Senior Applications Support Analyst Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Senior 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 Senior Applications Support Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Senior Application Support Analyst
Location City of London Docklands, London East of England England Hertfordshire London UK	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	543	639
Rank change on same period last year	+96
Matching contract IT job ads	16	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.023 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	0.026 %	0.022 %
Daily rates quoted	7	13
Average minimum daily rate	£316	£527
Average daily rate	£326	£563
% change on same period last year	-42.09 %
Average maximum daily rate	£336	£599
UK excluding London average daily rate	£295	-
% change on same period last year	-
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£30.00
Average hourly rate	-	£31.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£33.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Job Titles UK
Matching contract IT job ads	62685	90255
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	88.64 %	91.37 %
Daily rates quoted	20306	27158
Average minimum daily rate	£371	£388
Average daily rate	£396	£413
% change on same period last year	-3.92 %
Average maximum daily rate	£422	£437
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	5743	7905
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.69	£23.71
Average hourly rate	£24.19	£25.27
% change on same period last year	-4.27 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.70	£26.84
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.71	£25.14
% change on same period last year	-5.69 %

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.

Senior Applications Support Analyst
Demand Trend

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

Senior Applications Support Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Senior Applications Support Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Applications Support Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

Senior Applications Support Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Senior Applications Support Analyst
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Applications Support Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 13 October 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	+83	16	£326	-42.09 %
London	+77	13	£349	-37.95 %
East of England	-	3	£295	-
City of London	-15	3	£349	-26.57 %
Hertfordshire	-	3	£295	-
Docklands, London	+38	2	£350	-34.11 %

Senior Applications Support Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Senior 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 Senior Applications Support Analyst in their job title.

1 18 (51.43 %) SQL 2 15 (42.86 %) Oracle 3 12 (34.29 %) UNIX 4 8 (22.86 %) Windows 4 8 (22.86 %) Problem Management 5 6 (17.14 %) ITIL 5 6 (17.14 %) Banking 5 6 (17.14 %) Finance 6 5 (14.29 %) Front Office 6 5 (14.29 %) Systems Analysis 6 5 (14.29 %) Sybase 6 5 (14.29 %) Perl 6 5 (14.29 %) Intranet 7 4 (11.43 %) Extranet 7 4 (11.43 %) SharePoint

7 4 (11.43 %) SQL Server 7 4 (11.43 %) Solaris 7 4 (11.43 %) Linux 7 4 (11.43 %) Change Management 7 4 (11.43 %) Degree 8 3 (8.571 %) Business Analysis 8 3 (8.571 %) Netezza 8 3 (8.571 %) Investment Management 8 3 (8.571 %) Regression Testing 8 3 (8.571 %) OpenLink 8 3 (8.571 %) Endur 8 3 (8.571 %) Oracle EBS 8 3 (8.571 %) Migration 8 3 (8.571 %) Investment Banking 8 3 (8.571 %) Ab Initio

Senior Applications Support Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Senior 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 Senior Applications Support Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 4 (11.43 %) SharePoint 2 2 (5.714 %) WebLogic 3 1 (2.857 %) Oracle Workflow	Applications 1 2 (5.714 %) MS Office 2 1 (2.857 %) MS Excel
Business Applications 1 3 (8.571 %) Endur 1 3 (8.571 %) Oracle EBS 2 2 (5.714 %) MAXIMO 3 1 (2.857 %) Oracle iRecruitment 3 1 (2.857 %) Oracle HRMS 3 1 (2.857 %) Oracle Applications 3 1 (2.857 %) Oracle Payroll	Communications & Networking 1 5 (14.29 %) Intranet 2 4 (11.43 %) Extranet 3 1 (2.857 %) LAN 3 1 (2.857 %) WAN 3 1 (2.857 %) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (11.43 %) SQL Server 2 3 (8.571 %) Datawarehouse 2 3 (8.571 %) ETL 3 2 (5.714 %) RDBMS 3 2 (5.714 %) Crystal Reports	General 1 6 (17.14 %) Finance 1 6 (17.14 %) Banking 2 5 (14.29 %) Front Office 3 3 (8.571 %) Investment Banking 4 1 (2.857 %) Back Office 4 1 (2.857 %) Law
Miscellaneous 1 2 (5.714 %) Management Information System 1 2 (5.714 %) Statistics 2 1 (2.857 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 2 1 (2.857 %) Fixed Income 2 1 (2.857 %) Equities	Operating Systems 1 12 (34.29 %) UNIX 2 8 (22.86 %) Windows 3 4 (11.43 %) Solaris 3 4 (11.43 %) Linux 4 2 (5.714 %) Windows 2000 4 2 (5.714 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (2.857 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 1 (2.857 %) Red Hat Linux 5 1 (2.857 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (22.86 %) Problem Management 2 6 (17.14 %) ITIL 3 5 (14.29 %) Systems Analysis 4 4 (11.43 %) Change Management 5 3 (8.571 %) Regression Testing 5 3 (8.571 %) Migration 5 3 (8.571 %) EAM 5 3 (8.571 %) Business Analysis 5 3 (8.571 %) Investment Management 6 2 (5.714 %) Information Management 6 2 (5.714 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 2 (5.714 %) Incident Management 6 2 (5.714 %) PRINCE2 6 2 (5.714 %) CRM 7 1 (2.857 %) Project Management 7 1 (2.857 %) Asset Management 7 1 (2.857 %) Workflow 7 1 (2.857 %) Release Management	Programming Languages 1 18 (51.43 %) SQL 2 5 (14.29 %) Perl 3 3 (8.571 %) Shell Script 3 3 (8.571 %) Java 4 2 (5.714 %) C 4 2 (5.714 %) Korn
Qualifications 1 4 (11.43 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (8.571 %) SLA
Systems Management 1 2 (5.714 %) AutoSys	Vendors 1 15 (42.86 %) Oracle 2 5 (14.29 %) Sybase 3 3 (8.571 %) Chordiant 3 3 (8.571 %) OpenLink 3 3 (8.571 %) Ab Initio 3 3 (8.571 %) Netezza 4 2 (5.714 %) Infor 4 2 (5.714 %) Remedy 5 1 (2.857 %) ION Trading 5 1 (2.857 %) Microsoft 5 1 (2.857 %) Red Hat 5 1 (2.857 %) Cognos