The first table below looks at the demand for Foglight skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Foglight over the 3 months to 22 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 of the Systems Management 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quest Foglight
Rank 67 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Foglight 4 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.465% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 5.128% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £400 -
% change year-on-year
-3.12% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Systems Management
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
78 75 150
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 9.059% 6.591% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 33 57
Average daily rate £385 £340 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.23% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £238 £243
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 2
Average hourly rate £22.50 £15.58 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+44.46% +41.59%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
Foglight
Berkshire

Foglight
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Foglight across the Reading region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Reading Foglight Daily Rate Histogram

Foglight
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Foglight 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 Foglight.

1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) J2EE
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 4 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 4 (100.00%) IIS
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) JBoss
1 4 (100.00%) Apache
1 4 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 4 (100.00%) LAN
1 4 (100.00%) HTTP
1 4 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (100.00%) IBM
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 4 (100.00%) HP
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (100.00%) Workflow
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
1 4 (100.00%) IBM HTTP Server
1 4 (100.00%) Clustering
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 4 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 4 (100.00%) HP SIM

Foglight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Foglight 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 Foglight. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) J2EE
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
1 4 (100.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 4 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 4 (100.00%) IIS
1 4 (100.00%) Apache
1 4 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 4 (100.00%) IBM HTTP Server
2 1 (25.00%) FileNet
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Workflow
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) LAN
1 4 (100.00%) HTTP
1 4 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Electronics
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) WebSphere Consultant
1 3 (75.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 4 (100.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) Workflow
1 4 (100.00%) Content Management
2 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (50.00%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
1 4 (100.00%) JBoss
1 4 (100.00%) IBM
1 4 (100.00%) HP
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) ReadSoft