The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Support Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Applications Support Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Scotland 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Support Analyst
Rank 105 81 108
Rank change year-on-year
-24 +27
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support Analyst 15 24 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.615% 0.906% 0.214%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.664% 0.965% 0.227%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 5
Average daily rate £275 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £290 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £18.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year
+21.62% -2.63%
All Job Titles
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2260 2488 2644
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 92.66% 93.92% 94.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1098 1220 1303
Average daily rate £350 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £216 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 110 97
Average hourly rate £15.50 £22.50 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.11% +47.15%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £10.00 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £33.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Applications Support Analyst
UK

Applications Support Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Applications Support Analyst across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Scotland Applications Support Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Applications Support Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Applications Support Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Applications Support Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland Applications Support Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 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
Glasgow -19 12 £275 -8.33%
Aberdeen -8 1 - -
Edinburgh - 1 - -
Applications Support Analyst
UK

Applications Support Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 25 (89.29%) SQL
2 23 (82.14%) UNIX
3 20 (71.43%) Oracle
3 20 (71.43%) Finance
4 18 (64.29%) ITIL
5 17 (60.71%) SQL Server
6 15 (53.57%) Windows
7 14 (50.00%) RDBMS
8 13 (46.43%) SLA
8 13 (46.43%) Sybase
9 10 (35.71%) Banking
10 9 (32.14%) Java
11 8 (28.57%) WebSphere
12 6 (21.43%) Avaloq
13 5 (17.86%) Service Management
13 5 (17.86%) ETL
14 4 (14.29%) TIBCO
14 4 (14.29%) Wealth Management
15 3 (10.71%) Service Delivery
16 2 (7.143%) Telecoms
16 2 (7.143%) ERP
16 2 (7.143%) Microsoft
16 2 (7.143%) Temenos
16 2 (7.143%) C
17 1 (3.571%) HTML
17 1 (3.571%) PL/SQL
17 1 (3.571%) Crystal Reports
17 1 (3.571%) Business Objects
17 1 (3.571%) IIS
17 1 (3.571%) Linux

Applications Support Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 8 (28.57%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.571%) HTML
2 1 (3.571%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.571%) IIS
1 1 (3.571%) Lotus Notes
Business Applications
1 1 (3.571%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (3.571%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (3.571%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (3.571%) Oracle SCM
1 1 (3.571%) Oracle HRMS
1 1 (3.571%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (3.571%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (3.571%) Oracle Payroll
1 1 (3.571%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.571%) DHCP
1 1 (3.571%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.571%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (60.71%) SQL Server
2 14 (50.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.571%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
3 1 (3.571%) Xcelsius
3 1 (3.571%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (3.571%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (3.571%) MS Access
3 1 (3.571%) Data Mining
General
1 20 (71.43%) Finance
2 10 (35.71%) Banking
3 2 (7.143%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.571%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.571%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.571%) Clustering
1 1 (3.571%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 23 (82.14%) UNIX
2 15 (53.57%) Windows
3 1 (3.571%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (64.29%) ITIL
2 5 (17.86%) ETL
2 5 (17.86%) Service Management
3 4 (14.29%) Wealth Management
4 3 (10.71%) Service Delivery
5 2 (7.143%) ERP
6 1 (3.571%) SOA
6 1 (3.571%) Business Continuity
6 1 (3.571%) Data Analysis
6 1 (3.571%) Business Analysis
6 1 (3.571%) Network Load Balancing
6 1 (3.571%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (3.571%) System Testing
6 1 (3.571%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 25 (89.29%) SQL
2 9 (32.14%) Java
3 2 (7.143%) C
4 1 (3.571%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.571%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (3.571%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (46.43%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.571%) Terminal Services
1 1 (3.571%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (3.571%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 1 (3.571%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (71.43%) Oracle
2 13 (46.43%) Sybase
3 6 (21.43%) Avaloq
4 4 (14.29%) TIBCO
5 2 (7.143%) Microsoft
5 2 (7.143%) Temenos
6 1 (3.571%) Citrix
6 1 (3.571%) Lotus
6 1 (3.571%) Sophos
6 1 (3.571%) Business Objects
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