The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of ReadSoft products and/or services in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ReadSoft 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 currently tracked.

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 ReadSoft.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
ReadSoft
Rank 536 580 577
Rank change year-on-year
+44 -3
Contract jobs citing ReadSoft 4 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.008% 0.002% 0.005%
As % of the Vendors category 0.018% 0.004% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £400 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £50.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £50.50 -
All Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
22181 27194 27998
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 46.98% 46.52% 46.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11810 13898 14021
Average daily rate £400 £400 £408
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £235 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1218 1319 1577
Average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.23 £11.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%

ReadSoft
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ReadSoft within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

ReadSoft Jobs Demand Trend

ReadSoft
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ReadSoft within the UK.

ReadSoft Daily Rate Trend

ReadSoft
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ReadSoft within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +47 3 £400 -
South East +27 3 £400 -
Berkshire - 3 £400 -
Scotland - 1 - -
Reading - 1 £400 -
Glasgow - 1 - -

ReadSoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing ReadSoft 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 ReadSoft.

1 5 (50.00%) Oracle
1 5 (50.00%) SAP
1 5 (50.00%) NetWeaver
1 5 (50.00%) SAP Basis
1 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) Workflow
2 4 (40.00%) HTTP
3 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (30.00%) IIS
3 3 (30.00%) Apache
3 3 (30.00%) Tomcat
3 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (30.00%) IBM
3 3 (30.00%) HP
3 3 (30.00%) Web Services
3 3 (30.00%) ITIL
3 3 (30.00%) Windows
3 3 (30.00%) Java
3 3 (30.00%) .NET
3 3 (30.00%) J2EE
3 3 (30.00%) FileNet
3 3 (30.00%) Foglight
3 3 (30.00%) LAN
3 3 (30.00%) SAN
3 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (30.00%) Retail
3 3 (30.00%) Content Management
3 3 (30.00%) VMware

ReadSoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing ReadSoft 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 ReadSoft. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (50.00%) SAP Basis
2 3 (30.00%) Web Services
2 3 (30.00%) .NET
2 3 (30.00%) J2EE
3 2 (20.00%) WebSphere
3 2 (20.00%) Middleware
4 1 (10.00%) SAP PI
Application Platforms
1 5 (50.00%) NetWeaver
2 3 (30.00%) IIS
2 3 (30.00%) Apache
2 3 (30.00%) Tomcat
2 3 (30.00%) FileNet
2 3 (30.00%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 1 (10.00%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (10.00%) Documentum
4 1 (10.00%) WebLogic
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (10.00%) Captiva
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Staffware
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) HTTP
2 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (30.00%) LAN
2 3 (30.00%) SAN
3 1 (10.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (10.00%) EDMS
General
1 3 (30.00%) Retail
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Electronics
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Administrator
2 3 (30.00%) Applications Support
2 3 (30.00%) SAP Administrator
2 3 (30.00%) SAP Basis Administrator
3 2 (20.00%) SAP Basis Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) SAP Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) DBA
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Support
4 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Server Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
1 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (30.00%) Windows 7
2 2 (20.00%) Solaris
3 1 (10.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Workflow
2 3 (30.00%) ITIL
2 3 (30.00%) Content Management
3 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) SAP Certification
3 1 (10.00%) HNC
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (30.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Foglight
1 3 (30.00%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle
1 5 (50.00%) SAP
2 3 (30.00%) IBM
2 3 (30.00%) HP
2 3 (30.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Vignette
3 1 (10.00%) PeopleSoft
3 1 (10.00%) JBoss