Cardiff Degree Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Degree in IT contracts within the Cardiff region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Degree over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Degree
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alcester Alderley Edge Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Cirencester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cwmbran Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastbourne Edinburgh Egham England Essex Feltham Gateshead Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Ipswich Isle of Wight Kegworth Kent Kettering Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Market Drayton Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Rotherham Rugby Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swindon Teddington Thames Valley Torfaen Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Witham Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	24	21
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	4	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	16.00 %	22.22 %
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	£351	£305
% change on same period last year	+15.17 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.45	-
Average hourly rate	£15.28	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.12	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.67	£30.92
% change on same period last year	-4.04 %
Qualifications Cardiff
Matching contract IT job ads	25	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.035 %	0.018 %
Daily rates quoted	4	6
Average minimum daily rate	£363	£295
Average daily rate	£381	£305
% change on same period last year	+25.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£315
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£322
% change on same period last year	+4.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.84	-
Average hourly rate	£25.46	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.09	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.36	£25.96
% change on same period last year	-2.33 %
Degree South Wales

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.

Degree
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Degree across the Cardiff region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Degree
Daily Rate Trend

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

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Degree
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff region citing Degree 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 Degree.

1 9 (56.25 %) Microsoft 2 6 (37.50 %) Active Directory 2 6 (37.50 %) Health 3 5 (31.25 %) NHS 4 4 (25.00 %) MS Office 4 4 (25.00 %) PRINCE2 4 4 (25.00 %) Incident Management 5 3 (18.75 %) Education 5 3 (18.75 %) Windows 6 2 (12.50 %) MS Visio 6 2 (12.50 %) Oracle Reports 6 2 (12.50 %) Visual Studio 6 2 (12.50 %) VSS/SourceSafe 6 2 (12.50 %) SQL 6 2 (12.50 %) VB.NET

6 2 (12.50 %) .NET 6 2 (12.50 %) Oracle 6 2 (12.50 %) Crystal Reports 6 2 (12.50 %) MS Project 6 2 (12.50 %) Oracle 10g 6 2 (12.50 %) Data Modelling 6 2 (12.50 %) Internet 6 2 (12.50 %) Requirements Analysis 6 2 (12.50 %) Office Project Server 6 2 (12.50 %) SC Cleared 6 2 (12.50 %) Security Cleared 6 2 (12.50 %) Publishing 6 2 (12.50 %) Programme Management 7 1 (6.250 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 1 (6.250 %) Requirements Management

Degree
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff region citing Degree 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 Degree. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (12.50 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 2 (12.50 %) Office Project Server 2 1 (6.250 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (6.250 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 4 (25.00 %) MS Office 2 2 (12.50 %) MS Project 2 2 (12.50 %) MS Visio 3 1 (6.250 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 2 (12.50 %) Internet 2 1 (6.250 %) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (12.50 %) Crystal Reports 1 2 (12.50 %) Oracle Reports 1 2 (12.50 %) Oracle 10g 2 1 (6.250 %) Oracle 9i	Development Applications 1 2 (12.50 %) Visual Studio 1 2 (12.50 %) VSS/SourceSafe
General 1 6 (37.50 %) Health 2 3 (18.75 %) Education 3 2 (12.50 %) Publishing	Job Titles 1 6 (37.50 %) Analyst 2 3 (18.75 %) Support Engineer 2 3 (18.75 %) Service Desk Analyst 2 3 (18.75 %) Service Analyst 3 2 (12.50 %) Project Support Manager 3 2 (12.50 %) Crystal Reports Developer 3 2 (12.50 %) Support Manager 3 2 (12.50 %) Report Developer 3 2 (12.50 %) Project Manager 3 2 (12.50 %) Programme Manager 3 2 (12.50 %) Developer 4 1 (6.250 %) Business Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) 3rd Line Support 4 1 (6.250 %) Helpdesk Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) 1st Line Support 4 1 (6.250 %) NHS Project Manager 4 1 (6.250 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 4 1 (6.250 %) 1st Line Support Engineer 4 1 (6.250 %) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 5 (31.25 %) NHS 2 1 (6.250 %) Management Information System	Operating Systems 1 3 (18.75 %) Windows 2 1 (6.250 %) Windows XP 2 1 (6.250 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (25.00 %) PRINCE2 1 4 (25.00 %) Incident Management 2 2 (12.50 %) Requirements Analysis 2 2 (12.50 %) SC Cleared 2 2 (12.50 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (12.50 %) Data Modelling 2 2 (12.50 %) Programme Management 3 1 (6.250 %) Information Management 3 1 (6.250 %) Business Analysis 3 1 (6.250 %) Project Management 3 1 (6.250 %) UML 3 1 (6.250 %) SSADM 3 1 (6.250 %) RUP 3 1 (6.250 %) Requirements Management 3 1 (6.250 %) ITIL	Programming Languages 1 2 (12.50 %) SQL 1 2 (12.50 %) VB.NET
Qualifications 1 1 (6.250 %) ISEB 1 1 (6.250 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (6.250 %) SNOMED CT
System Software 1 6 (37.50 %) Active Directory 2 1 (6.250 %) Terminal Services	Systems Management 1 1 (6.250 %) DameWare
Vendors 1 9 (56.25 %) Microsoft 2 2 (12.50 %) Oracle