The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Support Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the South East 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 South East 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 197 227 241
Rank change year-on-year
+30 +14
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support Analyst 26 20 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.333% 0.197% 0.105%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.359% 0.213% 0.114%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 7
Average daily rate £275 £180 £285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+52.77% -36.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £231 £177 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £402 £305 £347
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £290 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
Average hourly rate £22.50 £25.00 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% -30.55%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £18.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year
+21.62% -2.63%
All Job Titles
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
7243 9396 9678
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 92.69% 92.50% 92.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3591 4212 4167
Average daily rate £350 £350 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £220 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 582 721 805
Average hourly rate £17.50 £19.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.89% -9.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.03 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Applications Support Analyst
England

Applications Support Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East Applications Support Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Applications Support Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Applications Support Analyst across the South East region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South East Applications Support Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

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 South East region.

South East 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 South East 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
Surrey +28 10 £273 -9.16%
Buckinghamshire +13 6 - -
Berkshire +20 5 £300 -7.69%
Hampshire -6 3 £235 -
Middlesex - 1 £400 -
West Sussex - 1 £240 -
Applications Support Analyst
England

Applications Support Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 38 (67.86%) SQL
2 21 (37.50%) Windows
3 19 (33.93%) ITIL
4 16 (28.57%) .NET
4 16 (28.57%) SQL Server
5 13 (23.21%) Oracle
5 13 (23.21%) C#
6 11 (19.64%) Finance
7 10 (17.86%) Java
7 10 (17.86%) MS Office
7 10 (17.86%) UNIX
8 8 (14.29%) IIS
8 8 (14.29%) SAP
8 8 (14.29%) ERP
8 8 (14.29%) Microsoft
9 7 (12.50%) SSL
9 7 (12.50%) VB
9 7 (12.50%) Banking
9 7 (12.50%) Smart Meter
10 6 (10.71%) PowerShell
10 6 (10.71%) SSH
10 6 (10.71%) Service Delivery
10 6 (10.71%) Migration
10 6 (10.71%) Tomcat
10 6 (10.71%) MS Excel
10 6 (10.71%) FTP
10 6 (10.71%) Windows Server 2003
11 5 (8.929%) EPoS
11 5 (8.929%) VPN
11 5 (8.929%) Firewall

Applications Support Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 16 (28.57%) .NET
2 4 (7.143%) ASP.NET
3 3 (5.357%) XML
3 3 (5.357%) Middleware
3 3 (5.357%) WinForms
4 2 (3.571%) COM
4 2 (3.571%) HTML
5 1 (1.786%) J2EE
5 1 (1.786%) CSS
5 1 (1.786%) Web Services
5 1 (1.786%) Windows SharePoint Services
5 1 (1.786%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.786%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 8 (14.29%) IIS
2 6 (10.71%) Tomcat
3 4 (7.143%) GlassFish
4 2 (3.571%) Apache
4 2 (3.571%) Documentum
5 1 (1.786%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (1.786%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (1.786%) CMS
5 1 (1.786%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (1.786%) Joomla!
5 1 (1.786%) DotNetNuke
5 1 (1.786%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.786%) WordPress
5 1 (1.786%) Kentico
Applications
1 10 (17.86%) MS Office
2 6 (10.71%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.786%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.786%) SAP MDM
1 1 (1.786%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (1.786%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (1.786%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (1.786%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.50%) SSL
2 6 (10.71%) SSH
2 6 (10.71%) FTP
3 5 (8.929%) VPN
3 5 (8.929%) Firewall
4 2 (3.571%) HTTP
5 1 (1.786%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.786%) LAN
5 1 (1.786%) S/MIME
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.143%) RDBMS
2 4 (7.143%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 4 (7.143%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (5.357%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (3.571%) MySQL
4 2 (3.571%) TOAD
5 1 (1.786%) Ingres
5 1 (1.786%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (1.786%) SAP BW
5 1 (1.786%) EDRMS
5 1 (1.786%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (1.786%) BusinessObjects XI
Development Applications
1 1 (1.786%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (19.64%) Finance
2 7 (12.50%) Banking
3 3 (5.357%) Retail
3 3 (5.357%) Investment Banking
4 2 (3.571%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.571%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.786%) Back Office
5 1 (1.786%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.50%) Smart Meter
2 5 (8.929%) EPoS
2 5 (8.929%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (7.143%) EFT
4 3 (5.357%) SaaS
5 2 (3.571%) Tandem
6 1 (1.786%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 21 (37.50%) Windows
2 10 (17.86%) UNIX
3 6 (10.71%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (8.929%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (7.143%) Linux
6 1 (1.786%) Windows XP
6 1 (1.786%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (33.93%) ITIL
2 8 (14.29%) ERP
3 6 (10.71%) Service Delivery
3 6 (10.71%) Migration
4 5 (8.929%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (8.929%) Analytics
5 4 (7.143%) Data Architecture
5 4 (7.143%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (5.357%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (5.357%) Test Scripting
6 3 (5.357%) CRM
7 2 (3.571%) UML
7 2 (3.571%) Document Management
7 2 (3.571%) SOA
7 2 (3.571%) Waterfall
8 1 (1.786%) ETRM
8 1 (1.786%) ETL
8 1 (1.786%) Data Analysis
8 1 (1.786%) Web Analytics
8 1 (1.786%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (67.86%) SQL
2 13 (23.21%) C#
3 10 (17.86%) Java
4 7 (12.50%) VB
5 6 (10.71%) PowerShell
6 4 (7.143%) VB6
7 3 (5.357%) T-SQL
8 2 (3.571%) VB.NET
8 2 (3.571%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.571%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.786%) VBA
9 1 (1.786%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (8.929%) Degree
2 2 (3.571%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.786%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.786%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (3.571%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.786%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.786%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 13 (23.21%) Oracle
2 8 (14.29%) SAP
2 8 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.571%) Cognos
3 2 (3.571%) IBM
3 2 (3.571%) Remedy
4 1 (1.786%) Ab Initio
4 1 (1.786%) VMware
4 1 (1.786%) Google
4 1 (1.786%) Trayport
4 1 (1.786%) Ektron
4 1 (1.786%) BMC
4 1 (1.786%) Salesforce.com
South East
The candidate will also be responding to, and resolving, reported software issues and data queries using SQL... " Enthusiastic, flexible and motivated team player with excellent written and verbal...
Premier Group Recruitment
Rate: £100.00 - £150.00 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
Milton Keynes, Thames Valley
Experience of writing SQL queries* Experience with RDBMS* Experience with supporting Java and .NET applications * Experience of data architectureA good understanding of web and business intelligence technology would...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £250 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 4 May 2013