The first table below looks at the demand for RFID 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 RFID over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing RFID 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading - - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £297 £375 £300
% change year-on-year
-20.73% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £7.00 - -
All Communications & Networking
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
197 469 207
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 23.59% 42.06% 19.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 112 71
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 £203
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 16 6
Average hourly rate £19.00 £15.58 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.99% -2.65%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.20 £14.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.50 £44.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
RFID
Berkshire

RFID
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing RFID 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 RFID.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Flash
1 1 (100.00%) J2ME
1 1 (100.00%) N-Tier
1 1 (100.00%) GSM
1 1 (100.00%) SMS
1 1 (100.00%) WAP
1 1 (100.00%) Windows CE
1 1 (100.00%) Mapinfo
1 1 (100.00%) RTCP
1 1 (100.00%) RTP
1 1 (100.00%) SyncML
1 1 (100.00%) GIS
1 1 (100.00%) ESRI
1 1 (100.00%) E-business
1 1 (100.00%) Device Driver
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (100.00%) KML
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) JTAG

RFID
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing RFID 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 RFID. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) Flash
1 1 (100.00%) J2ME
1 1 (100.00%) WAP
1 1 (100.00%) SyncML
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (100.00%) KML
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) GSM
1 1 (100.00%) SMS
1 1 (100.00%) RTCP
1 1 (100.00%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) GIS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) N-Tier
1 1 (100.00%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) E-business
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) JTAG
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Mapinfo
1 1 (100.00%) ESRI