The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fat Client in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Fat Client 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Fat Client
Rank 70 76 61
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -15
Contract jobs citing Fat Client 3 5 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.341% 0.434% 1.680%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.389% 2.463% 9.239%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 11
Average daily rate £325 £400 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.75% +23.07%
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
+14.06% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.89 £15.25 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-15.50% +1.66%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
216 203 184
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 24.55% 17.64% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 84 81
Average daily rate £400 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £235 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £522 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £328
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 10 8
Average hourly rate £18.50 £15.58 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.78% +7.41%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £14.50 £11.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.25 £16.50 £21.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.63 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-3.88% -10.00%
Fat Client
Berkshire

Fat Client
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Fat Client Jobs Demand Trend

Fat Client
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Fat Client Daily Rate Trend

Fat Client
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading Fat Client Hourly Rate Trend

Fat Client
Top 24 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Thin Client
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) Internet
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) CCA
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix Certification
2 2 (66.67%) MetaFrame
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (66.67%) HNC
2 2 (66.67%) UNIX
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 2000
2 2 (66.67%) MCSE
2 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
2 2 (66.67%) NFS
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) IIS
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Time Management
3 1 (33.33%) Application Packaging
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (33.33%) MS Office

Fat Client
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
2 1 (33.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Internet
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) 3rd Line Support
1 2 (66.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Packager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (66.67%) UNIX
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CCA
1 2 (66.67%) Citrix Certification
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (66.67%) HNC
1 2 (66.67%) MCSE
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) MetaFrame
1 2 (66.67%) NFS
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft App-V
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix