Berkshire Contract for Difference Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Contract for Difference (CFD) skills within the Berkshire region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Contract for Difference over the 3 months to 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Contract for Difference (CFD)
Location Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cheltenham City of London Coventry East Midlands England Gloucester Gloucestershire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire London Luton Milton Keynes Newbury Northampton Northamptonshire Oxford Oxfordshire South East South West UK Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	228	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.136 %	0.000 %
Salaries quoted	2	0
Average minimum salary	£42,500	-
Average salary	£45,000	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£47,500	-
UK excluding London average salary	£37,114	£40,000
% change on same period last year	-7.21 %
Miscellaneous Berkshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	1474	2287
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.998 %	1.039 %
Salaries quoted	1243	1927
Average minimum salary	£37,110	£37,990
Average salary	£40,599	£41,748
% change on same period last year	-2.75 %
Average maximum salary	£44,088	£45,506
UK excluding London average salary	£37,736	£40,246
% change on same period last year	-6.23 %
Contract for Difference South East

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Contract for Difference across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Contract for Difference across the Berkshire region.

Contract for Difference
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Contract for Difference across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 4 December 2008.

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Contract for Difference within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 4 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Newbury	-	2	£45,000	-

Contract for Difference South East

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Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Contract for Difference 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Contract for Difference.

1 2 (100.00 %) Perl 1 2 (100.00 %) SQL 1 2 (100.00 %) ITIL 1 2 (100.00 %) UNIX 1 2 (100.00 %) Linux 1 2 (100.00 %) Clustering 1 2 (100.00 %) Banking 1 2 (100.00 %) Red Hat 1 2 (100.00 %) Korn 1 2 (100.00 %) Release Management 1 2 (100.00 %) Red Hat Linux 2 1 (50.00 %) Grid Computing 2 1 (50.00 %) VERITAS

Contract for Difference
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Contract for Difference also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Contract for Difference. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

General 1 2 (100.00 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 1 (50.00 %) Administrator 1 1 (50.00 %) Linux Administrator 1 1 (50.00 %) Senior Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous 1 2 (100.00 %) Clustering 2 1 (50.00 %) Grid Computing	Operating Systems 1 2 (100.00 %) UNIX 1 2 (100.00 %) Linux 1 2 (100.00 %) Red Hat Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (100.00 %) ITIL 1 2 (100.00 %) Release Management	Programming Languages 1 2 (100.00 %) Perl 1 2 (100.00 %) SQL 1 2 (100.00 %) Korn
Vendors 1 2 (100.00 %) Red Hat 2 1 (50.00 %) VERITAS