Northamptonshire Applications Support Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Applications Support role in IT contracts within the Northamptonshire 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Crawley Devon Docklands, London Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Gatwick Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Ilford Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Preston Reading Renfrewshire Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stirling Street Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swindon Tadworth Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Woking Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	29	35
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	3	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	1.071 %	2.053 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£250	-
Average daily rate	£250	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£250	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£287	£304
% change on same period last year	-5.56 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.00	£17.67
Average hourly rate	£31.00	£21.33
% change on same period last year	+45.31 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.00	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.94	£22.15
% change on same period last year	-9.94 %
Job Titles Northamptonshire
Matching contract IT job ads	280	341
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.394 %	0.345 %
Daily rates quoted	156	93
Average minimum daily rate	£388	£326
Average daily rate	£409	£345
% change on same period last year	+18.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£430	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	29	58
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.12	£16.84
Average hourly rate	£16.87	£20.30
% change on same period last year	-16.91 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.62	£23.76
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.76	£25.22
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
Applications Support East Midlands

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 Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 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 Northamptonshire region.

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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 Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
Northampton	-2	3	£250	-

Applications Support East Midlands

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Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 12 (85.71 %) Oracle 1 12 (85.71 %) SQL Server 1 12 (85.71 %) SQL 2 7 (50.00 %) UNIX 3 6 (42.86 %) VB 3 6 (42.86 %) Solaris 3 6 (42.86 %) Ingres 3 6 (42.86 %) ASP 3 6 (42.86 %) XML 3 6 (42.86 %) HTML 4 5 (35.71 %) SharePoint 4 5 (35.71 %) Web Development 5 4 (28.57 %) Local Government 5 4 (28.57 %) Government 5 4 (28.57 %) Microsoft

5 4 (28.57 %) MS Excel 5 4 (28.57 %) Windows 6 3 (21.43 %) Change Management 7 1 (7.143 %) Management Information System 7 1 (7.143 %) Finance 7 1 (7.143 %) BSS 7 1 (7.143 %) Agresso 7 1 (7.143 %) Progress 7 1 (7.143 %) Java 7 1 (7.143 %) Perl 7 1 (7.143 %) PHP 7 1 (7.143 %) Incident Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 6 (42.86 %) HTML 1 6 (42.86 %) ASP 1 6 (42.86 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 5 (35.71 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 4 (28.57 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 1 (7.143 %) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (85.71 %) SQL Server 2 6 (42.86 %) Ingres	General 1 4 (28.57 %) Government 1 4 (28.57 %) Local Government 2 1 (7.143 %) Finance
Miscellaneous 1 1 (7.143 %) Management Information System	Operating Systems 1 7 (50.00 %) UNIX 2 6 (42.86 %) Solaris 3 4 (28.57 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (35.71 %) Web Development 2 3 (21.43 %) Change Management 3 1 (7.143 %) Incident Management	Programming Languages 1 12 (85.71 %) SQL 2 6 (42.86 %) VB 3 1 (7.143 %) Java 3 1 (7.143 %) Perl 3 1 (7.143 %) PHP
Vendors 1 12 (85.71 %) Oracle 2 4 (28.57 %) Microsoft 3 1 (7.143 %) Agresso 3 1 (7.143 %) Progress