The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Clearswift 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 Clearswift 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 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 Clearswift Limited.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Clearswift
Rank 68 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Clearswift 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.240% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.446% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £450
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £27.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 - -
All Vendors
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
448 610 606
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 53.65% 54.71% 58.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 191 246
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 26 42 24
Average hourly rate £22.50 £15.50 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+45.16% -3.12%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.90 £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%
Clearswift
Berkshire

Clearswift
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Clearswift Jobs Demand Trend

Clearswift
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Clearswift Daily Rate Trend

Clearswift
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading Clearswift Hourly Rate Trend

Clearswift
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 6 (100.00%) Retail
1 6 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 6 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 6 (100.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 5 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (83.33%) SCOM
2 5 (83.33%) SQL Server 2005
2 5 (83.33%) VMware
2 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (83.33%) MS Office
2 5 (83.33%) Windows
3 4 (66.67%) ISA Server
4 3 (50.00%) Windows XP
4 3 (50.00%) MS Visio
4 3 (50.00%) SCCM
4 3 (50.00%) IDOL
4 3 (50.00%) System Testing
4 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (50.00%) vSphere
5 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (33.33%) Clustering
5 2 (33.33%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
5 2 (33.33%) HP

Clearswift
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 6 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 6 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 6 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 6 (100.00%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 5 (83.33%) MS Office
2 3 (50.00%) MS Visio
3 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server 2005
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (50.00%) IDOL
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 6 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
1 3 (50.00%) Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (16.67%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Windows XP
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) System Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (66.67%) ISA Server
4 3 (50.00%) vSphere
5 2 (33.33%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
6 1 (16.67%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) SCOM
2 3 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) VMware
3 2 (33.33%) HP
4 1 (16.67%) Websense