The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Rackspace products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Rackspace over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Wales 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 Rackspace.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Rackspace
Rank 45 53 -
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -
Contract jobs citing Rackspace 1 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 0.215% 0.505% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.500% 1.145% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Average daily rate £375 £425 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.76% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £425 £295
% change year-on-year
-11.76% +44.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
200 262 359
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 42.92% 44.11% 50.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 112 148
Average daily rate £375 £313 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -7.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £152 £200 £236
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £513
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 16
Average hourly rate £13.50 £14.00 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.57% -34.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.69 £11.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.40 £25.00 £28.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
Rackspace
UK

Rackspace
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales Rackspace Jobs Demand Trend

Rackspace
Daily Rate Trend

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

Wales Rackspace Daily Rate Trend

Rackspace
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region citing Rackspace 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 Rackspace.

1 4 (100.00%) IBM
1 4 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) iSeries
2 3 (75.00%) AS400
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) OS/400
3 2 (50.00%) COBOL
3 2 (50.00%) RPG
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (50.00%) DB2
3 2 (50.00%) IIS
3 2 (50.00%) MS Office
3 2 (50.00%) UNIX
3 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) AIX
3 2 (50.00%) Banking
3 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (50.00%) Project Management
3 2 (50.00%) WebSphere
4 1 (25.00%) Degree
4 1 (25.00%) UML
4 1 (25.00%) OO
4 1 (25.00%) MS Project
4 1 (25.00%) SLA
4 1 (25.00%) TestDirector

Rackspace
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region citing Rackspace 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 Rackspace. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (50.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Office
2 1 (25.00%) MS Project
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) TestDirector
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Analyst
1 4 (100.00%) Support Analyst
1 4 (100.00%) Applications Support
1 4 (100.00%) Applications Support Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) AS400 Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) iSeries
2 3 (75.00%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) OS/400
1 2 (50.00%) UNIX
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) UML
3 1 (25.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) COBOL
1 2 (50.00%) RPG
1 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) IBM
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
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