Applications Support 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 Support 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 Support Specialist 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 Support Specialist
Rank 523 579 560
Rank change year-on-year
+56 -19
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support Specialist 6 5 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.013% 0.009% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.014% 0.009% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 15
Average daily rate £345 £329 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.94% -6.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £242 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £418 £416 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £290 £220 £400
% change year-on-year
+31.81% -45.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £16.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
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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 Support Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Applications Support Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Applications Support Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Applications Support Specialist Daily Rate Histogram

Applications Support Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Applications Support Specialist Hourly Rate Trend

Applications Support Specialist
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Support Specialist 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 +47 6 £345 +4.94%
London +38 4 £400 -8.57%
Croydon - 1 £225 -
South East - 1 £290 -
North West - 1 - -
City of London - 1 - -
Surrey - 1 £290 -
Manchester - 1 - -

Applications Support Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 18 (64.29%) SQL
2 12 (42.86%) ITIL
3 10 (35.71%) Windows
3 10 (35.71%) Oracle
3 10 (35.71%) SQL Server
3 10 (35.71%) C#
3 10 (35.71%) Java
3 10 (35.71%) Problem Management
4 8 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (28.57%) Finance
4 8 (28.57%) .NET
4 8 (28.57%) SharePoint
5 7 (25.00%) SAS
5 7 (25.00%) Microsoft
6 6 (21.43%) MS Excel
7 5 (17.86%) MS Access
7 5 (17.86%) WebLogic
7 5 (17.86%) C++
7 5 (17.86%) HTML
7 5 (17.86%) XML
7 5 (17.86%) Incident Management
7 5 (17.86%) Change Control
8 4 (14.29%) Investment Banking
8 4 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (14.29%) Banking
8 4 (14.29%) CSS
8 4 (14.29%) UML
8 4 (14.29%) T-SQL
8 4 (14.29%) VB
8 4 (14.29%) VBA

Applications Support Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 8 (28.57%) .NET
2 5 (17.86%) HTML
2 5 (17.86%) XML
3 4 (14.29%) CSS
4 3 (10.71%) Middleware
4 3 (10.71%) WinForms
5 2 (7.143%) WebSphere
5 2 (7.143%) COM
5 2 (7.143%) Web Services
6 1 (3.571%) WSDL
6 1 (3.571%) FIXML
6 1 (3.571%) OLE DB
6 1 (3.571%) SOAP
6 1 (3.571%) XSL
6 1 (3.571%) ODBC
6 1 (3.571%) XHTML
6 1 (3.571%) ASP.NET
6 1 (3.571%) J2EE
6 1 (3.571%) .NET Framework
6 1 (3.571%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 8 (28.57%) SharePoint
2 7 (25.00%) SAS
3 5 (17.86%) WebLogic
4 4 (14.29%) IIS
5 1 (3.571%) Documentum
5 1 (3.571%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (3.571%) Lotus Notes
5 1 (3.571%) Apache
5 1 (3.571%) Tomcat
5 1 (3.571%) Alfresco
Applications
1 6 (21.43%) MS Excel
2 3 (10.71%) MS Office
3 1 (3.571%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.571%) LongView
1 1 (3.571%) LatentZero
1 1 (3.571%) Capstone
1 1 (3.571%) Tesseract
1 1 (3.571%) Minerva
1 1 (3.571%) Sentinel
1 1 (3.571%) Cerner Millennium
1 1 (3.571%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (3.571%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.571%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) HTTP
2 3 (10.71%) HTTPS
3 1 (3.571%) SSL
3 1 (3.571%) LAN
3 1 (3.571%) TELNET
3 1 (3.571%) Internet
3 1 (3.571%) Firewall
3 1 (3.571%) Wireshark
3 1 (3.571%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (35.71%) SQL Server
2 8 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (17.86%) MS Access
4 4 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (14.29%) MySQL
5 2 (7.143%) BusinessObjects XI
5 2 (7.143%) DTS
6 1 (3.571%) Ingres
6 1 (3.571%) Oracle Discoverer
6 1 (3.571%) SQL Server 2000
6 1 (3.571%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (3.571%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (3.571%) dBASE
6 1 (3.571%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (3.571%) Visual Studio
1 1 (3.571%) WinDbg
General
1 8 (28.57%) Finance
2 4 (14.29%) Investment Banking
2 4 (14.29%) Banking
3 3 (10.71%) Front Office
4 1 (3.571%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.571%) Client/Server
1 1 (3.571%) NHS
1 1 (3.571%) Management Information System
1 1 (3.571%) Replication
1 1 (3.571%) Fixed Income
1 1 (3.571%) Clustering
1 1 (3.571%) Equities
1 1 (3.571%) Data Extraction
1 1 (3.571%) SWIFT
1 1 (3.571%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 10 (35.71%) Windows
2 4 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (3.571%) Linux
3 1 (3.571%) UNIX
3 1 (3.571%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) ITIL
2 10 (35.71%) Problem Management
3 5 (17.86%) Incident Management
3 5 (17.86%) Change Control
4 4 (14.29%) UML
5 3 (10.71%) Asset Management
5 3 (10.71%) Document Management
6 2 (7.143%) Investment Management
6 2 (7.143%) Data Analysis
6 2 (7.143%) Wealth Management
6 2 (7.143%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (7.143%) Test Scripting
6 2 (7.143%) Project Management
6 2 (7.143%) ETL
7 1 (3.571%) CRM
7 1 (3.571%) RAD
7 1 (3.571%) Service Management
7 1 (3.571%) Process Management
7 1 (3.571%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (3.571%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 18 (64.29%) SQL
2 10 (35.71%) C#
2 10 (35.71%) Java
3 5 (17.86%) C++
4 4 (14.29%) T-SQL
4 4 (14.29%) VB
4 4 (14.29%) VBA
5 3 (10.71%) PL/SQL
5 3 (10.71%) VBScript
5 3 (10.71%) VB6
6 1 (3.571%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.571%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) SLA
2 1 (3.571%) QA
Vendors
1 10 (35.71%) Oracle
2 7 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.71%) Business Objects
3 3 (10.71%) Twitter
4 2 (7.143%) hybris
4 2 (7.143%) TIBCO
4 2 (7.143%) Lotus
5 1 (3.571%) IBM
5 1 (3.571%) Reuters
5 1 (3.571%) Bloomberg
5 1 (3.571%) Remedy
5 1 (3.571%) Charles River
5 1 (3.571%) Fidessa
5 1 (3.571%) Plumtree
5 1 (3.571%) BMC
5 1 (3.571%) Cerner
5 1 (3.571%) Sybase
5 1 (3.571%) Metastorm
5 1 (3.571%) Alias
5 1 (3.571%) thinkFolio
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