The first table below looks at the demand for EAI 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 EAI over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
Rank 122 124 105
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -19
Contract jobs citing EAI 1 15 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.041% 0.492% 0.673%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.063% 0.787% 1.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 2
Average daily rate - £270 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -30.32%
UK excluding London average daily rate £500 £400 £425
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1593 1907 1872
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 65.83% 62.55% 62.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 651 723 742
Average daily rate £388 £365 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.16% +4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £495 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 63 75
Average hourly rate £17.00 £19.00 £32.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.52% -41.08%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.93 £11.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £50.00 £47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
EAI
South East

EAI
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire EAI Jobs Demand Trend

EAI
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire EAI Daily Rate Trend

EAI
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire EAI Hourly Rate Trend

EAI
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing EAI within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 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 +1 1 - -
EAI
South East

EAI
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing EAI 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 EAI.

1 7 (77.78%) Web Services
1 7 (77.78%) XML
2 6 (66.67%) CRM
3 5 (55.56%) SharePoint
3 5 (55.56%) BizTalk Server
3 5 (55.56%) Middleware
3 5 (55.56%) Project Management
3 5 (55.56%) Windows
3 5 (55.56%) MS Excel
3 5 (55.56%) C#
3 5 (55.56%) HTML
3 5 (55.56%) .NET
3 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
3 5 (55.56%) IIS
3 5 (55.56%) Visual Studio
3 5 (55.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (55.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (55.56%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (55.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (55.56%) .NET Framework
3 5 (55.56%) WCF
3 5 (55.56%) Silverlight
3 5 (55.56%) Windows Azure
3 5 (55.56%) Workflow
3 5 (55.56%) Finance
3 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
3 5 (55.56%) Active Directory
4 4 (44.44%) Siebel
5 2 (22.22%) WSDL
5 2 (22.22%) SOAP

EAI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing EAI 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 EAI. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (77.78%) Web Services
1 7 (77.78%) XML
2 5 (55.56%) HTML
2 5 (55.56%) .NET
2 5 (55.56%) Middleware
2 5 (55.56%) .NET Framework
2 5 (55.56%) WCF
2 5 (55.56%) Silverlight
3 2 (22.22%) SOAP
3 2 (22.22%) WSDL
Application Platforms
1 5 (55.56%) IIS
1 5 (55.56%) SharePoint
1 5 (55.56%) BizTalk Server
1 5 (55.56%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 5 (55.56%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (55.56%) Dynamics AX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
1 5 (55.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 5 (55.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Consultant
2 6 (66.67%) CRM Consultant
3 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Consultant
3 5 (55.56%) Microsoft CRM Consultant
4 2 (22.22%) Siebel Consultant
4 2 (22.22%) Siebel Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Developer
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) CRM
2 5 (55.56%) Project Management
2 5 (55.56%) Workflow
3 2 (22.22%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) C#
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 4 (44.44%) Siebel
3 1 (11.11%) JD Edwards