Basingstoke ISEB Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB) in IT contracts within the Basingstoke region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited ISEB over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Amersham Andover Atherstone Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Corsham Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Pontypool Portsmouth Reading Rugby Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skelmersdale Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Bromwich West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	20	52
Rank change on same period last year	+32
Matching contract IT job ads	19	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	28.36 %	12.50 %
Daily rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum daily rate	£319	£250
Average daily rate	£328	£300
% change on same period last year	+9.37 %
Average maximum daily rate	£338	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£316
% change on same period last year	+3.14 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.00	£27.50
Average hourly rate	£30.50	£28.38
% change on same period last year	+7.48 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.00	£29.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.48	£31.62
% change on same period last year	-3.63 %
Qualifications Basingstoke
Matching contract IT job ads	67	56
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.089 %	0.057 %
Daily rates quoted	11	15
Average minimum daily rate	£358	£317
Average daily rate	£409	£323
% change on same period last year	+26.54 %
Average maximum daily rate	£459	£329
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£338
% change on same period last year	-2.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	19	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.23	£25.53
Average hourly rate	£32.53	£26.55
% change on same period last year	+22.52 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.83	£27.58
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.98	£25.56
% change on same period last year	-2.29 %
ISEB Hampshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ISEB across the Basingstoke region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ISEB across the Basingstoke region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ISEB across the Basingstoke region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ISEB across the Basingstoke region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ISEB across the Basingstoke region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing ISEB 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 ISEB.

1 19 (38.78 %) Software Testing 2 17 (34.69 %) Windows 3 15 (30.61 %) Security Cleared 4 13 (26.53 %) UNIX 5 12 (24.49 %) Finance 5 12 (24.49 %) SC Cleared 6 11 (22.45 %) ITIL 7 10 (20.41 %) Manual Testing 8 9 (18.37 %) Tivoli 8 9 (18.37 %) CONTROL-M 9 8 (16.33 %) Degree 10 7 (14.29 %) Performance Management 10 7 (14.29 %) Active Directory 10 7 (14.29 %) Oracle 11 6 (12.24 %) LAN

11 6 (12.24 %) WAN 11 6 (12.24 %) Microsoft 11 6 (12.24 %) Government 11 6 (12.24 %) Telecoms 11 6 (12.24 %) VLAN 12 5 (10.20 %) Windows Server 2003 12 5 (10.20 %) Solaris 12 5 (10.20 %) Java 13 4 (8.163 %) Linux 13 4 (8.163 %) SAS 13 4 (8.163 %) VPN 13 4 (8.163 %) Firewall 13 4 (8.163 %) Document Management 13 4 (8.163 %) Test Scripting 13 4 (8.163 %) QA

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing ISEB 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 ISEB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (4.082 %) HTML 1 2 (4.082 %) WebSphere 2 1 (2.041 %) J2EE 2 1 (2.041 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 4 (8.163 %) SAS 2 2 (4.082 %) WebSphere MQ 2 2 (4.082 %) Rendezvous 2 2 (4.082 %) Exchange Server 5.5 2 2 (4.082 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 2 (4.082 %) Exchange Server 2007 2 2 (4.082 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 3 (6.122 %) MS Office 2 2 (4.082 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (2.041 %) SAP HR 1 1 (2.041 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 6 (12.24 %) LAN 1 6 (12.24 %) WAN 1 6 (12.24 %) VLAN 2 4 (8.163 %) Firewall 2 4 (8.163 %) VPN 3 2 (4.082 %) SSL 3 2 (4.082 %) HTTP 3 2 (4.082 %) SSH	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (6.122 %) RDBMS 2 2 (4.082 %) DB2 2 2 (4.082 %) Oracle 9i 3 1 (2.041 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 1 (2.041 %) WinRunner 1 1 (2.041 %) TestDirector 1 1 (2.041 %) QuickTest Pro 1 1 (2.041 %) LoadRunner	General 1 12 (24.49 %) Finance 2 6 (12.24 %) Government 2 6 (12.24 %) Telecoms 3 2 (4.082 %) Electronics 4 1 (2.041 %) Banking 4 1 (2.041 %) Pensions 4 1 (2.041 %) Video Editing
Job Titles 1 21 (42.86 %) Analyst 2 19 (38.78 %) Test Analyst 3 15 (30.61 %) Tester 4 7 (14.29 %) Software Tester 4 7 (14.29 %) Team Leader 4 7 (14.29 %) UNIX Team Leader 5 5 (10.20 %) Manual Tester 6 3 (6.122 %) QA Analyst 7 1 (2.041 %) QA Test Analyst 7 1 (2.041 %) SAP Manager 7 1 (2.041 %) SAP Test Manager 7 1 (2.041 %) Systems Tester 7 1 (2.041 %) Applications Support 7 1 (2.041 %) Project Manager 7 1 (2.041 %) Test Manager	Miscellaneous 1 3 (6.122 %) Thin Client 1 3 (6.122 %) Fat Client 2 2 (4.082 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 17 (34.69 %) Windows 2 13 (26.53 %) UNIX 3 5 (10.20 %) Windows Server 2003 3 5 (10.20 %) Solaris 4 4 (8.163 %) Linux 5 2 (4.082 %) Windows 2000 5 2 (4.082 %) Windows Vista 6 1 (2.041 %) AIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 19 (38.78 %) Software Testing 2 15 (30.61 %) Security Cleared 3 12 (24.49 %) SC Cleared 4 11 (22.45 %) ITIL 5 10 (20.41 %) Manual Testing 6 7 (14.29 %) Performance Management 7 4 (8.163 %) Test Scripting 7 4 (8.163 %) Document Management 8 2 (4.082 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 2 (4.082 %) Performance Testing 8 2 (4.082 %) Unit Testing 8 2 (4.082 %) Integration Testing 8 2 (4.082 %) Test Management 9 1 (2.041 %) PRINCE2 9 1 (2.041 %) ERP 9 1 (2.041 %) Change Management 9 1 (2.041 %) Regression Testing 9 1 (2.041 %) E-business 9 1 (2.041 %) Workflow 9 1 (2.041 %) Automated Testing
Programming Languages 1 5 (10.20 %) Java 2 2 (4.082 %) Python 2 2 (4.082 %) Shell Script 3 1 (2.041 %) C 3 1 (2.041 %) SQL 3 1 (2.041 %) VBScript 3 1 (2.041 %) VB	Qualifications 1 8 (16.33 %) Degree 2 2 (4.082 %) Sun Certification 3 1 (2.041 %) IBM AIX Certification 3 1 (2.041 %) ISTQB 3 1 (2.041 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (8.163 %) QA	System Software 1 7 (14.29 %) Active Directory 2 2 (4.082 %) NFS
Systems Management 1 9 (18.37 %) Tivoli 1 9 (18.37 %) CONTROL-M 2 2 (4.082 %) SCCM 2 2 (4.082 %) SCOM 2 2 (4.082 %) MOM 2 2 (4.082 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 7 (14.29 %) Oracle 2 6 (12.24 %) Microsoft 3 3 (6.122 %) Sun 3 3 (6.122 %) Citrix 3 3 (6.122 %) Cisco 4 2 (4.082 %) IBM 4 2 (4.082 %) Juniper 4 2 (4.082 %) TIBCO 4 2 (4.082 %) Remedy 5 1 (2.041 %) Sony 5 1 (2.041 %) Apple 5 1 (2.041 %) SAP