The first table below looks at the demand for ISEB in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ISEB over the 3 months to 24 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 Qualifications for the Buckinghamshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
Rank 48 54 56
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +2
Contract jobs citing ISEB 20 21 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 2.469% 2.152% 2.060%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.302% 10.71% 9.283%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 12
Average daily rate £350 £320 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.37% -28.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £262 £223 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £410 £385 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £350
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £18.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+35.13% -32.72%
All Qualifications
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
215 196 237
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 26.54% 20.08% 22.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 77 104
Average daily rate £300 £255 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.64% -25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £113 £142
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £401 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 14 19
Average hourly rate £18.73 £15.75 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.92% -4.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.65 £10.70 £9.46
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.08 £50.00 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
ISEB
South East

ISEB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ISEB across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Buckinghamshire ISEB Jobs Demand Trend

ISEB
Daily Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire ISEB Daily Rate Trend

ISEB
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ISEB across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Buckinghamshire ISEB Daily Rate Histogram

ISEB
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire ISEB Hourly Rate Trend

ISEB
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISEB within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Milton Keynes +12 16 £338 +4.65%
ISEB
South East

ISEB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing ISEB 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 ISEB.

1 22 (44.90%) Business Analysis
2 13 (26.53%) SC Cleared
2 13 (26.53%) Security Cleared
3 12 (24.49%) User Acceptance Testing
4 11 (22.45%) ITIL
5 10 (20.41%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (20.41%) Requirements Engineering
6 9 (18.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 9 (18.37%) QA
6 9 (18.37%) Test Management
6 9 (18.37%) Finance
6 9 (18.37%) HP
7 8 (16.33%) PRINCE2
7 8 (16.33%) SOAP
7 8 (16.33%) Oracle
7 8 (16.33%) Data Modelling
7 8 (16.33%) DV Cleared
7 8 (16.33%) Performance Testing
7 8 (16.33%) System Testing
8 7 (14.29%) UML
9 6 (12.24%) ISTQB
9 6 (12.24%) Requirements Analysis
9 6 (12.24%) VMware
9 6 (12.24%) Systems Analysis
10 5 (10.20%) ISEB Practitioner
10 5 (10.20%) WSDL
11 4 (8.163%) Telecoms
11 4 (8.163%) Workflow
11 4 (8.163%) Microsoft
11 4 (8.163%) SQL

ISEB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing ISEB 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 ISEB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (16.33%) SOAP
2 5 (10.20%) WSDL
3 4 (8.163%) BPEL4WS
4 3 (6.122%) JMS
5 2 (4.082%) XML
6 1 (2.041%) WebSphere
6 1 (2.041%) HTML
6 1 (2.041%) CSS
6 1 (2.041%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 3 (6.122%) Lync
1 3 (6.122%) Oracle Workflow
1 3 (6.122%) MS Exchange
2 1 (2.041%) ESB
Applications
1 1 (2.041%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.122%) iSCSI
1 3 (6.122%) NAS
1 3 (6.122%) SMTP
1 3 (6.122%) Firewall
1 3 (6.122%) Internet
1 3 (6.122%) SAN
2 1 (2.041%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.122%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
1 3 (6.122%) BODI
1 3 (6.122%) SQL Server
1 3 (6.122%) Oracle Reports
1 3 (6.122%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.082%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.041%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.041%) TeamCity
1 1 (2.041%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (2.041%) Hudson
1 1 (2.041%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (18.37%) Finance
2 4 (8.163%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.041%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (55.10%) Analyst
2 20 (40.82%) Business Analyst
3 8 (16.33%) Test Manager
4 6 (12.24%) Test Analyst
5 4 (8.163%) Business Systems Analyst
5 4 (8.163%) Systems Analyst
6 3 (6.122%) Test Leader
6 3 (6.122%) Service Manager
6 3 (6.122%) Transition Manager
6 3 (6.122%) Architect
6 3 (6.122%) Tester
6 3 (6.122%) Process Analyst
6 3 (6.122%) Technical Architect
6 3 (6.122%) Business Process Analyst
7 2 (4.082%) Report Analyst
7 2 (4.082%) Software Tester
8 1 (2.041%) Operations Engineer
8 1 (2.041%) Web Tester
8 1 (2.041%) Test Engineer
8 1 (2.041%) Software Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.122%) Clustering
1 3 (6.122%) Cryptography
2 2 (4.082%) Thin Client
2 2 (4.082%) Tandem
2 2 (4.082%) Fat Client
3 1 (2.041%) iPhone
3 1 (2.041%) iPad
3 1 (2.041%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.041%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.163%) Windows
2 3 (6.122%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (2.041%) Android
3 1 (2.041%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (44.90%) Business Analysis
2 12 (24.49%) User Acceptance Testing
3 11 (22.45%) ITIL
4 10 (20.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (20.41%) Requirements Engineering
5 9 (18.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 9 (18.37%) Test Management
6 8 (16.33%) PRINCE2
6 8 (16.33%) Data Modelling
6 8 (16.33%) Performance Testing
6 8 (16.33%) System Testing
7 7 (14.29%) UML
8 6 (12.24%) Requirements Analysis
8 6 (12.24%) Systems Analysis
9 4 (8.163%) Workflow
9 4 (8.163%) Software Testing
9 4 (8.163%) Technical Architecture
9 4 (8.163%) Fault Management
9 4 (8.163%) Test Strategy
10 3 (6.122%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.163%) SQL
2 3 (6.122%) C#
2 3 (6.122%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.041%) Perl
3 1 (2.041%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (26.53%) SC Cleared
1 13 (26.53%) Security Cleared
2 8 (16.33%) DV Cleared
3 6 (12.24%) ISTQB
4 5 (10.20%) ISEB Practitioner
5 4 (8.163%) GSAE
6 3 (6.122%) MCTS
6 3 (6.122%) MCP
6 3 (6.122%) CCSP
6 3 (6.122%) CCNA
6 3 (6.122%) MCSE
6 3 (6.122%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (6.122%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.041%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (2.041%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.37%) QA
2 3 (6.122%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (8.163%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (6.122%) Hyper-V
2 3 (6.122%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (6.122%) HP Quality Center
1 3 (6.122%) OpenView
1 3 (6.122%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (2.041%) SCCM
2 1 (2.041%) SCOM
2 1 (2.041%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 9 (18.37%) HP
2 8 (16.33%) Oracle
3 6 (12.24%) VMware
4 4 (8.163%) Microsoft
5 3 (6.122%) Business Objects
5 3 (6.122%) Sun
5 3 (6.122%) Citrix
5 3 (6.122%) StorageTek