Berkshire Data Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Data Management skills within the Berkshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Data Management over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Alderley Edge Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bootle Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Clapham Coventry Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Driffield Dunfermline Dunstable East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Farnborough Fife Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Horsham Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Preston Reading Redcar Rugby Salisbury Scotland Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	98	138
Rank change on same period last year	+40
Matching contract IT job ads	31	23
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.041 %	0.023 %
As % of the category below	1.580 %	0.909 %
Daily rates quoted	9	4
Average minimum daily rate	£289	£273
Average daily rate	£308	£273
% change on same period last year	+12.83 %
Average maximum daily rate	£328	£273
UK excluding London average daily rate	£391	£331
% change on same period last year	+18.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£25.00
Average hourly rate	-	£25.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.74	£30.26
% change on same period last year	-1.74 %
Processes & Methodologies Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1962	2530
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.612 %	2.565 %
Daily rates quoted	514	880
Average minimum daily rate	£353	£358
Average daily rate	£375	£378
% change on same period last year	-0.77 %
Average maximum daily rate	£397	£399
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£375
% change on same period last year	+1.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	88	140
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.40	£31.31
Average hourly rate	£26.09	£33.05
% change on same period last year	-21.05 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.78	£34.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.35	£30.17
% change on same period last year	-2.69 %
Data Management South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Data Management
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Data Management across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Data Management across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Management within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Reading	+6	8	£293	+18.80 %
Slough	-	2	£250	-

Data Management South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Data Management 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 Data Management.

1 30 (42.86 %) Nokia 2 23 (32.86 %) Telecoms 3 9 (12.86 %) Siemens 3 9 (12.86 %) UMTS 3 9 (12.86 %) SQL 3 9 (12.86 %) Oracle 4 8 (11.43 %) Cisco 4 8 (11.43 %) Mapinfo 4 8 (11.43 %) Cramer 4 8 (11.43 %) Multimedia 4 8 (11.43 %) SGSN 5 7 (10.00 %) GGSN 5 7 (10.00 %) Network Planning 5 7 (10.00 %) SQL Server 2005 5 7 (10.00 %) 3G

5 7 (10.00 %) TCP/IP 5 7 (10.00 %) SQL Server 5 7 (10.00 %) Spreadsheet 6 6 (8.571 %) SQL Server 2000 7 5 (7.143 %) Migration 7 5 (7.143 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 5 (7.143 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 5 (7.143 %) RNC 7 5 (7.143 %) Oracle Clinical 7 5 (7.143 %) Data Migration 7 5 (7.143 %) Finance 7 5 (7.143 %) Transact-SQL 7 5 (7.143 %) DTS 7 5 (7.143 %) Data Modelling 7 5 (7.143 %) Packet Switching

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Data Management 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 Data Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (2.857 %) SAP XI	Application Platforms 1 2 (2.857 %) SAS
Applications 1 7 (10.00 %) Spreadsheet 2 1 (1.429 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 5 (7.143 %) Oracle Clinical 2 3 (4.286 %) SAP MDM 3 2 (2.857 %) SAP R/3 4 1 (1.429 %) Oracle CRM
Communications & Networking 1 9 (12.86 %) UMTS 2 8 (11.43 %) SGSN 3 7 (10.00 %) 3G 3 7 (10.00 %) TCP/IP 3 7 (10.00 %) GGSN 4 5 (7.143 %) Packet Switching 4 5 (7.143 %) RNC 5 4 (5.714 %) SIGTRAN 5 4 (5.714 %) Nokia DX200 5 4 (5.714 %) SS7 5 4 (5.714 %) ATM 6 3 (4.286 %) GPRS 6 3 (4.286 %) UTRAN 7 2 (2.857 %) Internet 8 1 (1.429 %) DNS 8 1 (1.429 %) FTP 8 1 (1.429 %) HTTP 8 1 (1.429 %) Firewall 8 1 (1.429 %) Nokia DX220	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (10.00 %) SQL Server 1 7 (10.00 %) SQL Server 2005 2 6 (8.571 %) SQL Server 2000 3 5 (7.143 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 5 (7.143 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 5 (7.143 %) DTS 4 3 (4.286 %) ETL 4 3 (4.286 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 3 (4.286 %) MS Access 5 2 (2.857 %) GIS 6 1 (1.429 %) Oracle OWB 6 1 (1.429 %) BODI 6 1 (1.429 %) BusinessObjects XI 6 1 (1.429 %) Datawarehouse 6 1 (1.429 %) Snowflake Schema 6 1 (1.429 %) Star Schema 6 1 (1.429 %) BusinessObjects 6 1 (1.429 %) DataStage
General 1 23 (32.86 %) Telecoms 2 8 (11.43 %) Multimedia 3 5 (7.143 %) Finance 4 4 (5.714 %) Pharmaceutical 5 3 (4.286 %) Banking 6 2 (2.857 %) Health 6 2 (2.857 %) Electronics 6 2 (2.857 %) Marketing 6 2 (2.857 %) Auditing 7 1 (1.429 %) Aerospace 7 1 (1.429 %) Electric 7 1 (1.429 %) Government	Job Titles 1 19 (27.14 %) Analyst 2 8 (11.43 %) Business Analyst 3 7 (10.00 %) Data Analyst 4 6 (8.571 %) Developer 4 6 (8.571 %) Programmer 4 6 (8.571 %) SQL Developer 5 5 (7.143 %) Server Analyst 5 5 (7.143 %) Analyst Developer 5 5 (7.143 %) SQL Server Developer 6 4 (5.714 %) Consultant 7 3 (4.286 %) Network Engineer 8 2 (2.857 %) Business IT Analyst 8 2 (2.857 %) Design Engineer 8 2 (2.857 %) Project Manager 8 2 (2.857 %) SAP Consultant 8 2 (2.857 %) Integration Engineer 8 2 (2.857 %) SAP MDM Consultant 8 2 (2.857 %) Radio Access Network Engineer 8 2 (2.857 %) Business Data Analyst 9 1 (1.429 %) Telecoms Business Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 4 (5.714 %) Biometrics 2 3 (4.286 %) Statistics 3 2 (2.857 %) Management Information System 4 1 (1.429 %) Taxonomies 4 1 (1.429 %) Life Science 4 1 (1.429 %) Data Extraction	Operating Systems 1 1 (1.429 %) UNIX 1 1 (1.429 %) Windows 1 1 (1.429 %) Solaris 1 1 (1.429 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (10.00 %) Network Planning 2 5 (7.143 %) Migration 2 5 (7.143 %) Data Modelling 2 5 (7.143 %) Data Migration 3 4 (5.714 %) Data Analysis 4 3 (4.286 %) Validation 5 2 (2.857 %) Workflow 5 2 (2.857 %) Configuration Management 5 2 (2.857 %) CRM 5 2 (2.857 %) Systems Analysis 5 2 (2.857 %) Network Design 5 2 (2.857 %) Fault Management 5 2 (2.857 %) Data Validation 6 1 (1.429 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 1 (1.429 %) Cost-Benefit Analysis 6 1 (1.429 %) PRINCE2 6 1 (1.429 %) Business Intelligence 6 1 (1.429 %) Quality Management	Programming Languages 1 9 (12.86 %) SQL 2 5 (7.143 %) Transact-SQL 3 1 (1.429 %) C
Qualifications 1 3 (4.286 %) Degree 2 1 (1.429 %) HNC	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.857 %) QA 2 1 (1.429 %) GCP
Vendors 1 30 (42.86 %) Nokia 2 9 (12.86 %) Siemens 2 9 (12.86 %) Oracle 3 8 (11.43 %) Cisco 3 8 (11.43 %) Mapinfo 3 8 (11.43 %) Cramer 4 3 (4.286 %) SAP 5 2 (2.857 %) Ericsson 5 2 (2.857 %) Amdocs 6 1 (1.429 %) Epiphany 6 1 (1.429 %) Ab Initio 6 1 (1.429 %) VERITAS 6 1 (1.429 %) Microsoft 6 1 (1.429 %) Business Objects