The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Billing in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Billing over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Billing
Rank 66 39 62
Rank change year-on-year
-27 +23
Contract jobs citing Billing 5 42 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.581% 3.691% 1.455%
As % of the General category 1.592% 9.417% 5.837%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 18 7
Average daily rate £258 £309 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.51% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £204 £265 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £312 £490 £364
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £425 £335
% change year-on-year
-17.64% +26.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £11.00 £17.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-35.29% -2.85%
All of the General Category
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
314 446 257
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 36.47% 39.19% 24.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 126 104
Average daily rate £325 £309 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.34% -11.78%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £100 £219 £176
10% offered a daily rate of more than £437 £519 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 10 9
Average hourly rate £15.00 £11.38 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+31.86% +3.40%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.84%
Billing
Berkshire

Billing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Billing Jobs Demand Trend

Billing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Billing Daily Rate Trend

Billing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Billing across the Reading region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Reading Billing Daily Rate Histogram

Billing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading Billing Hourly Rate Trend

Billing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Billing 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 Billing.

1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) CRM
2 2 (20.00%) BSS
2 2 (20.00%) C#
2 2 (20.00%) SAP
2 2 (20.00%) ISEB
2 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (10.00%) Workflow
3 1 (10.00%) Juniper
3 1 (10.00%) CICS
3 1 (10.00%) MicroStrategy
3 1 (10.00%) Internet
3 1 (10.00%) JCL
3 1 (10.00%) Middleware
3 1 (10.00%) SAP R/3
3 1 (10.00%) Six Sigma
3 1 (10.00%) Project Management
3 1 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (10.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (10.00%) Process Management
3 1 (10.00%) Change Management
3 1 (10.00%) Back Office
3 1 (10.00%) Web Services
3 1 (10.00%) XML
3 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (10.00%) Windows
3 1 (10.00%) UML
3 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
3 1 (10.00%) MS Access
3 1 (10.00%) COBOL

Billing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Billing 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 Billing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (10.00%) Middleware
1 1 (10.00%) Web Services
1 1 (10.00%) XML
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) SAP Business Workflow
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) CICS
1 1 (10.00%) ESB
1 1 (10.00%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (10.00%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) SAP R/3
1 1 (10.00%) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) BSS
2 1 (10.00%) Internet
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (10.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MS Access
1 1 (10.00%) DB2
1 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (10.00%) Selenium
1 1 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (10.00%) Back Office
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (10.00%) Tester
1 1 (10.00%) Developer
1 1 (10.00%) Analyst
1 1 (10.00%) Consultant
1 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (10.00%) Administrator
1 1 (10.00%) OSS Project Manager
1 1 (10.00%) IP Engineer
1 1 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
1 1 (10.00%) Change Manager
1 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (10.00%) Software Tester
1 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (10.00%) SAP CRM Consultant
1 1 (10.00%) SAP Consultant
1 1 (10.00%) CRM Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (10.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) CRM
2 1 (10.00%) Workflow
2 1 (10.00%) Six Sigma
2 1 (10.00%) Project Management
2 1 (10.00%) Process Management
2 1 (10.00%) Change Management
2 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (10.00%) UML
2 1 (10.00%) Automated Testing
2 1 (10.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (10.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (10.00%) Time Management
2 1 (10.00%) Analytics
2 1 (10.00%) SOA
2 1 (10.00%) ETL
2 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (10.00%) Validation
2 1 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (10.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) JCL
2 1 (10.00%) COBOL
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) Juniper
2 1 (10.00%) MicroStrategy
2 1 (10.00%) Cognos
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft