Cambridge ION Trading Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of ION Trading products and/or services in IT contracts within the Cambridge region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited ION Trading over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Birmingham Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf City of London Docklands, London East of England England Glasgow Hampshire London Scotland South East Surrey UK West Midlands	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	44	57
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	1	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.781 %	0.625 %
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	-	£346
% change on same period last year	-
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	-	£31.13
% change on same period last year	-
Vendors Cambridge
Matching contract IT job ads	128	160
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.169 %	0.159 %
Daily rates quoted	29	42
Average minimum daily rate	£298	£310
Average daily rate	£316	£324
% change on same period last year	-2.57 %
Average maximum daily rate	£333	£338
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£358
% change on same period last year	+0.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	18	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.50	£30.31
Average hourly rate	£22.20	£32.37
% change on same period last year	-31.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.89	£34.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.70	£24.82
% change on same period last year	-4.50 %
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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 ION Trading.

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Demand Trend

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

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Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing ION Trading 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 ION Trading.

1 1 (100.00 %) C# 1 1 (100.00 %) SQL 1 1 (100.00 %) .NET 1 1 (100.00 %) SQL Server 1 1 (100.00 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (100.00 %) Datawarehouse 1 1 (100.00 %) Business Intelligence 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft 1 1 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2005

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing ION Trading 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 ION Trading. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (100.00 %) .NET 1 1 (100.00 %) ASP.NET	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (100.00 %) SQL Server 1 1 (100.00 %) Datawarehouse 1 1 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2005
Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Developer 1 1 (100.00 %) .NET Developer 1 1 (100.00 %) SQL Developer 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft Developer	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (100.00 %) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages 1 1 (100.00 %) C# 1 1 (100.00 %) SQL	Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft