Reading Applications Support Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Applications Support role in IT jobs within the Reading region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Applications Support in their job title over the 3 months to 8 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Application Support
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Cranleigh Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dunbartonshire Dunstable Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Fareham Farnborough Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Horsham Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Keighley Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Sale Salford Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Tamworth Thame Trowbridge Tyne and Wear Uckfield UK Uxbridge Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welwyn Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	70	123
Rank change on same period last year	+53
Matching permanent IT job ads	69	37
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	2.537 %	1.084 %
Salaries quoted	54	32
Average minimum salary	£29,519	£33,406
Average salary	£33,137	£35,313
% change on same period last year	-6.16 %
Average maximum salary	£36,755	£37,219
UK excluding London average salary	£31,779	£30,777
% change on same period last year	+3.25 %
Job Titles Reading
Matching permanent IT job ads	2720	3413
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.433 %	1.395 %
Salaries quoted	2301	2631
Average minimum salary	£36,389	£38,821
Average salary	£39,985	£41,898
% change on same period last year	-4.56 %
Average maximum salary	£43,582	£44,975
UK excluding London average salary	£38,122	£39,480
% change on same period last year	-3.44 %
Applications Support Berkshire

Applications Support
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Applications Support across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Applications Support across the Reading region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Applications Support across the Reading region over the 3 months to 8 August 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 August 2008, IT 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 IT job ads sampled with Applications Support in their job title.

1 68 (59.65 %) SQL 2 45 (39.47 %) VB 3 40 (35.09 %) .NET 4 39 (34.21 %) Oracle 4 39 (34.21 %) SQL Server 5 27 (23.68 %) Java 5 27 (23.68 %) ASP.NET 6 24 (21.05 %) VB.NET 7 19 (16.67 %) Finance 8 18 (15.79 %) C# 8 18 (15.79 %) Windows 9 16 (14.04 %) VB6 10 15 (13.16 %) HTML 10 15 (13.16 %) XML 11 14 (12.28 %) CSS

12 13 (11.40 %) Oracle Reports 12 13 (11.40 %) Education 13 12 (10.53 %) Health 14 10 (8.772 %) ITIL 14 10 (8.772 %) UNIX 14 10 (8.772 %) E-Commerce 14 10 (8.772 %) Crystal Reports 15 9 (7.895 %) Degree 16 8 (7.018 %) .NET Framework 17 7 (6.140 %) J2EE 17 7 (6.140 %) SLA 18 6 (5.263 %) Microsoft 18 6 (5.263 %) CRM 18 6 (5.263 %) Transact-SQL 18 6 (5.263 %) JavaScript

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 August 2008, IT 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 IT job ads sampled with Applications Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 40 (35.09 %) .NET 2 27 (23.68 %) ASP.NET 3 15 (13.16 %) HTML 3 15 (13.16 %) XML 4 14 (12.28 %) CSS 5 8 (7.018 %) .NET Framework 6 7 (6.140 %) J2EE 7 6 (5.263 %) WebSphere 8 4 (3.509 %) COM+ 9 3 (2.632 %) ASP 10 2 (1.754 %) Application Packaging 10 2 (1.754 %) WebServices 11 1 (0.877 %) Middleware 11 1 (0.877 %) JSP 11 1 (0.877 %) SOAP 11 1 (0.877 %) Struts	Application Platforms 1 5 (4.386 %) SharePoint 1 5 (4.386 %) BizTalk Server 1 5 (4.386 %) IBM HTTP Server 2 4 (3.509 %) WebSphere MQ 2 4 (3.509 %) Oracle HTTP Server 3 1 (0.877 %) CMS 3 1 (0.877 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 1 (0.877 %) IIS 3 1 (0.877 %) JBoss 3 1 (0.877 %) Apache 3 1 (0.877 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 3 (2.632 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 5 (4.386 %) Oracle Applications 2 2 (1.754 %) Endur
Communications & Networking 1 4 (3.509 %) HTTP 1 4 (3.509 %) DNS 2 3 (2.632 %) TCP/IP 2 3 (2.632 %) VoIP 3 2 (1.754 %) Internet 3 2 (1.754 %) Extranet 3 2 (1.754 %) Firewall 4 1 (0.877 %) SMTP 4 1 (0.877 %) FTP 4 1 (0.877 %) Broadband	Database & Business Intelligence 1 39 (34.21 %) SQL Server 2 13 (11.40 %) Oracle Reports 3 10 (8.772 %) Crystal Reports 4 4 (3.509 %) DB2 5 2 (1.754 %) Oracle 10g 6 1 (0.877 %) SQL Server 2000 6 1 (0.877 %) SQL Server 2005 6 1 (0.877 %) MySQL 6 1 (0.877 %) Oracle 9i 6 1 (0.877 %) ETL 6 1 (0.877 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 3 (2.632 %) Oracle Forms	General 1 19 (16.67 %) Finance 2 13 (11.40 %) Education 3 12 (10.53 %) Health 4 6 (5.263 %) Banking 4 6 (5.263 %) Pensions 5 5 (4.386 %) Telecoms 6 2 (1.754 %) Marketing 6 2 (1.754 %) General Ledger 7 1 (0.877 %) Financial Institution 7 1 (0.877 %) Billing 7 1 (0.877 %) Legal 7 1 (0.877 %) Publishing
Miscellaneous 1 4 (3.509 %) French Language 2 2 (1.754 %) Computer Science 3 1 (0.877 %) Client/Server 3 1 (0.877 %) NHS 3 1 (0.877 %) German Language 3 1 (0.877 %) Portuguese Language 3 1 (0.877 %) CMDB	Operating Systems 1 18 (15.79 %) Windows 2 10 (8.772 %) UNIX 3 2 (1.754 %) Solaris 3 2 (1.754 %) Linux 4 1 (0.877 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (0.877 %) Windows XP 4 1 (0.877 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (0.877 %) Debian 4 1 (0.877 %) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (8.772 %) E-Commerce 1 10 (8.772 %) ITIL 2 6 (5.263 %) CRM 3 2 (1.754 %) System Testing 3 2 (1.754 %) Data Management 4 1 (0.877 %) Direct Marketing 4 1 (0.877 %) Problem Management 4 1 (0.877 %) Release Management 4 1 (0.877 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 1 (0.877 %) DNA 4 1 (0.877 %) EAI 4 1 (0.877 %) Configuration Management 4 1 (0.877 %) Project Management 4 1 (0.877 %) Process Management 4 1 (0.877 %) Service Delivery	Programming Languages 1 68 (59.65 %) SQL 2 45 (39.47 %) VB 3 27 (23.68 %) Java 4 24 (21.05 %) VB.NET 5 18 (15.79 %) C# 6 16 (14.04 %) VB6 7 6 (5.263 %) JavaScript 7 6 (5.263 %) Transact-SQL 8 5 (4.386 %) C 9 4 (3.509 %) Shell Script 9 4 (3.509 %) Jython 9 4 (3.509 %) Korn 10 3 (2.632 %) C++ 10 3 (2.632 %) Perl 11 2 (1.754 %) PL/SQL 11 2 (1.754 %) VBScript 11 2 (1.754 %) VBA 11 2 (1.754 %) Python 12 1 (0.877 %) PHP
Qualifications 1 9 (7.895 %) Degree 2 1 (0.877 %) ITIL Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 7 (6.140 %) SLA 2 1 (0.877 %) QA
Systems Management 1 2 (1.754 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 1 (0.877 %) Tivoli Storage Manager	Vendors 1 39 (34.21 %) Oracle 2 6 (5.263 %) Microsoft 3 5 (4.386 %) IBM 4 4 (3.509 %) Ab Initio 5 3 (2.632 %) Sybase 6 2 (1.754 %) OpenLink 6 2 (1.754 %) Sun 6 2 (1.754 %) Altiris 7 1 (0.877 %) HP 7 1 (0.877 %) VERITAS 7 1 (0.877 %) Red Hat 7 1 (0.877 %) Remedy 7 1 (0.877 %) Siebel