The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Support role in IT contracts advertised for the North East 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 24 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 North East 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Support
Rank 33 41 42
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support 1 6 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 0.357% 1.215% 0.686%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.382% 1.327% 0.746%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £250 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
- -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £17.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £20.00 £23.75
% change year-on-year
+3.75% -15.78%
All Job Titles
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
262 452 402
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 93.57% 91.50% 91.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 231 180
Average daily rate £300 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £550 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 39 27
Average hourly rate £11.00 £20.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-45.00% +14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.08 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.25 £35.00 £25.00
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 North East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

North East 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 North East region.

North East 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 North East region.

North East 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 North East region over the 3 months to 24 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
Tyne and Wear +10 1 - -
Applications Support
England

Applications Support
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) JBoss
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (50.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (50.00%) RDF
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) VMware
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Northgate
1 1 (50.00%) ESB
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Data Entry
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning

Applications Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 1 (50.00%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) ESB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (50.00%) RDF
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Data Entry
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) JBoss
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) VMware
1 1 (50.00%) Northgate