London Applications Support Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Applications Support role in IT contracts within the London region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Applications Support in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Carlisle Cheshire Chesterfield Chorley City of London Crawley Cumbria Derbyshire Docklands, London Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire London Loughborough Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stirling Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	137	137
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	378	560
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.504 %	0.567 %
As % of the category below	1.274 %	1.317 %
Daily rates quoted	179	232
Average minimum daily rate	£364	£387
Average daily rate	£400	£410
% change on same period last year	-2.54 %
Average maximum daily rate	£436	£433
UK excluding London average daily rate	£306	£313
% change on same period last year	-2.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	21
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.80	£22.38
Average hourly rate	£18.90	£24.61
% change on same period last year	-23.19 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.00	£26.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.91	£20.32
% change on same period last year	+37.33 %
Job Titles London
Matching contract IT job ads	29663	42535
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	39.54 %	43.03 %
Daily rates quoted	12541	15833
Average minimum daily rate	£408	£426
Average daily rate	£438	£455
% change on same period last year	-3.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£468	£484
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	1576	2120
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.67	£24.40
Average hourly rate	£24.26	£26.14
% change on same period last year	-7.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.85	£27.87
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Applications Support England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Applications Support across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Applications Support across the London region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Applications Support across the London region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section 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 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
City of London	-14	147	£414	-8.22 %
Docklands, London	+8	8	£250	-43.82 %
Canary Wharf	+3	4	-	-
Uxbridge	-	3	£425	-
Harrow	-	2	£190	-
Hammersmith	-	1	£190	-
Kingston Upon Thames	-	1	£200	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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.

1 425 (53.93 %) SQL 2 307 (38.96 %) UNIX 3 262 (33.25 %) Banking 4 223 (28.30 %) Front Office 5 175 (22.21 %) Finance 6 168 (21.32 %) Investment Banking 7 150 (19.04 %) Oracle 8 141 (17.89 %) Sybase 9 131 (16.62 %) Windows 10 128 (16.24 %) .NET 11 125 (15.86 %) SQL Server 12 121 (15.36 %) Perl 13 110 (13.96 %) Fixed Income 14 107 (13.58 %) Equities 14 107 (13.58 %) Java

15 94 (11.93 %) Derivative 16 72 (9.137 %) C# 17 71 (9.010 %) Microsoft 18 68 (8.629 %) Linux 18 68 (8.629 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 19 62 (7.868 %) Bloomberg 20 61 (7.741 %) VB 21 54 (6.853 %) Reuters 22 52 (6.599 %) Back Office 22 52 (6.599 %) Solaris 23 50 (6.345 %) Shell Script 24 47 (5.964 %) Problem Management 25 45 (5.711 %) HTML 26 43 (5.457 %) C++ 27 41 (5.203 %) JavaScript

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 1 128 (16.24 %) .NET 2 45 (5.711 %) HTML 3 40 (5.076 %) ASP 4 38 (4.822 %) XML 5 32 (4.061 %) ASP.NET 6 22 (2.792 %) CSS 7 21 (2.665 %) XSLT 8 17 (2.157 %) FIX Protocol 9 12 (1.523 %) .NET Framework 10 10 (1.269 %) JSP 11 9 (1.142 %) WebServices 11 9 (1.142 %) J2EE 11 9 (1.142 %) Middleware 12 8 (1.015 %) WebSphere 13 7 (0.888 %) Swing 14 5 (0.635 %) Hibernate 15 4 (0.508 %) ODBC 15 4 (0.508 %) WAP 15 4 (0.508 %) NHibernate 16 3 (0.381 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 28 (3.553 %) SharePoint 2 20 (2.538 %) IIS 3 15 (1.904 %) Apache 4 9 (1.142 %) BizTalk Server 5 8 (1.015 %) Tomcat 5 8 (1.015 %) MQSeries 6 6 (0.761 %) WebLogic 7 5 (0.635 %) Oracle Workflow 8 4 (0.508 %) TeamSite 8 4 (0.508 %) WebSphere Application Server 8 4 (0.508 %) Documentum 8 4 (0.508 %) CMS 9 3 (0.381 %) iPlanet 9 3 (0.381 %) JBoss 9 3 (0.381 %) Lotus Notes 10 2 (0.254 %) MS Exchange 10 2 (0.254 %) Rendezvous 10 2 (0.254 %) SharePoint Portal Server 10 2 (0.254 %) IBM HTTP Server 10 2 (0.254 %) Oracle Application Server
Applications 1 34 (4.315 %) MS Excel 2 18 (2.284 %) MS Office 3 4 (0.508 %) MS Visio 3 4 (0.508 %) Spreadsheet 4 2 (0.254 %) MS PowerPoint 5 1 (0.127 %) Maya	Business Applications 1 12 (1.523 %) Endur 2 8 (1.015 %) Summit 2 8 (1.015 %) Microsoft CRM 3 6 (0.761 %) Findur 4 4 (0.508 %) Advent Geneva 5 3 (0.381 %) INSURE/90 5 3 (0.381 %) Kondor+ 5 3 (0.381 %) Oracle Financials 5 3 (0.381 %) Oracle 11i 6 2 (0.254 %) ProfileStage 6 2 (0.254 %) SAP WM 6 2 (0.254 %) Oracle EBS 6 2 (0.254 %) Oracle CRM 6 2 (0.254 %) Oracle Applications 6 2 (0.254 %) MAXIMO 6 2 (0.254 %) Misys Midas 6 2 (0.254 %) RMDS 6 2 (0.254 %) Academy Housing 7 1 (0.127 %) SAP Oil and Gas 7 1 (0.127 %) ADP Wilco Gloss
Communications & Networking 1 29 (3.680 %) Internet 2 19 (2.411 %) Intranet 3 8 (1.015 %) TCP/IP 3 8 (1.015 %) DNS 3 8 (1.015 %) LAN 3 8 (1.015 %) WAN 4 6 (0.761 %) SMS 4 6 (0.761 %) Extranet 5 5 (0.635 %) BIG-IP 6 4 (0.508 %) HTTP 6 4 (0.508 %) Broadband 7 3 (0.381 %) Firewall 8 2 (0.254 %) IMAP 8 2 (0.254 %) SSL	Database & Business Intelligence 1 125 (15.86 %) SQL Server 2 36 (4.569 %) MS Access 3 27 (3.426 %) SQL Server 2000 4 26 (3.299 %) RDBMS 5 20 (2.538 %) SQL Server 2005 6 18 (2.284 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 17 (2.157 %) Crystal Reports 8 15 (1.904 %) SQL Server 7 9 11 (1.396 %) MySQL 10 10 (1.269 %) EDRMS 10 10 (1.269 %) Oracle Reports 11 7 (0.888 %) BusinessObjects 11 7 (0.888 %) Reference Data 12 5 (0.635 %) DB2 12 5 (0.635 %) Datawarehouse 13 3 (0.381 %) DTS 13 3 (0.381 %) DataStage 13 3 (0.381 %) Oracle 9i 13 3 (0.381 %) ETL 13 3 (0.381 %) TOAD
Development Applications 1 5 (0.635 %) JUnit 1 5 (0.635 %) Visual Studio 1 5 (0.635 %) Eclipse 2 4 (0.508 %) PowerBuilder 2 4 (0.508 %) ReSharper 3 3 (0.381 %) Selenium 3 3 (0.381 %) FitNesse 3 3 (0.381 %) ClearQuest 3 3 (0.381 %) NUnit 3 3 (0.381 %) Flash 3 3 (0.381 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 2 (0.254 %) Oracle Forms 4 2 (0.254 %) Ant 4 2 (0.254 %) JIRA 5 1 (0.127 %) MSI 5 1 (0.127 %) Dreamweaver 5 1 (0.127 %) TestDirector	General 1 262 (33.25 %) Banking 2 223 (28.30 %) Front Office 3 175 (22.21 %) Finance 4 168 (21.32 %) Investment Banking 5 52 (6.599 %) Back Office 6 29 (3.680 %) Government 7 13 (1.650 %) Local Government 8 11 (1.396 %) Financial Institution 9 9 (1.142 %) Health 9 9 (1.142 %) Law 10 8 (1.015 %) Education 11 7 (0.888 %) Insurance 11 7 (0.888 %) Publishing 12 4 (0.508 %) Retail 12 4 (0.508 %) Legal 13 2 (0.254 %) Telecoms 13 2 (0.254 %) Criminal Justice 13 2 (0.254 %) Marketing 14 1 (0.127 %) Private Banking 14 1 (0.127 %) Games
Miscellaneous 1 110 (13.96 %) Fixed Income 2 107 (13.58 %) Equities 3 94 (11.93 %) Derivative 4 68 (8.629 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 5 25 (3.173 %) Equity Derivative 6 13 (1.650 %) Credit Risk 7 11 (1.396 %) AS400 8 10 (1.269 %) Replication 9 8 (1.015 %) Statistics 9 8 (1.015 %) Market Risk 10 5 (0.635 %) Fat Client 10 5 (0.635 %) Data Extraction 10 5 (0.635 %) Interest Rate Derivative 10 5 (0.635 %) VWAP 10 5 (0.635 %) Thin Client 11 4 (0.508 %) Mathematics 11 4 (0.508 %) PDA 12 3 (0.381 %) French Language 12 3 (0.381 %) Credit Derivative 12 3 (0.381 %) E-Learning	Operating Systems 1 307 (38.96 %) UNIX 2 131 (16.62 %) Windows 3 68 (8.629 %) Linux 4 52 (6.599 %) Solaris 5 23 (2.919 %) Windows XP 6 16 (2.030 %) Windows 2000 7 8 (1.015 %) Windows NT 7 8 (1.015 %) Windows Server 2003 8 6 (0.761 %) AIX 9 5 (0.635 %) HPUX 10 2 (0.254 %) Mac OS X Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 47 (5.964 %) Problem Management 2 36 (4.569 %) ITIL 3 30 (3.807 %) Algorithmic Trading 4 27 (3.426 %) Migration 5 26 (3.299 %) Asset Management 5 26 (3.299 %) Investment Management 6 24 (3.046 %) CRM 7 19 (2.411 %) Project Management 8 18 (2.284 %) OO 8 18 (2.284 %) Scrum 8 18 (2.284 %) Agile Software Development 9 17 (2.157 %) Risk Management 10 15 (1.904 %) E-Commerce 10 15 (1.904 %) User Acceptance Testing 10 15 (1.904 %) Electronic Trading 11 14 (1.777 %) Incident Management 11 14 (1.777 %) Extreme Programming 12 13 (1.650 %) Service Delivery 12 13 (1.650 %) Release Management 13 11 (1.396 %) Fund Management	Programming Languages 1 425 (53.93 %) SQL 2 121 (15.36 %) Perl 3 107 (13.58 %) Java 4 72 (9.137 %) C# 5 61 (7.741 %) VB 6 50 (6.345 %) Shell Script 7 43 (5.457 %) C++ 8 41 (5.203 %) JavaScript 9 37 (4.695 %) PL/SQL 10 28 (3.553 %) Transact-SQL 11 27 (3.426 %) C 11 27 (3.426 %) VB.NET 12 24 (3.046 %) VBA 13 17 (2.157 %) VBScript 14 16 (2.030 %) VB6 15 13 (1.650 %) PHP 16 9 (1.142 %) Korn 17 7 (0.888 %) Tcl 18 5 (0.635 %) AWK 19 4 (0.508 %) RPG
Qualifications 1 36 (4.569 %) Degree 2 3 (0.381 %) Microsoft Certification 3 2 (0.254 %) ITIL Certification 3 2 (0.254 %) MCP 3 2 (0.254 %) PhD 4 1 (0.127 %) ISEB 4 1 (0.127 %) MCSE	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 8 (1.015 %) QA 2 5 (0.635 %) SLA 3 2 (0.254 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 1 (0.127 %) BS7799
System Software 1 7 (0.888 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 25 (3.173 %) AutoSys 2 7 (0.888 %) CONTROL-M 3 4 (0.508 %) Tivoli 4 1 (0.127 %) MOM 4 1 (0.127 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 4 1 (0.127 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 4 1 (0.127 %) OpenView 4 1 (0.127 %) Nagios 4 1 (0.127 %) TIBCO Hawk 4 1 (0.127 %) OVSD 4 1 (0.127 %) ServiceCenter 4 1 (0.127 %) BMC PATROL
Vendors 1 150 (19.04 %) Oracle 2 141 (17.89 %) Sybase 3 71 (9.010 %) Microsoft 4 62 (7.868 %) Bloomberg 5 54 (6.853 %) Reuters 6 20 (2.538 %) GL TRADE 7 17 (2.157 %) Fidessa 8 16 (2.030 %) JD Edwards 9 15 (1.904 %) OpenLink 9 15 (1.904 %) Siebel 10 14 (1.777 %) Sophis 11 13 (1.650 %) Murex 12 10 (1.269 %) Sun 12 10 (1.269 %) thinkFolio 13 9 (1.142 %) Citrix 13 9 (1.142 %) Remedy 14 8 (1.015 %) Red Hat 15 7 (0.888 %) HP 15 7 (0.888 %) Business Objects 15 7 (0.888 %) ION Trading