The first table below looks at the demand for Risk Assessment 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 Risk Assessment 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Risk Assessment
Rank 120 126 119
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -7
Contract jobs citing Risk Assessment 3 13 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.124% 0.426% 0.202%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.188% 0.682% 0.321%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 9 2
Average daily rate - £360 £630
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -42.81%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £365 £350
% change year-on-year
+2.73% +4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.00 £23.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+23.40% -27.69%
All Processes & Methodologies
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1593 1907 1872
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 65.83% 62.55% 62.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 651 723 742
Average daily rate £388 £365 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.16% +4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £495 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 63 75
Average hourly rate £17.00 £19.00 £32.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.52% -41.08%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.93 £11.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £50.00 £47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Risk Assessment
South East

Risk Assessment
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Risk Assessment Jobs Demand Trend

Risk Assessment
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Risk Assessment Daily Rate Trend

Risk Assessment
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Risk Assessment Hourly Rate Trend

Risk Assessment
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Risk Assessment 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
Slough - 3 - -
Risk Assessment
South East

Risk Assessment
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (33.33%) Project Management
1 2 (33.33%) Scrum
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) COBIT
2 1 (16.67%) Wireshark
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (16.67%) Test Management
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (16.67%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) Information Security
2 1 (16.67%) Billing
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Forensics
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
2 1 (16.67%) Information Security Management
2 1 (16.67%) Security Management
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Perl
2 1 (16.67%) PHP

Risk Assessment
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (16.67%) WML
1 1 (16.67%) XML
1 1 (16.67%) WAP
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) GPRS
1 1 (16.67%) GSM
1 1 (16.67%) UMTS
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
1 1 (16.67%) RIP
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) SSL
1 1 (16.67%) Internet
1 1 (16.67%) Wireshark
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (16.67%) Data Mining
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) TestDirector
General
1 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Senior Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Configuration Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Release Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Senior Project Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Scrum
1 2 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) Information Security Management
2 1 (16.67%) Security Management
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
2 1 (16.67%) Information Security
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Forensics
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Test Management
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) Perl
1 1 (16.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) ISEB
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 17799
1 1 (16.67%) COBIT
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco