The first table below looks at the demand for Degree in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Degree over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Degree
Rank 39 26 50
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +24
Contract jobs citing Degree 35 60 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 3.977% 5.213% 2.767%
As % of the Qualifications category 15.28% 17.54% 8.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 9 16
Average daily rate £363 £275 £239
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+31.81% +15.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £177 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £485 £370 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £11.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-16.66% -14.28%
All Qualifications
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
229 342 348
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 26.02% 29.71% 34.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 119 131
Average daily rate £425 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.42% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £303 £226 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £520 £450 £470
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 13
Average hourly rate £18.50 £27.50 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-32.72% +71.87%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.72 £14.30 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.90 £27.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%
Degree
Berkshire

Degree
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Degree Jobs Demand Trend

Degree
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Degree Daily Rate Trend

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Degree across the Reading region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Reading Degree Daily Rate Histogram

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading Degree Hourly Rate Trend

Degree
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Degree 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 Degree.

1 37 (45.68%) Project Management
2 27 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 20 (24.69%) Computer Science
4 19 (23.46%) Service Management
5 17 (20.99%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (19.75%) ITIL
6 16 (19.75%) Windows
7 14 (17.28%) SQL
8 13 (16.05%) C#
9 12 (14.81%) Performance Management
10 11 (13.58%) Fault Management
10 11 (13.58%) PRINCE2
10 11 (13.58%) MS Excel
11 10 (12.35%) Microsoft
11 10 (12.35%) .NET
11 10 (12.35%) Resource Management
12 9 (11.11%) Remedy ITSM
12 9 (11.11%) Ionix
12 9 (11.11%) Nokia Siemens Networks
12 9 (11.11%) Nokia NetAct
12 9 (11.11%) TOGAF
12 9 (11.11%) Oracle
12 9 (11.11%) HP
12 9 (11.11%) EMC
12 9 (11.11%) Linux
12 9 (11.11%) Netcool
12 9 (11.11%) BMC
12 9 (11.11%) Nokia
12 9 (11.11%) Remedy
12 9 (11.11%) ITSM

Degree
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Degree 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 Degree. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (12.35%) .NET
2 4 (4.938%) Web Services
2 4 (4.938%) XML
2 4 (4.938%) ASP.NET
2 4 (4.938%) CSS
2 4 (4.938%) WCF
3 3 (3.704%) REST
3 3 (3.704%) Silverlight
3 3 (3.704%) jQuery
3 3 (3.704%) HTML
4 2 (2.469%) WPF
5 1 (1.235%) ArcObjects
5 1 (1.235%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.235%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 1 (1.235%) HTML5
5 1 (1.235%) XHTML
5 1 (1.235%) JSP
5 1 (1.235%) SOAP
5 1 (1.235%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 5 (6.173%) IIS
2 4 (4.938%) CMS
3 3 (3.704%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.469%) ArcGIS
4 2 (2.469%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (2.469%) Windows Azure
4 2 (2.469%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 11 (13.58%) MS Excel
2 3 (3.704%) Photoshop
3 2 (2.469%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.235%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 9 (11.11%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (2.469%) SAP CS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.11%) Nokia NetAct
2 7 (8.642%) ATM
3 6 (7.407%) 3G
4 5 (6.173%) Radio Access Network
5 4 (4.938%) 2G
6 2 (2.469%) CTI
6 2 (2.469%) Internet
6 2 (2.469%) TELNET
6 2 (2.469%) VoIP
6 2 (2.469%) IPv4
6 2 (2.469%) DNS
6 2 (2.469%) Network Security
6 2 (2.469%) LTE
6 2 (2.469%) GGSN
6 2 (2.469%) SGSN
6 2 (2.469%) BSS
7 1 (1.235%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.642%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (7.407%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.704%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.704%) MySQL
4 2 (2.469%) GIS
4 2 (2.469%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (2.469%) Data Mining
4 2 (2.469%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.469%) Big Data
5 1 (1.235%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.235%) PerformancePoint
5 1 (1.235%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (1.235%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.235%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (1.235%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 8 (9.877%) Visual Studio
2 6 (7.407%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (3.704%) Subversion
4 2 (2.469%) QuickTest Pro
4 2 (2.469%) Dreamweaver
4 2 (2.469%) TestComplete
4 2 (2.469%) Selenium
4 2 (2.469%) Axure RP
5 1 (1.235%) NuGet
General
1 27 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 6 (7.407%) Finance
2 6 (7.407%) Games
3 5 (6.173%) Marketing
4 4 (4.938%) Publishing
5 3 (3.704%) Retail
5 3 (3.704%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.469%) Japanese Language
6 2 (2.469%) Korean Language
7 1 (1.235%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 11 (13.58%) Project Manager
1 11 (13.58%) Developer
2 9 (11.11%) Analyst
2 9 (11.11%) Architect
3 8 (9.877%) Incident Manager
4 5 (6.173%) OSS Architect
4 5 (6.173%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (4.938%) Software Engineer
5 4 (4.938%) Technical Project Manager
5 4 (4.938%) Development Manager
5 4 (4.938%) Senior Manager
5 4 (4.938%) Senior Developer
5 4 (4.938%) Business Analyst
5 4 (4.938%) Development Engineer
5 4 (4.938%) Software Development Engineer
5 4 (4.938%) Service Manager
5 4 (4.938%) Systems Architect
5 4 (4.938%) Technical Manager
6 3 (3.704%) Web Producer
6 3 (3.704%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 20 (24.69%) Computer Science
2 7 (8.642%) Physics
3 5 (6.173%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (6.173%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.469%) Thin Client
4 2 (2.469%) Fat Client
4 2 (2.469%) Chemistry
4 2 (2.469%) Open Source
4 2 (2.469%) Wiki
4 2 (2.469%) Kinect
5 1 (1.235%) Graphic Design
5 1 (1.235%) Animation
5 1 (1.235%) Statistics
5 1 (1.235%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.235%) New Media
5 1 (1.235%) Online Games
5 1 (1.235%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 16 (19.75%) Windows
2 9 (11.11%) Linux
3 7 (8.642%) UNIX
4 6 (7.407%) Windows Phone
5 4 (4.938%) Windows Phone 8
6 2 (2.469%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (2.469%) Windows 2000
6 2 (2.469%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.469%) SUSE
7 1 (1.235%) Windows Phone 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (45.68%) Project Management
2 19 (23.46%) Service Management
3 17 (20.99%) Continuous Improvement
4 16 (19.75%) ITIL
5 12 (14.81%) Performance Management
6 11 (13.58%) Fault Management
6 11 (13.58%) PRINCE2
7 10 (12.35%) Resource Management
8 9 (11.11%) TOGAF
8 9 (11.11%) ITSM
9 6 (7.407%) Configuration Management
9 6 (7.407%) Test Automation
9 6 (7.407%) Incident Management
10 5 (6.173%) Automated Testing
11 4 (4.938%) Validation
12 3 (3.704%) Content Management
12 3 (3.704%) MVVM
12 3 (3.704%) Change Control
12 3 (3.704%) Test Strategy
12 3 (3.704%) Load Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (17.28%) SQL
2 13 (16.05%) C#
3 8 (9.877%) Perl
4 7 (8.642%) C++
5 5 (6.173%) Java
6 4 (4.938%) C
7 3 (3.704%) PL/SQL
7 3 (3.704%) XAML
8 2 (2.469%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.469%) Python
9 1 (1.235%) Lua
9 1 (1.235%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 3 (3.704%) ISTQB
2 2 (2.469%) CISA
2 2 (2.469%) CISM
2 2 (2.469%) PMP
2 2 (2.469%) MCSE
2 2 (2.469%) HNC
2 2 (2.469%) CCA
2 2 (2.469%) Citrix Certification
2 2 (2.469%) CISSP
2 2 (2.469%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (2.469%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (2.469%) GIAC
3 1 (1.235%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (1.235%) Avaya Certification
3 1 (1.235%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (1.235%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.469%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 2 (2.469%) ISO 9001
1 2 (2.469%) QA
2 1 (1.235%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.469%) NFS
1 2 (2.469%) MetaFrame
1 2 (2.469%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (11.11%) Ionix
1 9 (11.11%) Netcool
Vendors
1 10 (12.35%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.11%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 9 (11.11%) Oracle
2 9 (11.11%) HP
2 9 (11.11%) EMC
2 9 (11.11%) BMC
2 9 (11.11%) Nokia
2 9 (11.11%) Remedy
3 8 (9.877%) Ericsson
4 6 (7.407%) Niku
5 5 (6.173%) Huawei
5 5 (6.173%) Greenplum
6 4 (4.938%) Citrix
7 3 (3.704%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.469%) NEC
8 2 (2.469%) ESRI
8 2 (2.469%) Business Objects
8 2 (2.469%) SAP
8 2 (2.469%) Nortel
8 2 (2.469%) Avaya
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