The first table below looks at the demand for ISEB in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ISEB 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 Qualifications 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
Rank 83 80 108
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +28
Contract jobs citing ISEB 37 56 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 1.545% 1.781% 0.706%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.401% 7.398% 2.958%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 26 11
Average daily rate £315 £302 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.47% -13.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £254 £263 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £430 £413 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £350
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £18.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+35.13% -32.72%
All Qualifications
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
578 757 710
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 24.13% 24.07% 23.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 282 242
Average daily rate £375 £333 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.78% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £213 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 15 41
Average hourly rate £17.00 £18.00 £21.66
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.55% -16.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.50 £12.30 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.50 £47.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
ISEB
South East

ISEB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire ISEB Jobs Demand Trend

ISEB
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire ISEB Daily Rate Trend

ISEB
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ISEB across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Berkshire ISEB Daily Rate Histogram

ISEB
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire ISEB Hourly Rate Trend

ISEB
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISEB within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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 +16 11 £340 -20.00%
Newbury -3 3 £300 -25.00%
Slough -10 1 - -
Bracknell -16 1 - -
Wokingham - 1 £275 -
ISEB
South East

ISEB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 39 (45.88%) Telecoms
2 27 (31.76%) Radio Access Network
3 26 (30.59%) 3G
4 25 (29.41%) GSM
5 24 (28.24%) WCDMA
6 23 (27.06%) Business Analysis
6 23 (27.06%) 2G
7 21 (24.71%) NetHawk
7 21 (24.71%) 3GPP
8 20 (23.53%) Wireshark
9 18 (21.18%) Migration
10 17 (20.00%) PRINCE2
11 16 (18.82%) ITIL
11 16 (18.82%) Finance
12 15 (17.65%) Ericsson
13 14 (16.47%) Stakeholder Management
14 11 (12.94%) RNC
14 11 (12.94%) RANAP
15 10 (11.76%) Agile Software Development
16 9 (10.59%) Project Management
16 9 (10.59%) CBAP
17 8 (9.412%) Degree
17 8 (9.412%) UML
17 8 (9.412%) eTOM
18 7 (8.235%) BSS
18 7 (8.235%) Management Information System
18 7 (8.235%) MS Project
18 7 (8.235%) MS Office
18 7 (8.235%) Microsoft
19 6 (7.059%) MS Visio

ISEB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (5.882%) XML
2 3 (3.529%) soapUI
2 3 (3.529%) REST
2 3 (3.529%) SOAP
2 3 (3.529%) Web Services
2 3 (3.529%) .NET
3 2 (2.353%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.176%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.176%) WAP
4 1 (1.176%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.176%) HTML
4 1 (1.176%) WML
Application Platforms
1 5 (5.882%) MS Project Server
2 2 (2.353%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (2.353%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.176%) Windows Azure
3 1 (1.176%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.176%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (8.235%) MS Project
1 7 (8.235%) MS Office
2 6 (7.059%) MS Visio
2 6 (7.059%) MS PowerPoint
3 3 (3.529%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.176%) Oracle BRM
1 1 (1.176%) Misys Midas
Communications & Networking
1 27 (31.76%) Radio Access Network
2 26 (30.59%) 3G
3 25 (29.41%) GSM
4 24 (28.24%) WCDMA
5 23 (27.06%) 2G
6 21 (24.71%) 3GPP
7 20 (23.53%) Wireshark
8 11 (12.94%) RNC
8 11 (12.94%) RANAP
9 7 (8.235%) BSS
10 5 (5.882%) HTTP
11 1 (1.176%) MGW
11 1 (1.176%) Firewall
11 1 (1.176%) Internet
11 1 (1.176%) SSL
11 1 (1.176%) DNS
11 1 (1.176%) UMTS
11 1 (1.176%) ATM
11 1 (1.176%) GPRS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.882%) GIS
2 3 (3.529%) DbVisualizer
2 3 (3.529%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.176%) TOAD
3 1 (1.176%) MS Access
3 1 (1.176%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.176%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 3 (3.529%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.176%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (1.176%) QADirector
2 1 (1.176%) Selenium
2 1 (1.176%) JProfiler
2 1 (1.176%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.176%) TestDirector
2 1 (1.176%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (1.176%) LoadRunner
General
1 39 (45.88%) Telecoms
2 16 (18.82%) Finance
3 4 (4.706%) Retail
4 3 (3.529%) Banking
4 3 (3.529%) Billing
5 2 (2.353%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 43 (50.59%) Analyst
2 34 (40.00%) Business Analyst
3 27 (31.76%) Test Engineer
4 16 (18.82%) RAN Engineer
5 8 (9.412%) 3G Engineer
6 7 (8.235%) Technical Business Analyst
6 7 (8.235%) Technical Analyst
6 7 (8.235%) Project Manager
6 7 (8.235%) Test Analyst
7 3 (3.529%) Telecoms Business Analyst
7 3 (3.529%) Software Tester
7 3 (3.529%) UML Business Analyst
7 3 (3.529%) Tester
7 3 (3.529%) Business Systems Analyst
7 3 (3.529%) Systems Analyst
7 3 (3.529%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (2.353%) Change Manager
8 2 (2.353%) Business Process Analyst
8 2 (2.353%) Senior Business Analyst
8 2 (2.353%) Process Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.235%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.882%) PMI
3 4 (4.706%) Photography
4 3 (3.529%) Handset
5 1 (1.176%) IIBA
5 1 (1.176%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.176%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.529%) UNIX
2 2 (2.353%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (27.06%) Business Analysis
2 18 (21.18%) Migration
3 17 (20.00%) PRINCE2
4 16 (18.82%) ITIL
5 14 (16.47%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (11.76%) Agile Software Development
7 9 (10.59%) Project Management
8 8 (9.412%) UML
8 8 (9.412%) eTOM
9 6 (7.059%) Software Testing
9 6 (7.059%) Use Case
10 3 (3.529%) System Testing
10 3 (3.529%) User Acceptance Testing
10 3 (3.529%) Web Testing
10 3 (3.529%) Test Management
10 3 (3.529%) Test Scripting
10 3 (3.529%) Root Cause Analysis
10 3 (3.529%) CRM
11 2 (2.353%) Business Intelligence
11 2 (2.353%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.529%) Groovy
1 3 (3.529%) Shell Script
1 3 (3.529%) C#
1 3 (3.529%) SQL
2 2 (2.353%) Java
3 1 (1.176%) Perl
3 1 (1.176%) PHP
3 1 (1.176%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 9 (10.59%) CBAP
2 8 (9.412%) Degree
3 5 (5.882%) ISTQB
3 5 (5.882%) PMP
3 5 (5.882%) PMI Certification
4 4 (4.706%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.706%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.353%) CISSP
5 2 (2.353%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 2 (2.353%) CISA
5 2 (2.353%) CISM
5 2 (2.353%) ISEB Practitioner
6 1 (1.176%) GIAC
6 1 (1.176%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.176%) SSCP
6 1 (1.176%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.706%) QA
2 2 (2.353%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (1.176%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (7.059%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 21 (24.71%) NetHawk
2 15 (17.65%) Ericsson
3 7 (8.235%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.529%) HP
5 2 (2.353%) Oracle
5 2 (2.353%) Salesforce.com
5 2 (2.353%) Cisco
6 1 (1.176%) ESRI
6 1 (1.176%) Metastorm
6 1 (1.176%) VMware
6 1 (1.176%) EMC
6 1 (1.176%) Citrix
6 1 (1.176%) Siebel
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