The first table below looks at the demand for Force.com 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 Force.com 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 Application Platforms 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
Salesforce.com Force.com
Rank 120 137 -
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -
Contract jobs citing Force.com 3 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.124% 0.066% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.787% 0.490% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
Average daily rate £550 £270 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+103.70% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £400 £400
% change year-on-year
+12.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £50.00 -
All Application Platforms
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
381 408 457
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 15.74% 13.38% 15.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 186 153
Average daily rate £350 £325 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -4.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £225 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 17 39
Average hourly rate £18.00 £25.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-28.00% -37.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.55 £14.50 £16.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £38.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
Force.com
South East

Force.com
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Force.com Jobs Demand Trend

Force.com
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Force.com Daily Rate Trend

Force.com
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Force.com across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Berkshire Force.com Daily Rate Histogram

Force.com
Top 9 Related IT Skills

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

1 5 (100.00%) Salesforce.com
1 5 (100.00%) Mason
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 5 (100.00%) Visualforce
1 5 (100.00%) Apex Code
1 5 (100.00%) SaaS
2 2 (40.00%) Business Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management

Force.com
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) Mason
1 5 (100.00%) Visualforce
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Technical Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce.com Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 5 (100.00%) SaaS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Apex Code
2 2 (40.00%) Java
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Salesforce.com
Berkshire, Thames Valley
A market leading business based in Berkshire requires an experienced Salesforce.com Business Analyst to join their high profile deployment. This is one of the premier projects in...
Mason Frank International
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
Berkshire
A market leading business based in Berkshire requires an experienced Salesforce.com Business Analyst to join their high profile deployment. This is one of the premier projects in...
Mason Frank International
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013