The first table below looks at the demand for Intranet 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 Intranet 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 of the Communications & Networking 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
Intranet
Rank 61 73 69
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -4
Contract jobs citing Intranet 12 8 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 1.402% 0.724% 0.971%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.186% 1.732% 4.854%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 5
Average daily rate £343 £263 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.47% -38.23%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £213 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £313 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £320
% change year-on-year
- -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
Average hourly rate £19.00 £16.50 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.15% +13.79%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £24.50 £16.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year
+53.12% -5.88%
All Communications & Networking
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
194 462 206
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 22.66% 41.81% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 110 68
Average daily rate £275 £280 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.78% -25.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £133 £213 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £431 £400 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 15 5
Average hourly rate £17.00 £15.58 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.14% -11.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.30 £14.50 £12.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.50 £44.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
Intranet
Berkshire

Intranet
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Intranet Jobs Demand Trend

Intranet
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Intranet Daily Rate Trend

Intranet
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Intranet across the Reading region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Reading Intranet Daily Rate Histogram

Intranet
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading Intranet Hourly Rate Trend

Intranet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 9 (64.29%) SharePoint
2 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (42.86%) Active Directory
3 6 (42.86%) .NET
3 6 (42.86%) Internet
3 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
4 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
4 5 (35.71%) SQL Server
4 5 (35.71%) Windows
5 4 (28.57%) Citrix
5 4 (28.57%) C#
5 4 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (28.57%) Sitecore
5 4 (28.57%) Hummingbird
5 4 (28.57%) Knowledge Management
6 3 (21.43%) SQL
6 3 (21.43%) MS Office
6 3 (21.43%) Web Services
6 3 (21.43%) XML
7 2 (14.29%) UML
7 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (14.29%) DNS
7 2 (14.29%) Workflow
7 2 (14.29%) Migration
7 2 (14.29%) CSS
7 2 (14.29%) QA
7 2 (14.29%) Windows 7
7 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
7 2 (14.29%) SharePoint Server

Intranet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 6 (42.86%) .NET
2 3 (21.43%) Web Services
2 3 (21.43%) XML
3 2 (14.29%) CSS
4 1 (7.143%) CSS3
4 1 (7.143%) jQuery
4 1 (7.143%) .NET Framework
4 1 (7.143%) HTML5
4 1 (7.143%) WCF
4 1 (7.143%) XSLT
4 1 (7.143%) ASP.NET
4 1 (7.143%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 9 (64.29%) SharePoint
2 2 (14.29%) SharePoint Server
2 2 (14.29%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (7.143%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) Internet
2 2 (14.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.143%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (7.143%) IDOL
2 1 (7.143%) EDRMS
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Support Engineer
1 4 (28.57%) Applications Support
1 4 (28.57%) Applications Support Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) SharePoint Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Web Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Applications Architect
4 1 (7.143%) Web Editor
4 1 (7.143%) .NET Developer
4 1 (7.143%) VB.NET Developer
4 1 (7.143%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Technical Architect
4 1 (7.143%) Consultant
4 1 (7.143%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.143%) Architect
4 1 (7.143%) Author
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.143%) Copywriting
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (14.29%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (28.57%) Knowledge Management
2 2 (14.29%) UML
2 2 (14.29%) Workflow
2 2 (14.29%) Migration
2 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
2 2 (14.29%) Use Case
3 1 (7.143%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) C#
2 3 (21.43%) SQL
3 1 (7.143%) VB
3 1 (7.143%) VB.NET
3 1 (7.143%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.143%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) Citrix
2 4 (28.57%) Sitecore
2 4 (28.57%) Hummingbird
3 1 (7.143%) Meridio