Berkshire Home Office Contracts

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Home Office' in contract IT jobs within the Berkshire 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 Home Office over the 3 months to 20 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Berkshire Bournemouth Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Coventry Docklands, London Dorset England Glasgow Gloucestershire Kent Knutsford Liverpool London Merseyside Middlesex North West Scotland Shropshire South East South West Surrey Swindon Telford Tonbridge UK Uxbridge West Midlands Wiltshire	3 months to 20 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	142
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.058 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£650
Average daily rate	-	£650
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£650
UK excluding London average daily rate	£316	£463
% change on same period last year	-31.71 %
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	£41.50	£27.50
% change on same period last year	+50.90 %
General Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1288	1738
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.019 %	1.891 %
Daily rates quoted	346	486
Average minimum daily rate	£377	£330
Average daily rate	£406	£348
% change on same period last year	+16.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£434	£365
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£374
% change on same period last year	+1.70 %
Hourly rates quoted	47	138
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.59	£22.24
Average hourly rate	£23.53	£23.57
% change on same period last year	-0.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.48	£24.91
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.45	£26.71
% change on same period last year	+2.76 %
Home Office South East

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 Home Office across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the General 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 Home Office across the Berkshire region.

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Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Home Office 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 Home Office.

1 2 (100.00 %) MS Exchange 1 2 (100.00 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 2 (100.00 %) Blackberry 1 2 (100.00 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 1 2 (100.00 %) Telecoms 1 2 (100.00 %) Billing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Home Office 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 Home Office. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 2 (100.00 %) MS Exchange 1 2 (100.00 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server	General 1 2 (100.00 %) Telecoms 1 2 (100.00 %) Billing
Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) Architect 2 1 (50.00 %) Technical Architect 2 1 (50.00 %) Technical Designer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (100.00 %) Blackberry
Systems Management 1 2 (100.00 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)