The first table below looks at the demand for ISEB in IT contracts advertised for the Taunton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ISEB over the 3 months to 22 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 Qualifications for the Taunton 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
Rank 14 13 14
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +1
Contract jobs citing ISEB 7 9 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Taunton 9.211% 15.25% 9.302%
As % of the Qualifications category 19.44% 23.68% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 1
Average daily rate £458 £370 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.78% +8.82%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £350
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £18.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+48.64% -32.72%
All Qualifications
Taunton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
36 38 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Taunton 47.37% 64.41% 58.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 24 10
Average daily rate £430 £365 £334
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.80% +9.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £230 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £420 £351
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £15.00 - £13.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
ISEB
Somerset

ISEB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Taunton ISEB Jobs Demand Trend

ISEB
Daily Rate Trend

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

Taunton ISEB Daily Rate Trend

ISEB
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ISEB across the Taunton region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Taunton ISEB Daily Rate Histogram

ISEB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Taunton region citing ISEB 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 ISEB.

1 22 (88.00%) ITIL
2 16 (64.00%) Security Cleared
3 15 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 15 (60.00%) Service Management
3 15 (60.00%) ITSM
4 14 (56.00%) SharePoint
4 14 (56.00%) XML
4 14 (56.00%) UML
4 14 (56.00%) C#
4 14 (56.00%) HTML
4 14 (56.00%) JavaScript
4 14 (56.00%) SQL
4 14 (56.00%) VB
4 14 (56.00%) .NET
4 14 (56.00%) SQL Server
4 14 (56.00%) ASP
4 14 (56.00%) SC Cleared
4 14 (56.00%) .NET Framework
5 13 (52.00%) Oracle
5 13 (52.00%) Java
5 13 (52.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (44.00%) Subversion
6 11 (44.00%) PRINCE2
7 10 (40.00%) UNIX
7 10 (40.00%) SAP
7 10 (40.00%) Ingres
7 10 (40.00%) C++
7 10 (40.00%) VB.NET
7 10 (40.00%) IIS
7 10 (40.00%) ASP.NET

ISEB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Taunton region citing ISEB 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 ISEB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (56.00%) XML
1 14 (56.00%) HTML
1 14 (56.00%) .NET
1 14 (56.00%) ASP
1 14 (56.00%) .NET Framework
2 10 (40.00%) ASP.NET
3 4 (16.00%) CSS
3 4 (16.00%) XSL
4 3 (12.00%) WCF
4 3 (12.00%) WPF
4 3 (12.00%) WF
Application Platforms
1 14 (56.00%) SharePoint
2 10 (40.00%) IIS
2 10 (40.00%) OpenROAD
3 4 (16.00%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 1 (4.000%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.000%) assyst
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (56.00%) SQL Server
2 10 (40.00%) Ingres
3 4 (16.00%) SAP BW
4 3 (12.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (12.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (8.000%) SQLPlus
6 1 (4.000%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 11 (44.00%) Subversion
2 9 (36.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 8 (32.00%) NUnit
3 8 (32.00%) TeamCity
3 8 (32.00%) MSTest
3 8 (32.00%) Jenkins
4 7 (28.00%) CruiseControl
4 7 (28.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 6 (24.00%) QuickTest Pro
6 4 (16.00%) Visual Studio
7 2 (8.000%) Selenium
8 1 (4.000%) WebDriver
Job Titles
1 12 (48.00%) Analyst
2 11 (44.00%) Senior Analyst
3 10 (40.00%) Senior Test Analyst
3 10 (40.00%) Developer
3 10 (40.00%) Test Analyst
4 8 (32.00%) .NET Developer
4 8 (32.00%) C# Developer
4 8 (32.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 6 (24.00%) SAP Test Analyst
5 6 (24.00%) Senior SAP Test Analyst
5 6 (24.00%) SAP Analyst
6 2 (8.000%) Analyst Developer
7 1 (4.000%) Development Manager
7 1 (4.000%) Senior Developer
7 1 (4.000%) Analyst Programmer
7 1 (4.000%) Programmer
7 1 (4.000%) Support Analyst
7 1 (4.000%) Service Manager
7 1 (4.000%) ASP.NET Developer
7 1 (4.000%) Senior Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.000%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (40.00%) UNIX
2 2 (8.000%) Windows
3 1 (4.000%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (88.00%) ITIL
2 15 (60.00%) Service Management
2 15 (60.00%) ITSM
3 14 (56.00%) UML
4 11 (44.00%) PRINCE2
5 9 (36.00%) Test Scripting
5 9 (36.00%) Service Delivery
5 9 (36.00%) Software Testing
6 8 (32.00%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (32.00%) Test Strategy
7 7 (28.00%) Unit Testing
8 4 (16.00%) Waterfall
8 4 (16.00%) Performance Management
8 4 (16.00%) Project Planning
8 4 (16.00%) Change Management
8 4 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (16.00%) RAD
9 3 (12.00%) SOA
9 3 (12.00%) TOGAF
9 3 (12.00%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 14 (56.00%) C#
1 14 (56.00%) JavaScript
1 14 (56.00%) SQL
1 14 (56.00%) VB
2 13 (52.00%) Java
3 10 (40.00%) C++
3 10 (40.00%) VB.NET
4 4 (16.00%) VB6
4 4 (16.00%) C
4 4 (16.00%) ABAP
4 4 (16.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 16 (64.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (56.00%) SC Cleared
3 13 (52.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (40.00%) ISTQB
5 9 (36.00%) MCPD
5 9 (36.00%) MCTS
5 9 (36.00%) ISEB Practitioner
5 9 (36.00%) MCP
6 5 (20.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 4 (16.00%) MCSD
8 3 (12.00%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (16.00%) TickIT
1 4 (16.00%) ISO 9000
2 3 (12.00%) COBIT
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 15 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (52.00%) Oracle
3 10 (40.00%) SAP
4 7 (28.00%) HP