Applications Support Contracts in Reading
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Support role in IT contracts advertised for the Reading 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 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 Reading 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
Rank 62 - 77
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Support 8 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.964% - 0.284%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.048% - 0.322%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Average daily rate £404 - £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 £300 £320
% change year-on-year
-4.16% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.50 £20.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year
-7.50% -11.11%
All Job Titles
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 763 974 932
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 91.93% 91.54% 88.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 323 416
Average daily rate £375 £350 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £215 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 55 39
Average hourly rate £17.50 £15.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.90% +10.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.70 £11.00 £10.34
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £20.40 £33.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Applications Support
Berkshire

Applications Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Applications Support Daily Rate Trend

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 Reading region.

Reading Applications Support Hourly Rate Trend

Applications Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
1 5 (38.46%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Knowledge Management
2 4 (30.77%) Hummingbird
2 4 (30.77%) SQL
2 4 (30.77%) .NET
2 4 (30.77%) SharePoint
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
2 4 (30.77%) Citrix
2 4 (30.77%) Intranet
2 4 (30.77%) Internet
2 4 (30.77%) WebSphere
2 4 (30.77%) Sitecore
2 4 (30.77%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (23.08%) Apache
3 3 (23.08%) Tomcat
3 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
3 3 (23.08%) IBM
3 3 (23.08%) Windows
3 3 (23.08%) Middleware
4 2 (15.38%) Charles River
4 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
4 2 (15.38%) FileNet
4 2 (15.38%) Workflow
4 2 (15.38%) VMware
4 2 (15.38%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (15.38%) JBoss

Applications Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 4 (30.77%) .NET
1 4 (30.77%) WebSphere
2 3 (23.08%) Middleware
3 2 (15.38%) J2EE
3 2 (15.38%) Web Services
4 1 (7.692%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 4 (30.77%) SharePoint
2 3 (23.08%) Apache
2 3 (23.08%) Tomcat
3 2 (15.38%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (15.38%) FileNet
3 2 (15.38%) IIS
3 2 (15.38%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (7.692%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (7.692%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 1 (7.692%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (7.692%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) Intranet
1 4 (30.77%) Internet
2 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
3 2 (15.38%) LAN
3 2 (15.38%) HTTP
4 1 (7.692%) WAN
4 1 (7.692%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.692%) Ant
1 1 (7.692%) StarTeam
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 1 (7.692%) Banking
2 1 (7.692%) Retail
2 1 (7.692%) Electronics
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.692%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (15.38%) Windows 7
2 2 (15.38%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (30.77%) Knowledge Management
3 2 (15.38%) Content Management
3 2 (15.38%) Workflow
3 2 (15.38%) ITIL
4 1 (7.692%) Change Management
4 1 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
2 2 (15.38%) C#
2 2 (15.38%) Java
3 1 (7.692%) Jython
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) HNC
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
2 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (15.38%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (7.692%) Foglight
1 1 (7.692%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
1 4 (30.77%) Citrix
1 4 (30.77%) Hummingbird
1 4 (30.77%) Sitecore
2 3 (23.08%) IBM
3 2 (15.38%) VMware
3 2 (15.38%) Charles River
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 2 (15.38%) JBoss
4 1 (7.692%) HP
4 1 (7.692%) ReadSoft
4 1 (7.692%) Ab Initio
4 1 (7.692%) VocaLink
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