The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Support 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 in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Support
Rank 106 137 125
Rank change year-on-year
+31 -12
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support 15 1 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.625% 0.032% 0.330%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.686% 0.035% 0.367%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 3
Average daily rate £388 £325 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.23% +13.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £325 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £402 £325 £378
UK excluding London average daily rate £298 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
-0.83% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.50 £20.00 £23.75
% change year-on-year
-7.50% -15.78%
All Job Titles
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2185 2877 2728
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 91.00% 91.30% 90.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 902 1030 1038
Average daily rate £363 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 126 188
Average hourly rate £24.50 £19.00 £30.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.94% -37.46%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £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 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Applications Support
South East

Applications Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region.

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region.

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region over the 3 months to 23 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 - 8 £404 -
Slough - 2 £363 -
Maidenhead - 1 £275 -
Applications Support
South East

Applications Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 10 (40.00%) .NET
1 10 (40.00%) ITIL
2 9 (36.00%) SQL
3 8 (32.00%) Windows
4 7 (28.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (24.00%) C#
5 6 (24.00%) Oracle
6 5 (20.00%) SQL Server
6 5 (20.00%) IIS
6 5 (20.00%) SharePoint
6 5 (20.00%) HTTP
6 5 (20.00%) TCP/IP
6 5 (20.00%) IBM
6 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 5 (20.00%) Workflow
6 5 (20.00%) Finance
6 5 (20.00%) WebSphere
6 5 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (16.00%) Windows 7
7 4 (16.00%) Retail
7 4 (16.00%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (16.00%) Knowledge Management
7 4 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (16.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (16.00%) Sitecore
7 4 (16.00%) Hummingbird
7 4 (16.00%) VMware
7 4 (16.00%) IBM HTTP Server
7 4 (16.00%) FileNet
7 4 (16.00%) Content Management

Applications Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 10 (40.00%) .NET
2 5 (20.00%) WebSphere
3 4 (16.00%) Middleware
3 4 (16.00%) Web Services
3 4 (16.00%) J2EE
4 2 (8.000%) XML
5 1 (4.000%) ASP.NET
5 1 (4.000%) CSS
5 1 (4.000%) SOAP
5 1 (4.000%) HTML
5 1 (4.000%) WAP
5 1 (4.000%) Windows SharePoint Services
5 1 (4.000%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 5 (20.00%) IIS
1 5 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (16.00%) IBM HTTP Server
2 4 (16.00%) FileNet
2 4 (16.00%) Apache
2 4 (16.00%) Tomcat
3 3 (12.00%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (8.000%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (8.000%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (4.000%) WebLogic
5 1 (4.000%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 1 (4.000%) CMS
5 1 (4.000%) Kentico
5 1 (4.000%) Joomla!
5 1 (4.000%) DotNetNuke
5 1 (4.000%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (4.000%) MS Office
1 1 (4.000%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.000%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (4.000%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.00%) HTTP
1 5 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (16.00%) LAN
2 4 (16.00%) Intranet
2 4 (16.00%) Internet
3 3 (12.00%) SAN
4 1 (4.000%) DSL
4 1 (4.000%) WAN
4 1 (4.000%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.000%) MySQL
2 1 (4.000%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (4.000%) TOAD
2 1 (4.000%) Siebel EIM
2 1 (4.000%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 1 (4.000%) Ant
1 1 (4.000%) StarTeam
General
1 5 (20.00%) Finance
2 4 (16.00%) Retail
3 3 (12.00%) Banking
4 1 (4.000%) Electronics
4 1 (4.000%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (12.00%) Clustering
3 1 (4.000%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.000%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 8 (32.00%) Windows
2 4 (16.00%) Windows 7
2 4 (16.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (16.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (16.00%) UNIX
3 1 (4.000%) Solaris
3 1 (4.000%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) ITIL
2 7 (28.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (20.00%) Workflow
4 4 (16.00%) Knowledge Management
4 4 (16.00%) Content Management
5 3 (12.00%) Change Management
6 2 (8.000%) Analytics
7 1 (4.000%) UML
7 1 (4.000%) Project Management
7 1 (4.000%) E-Commerce
7 1 (4.000%) SOA
7 1 (4.000%) SEO
7 1 (4.000%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (4.000%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (4.000%) Waterfall
7 1 (4.000%) Web Analytics
7 1 (4.000%) Release Management
7 1 (4.000%) Fault Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (36.00%) SQL
2 6 (24.00%) C#
3 4 (16.00%) Shell Script
3 4 (16.00%) Java
4 1 (4.000%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.000%) Perl
4 1 (4.000%) T-SQL
4 1 (4.000%) VB
4 1 (4.000%) VB.NET
4 1 (4.000%) Jython
4 1 (4.000%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (4.000%) HNC
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (16.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Foglight
1 3 (12.00%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Oracle
2 5 (20.00%) IBM
2 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (16.00%) Sitecore
3 4 (16.00%) Hummingbird
3 4 (16.00%) VMware
3 4 (16.00%) Citrix
4 3 (12.00%) HP
4 3 (12.00%) ReadSoft
5 2 (8.000%) Charles River
5 2 (8.000%) Siebel
6 1 (4.000%) JBoss
6 1 (4.000%) Informatica
6 1 (4.000%) Sun
6 1 (4.000%) Ab Initio
6 1 (4.000%) VocaLink
6 1 (4.000%) Redknee
6 1 (4.000%) Ektron
6 1 (4.000%) Google