Reading NFC Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Near Field Communication (NFC) skills within the Reading region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited NFC over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Near Field Communication (NFC)
Location Berkshire England Guildford London Reading South East Surrey UK	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	73	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.521 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£300	-
Average daily rate	£325	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£350	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	-
% change on same period last year	-
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Communications & Networking Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	192	159
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.253 %	0.169 %
Daily rates quoted	36	50
Average minimum daily rate	£359	£303
Average daily rate	£389	£323
% change on same period last year	+20.46 %
Average maximum daily rate	£420	£343
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£344
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.55	£27.30
Average hourly rate	£23.29	£29.45
% change on same period last year	-20.92 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.02	£31.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.58	£28.53
% change on same period last year	-10.35 %
NFC Berkshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing NFC across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Top 2 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing NFC 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 NFC.

1 1 (100.00 %) C# 1 1 (100.00 %) Finance

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing NFC 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 NFC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

General 1 1 (100.00 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Developer 1 1 (100.00 %) Senior Developer
Programming Languages 1 1 (100.00 %) C#