The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Computer Science in IT contracts advertised for the Slough region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Computer Science over the 3 months to 18 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category 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.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Computer Science (Computing Science)
Rank 30 31 34
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +3
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 8 1 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 3.361% 0.510% 1.290%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 16.00% 2.083% 6.154%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
Average daily rate £254 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-27.50% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +6.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+4.83% -11.42%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Slough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
50 48 65
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 21.01% 24.49% 20.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 22 29
Average daily rate £284 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.69% +18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £163 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £453 £431 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £340 £330
% change year-on-year
+2.94% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
Average hourly rate £162.50 £14.40 £22.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1028.47% -35.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -10.00%
Computer Science
Berkshire

Computer Science
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Slough Computer Science Jobs Demand Trend

Computer Science
Daily Rate Trend

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

Slough Computer Science Daily Rate Trend

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Slough Computer Science Hourly Rate Trend

Computer Science
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough region citing Computer Science 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 Computer Science.

1 12 (100.00%) Degree
2 10 (83.33%) Telecoms
3 7 (58.33%) SQL Server
4 6 (50.00%) Linux
4 6 (50.00%) UNIX
4 6 (50.00%) Oracle
5 5 (41.67%) CCNA
5 5 (41.67%) HPUX
5 5 (41.67%) Solaris
5 5 (41.67%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (33.33%) Finance
6 4 (33.33%) VBA
7 3 (25.00%) HP
8 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
8 2 (16.67%) SQL
9 1 (8.333%) MCDST
9 1 (8.333%) Statistics
9 1 (8.333%) Web Development
9 1 (8.333%) XPath
9 1 (8.333%) T-SQL
9 1 (8.333%) VB.NET
9 1 (8.333%) .NET
9 1 (8.333%) C#
9 1 (8.333%) HTML
9 1 (8.333%) Java
9 1 (8.333%) JavaScript
9 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET
9 1 (8.333%) CSS
9 1 (8.333%) JDBC
9 1 (8.333%) XML

Computer Science
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough region citing Computer Science 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 Computer Science. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (8.333%) HTML
1 1 (8.333%) .NET
1 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET
1 1 (8.333%) CSS
1 1 (8.333%) JDBC
1 1 (8.333%) XML
1 1 (8.333%) XSL
1 1 (8.333%) XHTML
1 1 (8.333%) JMS
1 1 (8.333%) Hibernate
1 1 (8.333%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (8.333%) Lucene
1 1 (8.333%) Spring
1 1 (8.333%) JPA
1 1 (8.333%) Drools
1 1 (8.333%) HTML5
1 1 (8.333%) REST
Applications
1 1 (8.333%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.333%) HTTP
1 1 (8.333%) TCP/IP
1 1 (8.333%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Maven
1 1 (8.333%) Git (software)
1 1 (8.333%) Cucumber
General
1 10 (83.33%) Telecoms
2 4 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Analyst
1 4 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Excel Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Data Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Analyst Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Web Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Support Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) 1st Line Support
4 1 (8.333%) Web Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) 1st Line Support Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Graduate
4 1 (8.333%) Software Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.333%) DTV
1 1 (8.333%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) UNIX
1 6 (50.00%) Linux
2 5 (41.67%) HPUX
2 5 (41.67%) Solaris
3 1 (8.333%) Windows
3 1 (8.333%) Windows XP
3 1 (8.333%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (8.333%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (8.333%) Software Engineering
1 1 (8.333%) Web Development
1 1 (8.333%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) VBA
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.333%) T-SQL
3 1 (8.333%) VB.NET
3 1 (8.333%) C#
3 1 (8.333%) Java
3 1 (8.333%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.333%) XPath
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) Degree
2 5 (41.67%) CCNA
2 5 (41.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (8.333%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (8.333%) MCDST
3 1 (8.333%) MCP
3 1 (8.333%) MCSE
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle
2 3 (25.00%) HP
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.333%) Salesforce.com