The first table below looks at the demand for Windows Phone 8 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 Windows Phone 8 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 of the Operating Systems 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Phone 8 (WinPhone8, WP8)
Rank 68 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Windows Phone 8 5 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.584% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.475% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Operating Systems
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
202 255 316
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 23.60% 23.08% 30.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 92 116
Average daily rate £335 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.28% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 24 10
Average hourly rate £19.00 £15.13 £13.13
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.61% +15.23%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £14.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £20.00 £23.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Windows Phone 8
Berkshire

Windows Phone 8
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Windows Phone 8 across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Reading Windows Phone 8 Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Phone 8
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Windows Phone 8 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 Windows Phone 8.

1 6 (100.00%) C#
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Phone
2 4 (66.67%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 4 (66.67%) Visual Studio
3 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (50.00%) .NET
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Phone 7
4 2 (33.33%) Silverlight
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (16.67%) Windows 8
5 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
5 1 (16.67%) Automation Testing
5 1 (16.67%) XAML
5 1 (16.67%) MVVM

Windows Phone 8
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Windows Phone 8 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 Windows Phone 8. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) Silverlight
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Team Foundation Server
1 4 (66.67%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Tester
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Phone
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Phone 7
3 1 (16.67%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
1 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Automation Testing
1 1 (16.67%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) XAML
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree