The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of BT products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BT over the 3 months to 19 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within BT Group plc.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
BT
Rank 109 118 126
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +8
Contract jobs citing BT 12 20 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.513% 0.631% 0.133%
As % of the Vendors category 1.041% 1.312% 0.256%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 1
Average daily rate £480 £385 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+24.67% +18.46%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £275 £373
% change year-on-year
+9.09% -26.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £22.32
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £76.50 £22.38
% change year-on-year
-75.16% +241.89%
All Vendors
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1153 1524 1565
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 49.25% 48.08% 51.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 532 552
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £495 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 75 90
Average hourly rate £23.50 £27.00 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.96% +1.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £11.75 £10.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
BT
South East

BT
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire BT Jobs Demand Trend

BT
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire BT Daily Rate Trend

BT
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire BT Hourly Rate Trend

BT
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BT within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 19 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 +1 4 - - 2
Bracknell - - - -
Newbury - - - -
BT
South East

BT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing BT 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 BT.

1 18 (81.82%) Telecoms
2 16 (72.73%) Ethernet
3 14 (63.64%) SDH
3 14 (63.64%) ATM
3 14 (63.64%) 3G
3 14 (63.64%) 2G
4 13 (59.09%) Project Management
4 13 (59.09%) Ericsson
4 13 (59.09%) Nokia Siemens Networks
5 11 (50.00%) LTE
6 10 (45.45%) Huawei
7 9 (40.91%) Nokia
7 9 (40.91%) MPLS
7 9 (40.91%) Radio Access Network
8 8 (36.36%) NEC
9 3 (13.64%) Finance
9 3 (13.64%) ITIL
9 3 (13.64%) UNIX
9 3 (13.64%) Cramer
9 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
9 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
10 2 (9.091%) PowerShell
10 2 (9.091%) Migration
10 2 (9.091%) Capacity Planning
10 2 (9.091%) Bash shell
10 2 (9.091%) Windows
10 2 (9.091%) Linux
10 2 (9.091%) ADSL
10 2 (9.091%) Java
10 2 (9.091%) VBScript

BT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing BT 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 BT. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (9.091%) Middleware
1 2 (9.091%) WSH
Business Applications
1 1 (4.545%) SiteCatalyst
Communications & Networking
1 16 (72.73%) Ethernet
2 14 (63.64%) SDH
2 14 (63.64%) ATM
2 14 (63.64%) 3G
2 14 (63.64%) 2G
3 11 (50.00%) LTE
4 9 (40.91%) MPLS
4 9 (40.91%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (9.091%) ADSL
5 2 (9.091%) Broadband
5 2 (9.091%) WAN
5 2 (9.091%) Internet
6 1 (4.545%) IP Telephony
6 1 (4.545%) LLU
6 1 (4.545%) 2.5G
6 1 (4.545%) DSLAM
6 1 (4.545%) DSL
6 1 (4.545%) TCP/IP
6 1 (4.545%) ISDN
6 1 (4.545%) LAN
General
1 18 (81.82%) Telecoms
2 3 (13.64%) Finance
3 1 (4.545%) Banking
3 1 (4.545%) Retail
3 1 (4.545%) Law
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Transmission Engineer
1 12 (54.55%) Design Engineer
2 2 (9.091%) Test Engineer
3 1 (4.545%) Technical Leader
3 1 (4.545%) Network Design Engineer
3 1 (4.545%) 3G Engineer
3 1 (4.545%) Provisioning Engineer
3 1 (4.545%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (4.545%) Programme Manager
3 1 (4.545%) Analyst
3 1 (4.545%) Consultant
3 1 (4.545%) Network Engineer
3 1 (4.545%) Senior Manager
3 1 (4.545%) Support Analyst
3 1 (4.545%) 1st Line Support
3 1 (4.545%) Administrator
3 1 (4.545%) Transmission Planning Engineer
3 1 (4.545%) Access Transmission Engineer
3 1 (4.545%) Web Analytics Consultant
3 1 (4.545%) 1st Line Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.545%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) UNIX
2 2 (9.091%) Windows
2 2 (9.091%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) Project Management
2 3 (13.64%) ITIL
3 2 (9.091%) Migration
3 2 (9.091%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (9.091%) Network Design
4 1 (4.545%) Network Planning
4 1 (4.545%) Supplier Management
4 1 (4.545%) Web Analytics
4 1 (4.545%) Test Management
4 1 (4.545%) Workflow
4 1 (4.545%) B2B
4 1 (4.545%) Analytics
4 1 (4.545%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.091%) PowerShell
1 2 (9.091%) Bash shell
1 2 (9.091%) Java
1 2 (9.091%) VBScript
2 1 (4.545%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
1 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.091%) CCNA
2 2 (9.091%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (9.091%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (4.545%) Degree
3 1 (4.545%) CCNP
3 1 (4.545%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.545%) QA
1 1 (4.545%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (9.091%) Nagios
Vendors
1 13 (59.09%) Ericsson
1 13 (59.09%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 10 (45.45%) Huawei
3 9 (40.91%) Nokia
4 8 (36.36%) NEC
5 3 (13.64%) Cramer
6 2 (9.091%) Cisco
6 2 (9.091%) HP
6 2 (9.091%) BMC
7 1 (4.545%) Fujitsu
7 1 (4.545%) Microsoft
7 1 (4.545%) Remedy