The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Support role in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Applications Support 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 advertised for the Yorkshire region.

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
Rank 83 90 87
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support 27 22 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 1.453% 0.985% 0.601%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.543% 1.041% 0.641%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 4
Average daily rate £176 £255 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-30.88% +13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £141 £215 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £293 £275 £248
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
- -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
Average hourly rate £14.00 £15.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% -40.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £20.00 £23.75
% change year-on-year
+3.75% -15.78%
All Job Titles
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1750 2113 1716
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 94.19% 94.58% 93.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 902 1127 810
Average daily rate £315 £335 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £185 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 116 120
Average hourly rate £12.88 £15.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.16% -14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.00 £7.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.00 £32.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Applications Support
England

Applications Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire Applications Support Jobs Demand Trend

Applications Support
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Applications Support across the Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Applications Support Daily Rate Trend

Applications Support
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Yorkshire Applications Support Daily Rate Histogram

Applications Support
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Applications Support across the Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Applications Support Hourly Rate Trend

Applications Support
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 within the Yorkshire region 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
South Yorkshire +9 9 £175 -30.00%
West Yorkshire +3 8 £363 +46.46%
North Yorkshire -6 1 - -
East Yorkshire - 1 - -
Applications Support
England

Applications Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region that cited Applications Support 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 in their job title.

1 32 (58.18%) .NET
2 31 (56.36%) SQL
3 27 (49.09%) Windows
4 24 (43.64%) ITIL
5 22 (40.00%) IIS
6 20 (36.36%) Linux
7 19 (34.55%) Java
7 19 (34.55%) SQL Server
7 19 (34.55%) UNIX
8 17 (30.91%) Security Cleared
9 15 (27.27%) XML
10 14 (25.45%) C#
10 14 (25.45%) SLA
11 11 (20.00%) Oracle
12 10 (18.18%) FTP
12 10 (18.18%) Firewall
13 8 (14.55%) SC Cleared
13 8 (14.55%) T-SQL
13 8 (14.55%) PRINCE2
14 7 (12.73%) ASP.NET
14 7 (12.73%) SAS
15 6 (10.91%) ITIL V3
15 6 (10.91%) SharePoint
15 6 (10.91%) E-Commerce
15 6 (10.91%) CSS
15 6 (10.91%) HTML
16 5 (9.091%) WebLogic
16 5 (9.091%) C++
16 5 (9.091%) Solaris
16 5 (9.091%) RAD

Applications Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region that cited Applications Support 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 in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 32 (58.18%) .NET
2 15 (27.27%) XML
3 7 (12.73%) ASP.NET
4 6 (10.91%) CSS
4 6 (10.91%) HTML
5 5 (9.091%) WebSphere
6 4 (7.273%) ASP
6 4 (7.273%) J2EE
7 1 (1.818%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 22 (40.00%) IIS
2 7 (12.73%) SAS
3 6 (10.91%) SharePoint
4 5 (9.091%) WebLogic
5 4 (7.273%) Apache
6 2 (3.636%) IBM HTTP Server
6 2 (3.636%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (1.818%) GlassFish
Communications & Networking
1 10 (18.18%) FTP
1 10 (18.18%) Firewall
2 2 (3.636%) DNS
3 1 (1.818%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (34.55%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.455%) MySQL
3 2 (3.636%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (3.636%) DB2
4 1 (1.818%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (1.818%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 2 (3.636%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.818%) Oracle Forms
General
1 4 (7.273%) Finance
2 2 (3.636%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.818%) Client/Server
1 1 (1.818%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 27 (49.09%) Windows
2 20 (36.36%) Linux
3 19 (34.55%) UNIX
4 5 (9.091%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (43.64%) ITIL
2 8 (14.55%) PRINCE2
3 6 (10.91%) ITIL V3
3 6 (10.91%) E-Commerce
4 5 (9.091%) RAD
4 5 (9.091%) Project Management
4 5 (9.091%) Problem Management
5 4 (7.273%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (7.273%) Service Management
5 4 (7.273%) UML
6 3 (5.455%) Capacity Management
6 3 (5.455%) Change Management
6 3 (5.455%) Infrastructure Management
7 1 (1.818%) Process Management
7 1 (1.818%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (1.818%) Software Testing
7 1 (1.818%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 31 (56.36%) SQL
2 19 (34.55%) Java
3 14 (25.45%) C#
4 8 (14.55%) T-SQL
5 5 (9.091%) C++
6 4 (7.273%) Shell Script
6 4 (7.273%) PL/SQL
7 3 (5.455%) PHP
8 1 (1.818%) VB
8 1 (1.818%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 17 (30.91%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (25.45%) SLA
Vendors
1 11 (20.00%) Oracle
2 4 (7.273%) IBM
3 3 (5.455%) HP
4 2 (3.636%) hybris
4 2 (3.636%) TIBCO
4 2 (3.636%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.818%) Sun
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