The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Statistics in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Statistics over the 3 months to 20 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Statistics
Rank 64 67 69
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +2
Contract jobs citing Statistics 7 13 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.828% 1.220% 1.064%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.518% 7.386% 4.911%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 5
Average daily rate £258 £225 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.44% -18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £149 £245
10% offered a daily rate of more than £388 £245 £365
UK excluding London average daily rate £323 £288 £275
% change year-on-year
+12.17% +4.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £50.00 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +244.82%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £16.00 £13.64
% change year-on-year
-3.12% +17.30%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
199 176 224
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 23.55% 16.51% 21.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 74 104
Average daily rate £375 £345 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.69% +1.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £235 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £343 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.18% +0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 6
Average hourly rate £17.50 £16.00 £15.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.37% +4.91%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £13.20 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.50 £50.00 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £24.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year
-8.16% -9.25%
Statistics
Berkshire

Statistics
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Statistics Jobs Demand Trend

Statistics
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Statistics Daily Rate Trend

Statistics
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Statistics across the Reading region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Reading Statistics Daily Rate Histogram

Statistics
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading Statistics Hourly Rate Trend

Statistics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Statistics 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 Statistics.

1 7 (70.00%) SQL
2 6 (60.00%) Data Modelling
3 5 (50.00%) ETL
3 5 (50.00%) Java
4 4 (40.00%) PL/SQL
4 4 (40.00%) .NET
4 4 (40.00%) Python
4 4 (40.00%) Oracle
4 4 (40.00%) Oracle 10g
4 4 (40.00%) GIS
4 4 (40.00%) ESRI
4 4 (40.00%) ArcGIS
4 4 (40.00%) Oracle 11g
4 4 (40.00%) Oracle Spatial
4 4 (40.00%) ArcObjects
5 3 (30.00%) Analytics
6 2 (20.00%) Data Management
6 2 (20.00%) Games
6 2 (20.00%) Data Mining
6 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
7 1 (10.00%) C#
7 1 (10.00%) SAS
7 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
7 1 (10.00%) ISEB
7 1 (10.00%) Informatica
7 1 (10.00%) LoadRunner
7 1 (10.00%) SPSS
7 1 (10.00%) SAP BW
7 1 (10.00%) Shell Script

Statistics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (40.00%) .NET
1 4 (40.00%) ArcObjects
2 1 (10.00%) soapUI
2 1 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) MapReduce
2 1 (10.00%) ASP
2 1 (10.00%) SOAP
2 1 (10.00%) Web Services
2 1 (10.00%) XML
2 1 (10.00%) MDX
Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) ArcGIS
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle Spatial
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Pig
2 1 (10.00%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Office
1 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (10.00%) SPSS
1 1 (10.00%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle 10g
1 4 (40.00%) GIS
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (20.00%) Data Mining
3 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (10.00%) Apache Hive
3 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (10.00%) DbVisualizer
3 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (10.00%) SAP BW
3 1 (10.00%) SAP BI
3 1 (10.00%) MySQL
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (10.00%) OLAP
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (10.00%) MS Access
3 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (10.00%) JProfiler
General
1 2 (20.00%) Games
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) GIS Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Portfolio Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Auditor
4 1 (10.00%) SAP BI Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Test Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Data Scientist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (10.00%) Handset
1 1 (10.00%) Ontologies
1 1 (10.00%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 5 (50.00%) ETL
3 3 (30.00%) Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
4 2 (20.00%) Data Management
5 1 (10.00%) Software Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Predictive Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) Cluster Analysis
5 1 (10.00%) Performance Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Dimensional Modelling
5 1 (10.00%) Financial Modelling
5 1 (10.00%) Predictive Modelling
5 1 (10.00%) Regression Analysis
5 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (10.00%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) SQL
2 5 (50.00%) Java
3 4 (40.00%) PL/SQL
3 4 (40.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (10.00%) Groovy
4 1 (10.00%) R
4 1 (10.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) ISEB
1 1 (10.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (10.00%) Splunk
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle
1 4 (40.00%) ESRI
2 1 (10.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Informatica
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