The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term German Language in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited German Language 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
German Language
Rank 115 135 113
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -22
Contract jobs citing German Language 8 4 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.331% 0.131% 0.404%
As % of the General category 0.762% 0.263% 1.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 6
Average daily rate £190 £105 £105
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+80.95% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £138 £105 £89
10% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £105 £310
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £138 £255
% change year-on-year
+81.81% -46.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £72.50 - £12.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.50 £15.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-6.45% -26.19%
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%
German Language
South East

German Language
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire German Language Jobs Demand Trend

German Language
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire German Language Daily Rate Trend

German Language
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire German Language Hourly Rate Trend

German Language
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing German Language 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
Maidenhead - 4 £203 -
Newbury 0 2 - -
Reading +10 1 £125 +19.04%
Slough - 1 £190 -
German Language
South East

German Language
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 5 (55.56%) French Language
2 4 (44.44%) Italian Language
2 4 (44.44%) Spanish Language
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
3 3 (33.33%) Migration
3 3 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 3 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (22.22%) C#
4 2 (22.22%) HTML
4 2 (22.22%) Oracle
4 2 (22.22%) MS Excel
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 2 (22.22%) Windows
4 2 (22.22%) MS Office
5 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
5 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
5 1 (11.11%) CSS
5 1 (11.11%) MCP
5 1 (11.11%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (11.11%) Publishing
5 1 (11.11%) Ab Initio
5 1 (11.11%) VMware
5 1 (11.11%) Teradata
5 1 (11.11%) Data Management
5 1 (11.11%) MCTS
5 1 (11.11%) VPLS
5 1 (11.11%) Degree
5 1 (11.11%) Czech Language

German Language
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (22.22%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
2 1 (11.11%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) MS Office
1 2 (22.22%) MS Excel
2 1 (11.11%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) WAN
1 1 (11.11%) DHCP
1 1 (11.11%) FTP
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) SSL
1 1 (11.11%) MPLS
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) Wireless
1 1 (11.11%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) DB2
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (55.56%) French Language
2 4 (44.44%) Italian Language
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Spanish Language
3 1 (11.11%) Back Office
3 1 (11.11%) Publishing
3 1 (11.11%) Czech Language
3 1 (11.11%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Test Leader
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Service Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Help Desk Support
3 1 (11.11%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Data Modeller
3 1 (11.11%) Help Desk Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Database Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) SharePoint Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Help Desk Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Modeller
3 1 (11.11%) Coordinator
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Migration
1 3 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
1 3 (33.33%) Manual Testing
2 1 (11.11%) WAN Optimisation
2 1 (11.11%) Data Management
2 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
2 1 (11.11%) Project Management
2 1 (11.11%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) MCP
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (11.11%) MCTS
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Sybase
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) IBM
2 1 (11.11%) Citrix
2 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
2 1 (11.11%) Remedy
2 1 (11.11%) Ab Initio
2 1 (11.11%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) Teradata
2 1 (11.11%) Riverbed
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