Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 18 July 2018

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Problem-Solving skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 18 July 2018 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Problem-Solving
South East > Berkshire
6 months to
18 Jul 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 17 18 39
Rank change year-on-year +1 +21 -18
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 313 261 235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 7.88% 6.95% 4.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.20% 8.48% 5.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 118 121
Berkshire median daily rate £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -
10th Percentile £208 £171 £275
90th Percentile £518 £561 £523
South East median daily rate £413 £400 £393
% change year-on-year +3.13% +1.91% +4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 13
Berkshire median hourly rate £34.00 £15.00 £12.83
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +126.67% +16.91% -25.49%
10th Percentile £10.78 £9.44 £8.32
90th Percentile £48.00 £47.19 £55.65
South East median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year +110.53% +35.71% -6.67%

Problem-Solving is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire
Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,401 3,077 4,020
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 85.60% 81.97% 81.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,719 1,465 2,140
Berkshire median daily rate £425 £425 £408
Median daily rate % change year-on-year - +4.29% +8.67%
10th Percentile £269 £252 £255
90th Percentile £588 £575 £550
South East median daily rate £438 £415 £400
% change year-on-year +5.42% +3.75% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 133 127
Berkshire median hourly rate £22.00 £15.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +46.67% -14.29% -20.45%
10th Percentile £8.00 £11.72 £10.50
90th Percentile £49.75 £40.20 £47.50
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £20.00 £24.03
% change year-on-year +25.01% -16.77% +11.51%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Berkshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Problem-Solving in Berkshire.

Contractor daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Berkshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Problem-Solving in Berkshire over the 6 months to 18 July 2018.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Berkshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving in Berkshire.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Berkshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Problem-Solving in Berkshire over the 6 months to 18 July 2018.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Berkshire

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 18 July 2018. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Job
Vacancies
Reading -4 101 £400 +10.34% 56
Bracknell +8 36 £410 -25.39% 6
Maidenhead 0 30 £400 -17.95% 6
Newbury -1 27 £300 +44.58% 6
Slough -3 27 £369 -18.06% 7
Wokingham -4 8 £285 - 4
Ascot - 2 £450 - 1
Problem-Solving
South East

For the 6 months to 18 July 2018, IT contractor jobs citing Problem-Solving also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Berkshire region with a requirement for Problem-Solving.

1 143 (45.69%) Analytical Skills
2 72 (23.00%) Agile Software Development
3 71 (22.68%) Telecoms
4 65 (20.77%) Project Management
4 65 (20.77%) Degree
5 60 (19.17%) Finance
6 42 (13.42%) Oracle
7 41 (13.10%) Java
7 41 (13.10%) Computer Science
8 40 (12.78%) SQL
9 39 (12.46%) Self-Motivation
10 34 (10.86%) Microsoft
11 31 (9.90%) Linux
12 28 (8.95%) PMI Certification
13 27 (8.63%) Stakeholder Management
14 26 (8.31%) Unix
14 26 (8.31%) ITIL
14 26 (8.31%) Data Management
15 25 (7.99%) Retail
15 25 (7.99%) Web Services
16 24 (7.67%) Migration
16 24 (7.67%) DevOps
17 22 (7.03%) User Experience
18 21 (6.71%) JavaScript
19 20 (6.39%) HP
19 20 (6.39%) Data Analysis
19 20 (6.39%) Business Analysis
20 19 (6.07%) German Language
20 19 (6.07%) Data Centre
20 19 (6.07%) REST

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring IT Skills in Berkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (3.83%) Apache
2 7 (2.24%) CMS
2 7 (2.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (1.92%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.92%) Tomcat
4 5 (1.60%) Drupal
4 5 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (1.60%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (1.28%) SharePoint Server
6 3 (0.96%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.96%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.64%) Confluence
7 2 (0.64%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.64%) MS Exchange
7 2 (0.64%) WordPress
8 1 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.32%) IBM Notes
8 1 (0.32%) IIS
8 1 (0.32%) SAS
8 1 (0.32%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 16 (5.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 16 (5.11%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.19%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.32%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 14 (4.47%) Sonata
2 8 (2.56%) BusinessWare
3 6 (1.92%) Magento
4 5 (1.60%) Oracle BPM
5 4 (1.28%) Infor M3
5 4 (1.28%) Unit4 Business World
6 3 (0.96%) Hyperion Planning
6 3 (0.96%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.96%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.96%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.96%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.64%) BusinessWorks
7 2 (0.64%) HFM
7 2 (0.64%) Oracle BRM
7 2 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.64%) SAP SD
7 2 (0.64%) TIBCO iProcess
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.32%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 15 (4.79%) SaaS
2 13 (4.15%) Microsoft Azure
2 13 (4.15%) Office 365
3 10 (3.19%) PaaS
4 5 (1.60%) IBM Blueworks
5 4 (1.28%) IaaS
6 3 (0.96%) Amazon AWS
6 3 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (0.64%) Force.com
7 2 (0.64%) GitHub
7 2 (0.64%) Google Analytics
7 2 (0.64%) Google Cloud Platform
8 1 (0.32%) CloudSense
8 1 (0.32%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.47%) Firewall
2 10 (3.19%) HTTP
3 9 (2.88%) Ethernet
4 8 (2.56%) Skype
5 7 (2.24%) DOCSIS
5 7 (2.24%) MPLS
5 7 (2.24%) Wireless
6 6 (1.92%) Internet
6 6 (1.92%) SNMP
7 5 (1.60%) 3G
7 5 (1.60%) 4G
7 5 (1.60%) Cisco ISE
7 5 (1.60%) WAN
8 4 (1.28%) Diameter Protocol
8 4 (1.28%) Network Security
8 4 (1.28%) SSL
8 4 (1.28%) VoIP
8 4 (1.28%) VPN
8 4 (1.28%) Wireshark
9 3 (0.96%) SIGTRAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.51%) MongoDB
2 8 (2.56%) MySQL
3 6 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.60%) Apache Cassandra
4 5 (1.60%) DB2
4 5 (1.60%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.28%) Big Data
5 4 (1.28%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 3 (0.96%) Oracle BI EE
6 3 (0.96%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.64%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.64%) Bigtable
7 2 (0.64%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.64%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.64%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.64%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (0.64%) Power BI
7 2 (0.64%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (3.51%) JIRA
2 8 (2.56%) Git (software)
2 8 (2.56%) JMeter
3 6 (1.92%) SoapUI
4 4 (1.28%) Cucumber
4 4 (1.28%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.28%) LoadRunner
4 4 (1.28%) Selenium
5 3 (0.96%) Subversion
6 2 (0.64%) Hudson
6 2 (0.64%) Maven
7 1 (0.32%) Grunt
7 1 (0.32%) gulp
7 1 (0.32%) JUnit
7 1 (0.32%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.32%) MSI
7 1 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.32%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.32%) webpack
General
1 71 (22.68%) Telecoms
2 60 (19.17%) Finance
3 25 (7.99%) Retail
4 19 (6.07%) German Language
5 18 (5.75%) French Language
6 15 (4.79%) Marketing
7 10 (3.19%) Billing
8 9 (2.88%) Mandarin Language
9 6 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.60%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.28%) Games
12 3 (0.96%) Back Office
12 3 (0.96%) Italian Language
12 3 (0.96%) Publishing
12 3 (0.96%) Spanish Language
13 2 (0.64%) Advertising
13 2 (0.64%) Czech Language
13 2 (0.64%) Legal
14 1 (0.32%) Electronics
14 1 (0.32%) Law
Job Titles
1 61 (19.49%) Analyst
2 36 (11.50%) Developer
3 28 (8.95%) Consultant
4 23 (7.35%) Architect
5 21 (6.71%) Project Manager
6 20 (6.39%) Designer
7 14 (4.47%) Business Analyst
7 14 (4.47%) Support Engineer
8 12 (3.83%) Support Analyst
9 11 (3.51%) Java Team Leader
9 11 (3.51%) Team Leader
10 10 (3.19%) IT Manager
10 10 (3.19%) Network Engineer
11 9 (2.88%) Java Developer
11 9 (2.88%) Lead Developer
11 9 (2.88%) Test Analyst
12 8 (2.56%) Business Process Analyst
12 8 (2.56%) Process Analyst
12 8 (2.56%) Programme Manager
12 8 (2.56%) webMethods Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.99%) Web Services
2 19 (6.07%) REST
3 18 (5.75%) .NET
4 17 (5.43%) HTML
5 14 (4.47%) SOAP
6 12 (3.83%) ASP.NET
7 11 (3.51%) CSS
8 7 (2.24%) CSS3
8 7 (2.24%) HTML5
8 7 (2.24%) LESS
8 7 (2.24%) Sass
9 6 (1.92%) ASP.NET MVC
9 6 (1.92%) EDI
9 6 (1.92%) jQuery
9 6 (1.92%) XML
10 5 (1.60%) AngularJS
10 5 (1.60%) J2EE
10 5 (1.60%) Middleware
10 5 (1.60%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (1.60%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 143 (45.69%) Analytical Skills
2 41 (13.10%) Computer Science
3 39 (12.46%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (7.03%) User Experience
5 19 (6.07%) Data Centre
6 15 (4.79%) PMI
7 12 (3.83%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.24%) Mobile App
8 7 (2.24%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.92%) Replication
9 6 (1.92%) Social Media
10 5 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.60%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.60%) TM Forum
11 4 (1.28%) Clustering
12 3 (0.96%) Smart Meter
13 2 (0.64%) Digital Media
13 2 (0.64%) Graphic Design
13 2 (0.64%) NHS
13 2 (0.64%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (9.90%) Linux
2 26 (8.31%) Unix
3 16 (5.11%) AIX
4 13 (4.15%) Windows
5 6 (1.92%) Android
6 5 (1.60%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.96%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.64%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.64%) Solaris
9 2 (0.64%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.64%) Windows 8
10 1 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.32%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (23.00%) Agile Software Development
2 65 (20.77%) Project Management
3 27 (8.63%) Stakeholder Management
4 26 (8.31%) Data Management
4 26 (8.31%) ITIL
5 24 (7.67%) DevOps
5 24 (7.67%) Migration
6 20 (6.39%) Business Analysis
6 20 (6.39%) Data Analysis
7 18 (5.75%) Decision-Making
7 18 (5.75%) ETL
7 18 (5.75%) Incident Management
7 18 (5.75%) Scrum
7 18 (5.75%) Validation
8 17 (5.43%) Analytics
8 17 (5.43%) Critical Thinking
8 17 (5.43%) Waterfall
9 16 (5.11%) Data Mapping
9 16 (5.11%) User Acceptance Testing
10 15 (4.79%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 41 (13.10%) Java
2 40 (12.78%) SQL
3 21 (6.71%) JavaScript
4 18 (5.75%) Python
5 16 (5.11%) C#
6 12 (3.83%) C
7 11 (3.51%) PHP
8 7 (2.24%) Perl
9 4 (1.28%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.28%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.96%) C++
10 3 (0.96%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.64%) ABAP
11 2 (0.64%) AWK
11 2 (0.64%) Bash Shell
11 2 (0.64%) ES6
12 1 (0.32%) R
12 1 (0.32%) Ruby
12 1 (0.32%) SOQL
12 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 65 (20.77%) Degree
2 28 (8.95%) PMI Certification
3 17 (5.43%) Security Cleared
4 14 (4.47%) PMP
5 13 (4.15%) SC Cleared
6 11 (3.51%) Master's Degree
6 11 (3.51%) PgMP
7 9 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.24%) CCNP
8 7 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.92%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.92%) ISEB
9 6 (1.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 4 (1.28%) MBA
10 4 (1.28%) SAP Certification
11 3 (0.96%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 2 (0.64%) ACCA
12 2 (0.64%) CIMA
12 2 (0.64%) HNC
13 1 (0.32%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.19%) Data Quality
1 10 (3.19%) QA
2 9 (2.88%) SLA
3 5 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (1.28%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.96%) PMO
6 2 (0.64%) GCP
6 2 (0.64%) GxP
7 1 (0.32%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 1 (0.32%) GDPR
7 1 (0.32%) IFRS
7 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (2.24%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.60%) Docker
2 5 (1.60%) StorNext
3 3 (0.96%) Firmware
3 3 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.64%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.64%) Corosync
5 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.32%) vCloud
5 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (4.15%) HP ALM
2 8 (2.56%) Ansible
2 8 (2.56%) Puppet
3 6 (1.92%) Opscode Chef
4 5 (1.60%) SCOM
4 5 (1.60%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 4 (1.28%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (0.64%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.64%) Grafana
6 2 (0.64%) Graphite
6 2 (0.64%) Kibana
6 2 (0.64%) Mesos
6 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.64%) Nagios
6 2 (0.64%) NetBackup
6 2 (0.64%) Pacemaker
6 2 (0.64%) Salt
6 2 (0.64%) StatsD
6 2 (0.64%) TIBCO Hawk
6 2 (0.64%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 42 (13.42%) Oracle
2 34 (10.86%) Microsoft
3 20 (6.39%) HP
4 16 (5.11%) webMethods
5 14 (4.47%) FNZ
6 12 (3.83%) Cisco
6 12 (3.83%) TIBCO
7 11 (3.51%) AppDynamics
8 10 (3.19%) IBM
8 10 (3.19%) SAP
9 8 (2.56%) Ab Initio
9 8 (2.56%) EXTOL
9 8 (2.56%) Huawei
9 8 (2.56%) Vitria
10 7 (2.24%) Red Hat
10 7 (2.24%) SolarWinds
11 6 (1.92%) Salesforce.com
12 5 (1.60%) Alibaba
13 4 (1.28%) Dynatrace
13 4 (1.28%) Google