Reading Billing Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Billing' in contract IT jobs within the Reading region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Billing over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Andover Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chertsey Cheshire City of London Colchester County Antrim Crawley Croydon Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Lancashire Leeds Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Oxfordshire Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Rugby Scotland Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West Street Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	55	28
Rank change on same period last year	-27
Matching contract IT job ads	19	43
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.046 %
As % of the category below	4.328 %	10.09 %
Daily rates quoted	11	23
Average minimum daily rate	£358	£353
Average daily rate	£370	£377
% change on same period last year	-1.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£381	£401
UK excluding London average daily rate	£400	£369
% change on same period last year	+8.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£8.00	-
Average hourly rate	£9.33	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£10.67	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.85	£19.54
% change on same period last year	+6.68 %
General Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	439	426
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.579 %	0.452 %
Daily rates quoted	157	116
Average minimum daily rate	£318	£379
Average daily rate	£339	£399
% change on same period last year	-15.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£360	£418
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£372
% change on same period last year	+3.96 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	30
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.35	£32.24
Average hourly rate	£27.05	£33.88
% change on same period last year	-20.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.75	£35.51
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.47	£27.20
% change on same period last year	-2.68 %
Billing Berkshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Billing across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Billing across the Reading region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Billing across the Reading region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 16 (61.54 %) Telecoms 2 5 (19.23 %) Finance 2 5 (19.23 %) MS PowerPoint 3 4 (15.38 %) Legal 3 4 (15.38 %) Marketing 3 4 (15.38 %) Perl 3 4 (15.38 %) Linux 4 3 (11.54 %) MS Excel 4 3 (11.54 %) MS Access 4 3 (11.54 %) Cisco 4 3 (11.54 %) Interactive Media 4 3 (11.54 %) Network Security 4 3 (11.54 %) Windows 4 3 (11.54 %) Wi-Fi 4 3 (11.54 %) Games

4 3 (11.54 %) Statistics 5 2 (7.692 %) Validation 5 2 (7.692 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 2 (7.692 %) Performance Testing 5 2 (7.692 %) Project Management 5 2 (7.692 %) Service Delivery 5 2 (7.692 %) Change Management 5 2 (7.692 %) Cognos 5 2 (7.692 %) SAS 5 2 (7.692 %) BusinessObjects 5 2 (7.692 %) OLAP 5 2 (7.692 %) Business Objects 6 1 (3.846 %) Apache 6 1 (3.846 %) SQL 6 1 (3.846 %) MySQL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 Platforms 1 2 (7.692 %) SAS 2 1 (3.846 %) Apache	Applications 1 5 (19.23 %) MS PowerPoint 2 3 (11.54 %) MS Excel
Business Applications 1 1 (3.846 %) Singl.eView	Communications & Networking 1 3 (11.54 %) Wi-Fi 1 3 (11.54 %) Network Security 2 1 (3.846 %) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (11.54 %) MS Access 2 2 (7.692 %) BusinessObjects 2 2 (7.692 %) OLAP 3 1 (3.846 %) MySQL 3 1 (3.846 %) Oracle OLAP	Development Applications 1 1 (3.846 %) TestDirector
General 1 16 (61.54 %) Telecoms 2 5 (19.23 %) Finance 3 4 (15.38 %) Legal 3 4 (15.38 %) Marketing 4 3 (11.54 %) Interactive Media 4 3 (11.54 %) Games 5 1 (3.846 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 12 (46.15 %) Analyst 2 6 (23.08 %) Business Analyst 3 4 (15.38 %) Test Analyst 4 3 (11.54 %) Network Engineer 4 3 (11.54 %) Administrator 5 2 (7.692 %) Network Support 5 2 (7.692 %) Cisco Support 5 2 (7.692 %) UAT Analyst 5 2 (7.692 %) Telecoms Business Analyst 5 2 (7.692 %) Solutions Designer 5 2 (7.692 %) Programme Manager 6 1 (3.846 %) Developer 6 1 (3.846 %) Test Manager 6 1 (3.846 %) Consultant 6 1 (3.846 %) Technical Business Analyst 6 1 (3.846 %) Technical Analyst 6 1 (3.846 %) Perl Developer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (11.54 %) Statistics	Operating Systems 1 4 (15.38 %) Linux 2 3 (11.54 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (7.692 %) Project Management 1 2 (7.692 %) Service Delivery 1 2 (7.692 %) Change Management 1 2 (7.692 %) Validation 1 2 (7.692 %) User Acceptance Testing 1 2 (7.692 %) Performance Testing 2 1 (3.846 %) Test Management 2 1 (3.846 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (3.846 %) Migration 2 1 (3.846 %) Data Analysis 2 1 (3.846 %) Business Intelligence	Programming Languages 1 4 (15.38 %) Perl 2 1 (3.846 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 1 (3.846 %) ISEB 1 1 (3.846 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (3.846 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors 1 3 (11.54 %) Cisco 2 2 (7.692 %) Business Objects 2 2 (7.692 %) Cognos 3 1 (3.846 %) Oracle 3 1 (3.846 %) IBM 3 1 (3.846 %) MicroStrategy 3 1 (3.846 %) Red Hat 3 1 (3.846 %) Remedy 3 1 (3.846 %) Intec 3 1 (3.846 %) Cramer 3 1 (3.846 %) Altiris