Applications Support Contracts in the South East
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Support 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 in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Support
Rank 173 200 204
Rank change year-on-year
+27 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support 51 39 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.654% 0.384% 0.472%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.707% 0.416% 0.510%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 12 29
Average daily rate £325 £225 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+44.44% -30.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £180 £231
10% offered a daily rate of more than £407 £323 £384
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
- -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 7
Average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.57% -30.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £20.00 £23.75
% change year-on-year
+3.75% -15.78%
Search 44 Applications Support jobs in the South East
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South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 7211 9367 9611
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 92.52% 92.32% 92.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3605 4207 4140
Average daily rate £350 £350 £351
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -0.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £225 £215
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 577 716 825
Average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.38 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Applications Support
England

Applications Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East Applications Support Daily Rate Trend

Applications Support
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Applications Support across the South East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South East Applications Support Daily Rate Histogram

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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 24 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
Berkshire +27 15 £388 +72.22%
Surrey +19 12 £281 -6.25%
Buckinghamshire +10 8 £120 -46.96%
Hampshire -8 8 £324 -35.25%
Oxfordshire +5 4 £450 +108.09%
West Sussex +18 1 £240 -
East Sussex +8 1 £425 +136.11%
Middlesex - 1 £400 -
Applications Support
England

Applications Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 60 (54.05%) SQL
2 41 (36.94%) Windows
3 35 (31.53%) ITIL
4 30 (27.03%) SQL Server
5 23 (20.72%) Oracle
6 22 (19.82%) .NET
7 21 (18.92%) Finance
8 19 (17.12%) C#
9 18 (16.22%) UNIX
9 18 (16.22%) Microsoft
10 15 (13.51%) SAP
11 14 (12.61%) Java
11 14 (12.61%) Windows Server 2003
11 14 (12.61%) Banking
12 13 (11.71%) MS Office
13 11 (9.910%) Retail
14 10 (9.009%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 10 (9.009%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 10 (9.009%) Windows Server 2008
14 10 (9.009%) IIS
14 10 (9.009%) VB
15 9 (8.108%) TCP/IP
15 9 (8.108%) MS Excel
15 9 (8.108%) Disaster Recovery
15 9 (8.108%) Enterprise Software
16 8 (7.207%) Active Directory
16 8 (7.207%) ERP
16 8 (7.207%) Tomcat
16 8 (7.207%) Linux
17 7 (6.306%) VPN

Applications Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 22 (19.82%) .NET
2 7 (6.306%) Middleware
3 6 (5.405%) HTML
4 5 (4.505%) J2EE
4 5 (4.505%) WebSphere
4 5 (4.505%) WinForms
5 4 (3.604%) Web Services
6 3 (2.703%) XML
6 3 (2.703%) ASP.NET
6 3 (2.703%) COM
7 1 (0.901%) CSS
7 1 (0.901%) SOAP
7 1 (0.901%) WAP
7 1 (0.901%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.901%) Java EE
7 1 (0.901%) Windows SharePoint Services
7 1 (0.901%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 10 (9.009%) IIS
2 8 (7.207%) Tomcat
3 5 (4.505%) SharePoint
4 4 (3.604%) GlassFish
4 4 (3.604%) IBM HTTP Server
4 4 (3.604%) FileNet
4 4 (3.604%) CMS
4 4 (3.604%) Apache
5 3 (2.703%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (2.703%) Documentum
6 2 (1.802%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (1.802%) WebSphere MQ
6 2 (1.802%) Lotus Notes
7 1 (0.901%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.901%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.901%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.901%) Joomla!
7 1 (0.901%) Kentico
7 1 (0.901%) DotNetNuke
7 1 (0.901%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (11.71%) MS Office
2 9 (8.108%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.703%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (1.802%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.901%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.901%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.901%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.901%) SAP MDM
3 1 (0.901%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.901%) Cerner Millennium
3 1 (0.901%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.108%) TCP/IP
2 7 (6.306%) VPN
2 7 (6.306%) FTP
2 7 (6.306%) HTTP
3 6 (5.405%) SSH
3 6 (5.405%) SSL
4 5 (4.505%) Firewall
5 4 (3.604%) Intranet
5 4 (3.604%) Internet
5 4 (3.604%) LAN
6 3 (2.703%) SAN
7 2 (1.802%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.802%) 3G
7 2 (1.802%) Broadband
8 1 (0.901%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.901%) DNS
8 1 (0.901%) WAN
8 1 (0.901%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (27.03%) SQL Server
2 10 (9.009%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 10 (9.009%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (4.505%) Crystal Reports
4 4 (3.604%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.802%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (1.802%) Oracle 11g
5 2 (1.802%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (1.802%) EDRMS
5 2 (1.802%) Ingres
5 2 (1.802%) Oracle 10g
5 2 (1.802%) MySQL
6 1 (0.901%) TOAD
6 1 (0.901%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.901%) Siebel EIM
6 1 (0.901%) BusinessObjects XI
6 1 (0.901%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 1 (0.901%) Ant
1 1 (0.901%) Visual Studio
1 1 (0.901%) StarTeam
General
1 21 (18.92%) Finance
2 14 (12.61%) Banking
3 11 (9.910%) Retail
4 6 (5.405%) Investment Banking
5 4 (3.604%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.703%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.802%) Marketing
7 2 (1.802%) Electronics
8 1 (0.901%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.108%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (6.306%) Smart Meter
3 6 (5.405%) EPoS
4 4 (3.604%) EFT
5 3 (2.703%) Clustering
6 2 (1.802%) Mathematics
6 2 (1.802%) SaaS
6 2 (1.802%) Tandem
6 2 (1.802%) PDA
7 1 (0.901%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.901%) NHS
7 1 (0.901%) DTV
7 1 (0.901%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.901%) Freedom of Information Act
7 1 (0.901%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.901%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.901%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 41 (36.94%) Windows
2 18 (16.22%) UNIX
3 14 (12.61%) Windows Server 2003
4 10 (9.009%) Windows Server 2008
5 8 (7.207%) Linux
6 6 (5.405%) Windows 7
7 4 (3.604%) Windows XP
8 2 (1.802%) Windows Vista
9 1 (0.901%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (31.53%) ITIL
2 9 (8.108%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (7.207%) ERP
4 7 (6.306%) Migration
4 7 (6.306%) Service Delivery
4 7 (6.306%) Content Management
5 6 (5.405%) Analytics
6 5 (4.505%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (4.505%) Workflow
6 5 (4.505%) Incident Management
6 5 (4.505%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (3.604%) Data Architecture
7 4 (3.604%) Problem Management
7 4 (3.604%) Change Control
7 4 (3.604%) Document Management
7 4 (3.604%) Knowledge Management
7 4 (3.604%) Change Management
7 4 (3.604%) E-Commerce
8 3 (2.703%) CRM
8 3 (2.703%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (54.05%) SQL
2 19 (17.12%) C#
3 14 (12.61%) Java
4 10 (9.009%) VB
5 7 (6.306%) VB6
6 6 (5.405%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.604%) Shell Script
7 4 (3.604%) T-SQL
8 3 (2.703%) VB.NET
8 3 (2.703%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.802%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.901%) Perl
10 1 (0.901%) VBA
10 1 (0.901%) Jython
10 1 (0.901%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 6 (5.405%) Degree
2 5 (4.505%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (4.505%) SC Cleared
2 5 (4.505%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.703%) BC Cleared
4 2 (1.802%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.901%) HNC
5 1 (0.901%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.703%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (7.207%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.604%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.604%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (2.703%) Foglight
1 3 (2.703%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 23 (20.72%) Oracle
2 18 (16.22%) Microsoft
3 15 (13.51%) SAP
4 6 (5.405%) VMware
5 5 (4.505%) IBM
5 5 (4.505%) Remedy
6 4 (3.604%) Sitecore
6 4 (3.604%) Hummingbird
6 4 (3.604%) Citrix
7 3 (2.703%) HP
7 3 (2.703%) ReadSoft
8 2 (1.802%) Charles River
8 2 (1.802%) Lotus
8 2 (1.802%) Cognos
8 2 (1.802%) Siebel
8 2 (1.802%) Cisco
9 1 (0.901%) JBoss
9 1 (0.901%) Sun
9 1 (0.901%) BMC
9 1 (0.901%) Cerner
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