Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 20 September 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 20 September 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
20 Sep 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 21 18 36
Rank change year-on-year -3 +18 -17
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 280 292 223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 7.21% 7.26% 4.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.53% 8.65% 5.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 132 117
Berkshire median daily rate £400 £400 £400
10th Percentile £208 £200 £212
90th Percentile £538 £550 £500
South East median daily rate £413 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +3.13% - +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 13
Berkshire median hourly rate £34.00 £19.00 £13.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +78.95% +46.15% -67.50%
10th Percentile £11.74 £12.40 £12.22
90th Percentile £50.10 £51.52 £22.60
South East median hourly rate £40.50 £19.81 £15.50
% change year-on-year +104.42% +27.82% -2.36%

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 3,284 3,374 3,815
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 84.62% 83.91% 82.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,649 1,701 2,068
Berkshire median daily rate £425 £425 £400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year - +6.25% +3.23%
10th Percentile £250 £263 £250
90th Percentile £575 £588 £569
South East median daily rate £435 £414 £400
% change year-on-year +5.20% +3.38% +3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 119 143
Berkshire median hourly rate £21.50 £15.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +38.71% -11.43% -27.45%
10th Percentile £10.14 £11.25 £11.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £39.75 £43.12
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £20.25 £22.75
% change year-on-year +23.47% -10.99% +1.11%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -10 96 £414 +14.14% 35
Newbury +11 34 £300 -4.76% 12
Bracknell -1 29 £505 +24.69% 7
Maidenhead +4 25 £400 -27.93% 9
Slough +2 23 £400 -8.57% 12
Wokingham -10 6 £575 - 2
Problem-Solving
South East

For the 6 months to 20 September 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.

1 134 (47.86%) Analytical Skills
2 78 (27.86%) Telecoms
3 64 (22.86%) Agile Software Development
4 63 (22.50%) Degree
5 53 (18.93%) Project Management
6 52 (18.57%) Finance
7 40 (14.29%) Computer Science
8 38 (13.57%) Microsoft
9 35 (12.50%) Java
10 34 (12.14%) SQL
10 34 (12.14%) PMI Certification
11 31 (11.07%) Oracle
12 28 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
13 27 (9.64%) Web Services
13 27 (9.64%) Marketing
14 26 (9.29%) JavaScript
14 26 (9.29%) Stakeholder Management
15 25 (8.93%) PMP
16 24 (8.57%) HP
16 24 (8.57%) SOAP
16 24 (8.57%) Microsoft Office
17 22 (7.86%) SOA
17 22 (7.86%) PMI
18 21 (7.50%) Linux
18 21 (7.50%) Matrix Organization
18 21 (7.50%) Decision-Making
19 20 (7.14%) Migration
20 19 (6.79%) .NET
20 19 (6.79%) Security Cleared
20 19 (6.79%) 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 11 (3.93%) Apache
2 10 (3.57%) CMS
3 8 (2.86%) Drupal
4 7 (2.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 7 (2.50%) Tomcat
5 5 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.79%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (1.43%) IBM Notes
6 4 (1.43%) IIS
6 4 (1.43%) OpenStack
6 4 (1.43%) Skype for Business
7 3 (1.07%) Confluence
7 3 (1.07%) Exchange Server 2013
7 3 (1.07%) IBM Domino
7 3 (1.07%) MS Exchange
7 3 (1.07%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.71%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.71%) WordPress
9 1 (0.36%) Oracle BPEL
9 1 (0.36%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 28 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (8.57%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (5.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (3.57%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (3.21%) Sonata
2 6 (2.14%) Magento
2 6 (2.14%) Oracle BPM
3 4 (1.43%) Infor M3
4 3 (1.07%) Hyperion Planning
4 3 (1.07%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.71%) BusinessWorks
5 2 (0.71%) HFM
5 2 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.71%) TIBCO iProcess
5 2 (0.71%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.36%) Maximo
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.36%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.36%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.36%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 13 (4.64%) Microsoft Azure
2 12 (4.29%) SaaS
3 10 (3.57%) Office 365
4 7 (2.50%) PaaS
5 5 (1.79%) Amazon AWS
5 5 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (1.79%) Force.com
6 4 (1.43%) Heroku
7 3 (1.07%) IaaS
8 2 (0.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (0.71%) GitHub
8 2 (0.71%) Google Cloud Platform
8 2 (0.71%) IBM Blueworks
9 1 (0.36%) CloudSense
9 1 (0.36%) Google Analytics
9 1 (0.36%) npm
9 1 (0.36%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 1 (0.36%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.36%) 3G
1 15 (5.36%) 4G
2 14 (5.00%) Firewall
3 13 (4.64%) Diameter Protocol
3 13 (4.64%) Wireshark
4 10 (3.57%) Ethernet
4 10 (3.57%) HTTP
4 10 (3.57%) WAN
5 9 (3.21%) Network Security
5 9 (3.21%) Wireless
6 8 (2.86%) MPLS
7 7 (2.50%) DOCSIS
7 7 (2.50%) LAN
8 6 (2.14%) Skype
8 6 (2.14%) SNMP
9 5 (1.79%) Internet
9 5 (1.79%) VPN
10 4 (1.43%) GSM
10 4 (1.43%) SSL
10 4 (1.43%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.21%) MongoDB
1 9 (3.21%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.50%) MySQL
3 6 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.79%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (1.43%) Big Data
6 3 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.07%) Oracle BI EE
6 3 (1.07%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.07%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.71%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.71%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.71%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.71%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (0.71%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.71%) Power BI
7 2 (0.71%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (5.36%) SoapUI
2 8 (2.86%) Git (software)
2 8 (2.86%) JMeter
3 7 (2.50%) JIRA
4 6 (2.14%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.43%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.43%) LoadRunner
5 4 (1.43%) Selenium
5 4 (1.43%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.07%) Maven
6 3 (1.07%) Subversion
6 3 (1.07%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (1.07%) Visual Studio Team System
7 2 (0.71%) Hudson
8 1 (0.36%) Buildbot
8 1 (0.36%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.36%) Grunt
8 1 (0.36%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.36%) Toad
8 1 (0.36%) webpack
General
1 78 (27.86%) Telecoms
2 52 (18.57%) Finance
3 27 (9.64%) Marketing
4 18 (6.43%) Retail
5 12 (4.29%) Mandarin Language
6 8 (2.86%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.14%) German Language
7 6 (2.14%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (1.79%) French Language
9 4 (1.43%) Billing
9 4 (1.43%) Legal
10 3 (1.07%) Games
10 3 (1.07%) Law
11 1 (0.36%) Advertising
11 1 (0.36%) Back Office
11 1 (0.36%) Electronics
11 1 (0.36%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.36%) Portuguese Language
11 1 (0.36%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 34 (12.14%) Analyst
2 30 (10.71%) Project Manager
3 29 (10.36%) Consultant
4 28 (10.00%) Architect
5 24 (8.57%) Developer
6 11 (3.93%) IT Manager
6 11 (3.93%) Test Engineer
7 9 (3.21%) Business Analyst
7 9 (3.21%) Network Engineer
8 8 (2.86%) Contracts Manager
8 8 (2.86%) Designer
9 7 (2.50%) Applications Manager
9 7 (2.50%) Applications Project Manager
9 7 (2.50%) IT Programme Manager
9 7 (2.50%) Programme Manager
9 7 (2.50%) Support Engineer
9 7 (2.50%) Transformation Manager
9 7 (2.50%) Transformation Programme Manager
10 6 (2.14%) Administrator
10 6 (2.14%) Magento Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (9.64%) Web Services
2 24 (8.57%) SOAP
3 19 (6.79%) .NET
3 19 (6.79%) REST
4 18 (6.43%) HTML
5 15 (5.36%) ASP.NET
6 12 (4.29%) CSS
6 12 (4.29%) LDAP
7 10 (3.57%) Middleware
8 9 (3.21%) CSS3
8 9 (3.21%) HTML5
9 8 (2.86%) XML
10 7 (2.50%) LESS
10 7 (2.50%) Sass
11 6 (2.14%) ASP.NET MVC
11 6 (2.14%) jQuery
11 6 (2.14%) Spring
11 6 (2.14%) Spring Boot
12 5 (1.79%) J2EE
12 5 (1.79%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 134 (47.86%) Analytical Skills
2 40 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 22 (7.86%) PMI
4 18 (6.43%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (5.71%) Data Centre
6 14 (5.00%) User Experience
7 12 (4.29%) Management Information System
8 9 (3.21%) Social Media
8 9 (3.21%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.79%) Clustering
9 5 (1.79%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.07%) Replication
11 3 (1.07%) TM Forum
12 2 (0.71%) Credit Risk
12 2 (0.71%) Graphic Design
12 2 (0.71%) NHS
12 2 (0.71%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.71%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.50%) Linux
2 14 (5.00%) Unix
2 14 (5.00%) Windows
3 7 (2.50%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.07%) Android
4 3 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.07%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.07%) Windows 7
5 2 (0.71%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.71%) Solaris
5 2 (0.71%) Windows 8
5 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (22.86%) Agile Software Development
2 53 (18.93%) Project Management
3 26 (9.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 22 (7.86%) SOA
5 21 (7.50%) Decision-Making
5 21 (7.50%) Matrix Organization
6 20 (7.14%) Migration
7 19 (6.79%) Analytics
8 18 (6.43%) Critical Thinking
8 18 (6.43%) ITIL
9 17 (6.07%) Business Analysis
9 17 (6.07%) DevOps
9 17 (6.07%) E-Commerce
9 17 (6.07%) SDLC
10 16 (5.71%) Validation
11 15 (5.36%) CRM
11 15 (5.36%) Waterfall
12 14 (5.00%) Data Analysis
13 13 (4.64%) Business Intelligence
13 13 (4.64%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 35 (12.50%) Java
2 34 (12.14%) SQL
3 26 (9.29%) JavaScript
4 16 (5.71%) C#
4 16 (5.71%) Python
5 11 (3.93%) PHP
6 10 (3.57%) C
7 7 (2.50%) Perl
8 5 (1.79%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.43%) C++
9 4 (1.43%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.07%) Bash Shell
10 3 (1.07%) LotusScript
10 3 (1.07%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.71%) ABAP
11 2 (0.71%) AWK
11 2 (0.71%) ES6
12 1 (0.36%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.36%) Groovy
12 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (22.50%) Degree
2 34 (12.14%) PMI Certification
3 25 (8.93%) PMP
4 19 (6.79%) Security Cleared
5 17 (6.07%) Master's Degree
6 12 (4.29%) SC Cleared
7 8 (2.86%) CCNP
7 8 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.86%) PgMP
8 6 (2.14%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.14%) ISEB
8 6 (2.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 6 (2.14%) MBA
9 4 (1.43%) HNC
10 2 (0.71%) ACCA
10 2 (0.71%) CIMA
11 1 (0.36%) Linux+ Certification
11 1 (0.36%) MCSE
11 1 (0.36%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.86%) SLA
2 6 (2.14%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.79%) PMO
3 5 (1.79%) QA
4 4 (1.43%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.71%) GCP
5 2 (0.71%) GDPR
5 2 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.36%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.36%) IFRS
6 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (2.86%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.14%) Docker
3 3 (1.07%) Firmware
3 3 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.71%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.71%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.71%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.36%) Corosync
5 1 (0.36%) StorNext
5 1 (0.36%) vCloud
5 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (6.07%) HP ALM
2 8 (2.86%) Ansible
3 7 (2.50%) Puppet
4 6 (2.14%) Opscode Chef
5 5 (1.79%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (0.71%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.71%) Grafana
6 2 (0.71%) Graphite
6 2 (0.71%) Kibana
6 2 (0.71%) Mesos
6 2 (0.71%) Nagios
6 2 (0.71%) Salt
6 2 (0.71%) SCCM
6 2 (0.71%) SCOM
6 2 (0.71%) StatsD
6 2 (0.71%) TIBCO Hawk
6 2 (0.71%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.36%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.36%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.36%) Pacemaker
Vendors
1 38 (13.57%) Microsoft
2 31 (11.07%) Oracle
3 24 (8.57%) HP
4 18 (6.43%) TIBCO
5 14 (5.00%) Cisco
5 14 (5.00%) SAP
6 13 (4.64%) Salesforce.com
7 11 (3.93%) Nokia
8 10 (3.57%) AppDynamics
9 9 (3.21%) FNZ
10 8 (2.86%) Huawei
11 6 (2.14%) Aruba
11 6 (2.14%) IBM
11 6 (2.14%) Red Hat
12 5 (1.79%) Alibaba
12 5 (1.79%) Juniper
12 5 (1.79%) Remedy
12 5 (1.79%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.79%) Talend
13 4 (1.43%) EXTOL