The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Device Driver in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Device Driver 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
Device Drivers
Rank 72 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Device Driver 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.117% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.493% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £275 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £278 £313
% change year-on-year
+17.11% -11.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-11.76% +6.25%
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%
Device Driver
Berkshire

Device Driver
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Device Driver Jobs Demand Trend

Device Driver
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Device Driver Daily Rate Trend

Device Driver
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading Device Driver Hourly Rate Trend

Device Driver
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) J2EE
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (50.00%) JDBC
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Flash
1 1 (50.00%) J2ME
1 1 (50.00%) N-Tier
1 1 (50.00%) GSM
1 1 (50.00%) SMS
1 1 (50.00%) WAP
1 1 (50.00%) Windows CE
1 1 (50.00%) Mapinfo
1 1 (50.00%) RTCP
1 1 (50.00%) RTP
1 1 (50.00%) SyncML
1 1 (50.00%) RFID
1 1 (50.00%) GIS
1 1 (50.00%) ESRI
1 1 (50.00%) E-business
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (50.00%) KML
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing

Device Driver
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) J2EE
1 1 (50.00%) JDBC
1 1 (50.00%) Flash
1 1 (50.00%) J2ME
1 1 (50.00%) WAP
1 1 (50.00%) SyncML
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (50.00%) KML
1 1 (50.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) GSM
1 1 (50.00%) SMS
1 1 (50.00%) RTCP
1 1 (50.00%) RTP
1 1 (50.00%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) GIS
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leader
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) N-Tier
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows CE
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) E-business
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) JTAG
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Mapinfo
1 1 (50.00%) ESRI