The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Senior Analyst in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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
Senior Analyst
Rank 67 75 76
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 6 6 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.701% 0.543% 0.291%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.766% 0.591% 0.330%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 2
Average daily rate £413 £83 £488
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+400.00% -83.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £83 £378
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £83 £598
UK excluding London average daily rate £394 £375 £361
% change year-on-year
+5.00% +3.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.50 £19.68 £21.79
% change year-on-year
-31.40% -9.68%
All Job Titles
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
783 1015 908
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 91.47% 91.86% 88.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 342 407
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £218 £230
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 57 38
Average hourly rate £18.00 £15.50 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.12% +24.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.60 £11.25 £10.09
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £24.00 £34.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Senior Analyst
Berkshire

Senior Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Senior Analyst across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Reading Senior Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Senior Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Senior Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Reading Senior Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Senior Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading Senior Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Senior Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region that cited Senior Analyst in their job title 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 with Senior Analyst in their job title.

1 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 5 (38.46%) Apache CXF
2 5 (38.46%) System Testing
2 5 (38.46%) Spring
2 5 (38.46%) Maven
2 5 (38.46%) Hibernate
2 5 (38.46%) Java
2 5 (38.46%) JUnit
2 5 (38.46%) Apache
2 5 (38.46%) Tomcat
2 5 (38.46%) Eclipse
3 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 3 (23.08%) Struts
3 3 (23.08%) Windows
3 3 (23.08%) UML
3 3 (23.08%) SOA
3 3 (23.08%) Subversion
3 3 (23.08%) Business Analysis
3 3 (23.08%) Use Case
3 3 (23.08%) jQuery
3 3 (23.08%) Struts2
3 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
4 2 (15.38%) Lotus
4 2 (15.38%) MS Excel
4 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
4 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
4 2 (15.38%) VPN
5 1 (7.692%) DNS
5 1 (7.692%) IBM
5 1 (7.692%) ADSL

Senior Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region that cited Senior Analyst in their job title 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 with Senior Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (38.46%) Apache CXF
1 5 (38.46%) Spring
1 5 (38.46%) Hibernate
2 3 (23.08%) Struts
2 3 (23.08%) jQuery
2 3 (23.08%) Struts2
3 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET
3 1 (7.692%) .NET
3 1 (7.692%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 5 (38.46%) Apache
1 5 (38.46%) Tomcat
2 1 (7.692%) CICS
2 1 (7.692%) Lotus Notes
2 1 (7.692%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) MS Excel
2 1 (7.692%) MS Office
2 1 (7.692%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
1 2 (15.38%) VPN
2 1 (7.692%) DNS
2 1 (7.692%) ADSL
2 1 (7.692%) LAN
2 1 (7.692%) WAN
2 1 (7.692%) DHCP
2 1 (7.692%) Ethernet
2 1 (7.692%) SAN
2 1 (7.692%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
1 1 (7.692%) DB2
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Maven
1 5 (38.46%) JUnit
1 5 (38.46%) Eclipse
2 3 (23.08%) Subversion
2 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.692%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (7.692%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 1 (7.692%) Telecoms
2 1 (7.692%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.692%) Mainframe
1 1 (7.692%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
2 1 (7.692%) MVS
2 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (7.692%) Windows 7
2 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) System Testing
2 3 (23.08%) UML
2 3 (23.08%) SOA
2 3 (23.08%) Business Analysis
2 3 (23.08%) Use Case
3 1 (7.692%) Project Management
3 1 (7.692%) Change Management
3 1 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (7.692%) Demand Management
3 1 (7.692%) Test Scripting
3 1 (7.692%) Project Planning
3 1 (7.692%) V-Model
3 1 (7.692%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Java
2 1 (7.692%) C#
2 1 (7.692%) COBOL
2 1 (7.692%) SQL
2 1 (7.692%) JCL
2 1 (7.692%) ALGOL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) ISEB
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.692%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (7.692%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Lotus
3 1 (7.692%) IBM
3 1 (7.692%) Unisys
3 1 (7.692%) Dell
3 1 (7.692%) Citrix
3 1 (7.692%) Micro Focus
3 1 (7.692%) VMware