The first table below looks at the demand for GxP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited GxP over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category for the Cambridge region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
GxP
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing GxP 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge - - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £300 £315
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £50.25 -
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
20 18 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 6.098% 4.265% 5.747%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 9
Average daily rate £325 £375 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £303 £283
10% offered a daily rate of more than £435 £730 £412
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
Average hourly rate - - £33.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -46.66%
GxP
Cambridgeshire

GxP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing GxP across the Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

Cambridge GxP Jobs Demand Trend

GxP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing GxP across the Cambridge region.

Cambridge GxP Hourly Rate Trend

GxP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing GxP 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 GxP.

1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) GAMP
2 2 (66.67%) OCP
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (66.67%) RHCE
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) EMC NetWorker
2 2 (66.67%) DHCP
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) EMC
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Apache
2 2 (66.67%) ERP
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) SAP
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Riverbed
3 1 (33.33%) WAN Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus

GxP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing GxP 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 GxP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (33.33%) MPLS
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
1 3 (100.00%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) ERP
3 1 (33.33%) WAN Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) OCP
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Certification
1 2 (66.67%) RHCE
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) GAMP
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle RMAN
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) EMC NetWorker
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) EMC
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) Riverbed
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Polycom