Applications Support Contracts in the North West
 
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 North West 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 West 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 107 103 108
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +5
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support 11 29 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.472% 0.932% 0.590%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.506% 1.017% 0.639%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 17 6
Average daily rate £275 £335 £253
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.91% +32.67%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £138 £180 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £318 £360 £283
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
- -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £17.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £20.00 £23.75
% change year-on-year
+3.75% -15.78%
Search 25 Applications Support jobs in the North West
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North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 2173 2851 2817
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 93.22% 91.64% 92.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1036 1402 1393
Average daily rate £338 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £225 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £468
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 171 189
Average hourly rate £17.50 £19.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.25% +8.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £33.32 £40.00
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 West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

North West 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 West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 West 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
Cheshire +3 7 £275 +83.33%
Manchester -11 2 - -
Lancashire +7 1 £90 -55.00%
Merseyside +3 1 £325 -1.51%
Applications Support
England

Applications Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 11 (68.75%) ITIL
2 7 (43.75%) SharePoint
3 6 (37.50%) Retail
4 5 (31.25%) DameWare
4 5 (31.25%) JIRA
4 5 (31.25%) WSUS
4 5 (31.25%) Problem Management
4 5 (31.25%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
6 3 (18.75%) .NET
6 3 (18.75%) C#
6 3 (18.75%) SQL
6 3 (18.75%) Service Management
7 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
7 2 (12.50%) MS Excel
7 2 (12.50%) MCP
7 2 (12.50%) Windows
7 2 (12.50%) Windows XP
7 2 (12.50%) SLA
7 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (12.50%) EPoS
7 2 (12.50%) Smartcard
7 2 (12.50%) MCDST
7 2 (12.50%) MCITP
7 2 (12.50%) Windows Vista
7 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
8 1 (6.250%) Banking
8 1 (6.250%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (6.250%) Investment Banking
8 1 (6.250%) Migration

Applications Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 (18.75%) .NET
2 1 (6.250%) JSON
2 1 (6.250%) Middleware
2 1 (6.250%) XHTML
2 1 (6.250%) ASP.NET
2 1 (6.250%) CSS
2 1 (6.250%) SOAP
2 1 (6.250%) XML
2 1 (6.250%) HTML
2 1 (6.250%) REST
Application Platforms
1 7 (43.75%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.250%) LiveLink
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (6.250%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (6.250%) Dynamics AX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) JIRA
1 5 (31.25%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (6.250%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (37.50%) Retail
2 1 (6.250%) Banking
2 1 (6.250%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) EPoS
1 2 (12.50%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
1 2 (12.50%) Windows XP
1 2 (12.50%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) ITIL
2 5 (31.25%) Problem Management
3 3 (18.75%) Service Management
4 1 (6.250%) Migration
4 1 (6.250%) Incident Management
4 1 (6.250%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (6.250%) CRM
4 1 (6.250%) Database Security
4 1 (6.250%) ITIL V3
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) C#
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 1 (6.250%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) MCP
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (12.50%) MCDST
1 2 (12.50%) MCITP
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.250%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (6.250%) XenApp
1 1 (6.250%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) DameWare
1 5 (31.25%) WSUS
2 1 (6.250%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.250%) Remedy
2 1 (6.250%) Citrix
2 1 (6.250%) Oracle
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