The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of GigaSpaces products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited GigaSpaces over the 3 months to 24 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within GigaSpaces.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
GigaSpaces
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing GigaSpaces 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire - - -
As % of the Vendors category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £625
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1218 1569 1553
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 50.86% 49.89% 52.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 537 551
Average daily rate £363 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £225 £217
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 81 90
Average hourly rate £20.50 £20.00 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.50% -37.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.85 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.80 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
GigaSpaces
South East

GigaSpaces
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire GigaSpaces Jobs Demand Trend

GigaSpaces
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire GigaSpaces Daily Rate Trend

GigaSpaces
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing GigaSpaces 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 GigaSpaces.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Servlets
1 1 (100.00%) Struts
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) XHTML
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Velocity
1 1 (100.00%) JSR 168
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Alfresco
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Liferay
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub

GigaSpaces
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing GigaSpaces 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 GigaSpaces. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Servlets
1 1 (100.00%) Struts
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
1 1 (100.00%) XHTML
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Velocity
1 1 (100.00%) JSR 168
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) Alfresco
1 1 (100.00%) Liferay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Scala