The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Support Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Applications Support Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Berkshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Support Analyst
Rank 118 138 121
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -17
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support Analyst 5 1 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.207% 0.033% 0.135%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.226% 0.036% 0.149%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
Average daily rate £300 £325 £240
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +35.41%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £290 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £18.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year
+21.62% -2.63%
All Job Titles
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2213 2776 2679
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 91.45% 91.05% 90.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 903 979 1024
Average daily rate £363 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £220 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 121 185
Average hourly rate £30.00 £19.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+57.89% -41.53%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.87 £11.50 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Applications Support Analyst
South East

Applications Support Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Applications Support Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Applications Support Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Applications Support Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Applications Support Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Applications Support Analyst across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Berkshire Applications Support Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Applications Support Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Applications Support Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Applications Support Analyst
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 Analyst within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Reading - 2 £408 -
Slough - 1 £325 -
Maidenhead - 1 £275 -
Applications Support Analyst
South East

Applications Support Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region 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 7 (70.00%) .NET
2 5 (50.00%) ITIL
3 4 (40.00%) C#
4 3 (30.00%) SQL
4 3 (30.00%) IIS
4 3 (30.00%) Windows
4 3 (30.00%) XML
5 2 (20.00%) Middleware
5 2 (20.00%) Waterfall
5 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (20.00%) Finance
5 2 (20.00%) UML
5 2 (20.00%) Apache
5 2 (20.00%) Tomcat
5 2 (20.00%) SOA
5 2 (20.00%) HTTP
5 2 (20.00%) TOAD
5 2 (20.00%) IBM
5 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
5 2 (20.00%) VB
6 1 (10.00%) VB.NET
6 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
6 1 (10.00%) HTML
6 1 (10.00%) Java
6 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (10.00%) COM
6 1 (10.00%) CSS
6 1 (10.00%) Web Services
6 1 (10.00%) J2EE
6 1 (10.00%) MySQL

Applications Support Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region 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 7 (70.00%) .NET
2 3 (30.00%) XML
3 2 (20.00%) Middleware
3 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (10.00%) COM
4 1 (10.00%) CSS
4 1 (10.00%) Web Services
4 1 (10.00%) Windows SharePoint Services
4 1 (10.00%) WebSphere
4 1 (10.00%) J2EE
4 1 (10.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) IIS
2 2 (20.00%) Apache
2 2 (20.00%) Tomcat
3 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (10.00%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (10.00%) CMS
3 1 (10.00%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (10.00%) Joomla!
3 1 (10.00%) DotNetNuke
3 1 (10.00%) WordPress
3 1 (10.00%) Kentico
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) HTTP
2 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (10.00%) SSL
2 1 (10.00%) S/MIME
2 1 (10.00%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) TOAD
2 1 (10.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) Crystal Reports
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) SaaS
1 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (10.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (10.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (20.00%) UML
2 2 (20.00%) Waterfall
2 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (20.00%) SOA
3 1 (10.00%) ETL
3 1 (10.00%) Data Security
3 1 (10.00%) SEO
3 1 (10.00%) Workflow
3 1 (10.00%) Content Management
3 1 (10.00%) Web Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) C#
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) VB
4 1 (10.00%) VB.NET
4 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce.com
2 1 (10.00%) Ab Initio
2 1 (10.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Ektron
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle