North West Applications Support Analyst Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Applications Support Analyst role in IT contracts within the North West 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 Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Application Support Analyst
Location Aberdeen Berkshire Bristol Canary Wharf City of London Crawley Docklands, London East Midlands East of England England Gatwick Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Leeds Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Midlands Norfolk North West Northampton Northamptonshire Oldham Reading Sandwich Scotland Shropshire Slough South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Surrey Tadworth Telford Trowbridge UK Wales Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	123	140
Rank change on same period last year	+17
Matching contract IT job ads	4	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.132 %	0.074 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£200
Average daily rate	-	£200
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£200
UK excluding London average daily rate	£255	£265
% change on same period last year	-3.43 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£25.00
Average hourly rate	-	£25.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.13	£30.67
% change on same period last year	-31.11 %
Job Titles North West
Matching contract IT job ads	3033	4058
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.873 %	4.358 %
Daily rates quoted	676	805
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£326
Average daily rate	£339	£342
% change on same period last year	-0.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£357
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	437	479
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.06	£19.41
Average hourly rate	£21.74	£21.18
% change on same period last year	+2.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.43	£22.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.10	£24.04
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %
Applications Support Analyst 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.

Applications Support Analyst
Demand Trend

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

Applications Support Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Applications Support Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Applications Support Analyst
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 Analyst within the North West region over the 3 months to 2 December 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
Manchester	-1	2	-	-
Merseyside	-	1	-	-

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Applications Support Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Applications Support Analyst 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 Analyst in their job title.

1 4 (36.36 %) SQL 1 4 (36.36 %) Northgate 2 3 (27.27 %) Civica 2 3 (27.27 %) Incident Management 2 3 (27.27 %) ITIL 2 3 (27.27 %) Windows 3 2 (18.18 %) Finance 3 2 (18.18 %) Progress 4GL 3 2 (18.18 %) Progress 3 2 (18.18 %) Dutch Language 3 2 (18.18 %) German Language 3 2 (18.18 %) SAP 4 1 (9.091 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 1 (9.091 %) Portuguese Language 4 1 (9.091 %) Spanish Language

4 1 (9.091 %) Test Scripting 4 1 (9.091 %) System Testing 4 1 (9.091 %) French Language 4 1 (9.091 %) Technical Architecture 4 1 (9.091 %) Comino 4 1 (9.091 %) Orchard 4 1 (9.091 %) assyst 4 1 (9.091 %) SLA 4 1 (9.091 %) NHS 4 1 (9.091 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (9.091 %) SAP FI 4 1 (9.091 %) Mainframe 4 1 (9.091 %) UNIX 4 1 (9.091 %) HTML 4 1 (9.091 %) Java

Applications Support Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Applications Support Analyst 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 Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (9.091 %) HTML	Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) MS Office 1 1 (9.091 %) MS Excel
Business Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) SAP FI 1 1 (9.091 %) SAP Oil and Gas 1 1 (9.091 %) assyst	General 1 2 (18.18 %) Finance
Miscellaneous 1 2 (18.18 %) Dutch Language 1 2 (18.18 %) German Language 2 1 (9.091 %) Portuguese Language 2 1 (9.091 %) Spanish Language 2 1 (9.091 %) French Language 2 1 (9.091 %) NHS 2 1 (9.091 %) Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 3 (27.27 %) Windows 2 1 (9.091 %) Windows XP 2 1 (9.091 %) Windows Server 2003 2 1 (9.091 %) Windows 2000 Server 2 1 (9.091 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (27.27 %) Incident Management 1 3 (27.27 %) ITIL 2 1 (9.091 %) Software Engineering 2 1 (9.091 %) Technical Architecture 2 1 (9.091 %) Test Scripting 2 1 (9.091 %) System Testing	Programming Languages 1 4 (36.36 %) SQL 2 2 (18.18 %) Progress 4GL 3 1 (9.091 %) Java 3 1 (9.091 %) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (9.091 %) SLA	Vendors 1 4 (36.36 %) Northgate 2 3 (27.27 %) Civica 3 2 (18.18 %) SAP 3 2 (18.18 %) Progress 4 1 (9.091 %) Anite 4 1 (9.091 %) Oracle 4 1 (9.091 %) Comino 4 1 (9.091 %) Orchard