The first table below looks at the demand for the Junior role in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Junior in their job title over the 3 months to 20 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Junior
Rank 109 122 118
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Junior 12 10 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.504% 0.321% 0.400%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.553% 0.353% 0.446%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 7
Average daily rate £188 £250 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £208 £194
10% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £268 £310
UK excluding London average daily rate £220 £250 £213
% change year-on-year
-12.00% +17.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
Average hourly rate £13.75 £19.00 £98.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-27.63% -80.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.75 £19.00 £77.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.75 £19.00 £119.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.50 £17.75 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-23.94% +10.93%
All Job Titles
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2170 2833 2690
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 91.18% 91.06% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 931 1048 1028
Average daily rate £368 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £488 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 109 173
Average hourly rate £22.50 £19.00 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.42% -13.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.25 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Junior
South East

Junior
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Junior Jobs Demand Trend

Junior
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Junior Daily Rate Trend

Junior
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Junior across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Berkshire Junior Daily Rate Histogram

Junior
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Junior Hourly Rate Trend

Junior
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Junior within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Reading +4 3 - - 6
Slough -8 2 - - 1
Bracknell - 2 £175 -
Maidenhead +2 1 £188 -31.81% 1
Newbury - - - -
Ascot - - - -
Windsor - - - -
Wokingham - - - -
Junior
South East

Junior
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Junior in their job title 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 with Junior in their job title.

1 6 (19.35%) Telecoms
1 6 (19.35%) SQL Server
1 6 (19.35%) .NET
2 5 (16.13%) ASP.NET
2 5 (16.13%) MVC
2 5 (16.13%) ASP.NET MVC
3 4 (12.90%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (12.90%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 4 (12.90%) Web Development
3 4 (12.90%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (12.90%) Finance
3 4 (12.90%) SQL
4 3 (9.677%) C#
4 3 (9.677%) SAP
4 3 (9.677%) Windows
4 3 (9.677%) Validation
4 3 (9.677%) Quality Management
4 3 (9.677%) Microsoft
4 3 (9.677%) Project Management
4 3 (9.677%) Time Management
4 3 (9.677%) SAP PLM
4 3 (9.677%) jQuery
4 3 (9.677%) Degree
4 3 (9.677%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (9.677%) SAP EHS
4 3 (9.677%) SAP PM
4 3 (9.677%) PLM
4 3 (9.677%) PDM
4 3 (9.677%) SAP xRPM
4 3 (9.677%) SAP cProjects

Junior
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Junior in their job title 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 with Junior in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (19.35%) .NET
2 5 (16.13%) ASP.NET
2 5 (16.13%) ASP.NET MVC
3 4 (12.90%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 3 (9.677%) jQuery
5 2 (6.452%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 1 (3.226%) Web Services
6 1 (3.226%) HTML
6 1 (3.226%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 2 (6.452%) CMS
2 1 (3.226%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.226%) OpenCms
Applications
1 2 (6.452%) MS Excel
1 2 (6.452%) Photoshop
2 1 (3.226%) MS Project
2 1 (3.226%) MS Office
2 1 (3.226%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (9.677%) SAP PLM
1 3 (9.677%) SAP EHS
1 3 (9.677%) SAP PM
1 3 (9.677%) SAP xRPM
1 3 (9.677%) SAP cProjects
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.452%) Internet
1 2 (6.452%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.226%) GSM
2 1 (3.226%) UMTS
2 1 (3.226%) VoIP
2 1 (3.226%) HTTP
2 1 (3.226%) 2G
2 1 (3.226%) Firewall
2 1 (3.226%) 3G
2 1 (3.226%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (19.35%) SQL Server
2 4 (12.90%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (9.677%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (6.452%) SQL Server 2012
4 2 (6.452%) RDBMS
4 2 (6.452%) Oracle 8/8i
4 2 (6.452%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.226%) SpecFlow
1 1 (3.226%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.226%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 6 (19.35%) Telecoms
2 4 (12.90%) Finance
3 2 (6.452%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.226%) Military
4 1 (3.226%) Polish Language
4 1 (3.226%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.226%) N-Tier
1 1 (3.226%) Management Information System
1 1 (3.226%) FMCG
1 1 (3.226%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.677%) Windows
2 2 (6.452%) Windows 7
3 1 (3.226%) Linux
3 1 (3.226%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (3.226%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (16.13%) MVC
2 4 (12.90%) Web Development
2 4 (12.90%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (9.677%) Validation
3 3 (9.677%) Quality Management
3 3 (9.677%) Project Management
3 3 (9.677%) Time Management
3 3 (9.677%) PLM
3 3 (9.677%) PDM
4 2 (6.452%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (6.452%) Content Management
4 2 (6.452%) Release Management
4 2 (6.452%) Data Validation
4 2 (6.452%) Migration
4 2 (6.452%) PRINCE2
5 1 (3.226%) SOA
5 1 (3.226%) UML
5 1 (3.226%) Scrum
5 1 (3.226%) SEO
5 1 (3.226%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.90%) SQL
2 3 (9.677%) C#
3 2 (6.452%) PHP
3 2 (6.452%) VBScript
3 2 (6.452%) VB
4 1 (3.226%) VB.NET
4 1 (3.226%) C
4 1 (3.226%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (9.677%) Degree
2 2 (6.452%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (3.226%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.226%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.452%) QA
2 1 (3.226%) SLA
2 1 (3.226%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 3 (9.677%) SAP
1 3 (9.677%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.452%) Oracle
3 1 (3.226%) Cisco
3 1 (3.226%) HP
3 1 (3.226%) Avaya
3 1 (3.226%) CheckPoint
Reading, Berkshire
C# .Net 3.5 - 4.5 SQL Server 2005 to 2012. JQuery... MVC3, MVC4, ASP.Net, C#, SQL Server 2012, SQL 2008, MVC, .Net, Reading, Basingstoke, Slough, Windsor,...
Involved Solutions Ltd
Rate: £0.00 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Slough, Berkshire
JUNIOR SYSTEMS ANALYST ICT/non-ICT projects/Requirements Definition/Functional Specification/process models/entity relationship/diagrams/Visio/SQL... System test scripting and execution... Good MS office skills including...
TD Group
Rate: Excellent rates will be paid to the right candidate.
Posted: 14 June 2013
Reading, Berkshire
The 1st Line Support / Junior Support Technician will be responsible for supporting a mix of customers and internal clients, providing support within Windows 7, Outlook 2010, and Office...
TEKsystems
Salary: £8.00 - £12.00 per hour
Posted: 17 June 2013