Computer Science Contracts in Reading
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Computer Science in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Computer Science over the 3 months to 21 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 Miscellaneous 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Computer Science (Computing Science)
Rank 63 79 66
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -13
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 10 2 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 1.168% 0.181% 1.262%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.926% 1.093% 5.991%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 5
Average daily rate £325 - £288
90% offered a daily rate of more than £305 - £85
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 - £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £16.00 - £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.25 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-2.41% -11.42%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 203 183 217
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 23.71% 16.56% 21.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 75 101
Average daily rate £375 £350 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +2.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £235 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 6
Average hourly rate £17.50 £15.79 £15.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.84% +3.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £13.53 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.50 £50.00 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-4.34% -13.20%
Computer Science
Berkshire

Computer Science
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Computer Science Jobs Demand Trend

Computer Science
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Computer Science Daily Rate Trend

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Computer Science across the Reading region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Reading Computer Science Daily Rate Histogram

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading Computer Science Hourly Rate Trend

Computer Science
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Computer Science 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 Computer Science.

1 13 (86.67%) Degree
2 8 (53.33%) C#
3 7 (46.67%) Visual Studio
4 6 (40.00%) SQL
5 5 (33.33%) Windows
5 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 4 (26.67%) Automated Testing
6 4 (26.67%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (26.67%) Project Management
6 4 (26.67%) C++
6 4 (26.67%) .NET
6 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
6 4 (26.67%) Games
7 3 (20.00%) Service Management
7 3 (20.00%) Physics
7 3 (20.00%) ISTQB
7 3 (20.00%) IIS
7 3 (20.00%) ITIL
7 3 (20.00%) Web Services
7 3 (20.00%) MS Excel
7 3 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (20.00%) WCF
7 3 (20.00%) Load Testing
7 3 (20.00%) REST
7 3 (20.00%) Test Strategy
7 3 (20.00%) Windows Phone 8
7 3 (20.00%) Windows Phone
8 2 (13.33%) Incident Management
8 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (13.33%) Windows Azure

Computer Science
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Computer Science 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 Computer Science. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (26.67%) .NET
2 3 (20.00%) Web Services
2 3 (20.00%) WCF
2 3 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (6.667%) HTML
3 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET
3 1 (6.667%) CSS
3 1 (6.667%) JSP
3 1 (6.667%) XML
3 1 (6.667%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) IIS
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Azure
3 1 (6.667%) ArcGIS
3 1 (6.667%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (13.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (6.667%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (13.33%) Data Mining
3 1 (6.667%) GIS
3 1 (6.667%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Visual Studio
2 3 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (6.667%) Selenium
3 1 (6.667%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (6.667%) Dreamweaver
3 1 (6.667%) TestComplete
General
1 4 (26.67%) Games
2 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.667%) Marketing
3 1 (6.667%) Japanese Language
3 1 (6.667%) Korean Language
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Development Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Software Development Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Software Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Incident Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Tester
3 2 (13.33%) Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Web Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Senior Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Support Technician
4 1 (6.667%) Support Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Database Developer
4 1 (6.667%) GIS Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Help Desk Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Helpdesk Technician
4 1 (6.667%) Major Incident Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Business Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Automation Tester
4 1 (6.667%) Web Producer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (20.00%) Physics
3 2 (13.33%) Kinect
4 1 (6.667%) Management Information System
4 1 (6.667%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Windows
2 3 (20.00%) Windows Phone 8
2 3 (20.00%) Windows Phone
3 1 (6.667%) SUSE
3 1 (6.667%) Linux
3 1 (6.667%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 4 (26.67%) Automated Testing
2 4 (26.67%) Project Management
3 3 (20.00%) Service Management
3 3 (20.00%) ITIL
3 3 (20.00%) Load Testing
3 3 (20.00%) Test Strategy
4 2 (13.33%) Incident Management
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (13.33%) Game Development
4 2 (13.33%) Software Architecture
4 2 (13.33%) Process Architecture
4 2 (13.33%) Code Coverage
5 1 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (6.667%) Content Management
5 1 (6.667%) Web Development
5 1 (6.667%) Problem Management
5 1 (6.667%) Performance Testing
5 1 (6.667%) Business Analytics
5 1 (6.667%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) C#
2 6 (40.00%) SQL
3 4 (26.67%) C++
4 2 (13.33%) C
4 2 (13.33%) Java
5 1 (6.667%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.667%) Perl
5 1 (6.667%) PHP
5 1 (6.667%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (86.67%) Degree
2 3 (20.00%) ISTQB
3 1 (6.667%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.667%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.667%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.667%) ESRI
2 1 (6.667%) Adobe
2 1 (6.667%) Mapinfo
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