InstallShield
3 7 (2.017%) Visual Studio
4 6 (1.729%) PowerBuilder
4 6 (1.729%) Talend Open Studio
5 5 (1.441%) Subversion
5 5 (1.441%) CruiseControl
5 5 (1.441%) TeamCity
6 4 (1.153%) WinDbg
7 2 (0.576%) Serena SBM
7 2 (0.576%) MSI
8 1 (0.288%) Selenium
8 1 (0.288%) TestNG
8 1 (0.288%) TortoiseSVN
8 1 (0.288%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.288%) Oracle Forms
General
1 94 (27.09%) Finance
2 84 (24.21%) Banking
3 74 (21.33%) Front Office
4 44 (12.68%) Investment Banking
5 22 (6.340%) Legal
6 19 (5.476%) Law
7 14 (4.035%) Retail
8 12 (3.458%) Back Office
9 6 (1.729%) Billing
10 5 (1.441%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.153%) Publishing
12 3 (0.865%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.576%) Private Banking
13 2 (0.576%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.288%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.288%) Corporate Banking
14 1 (0.288%) Marketing
14 1 (0.288%) Local Government
14 1 (0.288%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.222%) Fixed Income
2 31 (8.934%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 16 (4.611%) Derivative
4 13 (3.746%) Credit Risk
5 11 (3.170%) Equities
6 7 (2.017%) Data Integration
6 7 (2.017%) SWIFT
6 7 (2.017%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.017%) Open Source
7 6 (1.729%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.441%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.153%) Mainframe
10 3 (0.865%) Mathematics
10 3 (0.865%) N-Tier
11 2 (0.576%) NHS
11 2 (0.576%) Clustering
11 2 (0.576%) Blackberry
11 2 (0.576%) Physics
12 1 (0.288%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.288%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 136 (39.19%) Windows
2 96 (27.67%) UNIX
3 63 (18.16%) Linux
4 37 (10.66%) Windows Server 2008
5 34 (9.798%) Windows Server 2003
6 16 (4.611%) Windows 7
7 14 (4.035%) Windows XP
8 10 (2.882%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (1.153%) Solaris
9 4 (1.153%) Windows Vista
10 3 (0.865%) Windows 8
11 2 (0.576%) Windows 2000
11 2 (0.576%) Windows 2000 Server
11 2 (0.576%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.288%) CentOS
12 1 (0.288%) Tru64
12 1 (0.288%) Windows NT
12 1 (0.288%) AIX
12 1 (0.288%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (19.88%) ITIL
2 40 (11.53%) Incident Management
3 33 (9.510%) CRM
4 23 (6.628%) Root Cause Analysis
5 22 (6.340%) Workflow
6 21 (6.052%) Change Management
6 21 (6.052%) Problem Management
7 18 (5.187%) Release Management
8 17 (4.899%) Asset Management
8 17 (4.899%) ETL
9 16 (4.611%) Document Management
9 16 (4.611%) Investment Management
10 14 (4.035%) Capacity Management
11 12 (3.458%) OO
11 12 (3.458%) Risk Management
11 12 (3.458%) Change Control
12 9 (2.594%) User Acceptance Testing
12 9 (2.594%) Electronic Trading
12 9 (2.594%) E-Commerce
13 8 (2.305%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 186 (53.60%) SQL
2 58 (16.71%) C#
3 45 (12.97%) Java
4 38 (10.95%) VBA
5 27 (7.781%) VBScript
6 25 (7.205%) T-SQL
6 25 (7.205%) JavaScript
7 21 (6.052%) Shell Script
7 21 (6.052%) Perl
8 19 (5.476%) VB
9 14 (4.035%) PL/SQL
10 9 (2.594%) VB.NET
10 9 (2.594%) C++
11 8 (2.305%) VB6
12 6 (1.729%) Python
13 5 (1.441%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.865%) PHP
15 1 (0.288%) Ruby
15 1 (0.288%) Korn
15 1 (0.288%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 19 (5.476%) Degree
2 10 (2.882%) Security Cleared
3 7 (2.017%) DV Cleared
3 7 (2.017%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (2.017%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (0.865%) MOS
4 3 (0.865%) ISEB
5 1 (0.288%) NVQ Level 3
5 1 (0.288%) MCSA
5 1 (0.288%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.170%) SLA
2 6 (1.729%) QA
3 3 (0.865%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.865%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (0.865%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 23 (6.628%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.882%) XenApp
2 10 (2.882%) XenDesktop
3 8 (2.305%) Microsoft App-V
4 7 (2.017%) VMware ESX
5 4 (1.153%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.865%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.576%) OpenSSO
7 2 (0.576%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.288%) Cronacle
Systems Management
1 16 (4.611%) Control-M
2 9 (2.594%) SCCM
3 6 (1.729%) WMI
3 6 (1.729%) BladeLogic
4 4 (1.153%) OpenView
4 4 (1.153%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 4 (1.153%) SCVMM
5 3 (0.865%) WSUS
5 3 (0.865%) Zenoss
5 3 (0.865%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.288%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 1 (0.288%) BMC PATROL
6 1 (0.288%) Nagios
Vendors
1 77 (22.19%) Oracle
2 73 (21.04%) Microsoft
3 24 (6.916%) Citrix
4 16 (4.611%) Business Objects
5 15 (4.323%) Reuters
5 15 (4.323%) VMware
6 14 (4.035%) Sybase
7 13 (3.746%) Bloomberg
7 13 (3.746%) IBM
8 11 (3.170%) Salesforce.com
9 10 (2.882%) SAP
10 8 (2.305%) SunGard
11 7 (2.017%) LANDesk
11 7 (2.017%) Caplin
11 7 (2.017%) Charles River
11 7 (2.017%) Red Hat
12 6 (1.729%) Talend
12 6 (1.729%) Cadis
12 6 (1.729%) Altiris
13 5 (1.441%) Lotus
Applications Support Analyst
UK Greater London, South East
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Premier Group
Rate: £100.00 - £150.00 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Application Support Analyst
City, London
You will need to have in depth knowledge of IBM Platform Symphony 5.1 as this is used to manage the Grid farm which provides risk/pricing calculations...
McGregor Boyall
Rate: £500 pd
Posted: 17 May 2013
Applications Support Analyst
London
The ability to analyse what's required from specifications / requests.A sound, broad knowledge of IT and an excellent understanding of how the technical specialism relates to other...
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Rate: £275.00 - £300.00 per annum
Posted: 25 April 2013
Application Support Analyst - Cash Equities
London
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Rate: £475 - £495 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Level 1 Application Support Analyst (Trading)
City, London
Sound knowledge MS Office 2007 -2010, Vista & Functional knowledge of Windows 7, SAP skills. A familiarity with SM7, Helpdesk processes & ITIL with knowledge of Data Warehouse and Market...
MBA Ltd
Posted: 16 May 2013
Market Connectivity & Trading Applications Support Analyst
City, London
Since the systems involved are integrated with out pricing and post trade systems the candidate must have an understanding of the entire trade flow process and STP Key...
Incisive Ltd
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
First Line Application Support Analyst : SAP / Vista / Windows 7 : Ene
Central London / West End
World Leading Global Energy Trading Company has an exciting opportunity for a First Line Application Support Analyst with experience in SAP and Windows Vista / Windows 7 to capture...
Eaglecliff
Rate: From £250 to £275 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
First Line Application Support Analyst : Vista / Windows 7 : Energy Tr
Central London / West End
As First Line Application Support Analyst, you will: Respond to all user calls in a timely manner as per service level (SLA), and maintain a high level of...
Eaglecliff
Rate: From £250 to £275 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
3rd Line Application Support Analyst- Cash Equities
City, London
The Principal Responsibilities of this position are: - Incident management o Participate in Cash Equities IT critical incident management event... - Problem management o Confirm the actual impact for Cash...
iKas International
Rate: £400 - £495 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Senior Support Analyst - Application Support
City, London
Once fully familiar with the Platform Symphony set-up within the bank the candidate will need to acquire support knowledge for in house front office applications starting with...
Incisive Ltd
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
ETRM Application Support / Business Analyst : Gas and Power : Energy T
Central London / West End
Technical Skills - PL/SQL, Oracle 10g/11g, XML/API, Visual Basic Application, Visual Studio .net (C#, VB), Biztalk, Microsoft Office Suite OPTIONAL: ITIL certification preferable... Familiarity with ETRM...
Eaglecliff
Rate: Market Rates
Posted: 15 May 2013
Kondor Application Support
London
Application support role for leading retail bank in London. Key skill is Kondor application support. Intermediate/Strong enterprise GUI development skills to aggressive deadlines, strong knowledge of software...
Rullion IT Plus
Posted: 17 May 2013
Application Support Manager / £450-£500pd / London
City of London
The team works closely with Front Office, Equity, Commodity, FX, Rates or Credit and other business area's to provide technology solutions. Successful candidates will have the following...
Real Staffing
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Application support specialist
London
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Oliver James Associates
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
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