Berkshire Lotus Notes Contracts

This section looks at the demand for IBM Lotus Notes skills within the Berkshire region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Lotus Notes over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM Lotus Notes
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Avon Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chertsey Cheshire Chichester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Falkirk Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Godalming Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Hartlepool Havant Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Rochdale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weymouth Wiltshire Windlesham Wolverhampton Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	88	134
Rank change on same period last year	+46
Matching contract IT job ads	41	32
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.054 %	0.032 %
As % of the category below	8.471 %	3.734 %
Daily rates quoted	5	2
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£173
Average daily rate	£325	£199
% change on same period last year	+63.57 %
Average maximum daily rate	£325	£225
UK excluding London average daily rate	£235	£200
% change on same period last year	+17.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.88	£17.23
Average hourly rate	£21.35	£18.54
% change on same period last year	+15.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.82	£19.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.22	£17.54
% change on same period last year	+3.86 %
Application Platforms Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	484	857
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.639 %	0.854 %
Daily rates quoted	133	227
Average minimum daily rate	£347	£362
Average daily rate	£373	£392
% change on same period last year	-4.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£421
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£347
% change on same period last year	+1.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	45	76
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.64	£25.43
Average hourly rate	£34.01	£27.26
% change on same period last year	+24.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.38	£29.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.10	£24.95
% change on same period last year	+0.60 %
Lotus Notes 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.

Lotus Notes
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Lotus Notes across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Lotus Notes
Daily Rate Trend

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

Lotus Notes
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Lotus Notes across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

Lotus Notes
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Lotus Notes
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Lotus Notes across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

Lotus Notes
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lotus Notes within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 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
Bracknell	+23	7	-	-
Reading	-11	5	£375	-
Slough	-2	4	£125	-
Maidenhead	-	2	-	-
Newbury	+19	1	-	-

Lotus Notes South East

Lotus Notes
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Lotus Notes 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 Notes.

1 74 (100.00 %) Lotus 2 49 (66.22 %) Windows 3 27 (36.49 %) MS Office 4 22 (29.73 %) Windows XP 5 16 (21.62 %) Microsoft 6 15 (20.27 %) TCP/IP 7 14 (18.92 %) Pharmaceutical 8 13 (17.57 %) DNS 8 13 (17.57 %) Active Directory 8 13 (17.57 %) Windows Server 2003 8 13 (17.57 %) DHCP 9 10 (13.51 %) SMS 9 10 (13.51 %) VMware 10 9 (12.16 %) Windows Vista 10 9 (12.16 %) Novell

10 9 (12.16 %) Cisco Certification 10 9 (12.16 %) CCNA 10 9 (12.16 %) Windows 2000 Server 11 8 (10.81 %) HTML 12 7 (9.459 %) Lotus Domino 12 7 (9.459 %) IBM 12 7 (9.459 %) Migration 13 6 (8.108 %) MSI 13 6 (8.108 %) Project Management 13 6 (8.108 %) WSH 13 6 (8.108 %) Cisco 13 6 (8.108 %) ZENworks 13 6 (8.108 %) MS Visio 13 6 (8.108 %) VBScript 13 6 (8.108 %) VBA

Lotus Notes
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Lotus Notes 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 Notes. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 8 (10.81 %) HTML 2 6 (8.108 %) WSH 2 6 (8.108 %) ASP 2 6 (8.108 %) XML 2 6 (8.108 %) WMI 3 1 (1.351 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 7 (9.459 %) Lotus Domino 2 4 (5.405 %) MS Exchange 2 4 (5.405 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 1 (1.351 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications 1 27 (36.49 %) MS Office 2 6 (8.108 %) MS Visio 2 6 (8.108 %) MS Project 3 2 (2.703 %) MS Excel 4 1 (1.351 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 1 (1.351 %) SAP SD 1 1 (1.351 %) MFGPRO
Communications & Networking 1 15 (20.27 %) TCP/IP 2 13 (17.57 %) DNS 2 13 (17.57 %) DHCP 3 10 (13.51 %) SMS 4 3 (4.054 %) LAN 4 3 (4.054 %) WAN 4 3 (4.054 %) VPN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (5.405 %) SQL Server 2 2 (2.703 %) InterBase 2 2 (2.703 %) Cognos Impromptu 3 1 (1.351 %) BusinessObjects
Development Applications 1 6 (8.108 %) MSI 2 1 (1.351 %) FrontPage	General 1 14 (18.92 %) Pharmaceutical 2 4 (5.405 %) Finance 3 3 (4.054 %) Retail 3 3 (4.054 %) Automotive 4 1 (1.351 %) Telecoms 4 1 (1.351 %) Education
Job Titles 1 16 (21.62 %) Analyst 2 10 (13.51 %) Network Technician 3 9 (12.16 %) 3rd Line Support 4 7 (9.459 %) 2nd Line Support 4 7 (9.459 %) Administrator 5 6 (8.108 %) Business Analyst 5 6 (8.108 %) Consultant 5 6 (8.108 %) Support Analyst 6 5 (6.757 %) Desktop Support 6 5 (6.757 %) Developer 7 4 (5.405 %) 1st Line Support 7 4 (5.405 %) Exchange Consultant 7 4 (5.405 %) Lotus Notes Developer 8 3 (4.054 %) Team Leader 8 3 (4.054 %) Technical Analyst 8 3 (4.054 %) Support Team Leader 8 3 (4.054 %) Technical Support 9 2 (2.703 %) Support Engineer 9 2 (2.703 %) Trainer 9 2 (2.703 %) Server Support	Miscellaneous 1 5 (6.757 %) Client/Server 2 2 (2.703 %) Mainframe 2 2 (2.703 %) Replication 3 1 (1.351 %) Blackberry 3 1 (1.351 %) Spread Betting 3 1 (1.351 %) French Language
Operating Systems 1 49 (66.22 %) Windows 2 22 (29.73 %) Windows XP 3 13 (17.57 %) Windows Server 2003 4 9 (12.16 %) Windows Vista 4 9 (12.16 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 3 (4.054 %) Windows 2000 6 1 (1.351 %) UNIX 6 1 (1.351 %) NetWare 6 1 (1.351 %) Windows Mobile	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (9.459 %) Migration 2 6 (8.108 %) Project Management 3 4 (5.405 %) SSADM 4 2 (2.703 %) Business Analysis 5 1 (1.351 %) ITIL 5 1 (1.351 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (1.351 %) E-Commerce 5 1 (1.351 %) Programme Management 5 1 (1.351 %) Workflow 5 1 (1.351 %) Change Management 5 1 (1.351 %) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages 1 6 (8.108 %) VBScript 1 6 (8.108 %) VBA 2 1 (1.351 %) VB 2 1 (1.351 %) JavaScript 2 1 (1.351 %) PHP 2 1 (1.351 %) LotusScript	Qualifications 1 9 (12.16 %) Cisco Certification 1 9 (12.16 %) CCNA 2 2 (2.703 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (2.703 %) MCSE 3 1 (1.351 %) MCSA 3 1 (1.351 %) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.351 %) SLA	System Software 1 13 (17.57 %) Active Directory 2 2 (2.703 %) NDS 3 1 (1.351 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (1.351 %) ISA Server 3 1 (1.351 %) VMware ESX 3 1 (1.351 %) NetBackup 3 1 (1.351 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 6 (8.108 %) ZENworks 1 6 (8.108 %) SCCM 2 5 (6.757 %) HP Data Protector 3 2 (2.703 %) Tivoli 4 1 (1.351 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 4 1 (1.351 %) Unicenter	Vendors 1 74 (100.00 %) Lotus 2 16 (21.62 %) Microsoft 3 10 (13.51 %) VMware 4 9 (12.16 %) Novell 5 7 (9.459 %) IBM 6 6 (8.108 %) Cisco 7 5 (6.757 %) HP 8 3 (4.054 %) Citrix 9 2 (2.703 %) Nortel 9 2 (2.703 %) Oracle 10 1 (1.351 %) SAP 10 1 (1.351 %) Business Objects 10 1 (1.351 %) Compaq 10 1 (1.351 %) Remedy 10 1 (1.351 %) CA