The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Banking 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 terms in our General 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
Banking
Rank 56 76 72
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -4
Contract jobs citing Banking 14 5 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 1.687% 0.470% 0.757%
As % of the General category 4.531% 1.214% 3.113%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 4
Average daily rate £416 £300 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+38.75% -29.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £343 £300 £289
10% offered a daily rate of more than £433 £300 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £390 £383
% change year-on-year
-0.51% +1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.00 £22.00 £16.63
% change year-on-year
-18.18% +32.33%
All of the General Category
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
309 412 257
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 37.23% 38.72% 24.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 117 108
Average daily rate £325 £301 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.15% -14.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £100 £218 £179
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £525 £533
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 12 9
Average hourly rate £15.00 £11.13 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+34.83% +1.13%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Banking
Berkshire

Banking
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Banking Jobs Demand Trend

Banking
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Banking Daily Rate Trend

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Banking across the Reading region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Reading Banking Daily Rate Histogram

Banking
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading Banking Hourly Rate Trend

Banking
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 16 (41.03%) .NET
1 16 (41.03%) Telecoms
2 14 (35.90%) C#
2 14 (35.90%) SQL Server
3 12 (30.77%) Finance
3 12 (30.77%) Scrum
4 11 (28.21%) ASP.NET
4 11 (28.21%) MVC
4 11 (28.21%) TDD
4 11 (28.21%) WCF
5 10 (25.64%) Windows
5 10 (25.64%) SOA
6 9 (23.08%) Web Services
6 9 (23.08%) BDD
6 9 (23.08%) SpecFlow
7 8 (20.51%) J2EE
7 8 (20.51%) CSS
7 8 (20.51%) XML
7 8 (20.51%) Middleware
7 8 (20.51%) jQuery
7 8 (20.51%) HTML5
8 7 (17.95%) SQL
8 7 (17.95%) UNIX
8 7 (17.95%) UML
8 7 (17.95%) IBM
9 6 (15.38%) Java
9 6 (15.38%) ESB
9 6 (15.38%) JIRA
9 6 (15.38%) Automation Testing
10 5 (12.82%) EMC

Banking
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 16 (41.03%) .NET
2 11 (28.21%) ASP.NET
2 11 (28.21%) WCF
3 9 (23.08%) Web Services
4 8 (20.51%) XML
4 8 (20.51%) Middleware
4 8 (20.51%) CSS
4 8 (20.51%) J2EE
4 8 (20.51%) jQuery
4 8 (20.51%) HTML5
5 3 (7.692%) LINQ
5 3 (7.692%) XSLT
6 2 (5.128%) WF
6 2 (5.128%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (5.128%) HTML
7 1 (2.564%) FreeMarker
7 1 (2.564%) XSL
7 1 (2.564%) Hibernate
7 1 (2.564%) Spring
7 1 (2.564%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 6 (15.38%) ESB
2 3 (7.692%) Tomcat
3 2 (5.128%) MSMQ
3 2 (5.128%) IIS
3 2 (5.128%) Apache
3 2 (5.128%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (2.564%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (2.564%) MS Exchange
4 1 (2.564%) SAS
4 1 (2.564%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (2.564%) Jetty
Applications
1 1 (2.564%) MS Excel
1 1 (2.564%) SPSS
1 1 (2.564%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.82%) SAN
2 3 (7.692%) TCP/IP
2 3 (7.692%) DNS
2 3 (7.692%) LAN
2 3 (7.692%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (5.128%) HTTP
3 2 (5.128%) BSS
4 1 (2.564%) Unified Communications
4 1 (2.564%) LDAP
4 1 (2.564%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (35.90%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.692%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.564%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.564%) Star Schema
3 1 (2.564%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.564%) Data Mart
3 1 (2.564%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (2.564%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 9 (23.08%) SpecFlow
2 6 (15.38%) JIRA
3 3 (7.692%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (7.692%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.564%) StarTeam
4 1 (2.564%) Ant
4 1 (2.564%) JUnit
General
1 16 (41.03%) Telecoms
2 12 (30.77%) Finance
3 4 (10.26%) Retail
4 2 (5.128%) Billing
4 2 (5.128%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (51.28%) Developer
2 12 (30.77%) .NET Developer
3 5 (12.82%) Team Leader
4 4 (10.26%) Analyst
4 4 (10.26%) J2EE Team Leader
4 4 (10.26%) Java Team Leader
5 3 (7.692%) Storage Engineer
5 3 (7.692%) Java Developer
5 3 (7.692%) Development Team Leader
5 3 (7.692%) Business Analyst
5 3 (7.692%) Systems Analyst
6 2 (5.128%) Consultant
6 2 (5.128%) Development Manager
6 2 (5.128%) Senior Manager
6 2 (5.128%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.128%) Business Systems Analyst
6 2 (5.128%) C# Developer
6 2 (5.128%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (5.128%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (5.128%) Development Team Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.692%) HACMP
1 3 (7.692%) CLARiiON
1 3 (7.692%) Clustering
1 3 (7.692%) LPAR
1 3 (7.692%) DLPAR
2 1 (2.564%) Open Source
2 1 (2.564%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.64%) Windows
2 7 (17.95%) UNIX
3 4 (10.26%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (7.692%) AIX
4 3 (7.692%) Linux
4 3 (7.692%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (7.692%) Windows 7
5 2 (5.128%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (5.128%) Windows XP
6 1 (2.564%) Windows Vista
6 1 (2.564%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.77%) Scrum
2 11 (28.21%) TDD
2 11 (28.21%) MVC
3 10 (25.64%) SOA
4 9 (23.08%) BDD
5 7 (17.95%) UML
6 6 (15.38%) Automation Testing
7 5 (12.82%) Agile Software Development
8 4 (10.26%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (10.26%) Web Development
9 3 (7.692%) Multithreading
9 3 (7.692%) Kanban
9 3 (7.692%) Project Management
9 3 (7.692%) Workflow
9 3 (7.692%) ITIL
9 3 (7.692%) ETL
10 2 (5.128%) Business Intelligence
10 2 (5.128%) PRINCE2
10 2 (5.128%) Migration
10 2 (5.128%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.90%) C#
2 7 (17.95%) SQL
3 6 (15.38%) Java
4 2 (5.128%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.564%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 2 (5.128%) Degree
2 1 (2.564%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (2.564%) PMP
2 1 (2.564%) PMI Certification
System Software
1 2 (5.128%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (5.128%) EMC RecoverPoint
2 1 (2.564%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.564%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.564%) VMware ESX
2 1 (2.564%) VMware Workstation
2 1 (2.564%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (2.564%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 3 (7.692%) Tivoli
1 3 (7.692%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) IBM
2 5 (12.82%) EMC
3 3 (7.692%) Red Hat
4 2 (5.128%) VMware
4 2 (5.128%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.564%) Citrix
5 1 (2.564%) Avaya
5 1 (2.564%) Informatica
5 1 (2.564%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (2.564%) Oracle
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