The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Statistics in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Statistics 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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
Statistics
Rank 107 118 109
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -9
Contract jobs citing Statistics 14 20 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.598% 0.631% 0.696%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.851% 3.170% 3.750%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 4
Average daily rate £258 £225 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.44% -25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £149 £157
10% offered a daily rate of more than £388 £245 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £280 £285
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -1.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £27.50 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +89.65%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £16.00 £14.07
% change year-on-year
+21.87% +13.71%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
491 631 560
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 20.97% 19.91% 18.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 255 230
Average daily rate £375 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £225 £209
10% offered a daily rate of more than £521 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £328
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 28 34
Average hourly rate £18.00 £18.00 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +12.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.25 £14.50 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £49.00 £39.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.63 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-3.88% -10.00%
Statistics
South East

Statistics
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Statistics Jobs Demand Trend

Statistics
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Statistics Daily Rate Trend

Statistics
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Statistics across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Berkshire Statistics Daily Rate Histogram

Statistics
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Statistics Hourly Rate Trend

Statistics
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Statistics 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Reading +5 9 £258 +14.44%
Maidenhead +1 2 - - 1
Slough - 1 - - 1
Newbury - - - -
Bracknell - - - -
Statistics
South East

Statistics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 7 (36.84%) SQL
2 6 (31.58%) Data Modelling
2 6 (31.58%) Telecoms
3 5 (26.32%) Finance
3 5 (26.32%) MS Excel
3 5 (26.32%) MS Access
3 5 (26.32%) .NET
3 5 (26.32%) Java
4 4 (21.05%) PL/SQL
4 4 (21.05%) VB
4 4 (21.05%) VBA
4 4 (21.05%) Oracle
4 4 (21.05%) E-Commerce
4 4 (21.05%) ETL
4 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
4 4 (21.05%) Oracle 10g
4 4 (21.05%) GIS
4 4 (21.05%) ESRI
4 4 (21.05%) ArcGIS
4 4 (21.05%) Python
4 4 (21.05%) Oracle Spatial
4 4 (21.05%) ArcObjects
4 4 (21.05%) Oracle 11g
5 3 (15.79%) Data Management
5 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
6 2 (10.53%) IIS
6 2 (10.53%) XML
6 2 (10.53%) MCP
6 2 (10.53%) Windows
6 2 (10.53%) MySQL

Statistics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (26.32%) .NET
2 4 (21.05%) ArcObjects
3 2 (10.53%) XML
3 2 (10.53%) MapReduce
4 1 (5.263%) REST
4 1 (5.263%) soapUI
4 1 (5.263%) HTML
4 1 (5.263%) ASP
4 1 (5.263%) SOAP
4 1 (5.263%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 4 (21.05%) ArcGIS
1 4 (21.05%) Oracle Spatial
2 2 (10.53%) IIS
2 2 (10.53%) SharePoint
2 2 (10.53%) SharePoint 2010
2 2 (10.53%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 5 (26.32%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.263%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (5.263%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (5.263%) HSPA
2 1 (5.263%) LTE
2 1 (5.263%) BSS
2 1 (5.263%) 2G
2 1 (5.263%) WiMAX
2 1 (5.263%) GSM
2 1 (5.263%) WCDMA
2 1 (5.263%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.263%) Internet
2 1 (5.263%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) MS Access
2 4 (21.05%) Oracle 10g
2 4 (21.05%) GIS
2 4 (21.05%) Oracle 11g
3 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
4 2 (10.53%) MySQL
4 2 (10.53%) Data Mining
4 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (10.53%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (10.53%) Hadoop
4 2 (10.53%) Apache Hive
4 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
4 2 (10.53%) SQL Server 2012
5 1 (5.263%) Big Data
5 1 (5.263%) DbVisualizer
5 1 (5.263%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (5.263%) JProfiler
1 1 (5.263%) LoadRunner
General
1 6 (31.58%) Telecoms
2 5 (26.32%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Games
Job Titles
1 12 (63.16%) Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Report Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Database Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Database Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Developer Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) GIS Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) 1st Line Support
4 2 (10.53%) Support Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) 1st Line Support Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Data Scientist
5 1 (5.263%) Network Optimisation Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Performance Test Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Radio Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Radio Network Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.263%) Performance Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.263%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Ontologies
1 2 (10.53%) Data Integration
2 1 (5.263%) Computer Science
2 1 (5.263%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.263%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
1 2 (10.53%) Windows XP
2 1 (5.263%) Windows 7
2 1 (5.263%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (5.263%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (5.263%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Data Modelling
2 4 (21.05%) E-Commerce
2 4 (21.05%) ETL
3 3 (15.79%) Data Management
4 2 (10.53%) Business Analysis
4 2 (10.53%) Configuration Management
4 2 (10.53%) Data Security
4 2 (10.53%) Workflow
4 2 (10.53%) Financial Modelling
4 2 (10.53%) Cluster Analysis
4 2 (10.53%) Regression Analysis
4 2 (10.53%) Analytics
5 1 (5.263%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (5.263%) Performance Testing
5 1 (5.263%) Validation
5 1 (5.263%) Software Testing
5 1 (5.263%) Network Design
5 1 (5.263%) Network Planning
5 1 (5.263%) Data Analysis
5 1 (5.263%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) SQL
2 5 (26.32%) Java
3 4 (21.05%) PL/SQL
3 4 (21.05%) VB
3 4 (21.05%) VBA
3 4 (21.05%) Python
4 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
4 2 (10.53%) R
5 1 (5.263%) Groovy
5 1 (5.263%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.263%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) MCP
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
1 2 (10.53%) MCDST
2 1 (5.263%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.263%) ISTQB
2 1 (5.263%) A+ Certification
2 1 (5.263%) ISEB
2 1 (5.263%) MCSE
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Splunk
2 1 (5.263%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Oracle
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
1 4 (21.05%) ESRI
2 1 (5.263%) Actix