The first table below looks at the demand for Analytics skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Analytics over the 3 months to 21 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Analytics
Rank 101 77 115
Rank change year-on-year
-24 +38
Contract jobs citing Analytics 24 61 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.972% 1.955% 0.444%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.479% 3.106% 0.708%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 4
Average daily rate £400 £288 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+39.13% -28.12%
UK excluding London average daily rate £331 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
-11.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
Average hourly rate £37.50 £20.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+87.50% -11.11%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.25 £16.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year
+89.39% -26.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1623 1964 1835
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 65.71% 62.95% 62.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 654 743 727
Average daily rate £388 £370 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.72% +5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 63 74
Average hourly rate £17.00 £19.00 £33.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.52% -42.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.75 £11.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £50.00 £47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Analytics
South East

Analytics
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Analytics Jobs Demand Trend

Analytics
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Analytics Daily Rate Trend

Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Analytics across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Berkshire Analytics Daily Rate Histogram

Analytics
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Analytics Hourly Rate Trend

Analytics
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analytics within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 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 +8 8 £350 +16.66%
Slough -12 5 £400 +49.53%
Bracknell -14 5 £400 -
Wokingham +1 1 - -
Newbury - 1 £430 -
Analytics
South East

Analytics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Analytics 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 Analytics.

1 24 (40.00%) SQL
2 15 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 15 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (21.67%) MS Excel
4 12 (20.00%) Marketing
5 11 (18.33%) Degree
6 10 (16.67%) Data Modelling
6 10 (16.67%) Oracle
7 8 (13.33%) C#
7 8 (13.33%) Cognos
7 8 (13.33%) MS PowerPoint
8 7 (11.67%) Business Analytics
8 7 (11.67%) ETL
8 7 (11.67%) Web Services
8 7 (11.67%) Telecoms
8 7 (11.67%) Finance
9 6 (10.00%) Project Management
9 6 (10.00%) SAS
9 6 (10.00%) Web Analytics
9 6 (10.00%) Predictive Analytics
10 5 (8.333%) MDX
10 5 (8.333%) Google
10 5 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
10 5 (8.333%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (8.333%) Digital Marketing
10 5 (8.333%) SPSS
10 5 (8.333%) XML
10 5 (8.333%) HTML
10 5 (8.333%) JavaScript
10 5 (8.333%) SQL Server

Analytics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Analytics 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 Analytics. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (11.67%) Web Services
2 5 (8.333%) MDX
2 5 (8.333%) XML
2 5 (8.333%) HTML
3 3 (5.000%) JSON
3 3 (5.000%) CSS
3 3 (5.000%) .NET
4 2 (3.333%) SOAP
4 2 (3.333%) jQuery
4 2 (3.333%) soapUI
4 2 (3.333%) REST
5 1 (1.667%) FreeMarker
5 1 (1.667%) Velocity
5 1 (1.667%) Spring
5 1 (1.667%) Windows SharePoint Services
5 1 (1.667%) KnockoutJS
5 1 (1.667%) MapReduce
5 1 (1.667%) Node.js
5 1 (1.667%) HTML5
5 1 (1.667%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 6 (10.00%) SAS
2 4 (6.667%) SharePoint
3 3 (5.000%) Drupal
4 1 (1.667%) DotNetNuke
4 1 (1.667%) Joomla!
4 1 (1.667%) Apache Pig
4 1 (1.667%) Jetty
4 1 (1.667%) Kentico
4 1 (1.667%) WordPress
4 1 (1.667%) ColdFusion
4 1 (1.667%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.667%) IIS
4 1 (1.667%) CMS
Applications
1 13 (21.67%) MS Excel
2 8 (13.33%) MS PowerPoint
3 5 (8.333%) SPSS
4 1 (1.667%) OmniGraffle
4 1 (1.667%) Photoshop
4 1 (1.667%) MS Office
4 1 (1.667%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 4 (6.667%) Google Analytics
2 3 (5.000%) SiteCatalyst
3 1 (1.667%) Cognos Business Intelligence
3 1 (1.667%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.333%) VoIP
1 2 (3.333%) HTTP
1 2 (3.333%) Wireshark
2 1 (1.667%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.667%) Network Security
2 1 (1.667%) Broadband
2 1 (1.667%) LDAP
2 1 (1.667%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (8.333%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 5 (8.333%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.333%) OLAP
3 4 (6.667%) DataStage
3 4 (6.667%) Data Mining
3 4 (6.667%) Data Mart
4 3 (5.000%) Oracle BI EE
4 3 (5.000%) Oracle 8/8i
5 2 (3.333%) SAP BI
5 2 (3.333%) MS Access
5 2 (3.333%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.333%) Spotfire
5 2 (3.333%) IBM InfoSphere
6 1 (1.667%) DbVisualizer
6 1 (1.667%) Neo4j
6 1 (1.667%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.667%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.667%) CouchDB
6 1 (1.667%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 2 (3.333%) LoadRunner
1 2 (3.333%) Selenium
2 1 (1.667%) GCC
2 1 (1.667%) Ant
2 1 (1.667%) JUnit
General
1 12 (20.00%) Marketing
2 7 (11.67%) Telecoms
2 7 (11.67%) Finance
3 3 (5.000%) Retail
3 3 (5.000%) Publishing
4 2 (3.333%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (3.333%) Advertising
4 2 (3.333%) Banking
5 1 (1.667%) Billing
5 1 (1.667%) Games
5 1 (1.667%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 21 (35.00%) Analyst
2 12 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 10 (16.67%) Developer
4 6 (10.00%) Consultant
5 4 (6.667%) Business Systems Analyst
5 4 (6.667%) Systems Analyst
5 4 (6.667%) Support Engineer
5 4 (6.667%) Digital Marketing Specialist
6 3 (5.000%) DataStage Developer
6 3 (5.000%) ETL Developer
6 3 (5.000%) Operations Engineer
6 3 (5.000%) Business Intelligence Manager
6 3 (5.000%) Web Analytics Consultant
6 3 (5.000%) Operations Analyst
7 2 (3.333%) Junior Business Analyst
7 2 (3.333%) Analyst Developer
7 2 (3.333%) Team Leader
7 2 (3.333%) Report Analyst
7 2 (3.333%) Data Analyst
7 2 (3.333%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.000%) Mathematics
1 3 (5.000%) Statistics
2 2 (3.333%) Replication
2 2 (3.333%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.333%) NHS
2 2 (3.333%) Social Media
2 2 (3.333%) RIA
3 1 (1.667%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.667%) Ontologies
3 1 (1.667%) Smartphone
3 1 (1.667%) Data Integration
3 1 (1.667%) FMCG
3 1 (1.667%) Open Source
3 1 (1.667%) W3C
3 1 (1.667%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.667%) Blackberry
3 1 (1.667%) Handset
3 1 (1.667%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.000%) Apple iOS
1 3 (5.000%) Android
1 3 (5.000%) Linux
2 2 (3.333%) UNIX
2 2 (3.333%) VMS
3 1 (1.667%) Mac OS X
3 1 (1.667%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 7 (11.67%) Business Analytics
3 7 (11.67%) ETL
4 6 (10.00%) Project Management
4 6 (10.00%) Web Analytics
4 6 (10.00%) Predictive Analytics
5 5 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (8.333%) Digital Marketing
5 5 (8.333%) SEO
6 4 (6.667%) Service Delivery
6 4 (6.667%) Workforce Management Optimization
7 3 (5.000%) Numerical Analysis
7 3 (5.000%) Statistical Analysis
7 3 (5.000%) Data Analytics
8 2 (3.333%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (3.333%) B2B
8 2 (3.333%) Change Management
8 2 (3.333%) GAP Analysis
8 2 (3.333%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (40.00%) SQL
2 8 (13.33%) C#
3 5 (8.333%) JavaScript
4 4 (6.667%) PL/SQL
5 3 (5.000%) Java
5 3 (5.000%) C++
5 3 (5.000%) VB
6 2 (3.333%) Objective-C
6 2 (3.333%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.333%) C
6 2 (3.333%) PHP
6 2 (3.333%) Python
6 2 (3.333%) VBA
7 1 (1.667%) Ruby
7 1 (1.667%) R
7 1 (1.667%) Bash shell
7 1 (1.667%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.667%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (18.33%) Degree
2 1 (1.667%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.667%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.667%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (1.667%) PMP
2 1 (1.667%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.333%) QA
2 1 (1.667%) WAI
2 1 (1.667%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (1.667%) Splunk
Vendors
1 10 (16.67%) Oracle
2 8 (13.33%) Cognos
3 5 (8.333%) Google
4 4 (6.667%) Informatica
4 4 (6.667%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.667%) Verint
5 3 (5.000%) Omniture
5 3 (5.000%) SAP
5 3 (5.000%) IBM
6 2 (3.333%) Ab Initio
6 2 (3.333%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (1.667%) Facebook
7 1 (1.667%) Qualys
7 1 (1.667%) Ektron
7 1 (1.667%) Siebel
7 1 (1.667%) BT
Reading, Berkshire
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Posted: 15 May 2013