Bedfordshire Lotus Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Lotus products and/or services in IT contracts within the Bedfordshire region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Lotus over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Atherstone Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Channel Islands Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Deeside Docklands, London Dorchester Dorking Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Flintshire Glasgow Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Hartlepool Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hounslow Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Neath Port Talbot Newbury Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Port Talbot Portsmouth Pudsey Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rochdale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weymouth Wiltshire Windlesham Windsor Wolverhampton Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	17
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	26
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.026 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	14.61 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£100
Average daily rate	-	£108
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£115
UK excluding London average daily rate	£191	£215
% change on same period last year	-10.85 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	6
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£14.58
Average hourly rate	-	£14.58
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£14.58
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.36	£17.75
% change on same period last year	+9.08 %
Vendors Bedfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	71	178
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.100 %	0.180 %
Daily rates quoted	24	45
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£283
Average daily rate	£330	£291
% change on same period last year	+13.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£339	£299
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£354
% change on same period last year	+1.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£20.78
Average hourly rate	£25.00	£21.30
% change on same period last year	+17.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.00	£21.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.44	£24.37
% change on same period last year	+0.26 %
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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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within IBM Lotus Software.

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Demand Trend

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

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Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Lotus 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 Lotus.

1 16 (100.00 %) Lotus Notes 1 16 (100.00 %) MS Office 2 13 (81.25 %) Windows 2 13 (81.25 %) MS Excel 3 12 (75.00 %) Windows XP 3 12 (75.00 %) Microsoft 3 12 (75.00 %) Finance 4 3 (18.75 %) MS Project 4 3 (18.75 %) AS400 4 3 (18.75 %) Insurance 4 3 (18.75 %) French Language 4 3 (18.75 %) Education 4 3 (18.75 %) Citrix 4 3 (18.75 %) Remedy 5 1 (6.250 %) MS PowerPoint

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Lotus 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 Lotus. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 16 (100.00 %) Lotus Notes	Applications 1 16 (100.00 %) MS Office 2 13 (81.25 %) MS Excel 3 3 (18.75 %) MS Project 4 1 (6.250 %) MS PowerPoint
General 1 12 (75.00 %) Finance 2 3 (18.75 %) Education 2 3 (18.75 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 12 (75.00 %) Analyst 2 11 (68.75 %) Service Analyst 2 11 (68.75 %) Service Desk Analyst 3 3 (18.75 %) Trainer 3 3 (18.75 %) IT Trainer 4 1 (6.250 %) Helpdesk Support 4 1 (6.250 %) 2nd Line Support 4 1 (6.250 %) Support Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) Helpdesk Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) Support Specialist 4 1 (6.250 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 3 (18.75 %) AS400 1 3 (18.75 %) French Language	Operating Systems 1 13 (81.25 %) Windows 2 12 (75.00 %) Windows XP
Vendors 1 12 (75.00 %) Microsoft 2 3 (18.75 %) Citrix 2 3 (18.75 %) Remedy