Reading Data Mining Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Data Mining skills within the Reading region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Data Mining over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Data Mining
Location Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Cannock City of London Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England England Essex Farnham Glasgow Hampshire Leeds London M4 Corridor Middlesex Midlands Norfolk Norwich Poole Reading Scotland Shropshire Somerset South East South West Staffordshire Surrey Telford Trowbridge UK Uxbridge West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	71
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	1.117 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£300
Average daily rate	-	£325
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£371	£398
% change on same period last year	-6.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£20.00
Average hourly rate	-	£22.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£42.50	£33.77
% change on same period last year	+25.86 %
Database & Business Intelligence Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	186	179
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.248 %	0.181 %
Daily rates quoted	56	81
Average minimum daily rate	£342	£370
Average daily rate	£368	£395
% change on same period last year	-6.97 %
Average maximum daily rate	£393	£421
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£355
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.59	£31.71
Average hourly rate	£34.18	£33.64
% change on same period last year	+1.59 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.77	£35.58
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.85	£31.30
% change on same period last year	+4.96 %
Data Mining 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 Data Mining across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence 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 Data Mining across the Reading region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Data Mining 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 Data Mining.

1 2 (66.67 %) Finance 1 2 (66.67 %) Java 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL 1 2 (66.67 %) J2EE 1 2 (66.67 %) UNIX 1 2 (66.67 %) AIX 1 2 (66.67 %) WinRunner 1 2 (66.67 %) TestDirector 1 2 (66.67 %) WebSphere 2 1 (33.33 %) Datawarehouse 2 1 (33.33 %) Data Modelling

Data Mining
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Data Mining 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 Data Mining. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (66.67 %) J2EE 1 2 (66.67 %) WebSphere	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) Datawarehouse
Development Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) WinRunner 1 2 (66.67 %) TestDirector	General 1 2 (66.67 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 3 (100.00 %) Analyst 2 2 (66.67 %) Test Analyst 3 1 (33.33 %) Datawarehouse Analyst 3 1 (33.33 %) Business Analyst	Operating Systems 1 2 (66.67 %) UNIX 1 2 (66.67 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Data Modelling	Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) Java 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL