The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Manager role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Applications Manager 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 currently tracked.

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 Manager
Rank 443 474 485
Rank change year-on-year
+31 +11
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Manager 86 110 99
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.185% 0.189% 0.162%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.201% 0.204% 0.175%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 49 50
Average daily rate £488 £450 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% +5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £358 £362 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £660 £560 £555
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 £475 £400
% change year-on-year
- +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 2
Average hourly rate £50.00 £26.28 £33.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+90.25% -22.13%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.00 £22.20 £28.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £52.00 £31.00 £38.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £50.00 £26.28 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+90.25% -4.43%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42733 53947 56601
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.11% 92.50% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24507 29722 30764
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2112 2572 2930
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Applications Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Applications Manager Jobs Demand Trend

Applications Manager
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Applications Manager within the UK.

Applications Manager Daily Rate Trend

Applications Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Applications Manager within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Applications Manager Daily Rate Histogram

Applications Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Applications Manager within the UK.

Applications Manager Hourly Rate Trend

Applications Manager
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Manager within the UK 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
England +36 81 £475 +7.34%
London +38 43 £530 +24.70%
South East +7 15 £450 -5.26%
City of London +14 12 £463 +8.82%
East of England +18 8 £588 +161.11%
Yorkshire +6 7 £450 -
Uxbridge +5 5 £630 +39.84%
Middlesex - 5 £625 -
West Yorkshire +4 4 £450 -
Essex -5 4 £675 +239.62%
Oxfordshire - 4 £375 -
Oxford - 4 £375 -
East Midlands - 4 - -
North West +15 3 £475 -
Leeds -6 3 £450 -
Hampshire -11 3 £325 -35.00%
Berkshire +11 2 - -
Scotland -11 2 £700 +47.36%
Southampton - 2 £324 -
Luton - 2 £525 -
Harlow - 2 £700 -
Derbyshire - 2 - -
Bedfordshire - 2 £525 -
Hertfordshire - 2 £375 -
Surrey +13 1 - -
Birmingham +11 1 - -
Aberdeen +1 1 - -
West Midlands +1 1 - -
Basildon -2 1 - -
Maidenhead -7 1 - -

Applications Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Applications Manager 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 Manager in their job title.

1 50 (28.57%) ITIL
2 41 (23.43%) Finance
3 37 (21.14%) Oracle
4 36 (20.57%) Project Management
5 33 (18.86%) PRINCE2
6 30 (17.14%) SAP
7 26 (14.86%) Windows
8 23 (13.14%) Migration
9 22 (12.57%) Java
10 21 (12.00%) Microsoft
11 18 (10.29%) Change Management
12 17 (9.714%) .NET
13 16 (9.143%) SQL
14 15 (8.571%) Agile Software Development
14 15 (8.571%) Security Cleared
15 14 (8.000%) Supplier Management
15 14 (8.000%) SAP Oil and Gas
15 14 (8.000%) Service Delivery
15 14 (8.000%) Service Management
15 14 (8.000%) Stakeholder Management
15 14 (8.000%) SAP Portal
16 13 (7.429%) Windows 7
16 13 (7.429%) Linux
17 12 (6.857%) Oracle EBS R12
18 11 (6.286%) Oracle Applications
18 11 (6.286%) Scrum
18 11 (6.286%) Banking
18 11 (6.286%) ASP.NET
18 11 (6.286%) C#
19 10 (5.714%) ERP

Applications Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Applications Manager 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 Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 17 (9.714%) .NET
2 11 (6.286%) ASP.NET
3 7 (4.000%) Drools
4 4 (2.286%) Web Services
4 4 (2.286%) WebSphere
5 3 (1.714%) HTML
6 2 (1.143%) J2EE
6 2 (1.143%) Application Packaging
6 2 (1.143%) HTML5
7 1 (0.571%) OSGi
7 1 (0.571%) JSR 170
7 1 (0.571%) ASP
7 1 (0.571%) COM
7 1 (0.571%) CSS
7 1 (0.571%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 14 (8.000%) SAP Portal
2 8 (4.571%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.429%) MS Exchange
4 5 (2.857%) SharePoint 2010
4 5 (2.857%) Lotus Notes
5 4 (2.286%) Documentum
6 3 (1.714%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (1.714%) Apache
6 3 (1.714%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 3 (1.714%) CMS
7 2 (1.143%) SAS
8 1 (0.571%) Lync
8 1 (0.571%) Oracle UPK
8 1 (0.571%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.571%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.571%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.571%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.571%) FileNet
Applications
1 9 (5.143%) MS Excel
2 5 (2.857%) MS Project
2 5 (2.857%) MS Office
3 4 (2.286%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (8.000%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 12 (6.857%) Oracle EBS R12
3 11 (6.286%) Oracle Applications
4 9 (5.143%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (3.429%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (2.857%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (1.714%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (1.714%) SAP CO
7 3 (1.714%) SAP FI
8 2 (1.143%) Oracle SCM
8 2 (1.143%) Oracle HRMS
8 2 (1.143%) Oracle 11i
8 2 (1.143%) Oracle Payroll
8 2 (1.143%) SAP BPC
9 1 (0.571%) SAP cProjects
9 1 (0.571%) SAP FI-AP
9 1 (0.571%) Maximo
9 1 (0.571%) CODA-Financials
9 1 (0.571%) Endur
9 1 (0.571%) SAP HR
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.571%) DHCP
1 1 (0.571%) HTTP
1 1 (0.571%) DNS
1 1 (0.571%) Intranet
1 1 (0.571%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.000%) QlikView
1 7 (4.000%) MySQL
2 3 (1.714%) Spotfire
2 3 (1.714%) Oracle OLAP
2 3 (1.714%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.714%) DB2
2 3 (1.714%) OLAP
3 2 (1.143%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (1.143%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (1.143%) Data Mart
4 1 (0.571%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (0.571%) Big Data
4 1 (0.571%) Jackrabbit
4 1 (0.571%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (0.571%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.571%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.571%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (0.571%) Subversion
1 1 (0.571%) Oracle Forms
General
1 41 (23.43%) Finance
2 11 (6.286%) Banking
3 6 (3.429%) Retail
3 6 (3.429%) Investment Banking
4 5 (2.857%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (2.286%) Publishing
6 3 (1.714%) Front Office
6 3 (1.714%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.143%) Law
7 2 (1.143%) Legal
8 1 (0.571%) Marketing
8 1 (0.571%) Dutch Language
8 1 (0.571%) Multimedia
8 1 (0.571%) Local Government
8 1 (0.571%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.571%) Advertising
8 1 (0.571%) Electronics
Miscellaneous
1 3 (1.714%) PMI
1 3 (1.714%) Mainframe
1 3 (1.714%) Blackberry
2 2 (1.143%) Management Information System
2 2 (1.143%) IBM Mainframe
2 2 (1.143%) Open Source
3 1 (0.571%) Mobile App
3 1 (0.571%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (0.571%) iPhone
3 1 (0.571%) Computer Science
3 1 (0.571%) CMDB
3 1 (0.571%) Economics
3 1 (0.571%) Client/Server
3 1 (0.571%) DTV
3 1 (0.571%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (0.571%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 26 (14.86%) Windows
2 13 (7.429%) Windows 7
2 13 (7.429%) Linux
3 8 (4.571%) Windows XP
4 6 (3.429%) UNIX
5 3 (1.714%) AIX
6 2 (1.143%) Android
6 2 (1.143%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.571%) Solaris
7 1 (0.571%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (28.57%) ITIL
2 36 (20.57%) Project Management
3 33 (18.86%) PRINCE2
4 23 (13.14%) Migration
5 18 (10.29%) Change Management
6 15 (8.571%) Agile Software Development
7 14 (8.000%) Supplier Management
7 14 (8.000%) Service Delivery
7 14 (8.000%) Service Management
7 14 (8.000%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (6.286%) Scrum
9 10 (5.714%) ERP
10 9 (5.143%) Programme Management
11 8 (4.571%) Business Intelligence
11 8 (4.571%) Performance Management
11 8 (4.571%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (4.000%) Risk Management
12 7 (4.000%) Benchmarking
13 6 (3.429%) Configuration Management
13 6 (3.429%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 22 (12.57%) Java
2 16 (9.143%) SQL
3 11 (6.286%) C#
4 8 (4.571%) C
5 7 (4.000%) Scala
6 6 (3.429%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.143%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.143%) VB.NET
7 2 (1.143%) C++
7 2 (1.143%) Objective-C
8 1 (0.571%) VB
8 1 (0.571%) Perl
8 1 (0.571%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (8.571%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.714%) Degree
3 8 (4.571%) ITIL Certification
4 7 (4.000%) DV Cleared
4 7 (4.000%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.000%) PMI Certification
5 4 (2.286%) PMP
5 4 (2.286%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 3 (1.714%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.571%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.571%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (0.571%) CCA
7 1 (0.571%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.571%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.571%) MCSE
7 1 (0.571%) MCSA
7 1 (0.571%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.429%) SLA
2 5 (2.857%) QA
3 4 (2.286%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.714%) COBIT
5 1 (0.571%) GAMP
5 1 (0.571%) GxP
System Software
1 3 (1.714%) Microsoft App-V
1 3 (1.714%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.571%) XenApp
2 1 (0.571%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (2.286%) SCCM
2 1 (0.571%) OpenView
2 1 (0.571%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 37 (21.14%) Oracle
2 30 (17.14%) SAP
3 21 (12.00%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.429%) IBM
5 5 (2.857%) Citrix
5 5 (2.857%) Lotus
6 1 (0.571%) Syclo
6 1 (0.571%) Pega
6 1 (0.571%) HP
6 1 (0.571%) Business Objects
6 1 (0.571%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.571%) Pegasus
6 1 (0.571%) OpenLink
6 1 (0.571%) Apple
6 1 (0.571%) CODA
6 1 (0.571%) Sage
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