Bradford Sophos Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sophos products and/or services in IT contracts within the Bradford region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Sophos over the 3 months to 9 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Buckinghamshire City of London Dudley East Midlands East of England England Essex Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire London Norfolk Northamptonshire Norwich Reading South East South West UK West Midlands	3 months to 9 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£190	£406
% change on same period last year	-53.23 %
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	£17.50	£19.07
% change on same period last year	-8.24 %
Vendors Bradford
Matching contract IT job ads	30	31
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.060 %	0.038 %
Daily rates quoted	7	8
Average minimum daily rate	£359	£327
Average daily rate	£377	£334
% change on same period last year	+12.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£395	£342
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£11.59
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£12.07
% change on same period last year	+190.02 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£12.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£23.22
% change on same period last year	+2.43 %
Sophos West Yorkshire

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 Sophos PLC.

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Demand Trend

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

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Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford region citing Sophos 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 Sophos.

1 1 (100.00 %) SQL 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows 2000 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows XP 1 1 (100.00 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows Server 2003

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford region citing Sophos 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 Sophos. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 1 (100.00 %) TCP/IP	Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Network Manager
Operating Systems 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows 2000 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows XP 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows Server 2003	Programming Languages 1 1 (100.00 %) SQL
Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft