The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blog in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Blog over the 3 months to 20 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Blogs
Rank 118 129 122
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -7
Contract jobs citing Blog 1 8 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.041% 0.261% 0.205%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.216% 1.377% 1.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 5
Average daily rate £550 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+69.23% +18.18%
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £325 £275
% change year-on-year
-30.76% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £14.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £14.50
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
462 581 563
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 18.99% 18.96% 19.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 246 231
Average daily rate £388 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.23% -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £450 £473
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £343 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.18% +0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 31 33
Average hourly rate £18.00 £22.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.18% +29.41%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £14.48 £11.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £50.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £24.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year
-8.16% -9.25%
Blog
South East

Blog
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Blog Jobs Demand Trend

Blog
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Blog Daily Rate Trend

Blog
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Blog Hourly Rate Trend

Blog
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Blog within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Windsor +1 1 £550 +69.23%
Blog
South East

Blog
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 2 (66.67%) Social Network
2 1 (33.33%) Email Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) Alfresco
2 1 (33.33%) Product Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) Open Source
2 1 (33.33%) Social Media
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) Sphinx
2 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) Social Media Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Twitter
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) J2EE
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) RUP
2 1 (33.33%) Documentum
2 1 (33.33%) B2B
2 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
2 1 (33.33%) ColdFusion
2 1 (33.33%) FileNet
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
2 1 (33.33%) Advertising
2 1 (33.33%) CMS

Blog
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) J2EE
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (33.33%) jQuery
1 1 (33.33%) Sphinx
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Documentum
1 1 (33.33%) ColdFusion
1 1 (33.33%) FileNet
1 1 (33.33%) CMS
1 1 (33.33%) LiveLink
1 1 (33.33%) Alfresco
1 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
General
1 1 (33.33%) Advertising
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Communications Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Ruby on Rails Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Social Network
2 1 (33.33%) Open Source
2 1 (33.33%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) UNIX
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) RUP
1 1 (33.33%) B2B
1 1 (33.33%) Workflow
1 1 (33.33%) Scrum
1 1 (33.33%) TDD
1 1 (33.33%) Content Management
1 1 (33.33%) Document Management
1 1 (33.33%) Telemarketing
1 1 (33.33%) Web Development
1 1 (33.33%) Email Marketing
1 1 (33.33%) Product Marketing
1 1 (33.33%) Kanban
1 1 (33.33%) BDD
1 1 (33.33%) Social Media Marketing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Ruby
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Open Text
1 1 (33.33%) Twitter
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