The first table below looks at the demand for Performance Improvement 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 Performance Improvement over the 3 months to 19 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 of the Processes & Methodologies 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Performance Improvement
Rank 119 133 -
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -
Contract jobs citing Performance Improvement 2 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.085% 0.158% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.128% 0.244% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £366 £290
% change year-on-year
-1.70% +26.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1567 2051 1926
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 66.94% 64.70% 63.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 803 788
Average daily rate £400 £370 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.10% +5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 49 73
Average hourly rate £28.75 £27.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.48% +20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.50 £11.45 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £50.30 £47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Performance Improvement
South East

Performance Improvement
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Performance Improvement across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Berkshire Performance Improvement Jobs Demand Trend

Performance Improvement
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Performance Improvement Daily Rate Trend

Performance Improvement
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Performance Improvement Hourly Rate Trend

Performance Improvement
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Improvement within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 19 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
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Job
Vacancies
Bracknell - - - -
Reading - - - -
Performance Improvement
South East

Performance Improvement
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Performance Improvement 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 Performance Improvement.

1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) VoIP
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) Ethernet
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) SLA
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) CCNP
2 1 (33.33%) CCNA
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Juniper
2 1 (33.33%) MPLS
2 1 (33.33%) OSPF
2 1 (33.33%) BGP
2 1 (33.33%) Blackberry
2 1 (33.33%) EIGRP
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Management
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) Riverbed
2 1 (33.33%) Network Management
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Service Desk Management

Performance Improvement
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Performance Improvement 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 Performance Improvement. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) VoIP
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) Ethernet
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) MPLS
1 1 (33.33%) OSPF
1 1 (33.33%) BGP
1 1 (33.33%) EIGRP
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Service Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Network Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Service Desk Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Blackberry
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Management
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) Network Management
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Service Desk Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) CCNA
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Juniper
1 1 (33.33%) Riverbed