The first table below looks at the demand for TOAD 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 TOAD over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Database & Business Intelligence 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quest TOAD
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing TOAD 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading - - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £313 £360
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -13.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £44.25 £33.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+34.09% -12.00%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
160 120 174
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 18.18% 10.43% 17.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 44 91
Average daily rate £375 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £223 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £513 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £330
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 4
Average hourly rate £30.50 £35.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.85% +84.21%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.55 £11.00 £11.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.00 £35.00 £29.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -19.35%
TOAD
Berkshire

TOAD
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing TOAD across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Reading TOAD Jobs Demand Trend

TOAD
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading TOAD Daily Rate Trend

TOAD
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing TOAD 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 TOAD.

1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) MS Office
2 1 (50.00%) COM
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) SOA
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Informatica
2 1 (50.00%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing

TOAD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing TOAD 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 TOAD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) COM
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (50.00%) SOA
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Informatica