The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Support Specialist role in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Applications Support Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 Surrey 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Support Specialist
Rank 79 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support Specialist 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 0.086% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.092% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £290 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £290 £273 £400
% change year-on-year
+6.42% -31.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1086 1510 1713
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 93.46% 93.04% 93.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 533 798 849
Average daily rate £375 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £225 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 130 79
Average hourly rate £17.00 £17.50 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% -23.91%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.60 £10.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £49.50 £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 Specialist
South East

Applications Support Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey Applications Support Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Applications Support Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Applications Support Specialist across the Surrey region.

Surrey Applications Support Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Applications Support Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region that cited Applications Support Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title.

1 4 (80.00%) SQL
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (60.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (60.00%) Problem Management
2 3 (60.00%) Change Control
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (40.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (40.00%) COM
3 2 (40.00%) HTTP
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (40.00%) C#
3 2 (40.00%) VB
3 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 2 (40.00%) WinForms
3 2 (40.00%) Banking
3 2 (40.00%) VB6
3 2 (40.00%) Document Management
4 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (20.00%) Documentum
4 1 (20.00%) Twitter
4 1 (20.00%) Cerner Millennium
4 1 (20.00%) Wealth Management
4 1 (20.00%) HTTPS
4 1 (20.00%) Cerner
4 1 (20.00%) NHS

Applications Support Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region that cited Applications Support Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (40.00%) COM
1 2 (40.00%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Documentum
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cerner Millennium
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) HTTP
2 1 (20.00%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 2 (40.00%) Investment Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (60.00%) Problem Management
2 3 (60.00%) Change Control
3 2 (40.00%) Document Management
4 1 (20.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) VB
2 2 (40.00%) VB6
3 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Twitter
2 1 (20.00%) Cerner
Surrey, South East
Job Title Cerner Application Support Specialist Location Surrey South West LondonSalary 280 - 300 per dayDescription My client, an NHS Trust in Surrey South West London is looking to...
E-Resourcing
Rate: £280 - £300 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013