Application Packaging Contracts in the South West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Application Packaging skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Application Packaging over the 3 months to 23 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 of the Application Development category for the South West 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Packaging
Rank 105 130 117
Rank change year-on-year
+25 -13
Contract jobs citing Application Packaging 6 11 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.299% 0.339% 0.348%
As % of the Application Development category 1.271% 1.416% 1.468%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 4
Average daily rate £318 £300 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.83% -4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £309 £300 £272
10% offered a daily rate of more than £353 £340 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £315 £300
% change year-on-year
-1.58% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Average hourly rate - £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £34.63 £24.00
% change year-on-year
-6.13% +44.27%
All Application Development
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 472 777 681
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 23.48% 23.94% 23.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 465 304
Average daily rate £325 £350 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £248 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £475 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 26 38
Average hourly rate £24.50 £25.00 £33.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.00% -24.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.20 £15.10 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.50 £41.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Application Packaging
England

Application Packaging
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Application Packaging across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

South West Application Packaging Jobs Demand Trend

Application Packaging
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Application Packaging across the South West region.

South West Application Packaging Daily Rate Trend

Application Packaging
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Application Packaging across the South West region.

South West Application Packaging Hourly Rate Trend

Application Packaging
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Application Packaging within the South West region over the 3 months to 23 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
Gloucestershire - 4 £310 -
Bristol +10 1 £365 +21.66%
Devon - 1 - -
Application Packaging
England

Application Packaging
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Application Packaging also 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 that cited Application Packaging.

1 14 (82.35%) Windows
1 14 (82.35%) Windows 7
2 10 (58.82%) MSI
3 9 (52.94%) Security Cleared
4 8 (47.06%) DV Cleared
5 7 (41.18%) Microsoft App-V
5 7 (41.18%) Windows XP
6 6 (35.29%) Software Packaging
6 6 (35.29%) AppDNA
7 5 (29.41%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
7 5 (29.41%) SCCM
7 5 (29.41%) Migration
7 5 (29.41%) VMware
8 4 (23.53%) Local Government
8 4 (23.53%) VB
9 3 (17.65%) VBScript
9 3 (17.65%) ITIL
9 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
9 3 (17.65%) Citrix
9 3 (17.65%) Finance
9 3 (17.65%) VMware Workstation
9 3 (17.65%) InstallShield
9 3 (17.65%) AdminStudio
9 3 (17.65%) Service Management
9 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
10 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
10 2 (11.76%) Altiris
10 2 (11.76%) Windows Vista
10 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2008

Application Packaging
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Application Packaging also 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 that cited Application Packaging. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (35.29%) Software Packaging
2 1 (5.882%) .NET
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.882%) DTS
1 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (58.82%) MSI
2 3 (17.65%) InstallShield
2 3 (17.65%) AdminStudio
3 2 (11.76%) Wise Package Studio
General
1 4 (23.53%) Local Government
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (76.47%) Applications Packager
2 1 (5.882%) C# Developer
2 1 (5.882%) Applications Consultant
2 1 (5.882%) Developer
2 1 (5.882%) Consultant
Operating Systems
1 14 (82.35%) Windows
1 14 (82.35%) Windows 7
2 7 (41.18%) Windows XP
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Vista
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Root Cause Analysis
1 5 (29.41%) Migration
2 3 (17.65%) ITIL
2 3 (17.65%) Service Management
3 1 (5.882%) DNA
3 1 (5.882%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
2 4 (23.53%) VB
3 3 (17.65%) VBScript
4 2 (11.76%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.882%) C#
5 1 (5.882%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 8 (47.06%) DV Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft App-V
2 3 (17.65%) VMware Workstation
3 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (11.76%) VMware ESX
3 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) AppDNA
2 5 (29.41%) SCCM
3 2 (11.76%) OpenView Configuration Management
4 1 (5.882%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) VMware
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) Citrix
3 2 (11.76%) Altiris
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