Scotland Applications Support Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Applications Support role in IT contracts within the Scotland 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Carlisle Cheshire Chesterfield Chorley City of London Crawley Cumbria Derbyshire Docklands, London Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire London Loughborough Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stirling Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	71	101
Rank change on same period last year	+30
Matching contract IT job ads	29	27
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.039 %	0.027 %
As % of the category below	1.244 %	0.788 %
Daily rates quoted	4	7
Average minimum daily rate	£240	£351
Average daily rate	£262	£361
% change on same period last year	-27.47 %
Average maximum daily rate	£284	£371
UK excluding London average daily rate	£306	£313
% change on same period last year	-2.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.67	£18.00
Average hourly rate	£22.25	£18.00
% change on same period last year	+23.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.83	£18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.91	£20.32
% change on same period last year	+37.33 %
Job Titles Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	2331	3425
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.107 %	3.465 %
Daily rates quoted	514	666
Average minimum daily rate	£297	£306
Average daily rate	£320	£321
% change on same period last year	-0.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£344	£337
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	140	196
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.18	£18.21
Average hourly rate	£22.27	£19.26
% change on same period last year	+15.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.36	£20.31
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
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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 Scotland 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 Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Scotland region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Applications Support across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Support within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Glasgow	+2	13	£325	-15.85 %
Edinburgh	+13	4	£224	+6.54 %
Aberdeen	+3	3	£275	-
Stirling	+9	1	-	-
Renfrewshire	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 32 (45.07 %) SQL 2 29 (40.85 %) Oracle 3 22 (30.99 %) SQL Server 4 21 (29.58 %) UNIX 5 14 (19.72 %) .NET 6 11 (15.49 %) Windows 7 10 (14.08 %) SharePoint 8 9 (12.68 %) XML 8 9 (12.68 %) ASP.NET 8 9 (12.68 %) ITIL 8 9 (12.68 %) Finance 8 9 (12.68 %) Performance Management 9 8 (11.27 %) LiveLink 10 7 (9.859 %) Health 10 7 (9.859 %) Data Management

10 7 (9.859 %) Enterprise Data Management 10 7 (9.859 %) Microsoft 10 7 (9.859 %) BusinessObjects 10 7 (9.859 %) Business Objects 10 7 (9.859 %) Transact-SQL 11 6 (8.451 %) ASP 11 6 (8.451 %) Data Modelling 11 6 (8.451 %) Shell Script 11 6 (8.451 %) Business Analysis 12 5 (7.042 %) Management Information System 12 5 (7.042 %) Project Management 12 5 (7.042 %) Java 13 4 (5.634 %) Sybase 13 4 (5.634 %) WebServices 13 4 (5.634 %) SLA

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 14 (19.72 %) .NET 2 9 (12.68 %) ASP.NET 2 9 (12.68 %) XML 3 6 (8.451 %) ASP 4 4 (5.634 %) WebServices 5 2 (2.817 %) XSLT 5 2 (2.817 %) SOAP 6 1 (1.408 %) J2EE 6 1 (1.408 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 10 (14.08 %) SharePoint 2 8 (11.27 %) LiveLink 3 2 (2.817 %) WebLogic 3 2 (2.817 %) Content Management Server 3 2 (2.817 %) CMS
Applications 1 1 (1.408 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 4 (5.634 %) MAXIMO 2 1 (1.408 %) Microsoft CRM 2 1 (1.408 %) Great Plains 2 1 (1.408 %) Movex 2 1 (1.408 %) Oracle CRM 2 1 (1.408 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 2 (2.817 %) Intranet 1 2 (2.817 %) Internet 1 2 (2.817 %) Extranet 2 1 (1.408 %) Firewall 2 1 (1.408 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 22 (30.99 %) SQL Server 2 7 (9.859 %) BusinessObjects 3 4 (5.634 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 3 (4.225 %) SQL Server 2000 4 3 (4.225 %) GIS 4 3 (4.225 %) MS Access 4 3 (4.225 %) Datawarehouse 4 3 (4.225 %) Ingres 5 2 (2.817 %) RDBMS 5 2 (2.817 %) Oracle 10g 5 2 (2.817 %) Oracle Reports 5 2 (2.817 %) Oracle 9i 6 1 (1.408 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 6 1 (1.408 %) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications 1 3 (4.225 %) Oracle APEX	General 1 9 (12.68 %) Finance 2 7 (9.859 %) Health 3 3 (4.225 %) Telecoms 4 2 (2.817 %) Local Government 4 2 (2.817 %) Banking 4 2 (2.817 %) Government 5 1 (1.408 %) Billing 5 1 (1.408 %) Auditing
Miscellaneous 1 5 (7.042 %) Management Information System 2 4 (5.634 %) AS400 3 3 (4.225 %) NHS 3 3 (4.225 %) LIMS 4 1 (1.408 %) Data Integration 4 1 (1.408 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 21 (29.58 %) UNIX 2 11 (15.49 %) Windows 3 3 (4.225 %) HPUX 4 2 (2.817 %) Windows XP 5 1 (1.408 %) AIX 5 1 (1.408 %) Solaris 5 1 (1.408 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (1.408 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (12.68 %) ITIL 1 9 (12.68 %) Performance Management 2 7 (9.859 %) Enterprise Data Management 2 7 (9.859 %) Data Management 3 6 (8.451 %) Business Analysis 3 6 (8.451 %) Data Modelling 4 5 (7.042 %) Project Management 5 3 (4.225 %) CRM 5 3 (4.225 %) Problem Management 5 3 (4.225 %) Workflow 6 2 (2.817 %) Service Delivery 6 2 (2.817 %) ERP 7 1 (1.408 %) OOP 7 1 (1.408 %) OO 7 1 (1.408 %) Service Management 7 1 (1.408 %) Configuration Management 7 1 (1.408 %) Information Management 7 1 (1.408 %) Document Management 7 1 (1.408 %) User Acceptance Testing	Programming Languages 1 32 (45.07 %) SQL 2 7 (9.859 %) Transact-SQL 3 6 (8.451 %) Shell Script 4 5 (7.042 %) Java 5 3 (4.225 %) VB 6 2 (2.817 %) JavaScript 6 2 (2.817 %) C 6 2 (2.817 %) PL/SQL 7 1 (1.408 %) PHP 7 1 (1.408 %) XPath
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (5.634 %) SLA	Systems Management 1 2 (2.817 %) CONTROL-M
Vendors 1 29 (40.85 %) Oracle 2 7 (9.859 %) Business Objects 2 7 (9.859 %) Microsoft 3 4 (5.634 %) MAPICS 3 4 (5.634 %) Sybase 4 3 (4.225 %) Informatica 5 2 (2.817 %) HP 6 1 (1.408 %) Remedy 6 1 (1.408 %) PeopleSoft 6 1 (1.408 %) SAP