The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems 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 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Systems Support
Rank 67 83 -
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Support 3 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.359% 0.090% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.395% 0.097% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £408 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £219 £288
% change year-on-year
+37.14% -23.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £11.25 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £18.75 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-25.33% +25.00%
All Job Titles
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
760 1028 917
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 91.02% 92.20% 88.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 347 409
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £225
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 42 61 42
Average hourly rate £18.00 £15.58 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.56% +24.60%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.70 £11.50 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £22.60 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Systems Support
Berkshire

Systems Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Systems Support Hourly Rate Trend

Systems Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Content Management
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) IBM HTTP Server
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) HTTP
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) J2EE
2 1 (33.33%) IIS
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Apache
2 1 (33.33%) Tomcat

Systems Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 1 (33.33%) Middleware
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) J2EE
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (33.33%) IBM HTTP Server
2 1 (33.33%) IIS
2 1 (33.33%) Apache
2 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Content Management
1 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Workflow
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) IBM