The first table below looks at the demand for Asset Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Asset Management over the 3 months to 22 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Asset Management
Rank 68 80 61
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -19
Contract jobs citing Asset Management 3 1 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.348% 0.088% 1.552%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.522% 0.139% 2.336%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
Average daily rate - - £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £389 £350
% change year-on-year
+9.32% +11.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £17.00 £16.10
% change year-on-year
-8.82% +5.59%
All Processes & Methodologies
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
575 721 685
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 66.78% 63.36% 66.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 269 307
Average daily rate £390 £370 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.40% +5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 24 18
Average hourly rate £16.00 £14.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.34% -47.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.20 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £23.80 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Asset Management
Berkshire

Asset Management
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Asset Management across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Reading Asset Management Jobs Demand Trend

Asset Management
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Asset Management across the Reading region.

Reading Asset Management Daily Rate Trend

Asset Management
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Asset Management across the Reading region.

Reading Asset Management Hourly Rate Trend

Asset Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Asset Management also 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 that cited Asset Management.

1 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (30.00%) ITIL
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
1 3 (30.00%) Windows XP
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) ITIL V2
2 2 (20.00%) Network Architecture
2 2 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (20.00%) HP UCMDB
2 2 (20.00%) Application Packaging
2 2 (20.00%) Serena
2 2 (20.00%) HP
2 2 (20.00%) Ethernet
2 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (20.00%) Client/Server
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) Project Management
2 2 (20.00%) Intel
2 2 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (20.00%) PRINCE
2 2 (20.00%) Wireless
3 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (10.00%) Symantec
3 1 (10.00%) McAfee
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix
3 1 (10.00%) VBScript
3 1 (10.00%) VB

Asset Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Asset Management also 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 that cited Asset Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (20.00%) Application Packaging
2 1 (10.00%) CSS
2 1 (10.00%) Flash
2 1 (10.00%) jQuery
2 1 (10.00%) HTML5
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (10.00%) MS Office
1 1 (10.00%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Ethernet
1 2 (20.00%) Wireless
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (10.00%) Advertising
2 1 (10.00%) Publishing
2 1 (10.00%) Games
2 1 (10.00%) Music
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Configuration Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Desktop Support
3 2 (20.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (10.00%) Service Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (10.00%) IT Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Graduate
4 1 (10.00%) Financial Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Financial Services Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Graphic Design
2 1 (10.00%) Animation
2 1 (10.00%) Digital Media
2 1 (10.00%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
1 3 (30.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Vista
2 1 (10.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (30.00%) ITIL
1 3 (30.00%) ITIL V2
2 2 (20.00%) Network Architecture
2 2 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (20.00%) Project Management
2 2 (20.00%) PRINCE
3 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (10.00%) Supplier Management
3 1 (10.00%) Interactive Advertising
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) VBScript
2 1 (10.00%) VB
2 1 (10.00%) ActionScript
2 1 (10.00%) Lua
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) HP UCMDB
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Serena
2 2 (20.00%) HP
2 2 (20.00%) Intel
3 1 (10.00%) Symantec
3 1 (10.00%) McAfee
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix
3 1 (10.00%) Compaq
3 1 (10.00%) Dell