The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Banking over the 3 months to 20 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our General 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Banking
Rank 87 104 107
Rank change year-on-year
+17 +3
Contract jobs citing Banking 34 28 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 1.429% 0.900% 0.767%
As % of the General category 3.333% 1.774% 1.784%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 23 12
Average daily rate £420 £450 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +33.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £314 £335 £254
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £400 £388
% change year-on-year
- +3.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £22.25 £21.75
% change year-on-year
-6.74% +2.29%
All of the General Category
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
1020 1578 1289
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 42.86% 50.72% 43.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 492 458
Average daily rate £375 £340 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.29% +4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £178
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 27 43
Average hourly rate £17.50 £15.59 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.28% -10.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £9.80 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.50 £51.25 £39.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
- -5.66%
Banking
South East

Banking
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Banking Jobs Demand Trend

Banking
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Banking Daily Rate Trend

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Banking across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Berkshire Banking Daily Rate Histogram

Banking
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Banking Hourly Rate Trend

Banking
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Banking within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Reading +8 10 £423 +12.66% 3
Slough -19 6 £450 - 2
Wokingham +3 1 £275 - 1
Bracknell -14 1 £313 -30.55%
Newbury - - - -
Banking
South East

Banking
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Banking 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 Banking.

1 39 (50.65%) Finance
2 35 (45.45%) Telecoms
3 29 (37.66%) .NET
4 27 (35.06%) SQL Server
5 25 (32.47%) C#
5 25 (32.47%) Scrum
5 25 (32.47%) WCF
6 24 (31.17%) TDD
6 24 (31.17%) SpecFlow
6 24 (31.17%) MVC
6 24 (31.17%) Web Services
6 24 (31.17%) ASP.NET
7 23 (29.87%) BDD
8 21 (27.27%) SOA
9 19 (24.68%) Middleware
10 18 (23.38%) jQuery
11 17 (22.08%) Agile Software Development
11 17 (22.08%) SQL
12 16 (20.78%) JIRA
13 15 (19.48%) Retail
14 14 (18.18%) UML
15 13 (16.88%) Windows
15 13 (16.88%) XML
16 12 (15.58%) ESB
16 12 (15.58%) ASP.NET MVC
17 11 (14.29%) HTML5
17 11 (14.29%) Jenkins
17 11 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
17 11 (14.29%) CSS
18 9 (11.69%) ITIL

Banking
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 29 (37.66%) .NET
2 25 (32.47%) WCF
3 24 (31.17%) Web Services
3 24 (31.17%) ASP.NET
4 19 (24.68%) Middleware
5 18 (23.38%) jQuery
6 13 (16.88%) XML
7 12 (15.58%) ASP.NET MVC
8 11 (14.29%) HTML5
8 11 (14.29%) CSS
9 8 (10.39%) J2EE
10 4 (5.195%) LINQ
11 3 (3.896%) HTML
11 3 (3.896%) MSMQ
12 2 (2.597%) WebSphere
12 2 (2.597%) J2SE
13 1 (1.299%) JMS
13 1 (1.299%) WSH
13 1 (1.299%) XML Schema
13 1 (1.299%) XSL
Application Platforms
1 12 (15.58%) ESB
2 5 (6.494%) Tomcat
3 4 (5.195%) IBM HTTP Server
3 4 (5.195%) IIS
3 4 (5.195%) Apache
4 2 (2.597%) FileNet
5 1 (1.299%) MS Exchange
5 1 (1.299%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (1.299%) Jetty
5 1 (1.299%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 5 (6.494%) MS Excel
1 5 (6.494%) MS PowerPoint
2 4 (5.195%) MS Project
3 2 (2.597%) MS Office
4 1 (1.299%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.299%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.299%) Endur
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.792%) LAN
2 5 (6.494%) SAN
3 4 (5.195%) HTTP
3 4 (5.195%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.597%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (2.597%) VPN
4 2 (2.597%) WAN
5 1 (1.299%) DNS
5 1 (1.299%) LDAP
5 1 (1.299%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (35.06%) SQL Server
2 7 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (2.597%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.299%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.299%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (1.299%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.299%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 24 (31.17%) SpecFlow
2 16 (20.78%) JIRA
3 11 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 11 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (5.195%) Visual Studio
5 3 (3.896%) Selenium
6 1 (1.299%) Ant
6 1 (1.299%) JUnit
6 1 (1.299%) MSBuild
6 1 (1.299%) StarTeam
6 1 (1.299%) Subversion
General
1 39 (50.65%) Finance
2 35 (45.45%) Telecoms
3 15 (19.48%) Retail
4 5 (6.494%) Billing
4 5 (6.494%) Investment Banking
5 4 (5.195%) Retail Banking
6 2 (2.597%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 33 (42.86%) Developer
2 15 (19.48%) .NET Developer
3 11 (14.29%) Project Manager
4 10 (12.99%) Analyst
4 10 (12.99%) Programmer
5 8 (10.39%) Senior Developer
6 7 (9.091%) Architect
7 5 (6.494%) C# Programmer
7 5 (6.494%) C# .NET Developer
7 5 (6.494%) .NET Programmer
7 5 (6.494%) C# Developer
8 4 (5.195%) Java Developer
8 4 (5.195%) Senior Programmer
8 4 (5.195%) Administrator
9 3 (3.896%) Business Analyst
9 3 (3.896%) Systems Analyst
9 3 (3.896%) Applications Support
9 3 (3.896%) Senior Java Developer
10 2 (2.597%) Java Team Leader
10 2 (2.597%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.195%) N-Tier
2 3 (3.896%) Clustering
3 2 (2.597%) CLARiiON
3 2 (2.597%) IPTV
3 2 (2.597%) Digital Media
3 2 (2.597%) FMCG
3 2 (2.597%) NHS
4 1 (1.299%) HACMP
4 1 (1.299%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.299%) LPAR
4 1 (1.299%) DLPAR
4 1 (1.299%) Open Source
4 1 (1.299%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 13 (16.88%) Windows
2 6 (7.792%) Windows 7
2 6 (7.792%) UNIX
3 5 (6.494%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (5.195%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (3.896%) Linux
6 2 (2.597%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.299%) Windows XP
7 1 (1.299%) AIX
7 1 (1.299%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (32.47%) Scrum
2 24 (31.17%) TDD
2 24 (31.17%) MVC
3 23 (29.87%) BDD
4 21 (27.27%) SOA
5 17 (22.08%) Agile Software Development
6 14 (18.18%) UML
7 9 (11.69%) ITIL
7 9 (11.69%) Automation Testing
8 7 (9.091%) Project Management
8 7 (9.091%) PRINCE2
9 5 (6.494%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (6.494%) Workflow
9 5 (6.494%) Software Architecture
9 5 (6.494%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (5.195%) Content Management
10 4 (5.195%) Risk Analysis
10 4 (5.195%) Matrix Management
10 4 (5.195%) Kanban
10 4 (5.195%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 25 (32.47%) C#
2 17 (22.08%) SQL
3 7 (9.091%) Java
4 2 (2.597%) Bash shell
5 1 (1.299%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.299%) VBScript
5 1 (1.299%) VBA
5 1 (1.299%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (5.195%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 2 (2.597%) Degree
2 2 (2.597%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (2.597%) CCNP
2 2 (2.597%) CCNA
3 1 (1.299%) ISEB
3 1 (1.299%) MCSE
3 1 (1.299%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.299%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (1.299%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.299%) PMP
3 1 (1.299%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.195%) PCI DSS
1 4 (5.195%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 4 (5.195%) SLA
2 1 (1.299%) QA
System Software
1 4 (5.195%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.896%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.597%) EMC RecoverPoint
3 2 (2.597%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.299%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (1.299%) VMware ESX
4 1 (1.299%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (1.299%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 2 (2.597%) HP SIM
1 2 (2.597%) Foglight
2 1 (1.299%) Tivoli
2 1 (1.299%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (1.299%) Nagios
2 1 (1.299%) Data Guard
2 1 (1.299%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (10.39%) IBM
2 6 (7.792%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.195%) VMware
3 4 (5.195%) HP
3 4 (5.195%) Siebel
4 3 (3.896%) EMC
5 2 (2.597%) ReadSoft
5 2 (2.597%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.597%) Cisco
6 1 (1.299%) Cognos
6 1 (1.299%) Intel
6 1 (1.299%) Citrix
6 1 (1.299%) SAP
6 1 (1.299%) Business Objects
6 1 (1.299%) Oracle
6 1 (1.299%) JD Edwards
6 1 (1.299%) BMC
6 1 (1.299%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (1.299%) OpenLink
6 1 (1.299%) BT
Slough, Berkshire
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