Bristol Benchmarking Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Benchmarking skills within the Bristol region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Benchmarking over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Benchmarking
Location Birmingham Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf City of London Coventry Docklands, London East Midlands East of England England Essex Hampshire Highlands Inverness Leeds Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands North East North West Salisbury Scotland Solihull South Coast South East South West Surrey UK West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	58	63
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	1	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.216 %	0.198 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£300
Average daily rate	£325	£300
% change on same period last year	+8.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£395	£283
% change on same period last year	+39.41 %
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	£25.27	£49.90
% change on same period last year	-49.35 %
Processes & Methodologies Bristol
Matching contract IT job ads	462	504
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.728 %	0.540 %
Daily rates quoted	142	190
Average minimum daily rate	£344	£337
Average daily rate	£372	£355
% change on same period last year	+4.89 %
Average maximum daily rate	£399	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£370
% change on same period last year	+2.76 %
Hourly rates quoted	98	58
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.87	£25.25
Average hourly rate	£30.97	£28.44
% change on same period last year	+8.86 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.06	£31.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.17	£29.91
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
Benchmarking South West

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 Benchmarking across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies 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 Benchmarking across the Bristol region.

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Top 2 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing Benchmarking 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 Benchmarking.

1 1 (100.00 %) HTML 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Visio

Benchmarking
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing Benchmarking 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 Benchmarking. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (100.00 %) HTML

Applications 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Visio