The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of CA products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CA 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within CA Technologies.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CA
Rank 52 80 62
Rank change year-on-year
+28 -18
Contract jobs citing CA 19 1 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 2.207% 0.088% 1.455%
As % of the Vendors category 4.232% 0.160% 2.500%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 10
Average daily rate £140 - £413
90% offered a daily rate of more than £138 - £335
10% offered a daily rate of more than £520 - £466
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £294 £338
% change year-on-year
+8.93% -12.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.02 £47.50 £21.75
% change year-on-year
-59.95% +118.39%
All Vendors
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
449 626 600
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 52.15% 55.01% 58.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 188 244
Average daily rate £350 £330 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% -15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £215 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 42 24
Average hourly rate £20.75 £15.25 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+36.06% -4.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.45 £10.00 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £30.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
CA
Berkshire

CA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading CA Jobs Demand Trend

CA
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading CA Daily Rate Trend

CA
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Reading CA Daily Rate Histogram

CA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading CA Hourly Rate Trend

CA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 12 (63.16%) Oracle
2 11 (57.89%) Internet
3 9 (47.37%) Firewall
3 9 (47.37%) Tivoli
3 9 (47.37%) Information Security
3 9 (47.37%) CESG
3 9 (47.37%) TOGAF
3 9 (47.37%) Ethical Hacking
3 9 (47.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (47.37%) Network Security
3 9 (47.37%) PCI DSS
3 9 (47.37%) Security Cleared
4 8 (42.11%) Finance
5 7 (36.84%) VMware
5 7 (36.84%) Unicenter
5 7 (36.84%) Remedy
5 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
5 7 (36.84%) Active Directory
5 7 (36.84%) Royalblue
5 7 (36.84%) HP
5 7 (36.84%) MS Office
5 7 (36.84%) Windows
5 7 (36.84%) Windows XP
5 7 (36.84%) Windows 7
5 7 (36.84%) SC Cleared
5 7 (36.84%) FrontRange
5 7 (36.84%) Technical Architecture
6 6 (31.58%) Service Delivery
6 6 (31.58%) Incident Management
6 6 (31.58%) SCCM

CA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle UPK
Applications
1 7 (36.84%) MS Office
2 3 (15.79%) Open Workbench
3 2 (10.53%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (15.79%) CA Clarity
2 2 (10.53%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 11 (57.89%) Internet
2 9 (47.37%) Firewall
2 9 (47.37%) Network Security
3 6 (31.58%) LAN
3 6 (31.58%) WAN
3 6 (31.58%) Ethernet
3 6 (31.58%) TCP/IP
3 6 (31.58%) VPN
4 4 (21.05%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 8 (42.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Analyst
2 7 (36.84%) Service Analyst
2 7 (36.84%) Service Desk Analyst
3 5 (26.32%) Architect
3 5 (26.32%) Security Architect
4 4 (21.05%) Security Analyst
5 3 (15.79%) Consultant
5 3 (15.79%) Clarity Consultant
5 3 (15.79%) Technical Security Analyst
5 3 (15.79%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (5.263%) Information Architect
6 1 (5.263%) Information Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 9 (47.37%) CESG
2 6 (31.58%) Blackberry
3 5 (26.32%) CESG CLAS
4 3 (15.79%) RMADS
4 3 (15.79%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (36.84%) Windows
1 7 (36.84%) Windows XP
1 7 (36.84%) Windows 7
2 6 (31.58%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Information Security
1 9 (47.37%) TOGAF
1 9 (47.37%) Ethical Hacking
2 7 (36.84%) Technical Architecture
3 6 (31.58%) Service Delivery
3 6 (31.58%) Incident Management
3 6 (31.58%) Software Distribution
4 4 (21.05%) Change Control
4 4 (21.05%) Security Testing
5 3 (15.79%) Project Management
5 3 (15.79%) Project Planning
5 3 (15.79%) Security Architecture
6 2 (10.53%) ITIL
6 2 (10.53%) Service Management
6 2 (10.53%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 7 (36.84%) SC Cleared
3 5 (26.32%) CISA
3 5 (26.32%) CISM
3 5 (26.32%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (47.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (47.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (36.84%) Active Directory
2 6 (31.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (31.58%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 9 (47.37%) Tivoli
2 7 (36.84%) Unicenter
3 6 (31.58%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (63.16%) Oracle
2 7 (36.84%) VMware
2 7 (36.84%) Remedy
2 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 7 (36.84%) Royalblue
2 7 (36.84%) HP
2 7 (36.84%) FrontRange
3 6 (31.58%) Citrix
4 3 (15.79%) MicroStrategy
4 3 (15.79%) Niku
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Posted: 17 May 2013