Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Internet skills in IT contracts advertised for the Slough region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Internet over the 3 months to 18 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Slough region.

 Internet
Location
3 months to
18 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank31326
Rank change year-on-year
Up+10Up+13
Matching contract IT job ads1487
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough12.07 %6.154 %2.881 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category60.87 %16.33 %12.73 %
Daily rates quoted511
Average daily rate£260£260£625
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
--58.40 %
UK excluding London average daily rate£314£345£309
% change year-on-year
-9.050 %+11.65 %
Hourly rates quoted846
Average hourly rate£36.25£21.75£37.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+66.66 %-41.61 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£14.00£18.00£20.00
% change year-on-year
-22.22 %-10.00 %
Slough IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryAll Communications & Networking
Slough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
234955
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough19.83 %37.69 %22.63 %
Daily rates quoted9129
Average daily rate£132£265£388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-50.37 %-31.61 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£127£125£175
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£266£360£449
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£338£325
% change year-on-year
-3.700 %+3.840 %
Hourly rates quoted9534
Average hourly rate£36.25£10.50£10.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+245.23 %-
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.00£24.00£27.50
% change year-on-year
+4.160 %-12.72 %
Internet BerkshireInternet
Berkshire

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.

Internet
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Internet across the Slough region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Slough Internet Demand Trend

Internet
Daily Rate Trend

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

Slough Internet Daily Rate Trend

Internet
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Internet across the Slough region over the 3 months to 18 March 2010.

Slough Internet Daily Rate Histogram

Internet
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Slough Internet Hourly Rate Trend

Internet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Slough region citing Internet 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 Internet.

115 (60.00 %)JavaScript
212 (48.00 %)AJAX
212 (48.00 %)jQuery
310 (40.00 %)SQL
310 (40.00 %)Java
310 (40.00 %)J2EE
310 (40.00 %)CSS
310 (40.00 %)JSP
47 (28.00 %)Degree
47 (28.00 %)XML
47 (28.00 %)XSLT
56 (24.00 %)Struts
56 (24.00 %)Adobe
56 (24.00 %)ASP
56 (24.00 %)OO
56 (24.00 %)Flash
56 (24.00 %)XHTML
56 (24.00 %)SQL Server
56 (24.00 %)ActionScript
56 (24.00 %)Microformats
56 (24.00 %)SQL Server 2005
56 (24.00 %)Hibernate
56 (24.00 %)JSON
56 (24.00 %)ActionScript 3.0
56 (24.00 %)ActionScript 2.0
63 (12.00 %)Telecoms
63 (12.00 %)Java EE
63 (12.00 %)HTML
72 (8.000 %).NET
72 (8.000 %)ASP.NET

Internet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Slough region citing Internet 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 Internet. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Slough IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
112 (48.00 %)AJAX
112 (48.00 %)jQuery
210 (40.00 %)J2EE
210 (40.00 %)CSS
210 (40.00 %)JSP
37 (28.00 %)XML
37 (28.00 %)XSLT
46 (24.00 %)Struts
46 (24.00 %)ASP
46 (24.00 %)Flash
46 (24.00 %)XHTML
46 (24.00 %)Microformats
46 (24.00 %)Hibernate
46 (24.00 %)JSON
53 (12.00 %)Java EE
53 (12.00 %)HTML
62 (8.000 %).NET
62 (8.000 %)ASP.NET
71 (4.000 %)WAP
71 (4.000 %)Servlets
Slough IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11 (4.000 %)MS Excel
11 (4.000 %)MS Office
Slough IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
12 (8.000 %)Broadband
21 (4.000 %)Firewall
21 (4.000 %)Wireless
21 (4.000 %)GPRS
21 (4.000 %)GSM
21 (4.000 %)UMTS
21 (4.000 %)HTTP
21 (4.000 %)SSL
21 (4.000 %)NetScreen
21 (4.000 %)Cisco PIX
Slough IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
16 (24.00 %)SQL Server
16 (24.00 %)SQL Server 2005
Slough IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
13 (12.00 %)Telecoms
22 (8.000 %)Games
31 (4.000 %)Government
Slough IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
119 (76.00 %)Developer
210 (40.00 %)J2EE Developer
39 (36.00 %)Java/J2EE Developer
39 (36.00 %)Website Developer
39 (36.00 %)Java Developer
46 (24.00 %)JavaScript Developer
46 (24.00 %)J2EE Applications Developer
46 (24.00 %)Java Applications Developer
46 (24.00 %)Applications Developer
54 (16.00 %)CSS Developer
62 (8.000 %)HTML Developer
62 (8.000 %)Tester
71 (4.000 %).NET Developer
71 (4.000 %)Support Engineer
71 (4.000 %)Analyst
71 (4.000 %)Test Analyst
71 (4.000 %)Solutions Architect
71 (4.000 %)Senior Solutions Architect
71 (4.000 %)ASP.NET Developer
71 (4.000 %)Architect
Slough IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
12 (8.000 %)Handset
21 (4.000 %)Fat Client
21 (4.000 %)Thin Client
Slough IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11 (4.000 %)Windows Vista
11 (4.000 %)Windows
Slough IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
16 (24.00 %)OO
21 (4.000 %)Software Engineering
21 (4.000 %)Incident Management
21 (4.000 %)Integration Testing
Slough IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
115 (60.00 %)JavaScript
210 (40.00 %)SQL
210 (40.00 %)Java
36 (24.00 %)ActionScript
36 (24.00 %)ActionScript 3.0
36 (24.00 %)ActionScript 2.0
Slough IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
17 (28.00 %)Degree
21 (4.000 %)ISEB
21 (4.000 %)SC Cleared
21 (4.000 %)Security Cleared
Slough IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (4.000 %)SLA
Slough IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11 (4.000 %)Citrix Presentation Server
Slough IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
16 (24.00 %)Adobe
22 (8.000 %)Microsoft
31 (4.000 %)Cisco
31 (4.000 %)Citrix
31 (4.000 %)CheckPoint