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Applications Support Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills
Browse 11 Applications Support job vacancies in Scotland

The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Support 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 in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Support
Rank 97 69 97
Rank change year-on-year
-28 +28
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support 22 40 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.879% 1.488% 0.527%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.951% 1.596% 0.566%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 20 13
Average daily rate £275 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £311 £310
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £21.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -30.00%
All Job Titles
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 2314 2507 2650
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 92.41% 93.23% 93.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1088 1164 1341
Average daily rate £353 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.71% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £225 £245
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £463 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 107 95
Average hourly rate £14.00 £18.50 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-24.32% +12.12%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.33 £10.99 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.40 £32.50 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Applications Support
UK

Applications Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Applications Support Daily Rate Trend

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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 19 June 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		 Find
Job
Vacancies
Glasgow -25 14 £275 -8.33% 6
Edinburgh - 7 - - 5
Fife -4 1 - -
Renfrewshire - - - -
West Lothian - - - -
North Lanarkshire - - - -
Aberdeen - - - -
Applications Support
UK

Applications Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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 36 (81.82%) SQL
2 28 (63.64%) Finance
2 28 (63.64%) UNIX
3 27 (61.36%) Oracle
4 21 (47.73%) SQL Server
4 21 (47.73%) ITIL
5 17 (38.64%) Windows
6 16 (36.36%) Sybase
6 16 (36.36%) RDBMS
6 16 (36.36%) SLA
7 12 (27.27%) Java
7 12 (27.27%) Banking
8 9 (20.45%) WebSphere
9 6 (13.64%) Avaloq
10 5 (11.36%) ETL
10 5 (11.36%) Service Management
11 4 (9.091%) Front Office
11 4 (9.091%) Charles River
11 4 (9.091%) Microsoft
11 4 (9.091%) TIBCO
11 4 (9.091%) Linux
11 4 (9.091%) .NET
11 4 (9.091%) Wealth Management
11 4 (9.091%) Asset Management
12 3 (6.818%) Stakeholder Management
12 3 (6.818%) Investment Management
12 3 (6.818%) ASP.NET
12 3 (6.818%) ERP
12 3 (6.818%) C
12 3 (6.818%) Service Delivery

Applications Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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 9 (20.45%) WebSphere
2 4 (9.091%) .NET
3 3 (6.818%) ASP.NET
4 2 (4.545%) HTML
5 1 (2.273%) J2EE
5 1 (2.273%) XML
5 1 (2.273%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.273%) IBM Notes
1 1 (2.273%) Apache
1 1 (2.273%) WebLogic
1 1 (2.273%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.273%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 2 (4.545%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (4.545%) Oracle 11i
1 2 (4.545%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (4.545%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (4.545%) Oracle SCM
1 2 (4.545%) Oracle HRMS
1 2 (4.545%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (4.545%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (4.545%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (2.273%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.273%) Internet
1 1 (2.273%) DHCP
1 1 (2.273%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.273%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (47.73%) SQL Server
2 16 (36.36%) RDBMS
3 2 (4.545%) MySQL
4 1 (2.273%) Xcelsius
4 1 (2.273%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 1 (2.273%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (2.273%) Data Mining
4 1 (2.273%) DB2
4 1 (2.273%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (2.273%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 1 (2.273%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (63.64%) Finance
2 12 (27.27%) Banking
3 4 (9.091%) Front Office
4 2 (4.545%) Telecoms
4 2 (4.545%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.273%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.273%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.273%) Clustering
1 1 (2.273%) SaaS
1 1 (2.273%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 28 (63.64%) UNIX
2 17 (38.64%) Windows
3 4 (9.091%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (47.73%) ITIL
2 5 (11.36%) ETL
2 5 (11.36%) Service Management
3 4 (9.091%) Wealth Management
3 4 (9.091%) Asset Management
4 3 (6.818%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (6.818%) Investment Management
4 3 (6.818%) ERP
4 3 (6.818%) Service Delivery
5 2 (4.545%) Data Modelling
5 2 (4.545%) SOA
5 2 (4.545%) Data Transformation
6 1 (2.273%) Business Analysis
6 1 (2.273%) Incident Management
6 1 (2.273%) Operations Management
6 1 (2.273%) Network Load Balancing
6 1 (2.273%) Business Continuity
6 1 (2.273%) Information Management
6 1 (2.273%) Analytics
6 1 (2.273%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 36 (81.82%) SQL
2 12 (27.27%) Java
3 3 (6.818%) C
4 2 (4.545%) T-SQL
4 2 (4.545%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.273%) Perl
5 1 (2.273%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.273%) VBA
5 1 (2.273%) C#
5 1 (2.273%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 2 (4.545%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.273%) Degree
2 1 (2.273%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (36.36%) SLA
2 1 (2.273%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.273%) XenApp
1 1 (2.273%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 1 (2.273%) SCCM
1 1 (2.273%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 27 (61.36%) Oracle
2 16 (36.36%) Sybase
3 6 (13.64%) Avaloq
4 4 (9.091%) Charles River
4 4 (9.091%) Microsoft
4 4 (9.091%) TIBCO
5 2 (4.545%) Temenos
5 2 (4.545%) Citrix
6 1 (2.273%) Google
6 1 (2.273%) Cadis
6 1 (2.273%) thinkFolio
6 1 (2.273%) JBoss
6 1 (2.273%) Business Objects
6 1 (2.273%) Lotus
6 1 (2.273%) Sophos
Application Support Analyst
Edinburgh, Scotland
A leading Edinburgh based organisation is currently recruiting for a service desk analyst with strong application support skills. The technologies supported are predominantly windows based, but bespoke applications...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £100.00 - £110 per day
Posted: 3 June 2013
Application Support Analyst
Edinburgh, Scotland
A leading Edinburgh based organisation is currently recruiting for a service desk analyst with strong application support skills. The technologies supported are predominantly windows based, but bespoke applications...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £100.00 - £110.00 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
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