The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Electronics in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Electronics 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Electronics
Rank 114 132 105
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -27
Contract jobs citing Electronics 9 7 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.372% 0.230% 0.673%
As % of the General category 0.857% 0.460% 1.723%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
Average daily rate £401 £275 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+45.90% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
All of the General Category
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
1050 1522 1161
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 43.39% 49.92% 39.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 426 398
Average daily rate £359 £340 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.44% +3.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £193 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £470 £480
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 33 37
Average hourly rate £17.00 £14.50 £15.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.24% -4.91%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £9.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £46.45 £39.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Electronics
South East

Electronics
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Electronics Jobs Demand Trend

Electronics
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Electronics Daily Rate Trend

Electronics
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Electronics Hourly Rate Trend

Electronics
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Electronics 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
Newbury +1 3 - -
Reading +10 2 £400 +45.45%
Slough - 2 £403 -
Bracknell - 1 - -
Electronics
South East

Electronics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 6 (60.00%) Windows
2 5 (50.00%) C
3 4 (40.00%) C++
3 4 (40.00%) Perl
3 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (40.00%) Device Driver
3 4 (40.00%) Windows Vista
4 3 (30.00%) 2G
4 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (30.00%) 3G
5 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (20.00%) Project Management
5 2 (20.00%) IPv6
5 2 (20.00%) SAN
5 2 (20.00%) ITIL
5 2 (20.00%) WAN
5 2 (20.00%) VMware
5 2 (20.00%) Clustering
5 2 (20.00%) Degree
5 2 (20.00%) Time Management
5 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (20.00%) Smart Meter
5 2 (20.00%) Product Management
6 1 (10.00%) Nokia NetAct
6 1 (10.00%) Windows 7
6 1 (10.00%) HP SIM
6 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (10.00%) LTE

Electronics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) J2EE
1 1 (10.00%) Web Services
1 1 (10.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (10.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (10.00%) IIS
1 1 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 1 (10.00%) FileNet
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (10.00%) IBM HTTP Server
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (30.00%) 2G
1 3 (30.00%) 3G
2 2 (20.00%) IPv6
2 2 (20.00%) SAN
2 2 (20.00%) WAN
3 1 (10.00%) WCDMA
3 1 (10.00%) HTTP
3 1 (10.00%) GSM
3 1 (10.00%) LAN
3 1 (10.00%) VPN
3 1 (10.00%) Wireless
3 1 (10.00%) LTE
3 1 (10.00%) NAS
3 1 (10.00%) Nokia NetAct
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Technical Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Network Planner
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing Executive
2 1 (10.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Applications Support
2 1 (10.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Desktop Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Device Driver
2 2 (20.00%) Clustering
2 2 (20.00%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Windows Vista
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (10.00%) Windows 7
4 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) ITIL
1 2 (20.00%) Project Management
1 2 (20.00%) Time Management
1 2 (20.00%) Product Management
2 1 (10.00%) Workflow
2 1 (10.00%) Content Management
2 1 (10.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) C
2 4 (40.00%) C++
2 4 (40.00%) Perl
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) HNC
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Foglight
1 1 (10.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (10.00%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) JBoss
3 1 (10.00%) IBM
3 1 (10.00%) HP
3 1 (10.00%) NetApp
3 1 (10.00%) Symantec
3 1 (10.00%) ReadSoft
Reading, Berkshire
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