The first table below looks at the demand for ADSL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ADSL 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 Communications & Networking category for the Reading 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
Assymetrical Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL)
Rank 69 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing ADSL 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.120% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.529% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £210 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £210 £245 £405
% change year-on-year
-14.28% -39.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £14.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
+10.71% -33.33%
All Communications & Networking
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
189 444 212
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 22.77% 41.73% 20.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 103 71
Average daily rate £275 £275 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -22.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £136 £160 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 5
Average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.95 £14.50 £12.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.15 £44.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
ADSL
Berkshire

ADSL
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ADSL across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Reading ADSL Jobs Demand Trend

ADSL
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading ADSL Daily Rate Trend

ADSL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading ADSL Hourly Rate Trend

ADSL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing ADSL 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 ADSL.

1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) LAN
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
1 2 (66.67%) Ethernet
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) BT
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) CentOS
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
2 1 (33.33%) Internet
2 1 (33.33%) Clustering
2 1 (33.33%) IP Telephony
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) ProCurve
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) Dell
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (33.33%) SAN

ADSL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
1 1 (33.33%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) LAN
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Ethernet
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) Broadband
2 1 (33.33%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) Internet
2 1 (33.33%) IP Telephony
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Support Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Support Technician
2 1 (33.33%) 1st Line Support
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Support Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) 1st Line Support Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Technician
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) CentOS
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) MCSE
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) CCNA
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) ProCurve
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) Dell
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) Lotus
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) BT