Portsmouth Applications Support Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Applications Support role in IT contracts within the Portsmouth 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 28 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Application Support
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Carlisle Cheshire Chesterfield Chorley City of London County Antrim Cumbria Derbyshire Docklands, London Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stirling Street Sunderland Surrey Swansea Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 28 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	26
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	1.316 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£304	£311
% change on same period last year	-2.45 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.40	£21.21
% change on same period last year	+5.61 %
Job Titles Portsmouth
Matching contract IT job ads	228	228
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.303 %	0.228 %
Daily rates quoted	24	26
Average minimum daily rate	£306	£271
Average daily rate	£321	£297
% change on same period last year	+8.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£335	£323
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£355
% change on same period last year	+0.27 %
Hourly rates quoted	114	125
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.73	£23.74
Average hourly rate	£28.66	£25.77
% change on same period last year	+11.20 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.59	£27.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£25.66
% change on same period last year	-7.26 %
Applications Support Hampshire

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 Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth region.

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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 Portsmouth region.

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Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 28 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth 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 3 (100.00 %) Intel 2 2 (66.67 %) Remedy 2 2 (66.67 %) Cognos 2 2 (66.67 %) Cognos Powerplay 2 2 (66.67 %) SharePoint 2 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2 2 (66.67 %) AS400 2 2 (66.67 %) FormScape 3 1 (33.33 %) VBScript 3 1 (33.33 %) Change Management 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 3 1 (33.33 %) SLA 3 1 (33.33 %) MSI

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 28 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth 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 Platforms 1 2 (66.67 %) SharePoint 1 2 (66.67 %) FormScape	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server 1 2 (66.67 %) Cognos Powerplay
Development Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) MSI	Miscellaneous 1 2 (66.67 %) AS400
Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Change Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) VBScript	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (33.33 %) SLA
Vendors 1 3 (100.00 %) Intel 2 2 (66.67 %) Remedy 2 2 (66.67 %) Cognos