Buckinghamshire Author Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Author role in IT contracts within the Buckinghamshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Author in their job title over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Aylesbury Basildon Berkshire Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London Crawley Derby Derbyshire Dundee East Midlands East of England England Essex Fareham Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire London M4 Corridor Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Preston Reading Redditch Scotland Slough Somerset South East South West Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Witham Woking Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	75	68
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	4	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	0.387 %	1.399 %
Daily rates quoted	1	5
Average minimum daily rate	£160	£252
Average daily rate	£160	£254
% change on same period last year	-37.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£160	£256
UK excluding London average daily rate	£304	£290
% change on same period last year	+4.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£25.50
Average hourly rate	-	£28.75
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£32.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.36	£25.32
% change on same period last year	-3.77 %
Job Titles Buckinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1033	1358
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.627 %	1.455 %
Daily rates quoted	343	321
Average minimum daily rate	£299	£302
Average daily rate	£314	£318
% change on same period last year	-1.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£329	£334
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£351
% change on same period last year	+0.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	140	237
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.41	£20.68
Average hourly rate	£20.27	£21.75
% change on same period last year	-6.79 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.13	£22.81
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.37	£24.42
% change on same period last year	-4.31 %
Author 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 Author across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles 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 Author across the Buckinghamshire 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 Author across the Buckinghamshire region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Author within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 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
Aylesbury	+5	1	£160	-38.46 %
Milton Keynes	-3	1	-	-

Author South East

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Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region that cited Author in their job title 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 with Author in their job title.

1 1 (12.50 %) Network Security 1 1 (12.50 %) SC Cleared 1 1 (12.50 %) DV Cleared 1 1 (12.50 %) Security Cleared 1 1 (12.50 %) FrameMaker 1 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms 1 1 (12.50 %) Government 1 1 (12.50 %) .NET 1 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 1 1 (12.50 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (12.50 %) CRM 1 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft 1 1 (12.50 %) Acrobat 1 1 (12.50 %) RoboHelp

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region that cited Author in their job title 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 with Author in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (12.50 %) .NET	Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) Acrobat 1 1 (12.50 %) RoboHelp 1 1 (12.50 %) FrameMaker
Communications & Networking 1 1 (12.50 %) Network Security	Development Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) Visual Studio
General 1 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms 1 1 (12.50 %) Government	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (12.50 %) CRM 1 1 (12.50 %) SC Cleared 1 1 (12.50 %) DV Cleared 1 1 (12.50 %) Security Cleared
Vendors 1 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 1 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft