Bedfordshire Education Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Education' in contract IT jobs within the Bedfordshire region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Education over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chippenham City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Gateshead Glasgow Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Hampshire Hayes Hertfordshire Home Counties Isle of Wight Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Reading Redcar Salford Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Tadworth Teddington Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Witham Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	19	31
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	3	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	4.918 %	2.703 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£400
Average daily rate	-	£400
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£310	£374
% change on same period last year	-17.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.38	£27.11
% change on same period last year	-21.15 %
General Bedfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	61	111
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.081 %	0.112 %
Daily rates quoted	9	25
Average minimum daily rate	£256	£291
Average daily rate	£284	£303
% change on same period last year	-6.42 %
Average maximum daily rate	£311	£315
UK excluding London average daily rate	£383	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.80	£25.13
Average hourly rate	£26.70	£25.81
% change on same period last year	+3.43 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.60	£26.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.78	£27.25
% change on same period last year	-1.70 %
Education East of England

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.

Education
Demand Trend

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

Education
Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Education within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Bedford	0	2	-	-

Education East of England

Education
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (37.50 %) MS Project 1 3 (37.50 %) MS Office 1 3 (37.50 %) Windows 1 3 (37.50 %) Lotus Notes 1 3 (37.50 %) Windows XP 1 3 (37.50 %) MS Excel 1 3 (37.50 %) Lotus 1 3 (37.50 %) Finance 1 3 (37.50 %) Insurance 1 3 (37.50 %) Remedy 2 2 (25.00 %) XML 2 2 (25.00 %) .NET 3 1 (12.50 %) J2EE 3 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 3 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server

3 1 (12.50 %) Crystal Reports 3 1 (12.50 %) C 3 1 (12.50 %) C# 3 1 (12.50 %) HTML 3 1 (12.50 %) Java 3 1 (12.50 %) PHP 3 1 (12.50 %) SQL 3 1 (12.50 %) Apache 3 1 (12.50 %) OO 3 1 (12.50 %) CSS 3 1 (12.50 %) SOAP 3 1 (12.50 %) WebServices 3 1 (12.50 %) Construction 3 1 (12.50 %) Electric 3 1 (12.50 %) WinForms

Education
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 2 (25.00 %) .NET 1 2 (25.00 %) XML 2 1 (12.50 %) WSDL 2 1 (12.50 %) WinForms 2 1 (12.50 %) HTML 2 1 (12.50 %) J2EE 2 1 (12.50 %) CSS 2 1 (12.50 %) SOAP 2 1 (12.50 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 3 (37.50 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (12.50 %) Apache
Applications 1 3 (37.50 %) MS Project 1 3 (37.50 %) MS Office 1 3 (37.50 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 1 (12.50 %) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 1 1 (12.50 %) Crystal Reports 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) ClearCase
General 1 3 (37.50 %) Finance 1 3 (37.50 %) Insurance 2 1 (12.50 %) Electronics 2 1 (12.50 %) Construction 2 1 (12.50 %) Electric	Job Titles 1 3 (37.50 %) Trainer 1 3 (37.50 %) Developer 1 3 (37.50 %) IT Trainer 2 1 (12.50 %) Crystal Reports Developer 2 1 (12.50 %) Software Support Analyst 2 1 (12.50 %) Java Web Developer 2 1 (12.50 %) Report Developer 2 1 (12.50 %) Analyst 2 1 (12.50 %) Web Developer 2 1 (12.50 %) Support Analyst 2 1 (12.50 %) 2nd Line Support 2 1 (12.50 %) Java Developer 2 1 (12.50 %) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) Mathematics 1 1 (12.50 %) Physics 1 1 (12.50 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 3 (37.50 %) Windows 1 3 (37.50 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (12.50 %) OO 1 1 (12.50 %) Configuration Management 1 1 (12.50 %) DV Cleared 1 1 (12.50 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 1 (12.50 %) C 1 1 (12.50 %) C# 1 1 (12.50 %) Java 1 1 (12.50 %) PHP 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 1 (12.50 %) Degree	Vendors 1 3 (37.50 %) Lotus 1 3 (37.50 %) Remedy 2 1 (12.50 %) Google 2 1 (12.50 %) Mapinfo 2 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 2 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft