The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in IT contracts advertised for the Bracknell region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Finance over the 3 months to 20 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 terms in our General category for the Bracknell 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 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Financial
Rank 27 19 10
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -9
Contract jobs citing Finance 11 6 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bracknell 4.641% 4.167% 8.772%
As % of the General category 19.64% 16.22% 24.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 6
Average daily rate £303 £355 £263
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.78% +35.23%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £351 £138
10% offered a daily rate of more than £434 £359 £583
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £14.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.39 £20.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year
-5.41% -4.65%
All of the General Category
Bracknell
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
56 37 62
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bracknell 23.63% 25.69% 36.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 9 27
Average daily rate £425 £355 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.71% +1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £177 £285 £149
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £445 £999
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 7
Average hourly rate £17.50 £13.75 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+27.27% -1.78%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £9.50 £10.38
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £14.50 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -5.66%
Finance
Berkshire

Finance
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Finance across the Bracknell region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Bracknell Finance Jobs Demand Trend

Finance
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bracknell Finance Daily Rate Trend

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Bracknell Finance Daily Rate Histogram

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bracknell Finance Hourly Rate Trend

Finance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bracknell region citing Finance 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 Finance.

1 6 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 5 (20.83%) Project Management
2 5 (20.83%) Telecoms
2 5 (20.83%) Migration
2 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
2 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
3 4 (16.67%) Marketing
3 4 (16.67%) Oracle
4 3 (12.50%) Data Migration
5 2 (8.333%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 2 (8.333%) Retail
5 2 (8.333%) Project Planning
5 2 (8.333%) User Stories
5 2 (8.333%) Mobile App
5 2 (8.333%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (8.333%) Oracle 8/8i
5 2 (8.333%) Red Hat
5 2 (8.333%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (8.333%) Scrum
5 2 (8.333%) HPUX
5 2 (8.333%) Linux
5 2 (8.333%) E-Commerce
6 1 (4.167%) ERP
6 1 (4.167%) ETL
6 1 (4.167%) Broadband
6 1 (4.167%) PSTN
6 1 (4.167%) WAN
6 1 (4.167%) TOAD
6 1 (4.167%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (4.167%) B2C

Finance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (4.167%) HTML
1 1 (4.167%) J2EE
1 1 (4.167%) CSS
1 1 (4.167%) JDBC
1 1 (4.167%) JSP
1 1 (4.167%) Servlets
1 1 (4.167%) XML
1 1 (4.167%) XSLT
1 1 (4.167%) Hibernate
1 1 (4.167%) Spring
1 1 (4.167%) Ajax
1 1 (4.167%) Spring MVC
Applications
1 1 (4.167%) MS Project
1 1 (4.167%) MS Office
1 1 (4.167%) MS Excel
1 1 (4.167%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (4.167%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.167%) Broadband
1 1 (4.167%) PSTN
1 1 (4.167%) WAN
1 1 (4.167%) SAN
1 1 (4.167%) Internet
1 1 (4.167%) BSS
1 1 (4.167%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.333%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (4.167%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.167%) TOAD
2 1 (4.167%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.167%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (4.167%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (4.167%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (4.167%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (4.167%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (4.167%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.167%) Oracle Reports
General
1 5 (20.83%) Telecoms
2 4 (16.67%) Marketing
3 2 (8.333%) Retail
4 1 (4.167%) Billing
4 1 (4.167%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.167%) Law
4 1 (4.167%) Legal
4 1 (4.167%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Project Manager
2 5 (20.83%) Analyst
3 4 (16.67%) Business Manager
4 3 (12.50%) Business Analyst
4 3 (12.50%) Administrator
5 2 (8.333%) Developer
5 2 (8.333%) Consultant
5 2 (8.333%) Product Manager
6 1 (4.167%) Data Administrator
6 1 (4.167%) Business Project Manager
6 1 (4.167%) Enterprise Consultant
6 1 (4.167%) Applications Manager
6 1 (4.167%) UNIX Consultant
6 1 (4.167%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 1 (4.167%) Business Change Project Manager
6 1 (4.167%) Finance Project Manager
6 1 (4.167%) Linux Consultant
6 1 (4.167%) PMO Administrator
6 1 (4.167%) OSS Consultant
6 1 (4.167%) Planning Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.333%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.167%) PMI
2 1 (4.167%) SecurID
2 1 (4.167%) FMCG
2 1 (4.167%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.333%) HPUX
1 2 (8.333%) Linux
1 2 (8.333%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.167%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 5 (20.83%) Project Management
2 5 (20.83%) Migration
3 3 (12.50%) Data Migration
4 2 (8.333%) Project Planning
4 2 (8.333%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (8.333%) Scrum
4 2 (8.333%) E-Commerce
4 2 (8.333%) User Stories
5 1 (4.167%) ERP
5 1 (4.167%) ETL
5 1 (4.167%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (4.167%) B2C
5 1 (4.167%) Quality Management
5 1 (4.167%) Process Management
5 1 (4.167%) MVC
5 1 (4.167%) Workflow
5 1 (4.167%) Validation
5 1 (4.167%) Information Security
5 1 (4.167%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.167%) Java
1 1 (4.167%) JavaScript
1 1 (4.167%) PL/SQL
1 1 (4.167%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
1 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.333%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (4.167%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (4.167%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.167%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.167%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (4.167%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle
2 2 (8.333%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.167%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.167%) Hyperion