The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems 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 Systems 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Systems Support
Rank 116 128 125
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Support 4 7 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.167% 0.223% 0.134%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.183% 0.244% 0.149%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 1
Average daily rate £398 £300 £295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+32.50% +1.69%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £219 £288
% change year-on-year
+37.14% -23.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
Average hourly rate - £15.63 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -41.03%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £18.75 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-25.33% +25.00%
All Job Titles
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2180 2874 2686
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 91.02% 91.38% 90.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 900 1030 1019
Average daily rate £360 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £476 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 128 184
Average hourly rate £26.00 £19.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+36.84% -30.90%
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%
Systems Support
South East

Systems Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Systems Support Jobs Demand Trend

Systems Support
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Systems Support Daily Rate Trend

Systems Support
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Berkshire Systems Support Daily Rate Histogram

Systems Support
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Systems Support Hourly Rate Trend

Systems Support
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Support within the Berkshire 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
Reading +16 3 £408 -
Systems Support
South East

Systems Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (40.00%) Windows 7
2 2 (40.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 2 (40.00%) Content Management
2 2 (40.00%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (40.00%) Clustering
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (40.00%) Workflow
2 2 (40.00%) Middleware
2 2 (40.00%) SAN
2 2 (40.00%) IBM
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) J2EE
2 2 (40.00%) IIS
2 2 (40.00%) Web Services
2 2 (40.00%) Apache
2 2 (40.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (40.00%) LAN
2 2 (40.00%) HTTP
2 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) VPN
3 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server

Systems Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (40.00%) Middleware
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) J2EE
1 2 (40.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) SharePoint 2010
1 2 (40.00%) IBM HTTP Server
1 2 (40.00%) IIS
1 2 (40.00%) Apache
1 2 (40.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (20.00%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (20.00%) FileNet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) SAN
1 2 (40.00%) LAN
1 2 (40.00%) HTTP
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) NAS
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (40.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Content Management
2 2 (40.00%) Workflow
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) Release Management
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Foglight
1 1 (20.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (20.00%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) IBM
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) HP
3 1 (20.00%) NetApp
3 1 (20.00%) Symantec
3 1 (20.00%) ReadSoft