The first table below looks at the demand for Analytics 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 Analytics 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 of the Processes & Methodologies 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Analytics
Rank 62 76 79
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +3
Contract jobs citing Analytics 8 8 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.958% 0.717% 0.576%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.449% 1.140% 0.867%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 3
Average daily rate £350 £300 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £212 £335
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £304 £505
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
-13.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £16.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year
+96.96% -26.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
552 702 692
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 66.11% 62.96% 66.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 270 310
Average daily rate £390 £370 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.40% +5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £264 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 24 18
Average hourly rate £16.00 £14.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.34% -47.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.20 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £23.80 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Analytics
Berkshire

Analytics
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Analytics Jobs Demand Trend

Analytics
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Analytics Daily Rate Trend

Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Reading Analytics Daily Rate Histogram

Analytics
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading Analytics Hourly Rate Trend

Analytics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 13 (54.17%) SQL
2 10 (41.67%) MS Excel
3 7 (29.17%) MS PowerPoint
4 6 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (20.83%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (20.83%) Predictive Analytics
5 5 (20.83%) Business Analytics
6 4 (16.67%) MDX
6 4 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (16.67%) Data Modelling
6 4 (16.67%) C#
6 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
6 4 (16.67%) OLAP
6 4 (16.67%) SAS
6 4 (16.67%) SPSS
7 3 (12.50%) Project Management
7 3 (12.50%) SharePoint
7 3 (12.50%) Finance
7 3 (12.50%) Data Mining
7 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
7 3 (12.50%) Statistics
7 3 (12.50%) Degree
8 2 (8.333%) Test Management
8 2 (8.333%) Test Scripting
8 2 (8.333%) Marketing
8 2 (8.333%) Google Analytics
8 2 (8.333%) Management Information System
8 2 (8.333%) Telecoms
8 2 (8.333%) SEO
8 2 (8.333%) Banking

Analytics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (16.67%) MDX
2 1 (4.167%) Hibernate
2 1 (4.167%) XML
2 1 (4.167%) XSLT
2 1 (4.167%) JMS
2 1 (4.167%) Spring
2 1 (4.167%) Velocity
2 1 (4.167%) FreeMarker
2 1 (4.167%) MapReduce
2 1 (4.167%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 4 (16.67%) SAS
2 3 (12.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.167%) Tomcat
3 1 (4.167%) Jetty
3 1 (4.167%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 10 (41.67%) MS Excel
2 7 (29.17%) MS PowerPoint
3 4 (16.67%) SPSS
4 1 (4.167%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (8.333%) Google Analytics
2 1 (4.167%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.167%) Internet
1 1 (4.167%) LDAP
1 1 (4.167%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (16.67%) OLAP
3 3 (12.50%) Data Mining
4 1 (4.167%) SAP BW
4 1 (4.167%) SAP BI
4 1 (4.167%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.167%) MySQL
4 1 (4.167%) MS Access
4 1 (4.167%) Data Mart
4 1 (4.167%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (4.167%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.167%) Apache Hive
4 1 (4.167%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.167%) Ant
1 1 (4.167%) JUnit
General
1 3 (12.50%) Finance
2 2 (8.333%) Marketing
2 2 (8.333%) Telecoms
2 2 (8.333%) Banking
2 2 (8.333%) Publishing
3 1 (4.167%) Games
3 1 (4.167%) Retail
3 1 (4.167%) Billing
Job Titles
1 13 (54.17%) Analyst
2 9 (37.50%) Business Analyst
3 4 (16.67%) Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Business Systems Analyst
4 3 (12.50%) Systems Analyst
4 3 (12.50%) Operations Analyst
5 2 (8.333%) Automation Analyst
5 2 (8.333%) Automation Test Analyst
5 2 (8.333%) Test Analyst
5 2 (8.333%) Analyst Developer
5 2 (8.333%) Consultant
6 1 (4.167%) Architect
6 1 (4.167%) Commercial Manager
6 1 (4.167%) Business Intelligence Consultant
6 1 (4.167%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.167%) Support Engineer
6 1 (4.167%) Junior
6 1 (4.167%) SQL Developer
6 1 (4.167%) Junior Business Analyst
6 1 (4.167%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Statistics
2 2 (8.333%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.167%) Client/Server
3 1 (4.167%) Computer Science
3 1 (4.167%) Ontologies
3 1 (4.167%) Data Integration
3 1 (4.167%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.333%) Linux
1 2 (8.333%) VMS
2 1 (4.167%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (20.83%) Predictive Analytics
2 5 (20.83%) Business Analytics
3 4 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 3 (12.50%) Project Management
5 2 (8.333%) Test Management
5 2 (8.333%) Test Scripting
5 2 (8.333%) SEO
5 2 (8.333%) ETL
5 2 (8.333%) GAP Analysis
6 1 (4.167%) Data Security
6 1 (4.167%) E-Commerce
6 1 (4.167%) CRM
6 1 (4.167%) Incident Management
6 1 (4.167%) Penetration Testing
6 1 (4.167%) Business Analysis
6 1 (4.167%) Data Management
6 1 (4.167%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (4.167%) Performance Testing
6 1 (4.167%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (54.17%) SQL
2 4 (16.67%) C#
3 2 (8.333%) Python
3 2 (8.333%) C
3 2 (8.333%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.167%) C++
4 1 (4.167%) Java
4 1 (4.167%) VBA
4 1 (4.167%) Bash shell
4 1 (4.167%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.167%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (4.167%) Splunk
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.333%) Omniture
2 2 (8.333%) Google
2 2 (8.333%) Oracle
3 1 (4.167%) SAP
3 1 (4.167%) Informatica
3 1 (4.167%) MicroStrategy
3 1 (4.167%) Cognos
3 1 (4.167%) Qualys
3 1 (4.167%) Verint
Reading, Berkshire
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Posted: 23 May 2013