The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of BT products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Slough region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BT 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 Vendors for the Slough 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within BT Group plc.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
BT
Rank 39 27 36
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +9
Contract jobs citing BT 2 2 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 0.803% 0.985% 1.299%
As % of the Vendors category 1.600% 1.980% 2.837%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
Average daily rate £480 £398 £232
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.75% +71.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £313 £368
% change year-on-year
-12.00% -14.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £78.75 £22.32
% change year-on-year
-75.87% +252.90%
All Vendors
Slough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
125 101 141
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 50.20% 49.75% 45.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 49 71
Average daily rate £375 £325 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% +6.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £250 £138
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 12
Average hourly rate £22.75 £14.75 £15.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+54.23% -4.83%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.60 £11.60 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £29.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%
BT
Berkshire

BT
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing BT across the Slough region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Slough BT Jobs Demand Trend

BT
Daily Rate Trend

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

Slough BT Daily Rate Trend

BT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough region citing BT 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 BT.

1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) Bash shell
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) VBScript
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) UNIX
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) WSH
2 2 (50.00%) HP
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (50.00%) BMC
2 2 (50.00%) Nagios
2 2 (50.00%) Middleware
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) NEC
3 1 (25.00%) SLA
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) C
3 1 (25.00%) LTE
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
3 1 (25.00%) Law
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Supplier Management
3 1 (25.00%) Huawei
3 1 (25.00%) Fujitsu

BT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough region citing BT 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 BT. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (50.00%) WSH
1 2 (50.00%) Middleware
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) LTE
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (25.00%) Law
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Programme Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) UNIX
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Workflow
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Supplier Management
2 1 (25.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Bash shell
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) VBScript
2 1 (25.00%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) HP
1 2 (50.00%) BMC
2 1 (25.00%) NEC
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Huawei
2 1 (25.00%) Fujitsu