Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the prevalence of the term N-Tier in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited N-Tier over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Cambridgeshire region.

 N-Tier
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank404765
Rank change year-on-year
Up+7Up+18
Matching contract IT job ads3310
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire0.721 %0.587 %0.888 %
As % of the Miscellaneous category2.586 %2.055 %3.876 %
Daily rates quoted200
Average daily rate£306--
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£378£325
% change year-on-year
-13.90 %+16.15 %
Hourly rates quoted014
Average hourly rate-£40.00£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate-£40.00£37.50
% change year-on-year
-+6.660 %
Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryAll Miscellaneous Category
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
116146258
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire27.88 %28.57 %22.91 %
Daily rates quoted324044
Average daily rate£269£313£325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.00 %-3.840 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£150£190£220
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£430£400£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£330£350
% change year-on-year
-1.510 %-5.710 %
Hourly rates quoted192367
Average hourly rate£34.50£32.00£37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.810 %-14.66 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£28.55£21.25£20.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£36.00£45.00£50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£19.00£22.63£25.00
% change year-on-year
-16.04 %-9.480 %
N-Tier East of EnglandN-Tier
East of England

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.

N-Tier
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing N-Tier across the Cambridgeshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Cambridgeshire N-Tier Demand Trend

N-Tier
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing N-Tier across the Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire N-Tier Daily Rate Trend

N-Tier
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing N-Tier across the Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire N-Tier Hourly Rate Trend

N-Tier
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing N-Tier within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
PeterboroughUp+51--
N-Tier East of EnglandN-Tier
East of England

N-Tier
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing N-Tier 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 N-Tier.

13 (100.00 %)Windows
13 (100.00 %)Active Directory
22 (66.67 %)LoadRunner
22 (66.67 %)IPsec
22 (66.67 %)QA
22 (66.67 %)SSL
22 (66.67 %)V-Model
31 (33.33 %)Security Testing
31 (33.33 %)Manual Testing
31 (33.33 %)Network Security
31 (33.33 %)SQL Server 2008
31 (33.33 %)CEH
31 (33.33 %)Software Testing
31 (33.33 %)Clustering
31 (33.33 %)Windows Server 2003
31 (33.33 %)ISEB
31 (33.33 %)Microsoft Certification
31 (33.33 %)MCSE
31 (33.33 %)MSMQ
31 (33.33 %)DHCP
31 (33.33 %)TCP/IP
31 (33.33 %)DNS
31 (33.33 %)SQL
31 (33.33 %)T-SQL
31 (33.33 %).NET
31 (33.33 %)SQL Server

N-Tier
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing N-Tier 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 N-Tier. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11 (33.33 %).NET
Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
12 (66.67 %)IPsec
12 (66.67 %)SSL
21 (33.33 %)Network Security
21 (33.33 %)DHCP
21 (33.33 %)TCP/IP
21 (33.33 %)DNS
Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11 (33.33 %)SQL Server 2008
11 (33.33 %)SQL Server
Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
12 (66.67 %)LoadRunner
Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12 (66.67 %)Tester
12 (66.67 %)Manual Tester
21 (33.33 %)Manual Test Analyst
21 (33.33 %)Analyst
21 (33.33 %)Test Analyst
Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11 (33.33 %)Clustering
Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
13 (100.00 %)Windows
21 (33.33 %)Windows Server 2003
Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
12 (66.67 %)V-Model
21 (33.33 %)Security Testing
21 (33.33 %)Manual Testing
21 (33.33 %)Software Testing
Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11 (33.33 %)SQL
11 (33.33 %)T-SQL
Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11 (33.33 %)CEH
11 (33.33 %)ISEB
11 (33.33 %)Microsoft Certification
11 (33.33 %)MCSE
Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
12 (66.67 %)QA
Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
13 (100.00 %)Active Directory
21 (33.33 %)MSMQ