The first table below looks at the demand for Degree in IT contracts advertised for the Slough region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Degree 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 Qualifications 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Degree
Rank 17 24 13
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -11
Contract jobs citing Degree 19 7 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 7.819% 3.665% 7.813%
As % of the Qualifications category 32.76% 13.21% 39.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 8
Average daily rate £300 £425 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-29.41% +13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £315 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £451 £500 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
Average hourly rate - £9.50 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -78.88%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-16.66% -14.28%
All Qualifications
Slough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
58 53 64
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 23.87% 27.75% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 30 23
Average daily rate £375 £450 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +50.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £259 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £394
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 7
Average hourly rate - £9.50 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -42.42%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%
Degree
Berkshire

Degree
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Slough Degree Jobs Demand Trend

Degree
Daily Rate Trend

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

Slough Degree Daily Rate Trend

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Degree across the Slough region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Slough Degree Daily Rate Histogram

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Slough Degree Hourly Rate Trend

Degree
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 18 (52.94%) Telecoms
2 12 (35.29%) Finance
2 12 (35.29%) Computer Science
3 11 (32.35%) Project Management
4 10 (29.41%) Oracle
4 10 (29.41%) UNIX
4 10 (29.41%) Linux
5 9 (26.47%) SQL Server
6 7 (20.59%) TCP/IP
6 7 (20.59%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (20.59%) Migration
7 6 (17.65%) Electronics
7 6 (17.65%) SQL
7 6 (17.65%) XML
7 6 (17.65%) Product Management
8 5 (14.71%) Time Management
8 5 (14.71%) HPUX
8 5 (14.71%) Solaris
8 5 (14.71%) CCNA
9 4 (11.76%) DataStage
9 4 (11.76%) 802.11
9 4 (11.76%) PRINCE2
9 4 (11.76%) IBM
9 4 (11.76%) ADSL
9 4 (11.76%) Broadband
9 4 (11.76%) VBA
9 4 (11.76%) Java
10 3 (8.824%) Software Engineering
10 3 (8.824%) Wireshark
10 3 (8.824%) LTE

Degree
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 6 (17.65%) XML
2 3 (8.824%) .NET
3 2 (5.882%) WebSphere MQ
3 2 (5.882%) WAP
3 2 (5.882%) CSS
3 2 (5.882%) HTML
3 2 (5.882%) WML
3 2 (5.882%) WebSphere
4 1 (2.941%) JPA
4 1 (2.941%) Drools
4 1 (2.941%) REST
4 1 (2.941%) HTML5
4 1 (2.941%) JDBC
4 1 (2.941%) XSL
4 1 (2.941%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.941%) XHTML
4 1 (2.941%) JMS
4 1 (2.941%) Lucene
4 1 (2.941%) Spring
4 1 (2.941%) ActiveMQ
Application Platforms
1 2 (5.882%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (5.882%) Apache
2 1 (2.941%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.882%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.941%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.941%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.59%) TCP/IP
2 4 (11.76%) 802.11
2 4 (11.76%) ADSL
2 4 (11.76%) Broadband
3 3 (8.824%) Wireshark
3 3 (8.824%) LTE
3 3 (8.824%) GSM
3 3 (8.824%) HTTP
3 3 (8.824%) 3G
3 3 (8.824%) 2G
4 2 (5.882%) Internet
4 2 (5.882%) UMTS
4 2 (5.882%) WAN
4 2 (5.882%) IPv6
4 2 (5.882%) DNS
4 2 (5.882%) SSL
4 2 (5.882%) GPRS
5 1 (2.941%) RANAP
5 1 (2.941%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (2.941%) WCDMA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (26.47%) SQL Server
2 4 (11.76%) DataStage
3 2 (5.882%) TOAD
3 2 (5.882%) Data Mining
3 2 (5.882%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.882%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (5.882%) DB2
3 2 (5.882%) IBM InfoSphere
3 2 (5.882%) Data Mart
4 1 (2.941%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 2 (5.882%) ERwin
1 2 (5.882%) TestDirector
2 1 (2.941%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.941%) Git (software)
2 1 (2.941%) Maven
General
1 18 (52.94%) Telecoms
2 12 (35.29%) Finance
3 6 (17.65%) Electronics
4 2 (5.882%) Billing
4 2 (5.882%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (5.882%) Marketing
5 1 (2.941%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (20.59%) Developer
2 6 (17.65%) Technical Manager
3 5 (14.71%) Analyst
4 4 (11.76%) Product Manager
4 4 (11.76%) Support Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Technical Product Manager
5 3 (8.824%) Team Leader
5 3 (8.824%) Test Engineer
6 2 (5.882%) ETL Developer
6 2 (5.882%) Data Analyst
6 2 (5.882%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.882%) Applications Developer
6 2 (5.882%) Senior Manager
6 2 (5.882%) Excel Developer
6 2 (5.882%) DataStage Developer
7 1 (2.941%) Web Analyst
7 1 (2.941%) IT Business Analyst
7 1 (2.941%) Senior Implementation Manager
7 1 (2.941%) PMO Manager
7 1 (2.941%) Lead Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 12 (35.29%) Computer Science
2 2 (5.882%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.882%) Grid Computing
2 2 (5.882%) Clustering
2 2 (5.882%) Mainframe
2 2 (5.882%) iSeries
2 2 (5.882%) Smart Meter
2 2 (5.882%) Mathematics
3 1 (2.941%) Statistics
3 1 (2.941%) SaaS
3 1 (2.941%) DTV
3 1 (2.941%) NHS
3 1 (2.941%) PMI
3 1 (2.941%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 10 (29.41%) UNIX
1 10 (29.41%) Linux
2 5 (14.71%) HPUX
2 5 (14.71%) Solaris
3 1 (2.941%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (2.941%) Windows
3 1 (2.941%) Windows XP
3 1 (2.941%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (2.941%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (32.35%) Project Management
2 7 (20.59%) Migration
3 6 (17.65%) Product Management
4 5 (14.71%) Time Management
5 4 (11.76%) PRINCE2
6 3 (8.824%) Software Engineering
6 3 (8.824%) ITIL
6 3 (8.824%) Workflow
7 2 (5.882%) TOGAF
7 2 (5.882%) Risk Assessment
7 2 (5.882%) Six Sigma
7 2 (5.882%) PRINCE
7 2 (5.882%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (5.882%) Data Modelling
7 2 (5.882%) ETL
7 2 (5.882%) ERP
7 2 (5.882%) DSDM
7 2 (5.882%) CRM
7 2 (5.882%) Automated Testing
7 2 (5.882%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (17.65%) SQL
2 4 (11.76%) VBA
2 4 (11.76%) Java
3 3 (8.824%) PL/SQL
4 2 (5.882%) RPG
4 2 (5.882%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.882%) Perl
4 2 (5.882%) PHP
4 2 (5.882%) RPG IV
4 2 (5.882%) XPath
5 1 (2.941%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.941%) VB.NET
5 1 (2.941%) C
5 1 (2.941%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (20.59%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (14.71%) CCNA
3 3 (8.824%) ISEB
4 2 (5.882%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.941%) MCDST
5 1 (2.941%) MCP
5 1 (2.941%) MCSE
5 1 (2.941%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.941%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (2.941%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.941%) PMP
System Software
1 2 (5.882%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (5.882%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 10 (29.41%) Oracle
2 4 (11.76%) IBM
3 3 (8.824%) HP
4 2 (5.882%) Ab Initio
4 2 (5.882%) Salesforce.com
4 2 (5.882%) Informatica
4 2 (5.882%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.882%) Cisco
4 2 (5.882%) Cognos
4 2 (5.882%) SAP
5 1 (2.941%) NetHawk
5 1 (2.941%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.941%) Ericsson
Slough, Berkshire
Educated to degree level or demonstrate experience to such... System test scripting and execution... Good MS office skills including Visio macro writing in excel, SQL... Presentation skills using...
TD Group
Rate: Excellent Rate
Posted: 17 June 2013
Slough, Berkshire
There will also be elements of both project management and commercial vendor management... Migration of customers and their routers... The 3 key areas of this role will include;...
Randstad Technologies
Rate: £400 - £435 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013