Applications Support Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Applications Support Analyst role in IT contracts across the UK compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Applications Support Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Application Support Analyst
Location Berkshire Birmingham Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Canary Wharf Cannock City of London Docklands, London Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Leatherhead Leeds London Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Shropshire South East South West Staffordshire Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Trowbridge UK Wales West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	362	381
Rank change on same period last year	+19
Matching contract IT job ads	246	311
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.328 %	0.315 %
As % of the category below	0.364 %	0.343 %
Daily rates quoted	102	113
Average minimum daily rate	£337	£355
Average daily rate	£374	£384
% change on same period last year	-2.55 %
Average maximum daily rate	£411	£413
UK excluding London average daily rate	£313	£296
% change on same period last year	+5.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	19	27
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.35	£22.04
Average hourly rate	£26.16	£22.99
% change on same period last year	+13.79 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.98	£23.94
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.40	£22.75
% change on same period last year	+29.24 %
Job Titles UK
Matching contract IT job ads	67526	90610
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	90.01 %	91.67 %
Daily rates quoted	22121	26824
Average minimum daily rate	£378	£390
Average daily rate	£404	£415
% change on same period last year	-2.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£430	£440
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	5680	7267
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.08	£24.52
Average hourly rate	£23.72	£26.04
% change on same period last year	-8.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.36	£27.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Applications Support Analyst
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Applications Support Analyst within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Applications Support Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Applications Support Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Applications Support Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Applications Support Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Applications Support Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Applications Support Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Applications Support Analyst
Top 30 Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Support Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
England	+30	241	£374	-2.36 %
London	+20	170	£387	-2.03 %
City of London	-11	73	£402	-3.01 %
South East	+28	24	£302	+28.45 %
East Midlands	+16	11	£280	-
North West	0	9	£400	-
Manchester	-	9	£400	-
Northampton	-	9	£280	-
Northamptonshire	+2	9	£280	-
West Midlands	+13	8	£245	-
South West	+31	8	£200	-
Berkshire	+30	7	£246	+11.93 %
North East	-	5	£500	-
Docklands, London	+19	5	£250	-46.42 %
Scotland	+26	4	-	-
Durham	-	4	£500	-
Hampshire	+22	3	-	-
Buckinghamshire	+12	3	-	-
Staffordshire	-	3	£215	-
Surrey	-15	3	-	-
West Sussex	+3	3	-	-
Milton Keynes	-6	3	-	-
Reading	+3	3	£246	-
Birmingham	-	3	£275	-
Gatwick	+7	3	-	-
Wiltshire	-	3	£200	-
Middlesex	+4	3	£300	-
Midlands	+11	3	-	-
Canary Wharf	+8	2	-	-
East of England	-4	2	£255	-8.52 %

Applications Support Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Applications Support Analyst 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 Analyst in their job title.

1 291 (53.99 %) SQL 2 189 (35.06 %) UNIX 3 143 (26.53 %) Banking 4 140 (25.97 %) Oracle 5 112 (20.78 %) Front Office 6 109 (20.22 %) Finance 7 92 (17.07 %) Investment Banking 8 87 (16.14 %) Windows 9 79 (14.66 %) SQL Server 10 76 (14.10 %) Sybase 11 71 (13.17 %) .NET 12 64 (11.87 %) Perl 13 62 (11.50 %) Fixed Income 14 59 (10.95 %) Java 15 58 (10.76 %) Microsoft

16 51 (9.462 %) Linux 17 50 (9.276 %) Equities 18 44 (8.163 %) VB 19 42 (7.792 %) Solaris 20 41 (7.607 %) Derivative 21 39 (7.236 %) C# 21 39 (7.236 %) PL/SQL 22 34 (6.308 %) Shell Script 23 33 (6.122 %) ITIL 24 32 (5.937 %) Problem Management 25 30 (5.566 %) Bloomberg 26 27 (5.009 %) HTML 27 24 (4.453 %) Degree 27 24 (4.453 %) Back Office 28 23 (4.267 %) XML

Applications Support Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Applications Support Analyst 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 Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 71 (13.17 %) .NET 2 27 (5.009 %) HTML 3 23 (4.267 %) XML 4 17 (3.154 %) ASP 4 17 (3.154 %) ASP.NET 5 11 (2.041 %) J2EE 5 11 (2.041 %) FIX Protocol 6 10 (1.855 %) Middleware 6 10 (1.855 %) CSS 7 8 (1.484 %) JSP 7 8 (1.484 %) XSLT 8 7 (1.299 %) Swing 9 6 (1.113 %) WebSphere 9 6 (1.113 %) .NET Framework 10 4 (0.742 %) WAP 10 4 (0.742 %) ODBC 11 2 (0.371 %) XSL 11 2 (0.371 %) WSH 11 2 (0.371 %) WebServices 11 2 (0.371 %) Hibernate	Application Platforms 1 21 (3.896 %) SharePoint 2 17 (3.154 %) IIS 3 16 (2.968 %) Apache 4 10 (1.855 %) Tomcat 5 8 (1.484 %) Oracle Workflow 6 6 (1.113 %) BizTalk Server 6 6 (1.113 %) WebLogic 7 5 (0.928 %) JBoss 7 5 (0.928 %) MQSeries 8 4 (0.742 %) MS Exchange 8 4 (0.742 %) Lotus Notes 8 4 (0.742 %) Content Management Server 9 3 (0.557 %) Commerce Server 10 2 (0.371 %) WebSphere MQ 10 2 (0.371 %) Rendezvous 10 2 (0.371 %) CMS 10 2 (0.371 %) Exchange Server 2000 10 2 (0.371 %) ColdFusion 10 2 (0.371 %) WebSphere Message Broker 11 1 (0.186 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 20 (3.711 %) MS Excel 2 12 (2.226 %) MS Office 3 3 (0.557 %) MS Visio 3 3 (0.557 %) Spreadsheet 4 1 (0.186 %) MS PowerPoint 4 1 (0.186 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 8 (1.484 %) Endur 1 8 (1.484 %) Oracle EBS 2 6 (1.113 %) Findur 3 5 (0.928 %) Oracle Financials 4 4 (0.742 %) Microsoft CRM 4 4 (0.742 %) MAXIMO 4 4 (0.742 %) Advent Geneva 5 3 (0.557 %) arcHouse 5 3 (0.557 %) Movex 6 2 (0.371 %) Great Plains 6 2 (0.371 %) Navision 6 2 (0.371 %) assyst 6 2 (0.371 %) Misys Midas 6 2 (0.371 %) Bond Adapt 6 2 (0.371 %) Sophis VALUE 6 2 (0.371 %) Oracle HRMS 6 2 (0.371 %) Oracle Applications 6 2 (0.371 %) Oracle Payroll 6 2 (0.371 %) Hyperion Planning 6 2 (0.371 %) RMDS
Communications & Networking 1 18 (3.340 %) Internet 2 15 (2.783 %) Intranet 3 9 (1.670 %) LAN 3 9 (1.670 %) WAN 4 6 (1.113 %) Extranet 5 5 (0.928 %) BIG-IP 6 4 (0.742 %) Firewall 6 4 (0.742 %) SMS 6 4 (0.742 %) TCP/IP 7 3 (0.557 %) DNS 7 3 (0.557 %) Broadband 7 3 (0.557 %) HTTP 8 1 (0.186 %) FTP 8 1 (0.186 %) IMAP 8 1 (0.186 %) Cisco PIX	Database & Business Intelligence 1 79 (14.66 %) SQL Server 2 19 (3.525 %) SQL Server 2000 3 17 (3.154 %) BusinessObjects 3 17 (3.154 %) RDBMS 4 15 (2.783 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 15 (2.783 %) SQL Server 2005 5 14 (2.597 %) Crystal Reports 6 10 (1.855 %) MS Access 7 8 (1.484 %) Oracle 9i 7 8 (1.484 %) Oracle 10g 7 8 (1.484 %) Oracle Discoverer 7 8 (1.484 %) DTS 8 7 (1.299 %) Ingres 8 7 (1.299 %) Oracle Reports 9 6 (1.113 %) Datawarehouse 10 4 (0.742 %) MySQL 10 4 (0.742 %) TOAD 10 4 (0.742 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 10 4 (0.742 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 10 4 (0.742 %) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications 1 4 (0.742 %) Oracle APEX 2 3 (0.557 %) PowerBuilder 2 3 (0.557 %) ClearQuest 2 3 (0.557 %) Oracle Forms 3 2 (0.371 %) Eclipse 3 2 (0.371 %) Ant 3 2 (0.371 %) JUnit 3 2 (0.371 %) Visual Studio 3 2 (0.371 %) JIRA 4 1 (0.186 %) MSI 4 1 (0.186 %) PVCS 4 1 (0.186 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 1 (0.186 %) TestDirector 4 1 (0.186 %) Flash	General 1 143 (26.53 %) Banking 2 112 (20.78 %) Front Office 3 109 (20.22 %) Finance 4 92 (17.07 %) Investment Banking 5 24 (4.453 %) Back Office 6 15 (2.783 %) Government 7 12 (2.226 %) Local Government 8 10 (1.855 %) Health 9 5 (0.928 %) Financial Institution 9 5 (0.928 %) Retail 10 3 (0.557 %) Legal 10 3 (0.557 %) Pensions 10 3 (0.557 %) Pharmaceutical 10 3 (0.557 %) Insurance 11 2 (0.371 %) Publishing 11 2 (0.371 %) FMCG 11 2 (0.371 %) Telecoms 11 2 (0.371 %) Education 11 2 (0.371 %) Billing 12 1 (0.186 %) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous 1 62 (11.50 %) Fixed Income 2 50 (9.276 %) Equities 3 41 (7.607 %) Derivative 4 19 (3.525 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 5 8 (1.484 %) Equity Derivative 6 7 (1.299 %) Statistics 6 7 (1.299 %) Credit Risk 6 7 (1.299 %) Management Information System 7 6 (1.113 %) Replication 8 5 (0.928 %) Interest Rate Derivative 8 5 (0.928 %) AS400 8 5 (0.928 %) Market Risk 9 4 (0.742 %) Mainframe 9 4 (0.742 %) PDA 10 3 (0.557 %) N-Tier 10 3 (0.557 %) French Language 11 2 (0.371 %) Credit Derivative 11 2 (0.371 %) E-Learning 12 1 (0.186 %) NHS 12 1 (0.186 %) Thin Client	Operating Systems 1 189 (35.06 %) UNIX 2 87 (16.14 %) Windows 3 51 (9.462 %) Linux 4 42 (7.792 %) Solaris 5 14 (2.597 %) Windows XP 6 9 (1.670 %) Windows 2000 7 5 (0.928 %) Windows NT 7 5 (0.928 %) HPUX 8 4 (0.742 %) AIX 8 4 (0.742 %) Windows Server 2003 9 1 (0.186 %) Mac OS X Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 33 (6.122 %) ITIL 2 32 (5.937 %) Problem Management 3 21 (3.896 %) Investment Management 4 19 (3.525 %) Asset Management 5 18 (3.340 %) CRM 5 18 (3.340 %) Algorithmic Trading 6 17 (3.154 %) Release Management 7 16 (2.968 %) Incident Management 7 16 (2.968 %) Service Delivery 8 14 (2.597 %) User Acceptance Testing 9 13 (2.412 %) Performance Management 10 12 (2.226 %) Time Management 11 11 (2.041 %) Change Management 11 11 (2.041 %) Risk Management 12 10 (1.855 %) Workflow 12 10 (1.855 %) Agile Software Development 12 10 (1.855 %) Scrum 12 10 (1.855 %) Business Continuity 12 10 (1.855 %) ERP 13 9 (1.670 %) E-Commerce	Programming Languages 1 291 (53.99 %) SQL 2 64 (11.87 %) Perl 3 59 (10.95 %) Java 4 44 (8.163 %) VB 5 39 (7.236 %) C# 5 39 (7.236 %) PL/SQL 6 34 (6.308 %) Shell Script 7 18 (3.340 %) C 7 18 (3.340 %) VB6 8 17 (3.154 %) Transact-SQL 9 16 (2.968 %) VB.NET 9 16 (2.968 %) C++ 10 11 (2.041 %) VBA 11 8 (1.484 %) VBScript 12 7 (1.299 %) JavaScript 13 4 (0.742 %) PHP 13 4 (0.742 %) Korn 14 3 (0.557 %) AWK 15 2 (0.371 %) Tcl 16 1 (0.186 %) PowerHouse
Qualifications 1 24 (4.453 %) Degree 2 3 (0.557 %) ITIL Certification 3 2 (0.371 %) PhD 4 1 (0.186 %) ISEB 4 1 (0.186 %) Microsoft Certification 4 1 (0.186 %) MCP 4 1 (0.186 %) HND	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 10 (1.855 %) SLA 2 3 (0.557 %) QA
System Software 1 7 (1.299 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 12 (2.226 %) AutoSys 2 3 (0.557 %) Tivoli 2 3 (0.557 %) SCOM 3 2 (0.371 %) OVSD 3 2 (0.371 %) OpenView 4 1 (0.186 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 4 1 (0.186 %) CONTROL-M 4 1 (0.186 %) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors 1 140 (25.97 %) Oracle 2 76 (14.10 %) Sybase 3 58 (10.76 %) Microsoft 4 30 (5.566 %) Bloomberg 5 22 (4.082 %) Reuters 6 19 (3.525 %) JD Edwards 7 17 (3.154 %) Business Objects 8 14 (2.597 %) Siebel 8 14 (2.597 %) Sophis 9 11 (2.041 %) OpenLink 10 10 (1.855 %) GL TRADE 10 10 (1.855 %) Remedy 11 8 (1.484 %) HP 11 8 (1.484 %) Citrix 12 7 (1.299 %) SAP 12 7 (1.299 %) thinkFolio 13 6 (1.113 %) Murex 13 6 (1.113 %) TIBCO 14 5 (0.928 %) Red Hat 14 5 (0.928 %) Fidessa