Applications Specialist Contracts
 
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 Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Specialist
Rank 475 535 541
Rank change year-on-year
+60 +6
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Specialist 59 51 45
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.125% 0.086% 0.075%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.136% 0.093% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 27 27
Average daily rate £450 £518 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.04% +47.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £271 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £523 £600 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £435 £385
% change year-on-year
-31.03% +12.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £16.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 43445 54854 55821
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.19% 92.53% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 24929 30221 30365
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £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 2155 2623 2895
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 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Applications Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Applications Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Applications Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

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

Applications Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Applications Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Applications Specialist within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Applications Specialist Daily Rate Histogram

Applications Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Applications Specialist Hourly Rate Trend

Applications Specialist
Top 24 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Specialist within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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 +54 48 £450 -13.04%
London +45 37 £450 -17.62%
City of London +21 13 £410 +3.79%
Paddington - 9 £450 -
South East +17 6 £550 -2.22%
Yorkshire +1 3 £525 +138.63%
Hampshire 0 3 £550 -8.33%
South Lanarkshire - 3 - -
East Kilbride - 3 - -
Scotland - 3 - -
Surrey +18 2 £290 -44.76%
Leeds +3 2 - -
West Yorkshire -2 2 - -
East of England +15 1 - -
Berkshire +13 1 £768 -
Manchester +7 1 - -
North West -6 1 - -
South Yorkshire - 1 £525 -
Cambridgeshire - 1 - -
Croydon - 1 £225 -
Staines - 1 - -
Southampton - 1 £555 -
Sheffield - 1 £525 -
Portsmouth - 1 £310 -

Applications Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Applications 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 Specialist in their job title.

1 41 (34.75%) Windows
2 34 (28.81%) Finance
3 33 (27.97%) ITIL
3 33 (27.97%) SQL
4 28 (23.73%) Java
5 27 (22.88%) SQL Server
6 23 (19.49%) Penetration Testing
7 19 (16.10%) Microsoft
8 15 (12.71%) HP
8 15 (12.71%) Windows Server 2003
9 14 (11.86%) IIS
9 14 (11.86%) MS Excel
9 14 (11.86%) Microsoft App-V
10 13 (11.02%) WebSphere
10 13 (11.02%) .NET
10 13 (11.02%) Windows 7
11 12 (10.17%) UNIX
11 12 (10.17%) SCCM
11 12 (10.17%) Security Cleared
12 11 (9.322%) Problem Management
12 11 (9.322%) Migration
12 11 (9.322%) Oracle
12 11 (9.322%) IBM
12 11 (9.322%) HTTP
13 10 (8.475%) J2EE
13 10 (8.475%) C#
13 10 (8.475%) WebSphere Application Server
13 10 (8.475%) WebLogic
13 10 (8.475%) Linux
13 10 (8.475%) Banking

Applications Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Applications 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 Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (11.02%) WebSphere
1 13 (11.02%) .NET
2 10 (8.475%) J2EE
3 9 (7.627%) Application Packaging
4 8 (6.780%) HTML
5 7 (5.932%) Web Services
5 7 (5.932%) XML
5 7 (5.932%) Spring
6 4 (3.390%) Middleware
6 4 (3.390%) COM
6 4 (3.390%) CSS
7 3 (2.542%) WinForms
8 2 (1.695%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.695%) XSL
9 1 (0.847%) XSLT
9 1 (0.847%) ODBC
9 1 (0.847%) JDBC
9 1 (0.847%) JSP
9 1 (0.847%) Servlets
9 1 (0.847%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 14 (11.86%) IIS
2 10 (8.475%) WebSphere Application Server
2 10 (8.475%) WebLogic
3 8 (6.780%) SharePoint
4 7 (5.932%) SAS
4 7 (5.932%) Tomcat
4 7 (5.932%) WebSphere MQ
5 5 (4.237%) Apache
5 5 (4.237%) IBM HTTP Server
6 4 (3.390%) ESB
7 3 (2.542%) WebSphere Process Server
8 2 (1.695%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.847%) Lotus Notes
9 1 (0.847%) Documentum
9 1 (0.847%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.847%) Sakai Project
9 1 (0.847%) GlassFish
Applications
1 14 (11.86%) MS Excel
2 3 (2.542%) MS Office
3 1 (0.847%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.847%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.847%) LongView
1 1 (0.847%) Cerner Millennium
1 1 (0.847%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.847%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.847%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.847%) LatentZero
1 1 (0.847%) Capstone
1 1 (0.847%) Tesseract
1 1 (0.847%) Minerva
1 1 (0.847%) Sentinel
1 1 (0.847%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.322%) HTTP
2 7 (5.932%) Internet
3 5 (4.237%) Firewall
4 3 (2.542%) HTTPS
5 2 (1.695%) SSL
6 1 (0.847%) LDAP
6 1 (0.847%) LAN
6 1 (0.847%) TELNET
6 1 (0.847%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.847%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (22.88%) SQL Server
2 9 (7.627%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 7 (5.932%) SQL Server 2005
4 6 (5.085%) SQL Server 2000
5 5 (4.237%) MS Access
6 4 (3.390%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (3.390%) SQL Server 2008
6 4 (3.390%) MySQL
7 3 (2.542%) DTS
8 2 (1.695%) BusinessObjects XI
9 1 (0.847%) Oracle 8/8i
9 1 (0.847%) Ingres
9 1 (0.847%) GIS
9 1 (0.847%) Oracle Discoverer
9 1 (0.847%) dBASE
9 1 (0.847%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 8 (6.780%) MSI
2 6 (5.085%) AdminStudio
3 5 (4.237%) TeamCity
3 5 (4.237%) AppScan
3 5 (4.237%) CruiseControl
4 2 (1.695%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.695%) Introscope
5 1 (0.847%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.847%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.847%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.847%) Git (software)
5 1 (0.847%) WinDbg
General
1 34 (28.81%) Finance
2 10 (8.475%) Banking
3 6 (5.085%) Financial Institution
4 5 (4.237%) Publishing
4 5 (4.237%) Telecoms
5 4 (3.390%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.542%) Front Office
7 1 (0.847%) Welsh Language
7 1 (0.847%) Retail Banking
7 1 (0.847%) Retail
7 1 (0.847%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.475%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (4.237%) PMI
3 4 (3.390%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.695%) Clustering
4 2 (1.695%) Open Source
4 2 (1.695%) SaaS
5 1 (0.847%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.847%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.847%) NHS
5 1 (0.847%) Data Extraction
5 1 (0.847%) Photography
5 1 (0.847%) Statistics
5 1 (0.847%) Replication
5 1 (0.847%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.847%) Equities
5 1 (0.847%) VLE
5 1 (0.847%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 41 (34.75%) Windows
2 15 (12.71%) Windows Server 2003
3 13 (11.02%) Windows 7
4 12 (10.17%) UNIX
5 10 (8.475%) Linux
6 9 (7.627%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (3.390%) VMS
8 2 (1.695%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.847%) AIX
9 1 (0.847%) Solaris
9 1 (0.847%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (27.97%) ITIL
2 23 (19.49%) Penetration Testing
3 11 (9.322%) Problem Management
3 11 (9.322%) Migration
4 10 (8.475%) OWASP
5 7 (5.932%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (5.085%) Security Testing
6 6 (5.085%) Incident Management
6 6 (5.085%) Network Load Balancing
6 6 (5.085%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (4.237%) Change Control
8 4 (3.390%) Software Deployment
8 4 (3.390%) Change Management
8 4 (3.390%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 4 (3.390%) Data Analysis
8 4 (3.390%) PRINCE
8 4 (3.390%) Project Management
8 4 (3.390%) Configuration Management
8 4 (3.390%) Process Management
8 4 (3.390%) UML
Programming Languages
1 33 (27.97%) SQL
2 28 (23.73%) Java
3 10 (8.475%) C#
4 9 (7.627%) T-SQL
4 9 (7.627%) VBScript
5 6 (5.085%) PowerShell
5 6 (5.085%) VB
6 5 (4.237%) VBA
6 5 (4.237%) C++
7 4 (3.390%) Shell Script
7 4 (3.390%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.542%) Perl
8 3 (2.542%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.542%) Jython
8 3 (2.542%) VB6
9 1 (0.847%) C
9 1 (0.847%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.847%) Korn
Qualifications
1 12 (10.17%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.627%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.237%) PMI Certification
4 4 (3.390%) CEH
4 4 (3.390%) CISSP
5 2 (1.695%) BC Cleared
5 2 (1.695%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.695%) MCSE
6 1 (0.847%) MCP
6 1 (0.847%) Degree
6 1 (0.847%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.237%) SLA
2 4 (3.390%) PCI DSS
2 4 (3.390%) COSO
2 4 (3.390%) COBIT
3 2 (1.695%) QA
System Software
1 14 (11.86%) Microsoft App-V
2 7 (5.932%) XenApp
3 4 (3.390%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.847%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 1 (0.847%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (10.17%) SCCM
2 4 (3.390%) WebInspect
3 2 (1.695%) Splunk
3 2 (1.695%) CA Wily
3 2 (1.695%) CA SiteMinder
4 1 (0.847%) Tivoli
4 1 (0.847%) OpenView Configuration Management
4 1 (0.847%) Sysprep
4 1 (0.847%) WSUS
4 1 (0.847%) AppDNA
Vendors
1 19 (16.10%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.71%) HP
3 11 (9.322%) Oracle
3 11 (9.322%) IBM
4 9 (7.627%) Citrix
5 4 (3.390%) JBoss
6 3 (2.542%) Business Objects
6 3 (2.542%) Sybase
6 3 (2.542%) Twitter
7 2 (1.695%) hybris
7 2 (1.695%) Terracotta
7 2 (1.695%) AppSense
7 2 (1.695%) VMware
7 2 (1.695%) Compuware
7 2 (1.695%) TIBCO
7 2 (1.695%) Lotus
7 2 (1.695%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.847%) Plumtree
8 1 (0.847%) BMC
8 1 (0.847%) Cerner
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