The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Redknee 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 Redknee 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 Redknee, Inc.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Redknee
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Redknee 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 0.402% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.800% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £285 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £383 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
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%
Redknee
Berkshire

Redknee
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Slough Redknee Jobs Demand Trend

Redknee
Daily Rate Trend

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

Slough Redknee Daily Rate Trend

Redknee
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 4 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (75.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (75.00%) Solaris
2 3 (75.00%) WAP
3 2 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) Perl
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle
3 2 (50.00%) SOAP
3 2 (50.00%) UNIX
3 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (50.00%) Project Management
3 2 (50.00%) Bash shell
3 2 (50.00%) DNS
3 2 (50.00%) Fault Management
3 2 (50.00%) Sun
4 1 (25.00%) CCNA
4 1 (25.00%) Citrix
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
4 1 (25.00%) Crossbeam
4 1 (25.00%) Network Security
4 1 (25.00%) SLA
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco
4 1 (25.00%) F5
4 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Firewall
4 1 (25.00%) HTTP

Redknee
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) WAP
2 2 (50.00%) SOAP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 4 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) UNIX Systems Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) UNIX Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Support
1 1 (25.00%) Applications Support
1 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (25.00%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Solaris
2 2 (50.00%) UNIX
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
1 2 (50.00%) Fault Management
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Perl
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (50.00%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNA
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) Sun
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (25.00%) Crossbeam
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) F5