Slough Internet Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Internet skills within the Slough region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Internet over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Rank	20	18
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	15	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	32.61 %	28.85 %
Daily rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum daily rate	£317	£344
Average daily rate	£317	£344
% change on same period last year	-8.04 %
Average maximum daily rate	£317	£344
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£336
% change on same period last year	+3.89 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	£37.25
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£37.25
% change on same period last year	-6.04 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£37.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.91	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-10.81 %
Communications & Networking Slough
Matching contract IT job ads	46	52
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.061 %	0.055 %
Daily rates quoted	17	19
Average minimum daily rate	£294	£336
Average daily rate	£313	£350
% change on same period last year	-10.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£332	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£344
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.29	£31.28
Average hourly rate	£26.39	£33.08
% change on same period last year	-20.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.50	£34.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.58	£28.53
% change on same period last year	-10.35 %
Internet Berkshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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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.

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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.

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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 4 July 2008.

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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.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Internet across the Slough region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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.

1 17 (73.91 %) Java 2 16 (69.57 %) JSP 3 15 (65.22 %) Extranet 4 12 (52.17 %) SQL Server 5 11 (47.83 %) DB2 5 11 (47.83 %) DB2 UDB 6 10 (43.48 %) IIS 6 10 (43.48 %) Windows 7 9 (39.13 %) Struts 7 9 (39.13 %) IBM 7 9 (39.13 %) J2EE 7 9 (39.13 %) Spring 8 8 (34.78 %) Multimedia 8 8 (34.78 %) Dreamweaver 8 8 (34.78 %) Release Management

8 8 (34.78 %) HTML 8 8 (34.78 %) VSS/SourceSafe 8 8 (34.78 %) ASP 8 8 (34.78 %) Photoshop 8 8 (34.78 %) JavaScript 8 8 (34.78 %) ActionScript 8 8 (34.78 %) Windows Server 2003 8 8 (34.78 %) SQL Server 2000 8 8 (34.78 %) CSS 8 8 (34.78 %) Flash 9 7 (30.43 %) .NET 9 7 (30.43 %) ASP.NET 10 6 (26.09 %) Servlets 11 5 (21.74 %) SQL Server 2005 11 5 (21.74 %) SQL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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.

Application Development 1 16 (69.57 %) JSP 2 9 (39.13 %) Struts 2 9 (39.13 %) J2EE 2 9 (39.13 %) Spring 3 8 (34.78 %) CSS 3 8 (34.78 %) ASP 3 8 (34.78 %) HTML 4 7 (30.43 %) .NET 4 7 (30.43 %) ASP.NET 5 6 (26.09 %) Servlets 6 4 (17.39 %) Hibernate 6 4 (17.39 %) AJAX 6 4 (17.39 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 10 (43.48 %) IIS 2 3 (13.04 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 1 (4.348 %) Content Management Server 3 1 (4.348 %) CMS
Applications 1 8 (34.78 %) Photoshop 2 2 (8.696 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 15 (65.22 %) Extranet 2 1 (4.348 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (52.17 %) SQL Server 2 11 (47.83 %) DB2 2 11 (47.83 %) DB2 UDB 3 8 (34.78 %) SQL Server 2000 4 5 (21.74 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 8 (34.78 %) VSS/SourceSafe 1 8 (34.78 %) Flash 1 8 (34.78 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 8 (34.78 %) Multimedia 2 1 (4.348 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 15 (65.22 %) Developer 2 8 (34.78 %) Web Developer 3 6 (26.09 %) Java Developer 4 5 (21.74 %) Analyst 5 3 (13.04 %) Lead Developer 5 3 (13.04 %) Project Leader 5 3 (13.04 %) HTML Developer 6 2 (8.696 %) Service Desk Analyst 6 2 (8.696 %) Team Leader 6 2 (8.696 %) Internet Developer 6 2 (8.696 %) Service Analyst 6 2 (8.696 %) Java Team Leader 7 1 (4.348 %) Business Analyst 7 1 (4.348 %) Infrastructure Analyst 7 1 (4.348 %) Support Analyst 7 1 (4.348 %) Flash Developer 7 1 (4.348 %) J2EE Developer 7 1 (4.348 %) Web Analyst 7 1 (4.348 %) ActionScript Developer 7 1 (4.348 %) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (8.696 %) Management Information System	Operating Systems 1 10 (43.48 %) Windows 2 8 (34.78 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (4.348 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (34.78 %) Release Management 2 2 (8.696 %) Project Management 2 2 (8.696 %) Service Management 3 1 (4.348 %) E-Commerce	Programming Languages 1 17 (73.91 %) Java 2 8 (34.78 %) JavaScript 2 8 (34.78 %) ActionScript 3 5 (21.74 %) SQL
Vendors 1 9 (39.13 %) IBM 2 3 (13.04 %) Microsoft 3 1 (4.348 %) Progress