Cheshire LiveLink Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Open Text LiveLink skills within the Cheshire region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited LiveLink over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Open Text LiveLink
Location Beaconsfield Berkshire Bracknell Buckinghamshire Cheshire City of London England London Manchester North West South East UK Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
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Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
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% change on same period last year	-
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UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£338
% change on same period last year	-11.29 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
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UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	£32.50
% change on same period last year	-
Application Platforms Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	178	155
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.237 %	0.157 %
Daily rates quoted	55	39
Average minimum daily rate	£351	£283
Average daily rate	£367	£293
% change on same period last year	+25.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£384	£302
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£349
% change on same period last year	+1.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.67	£30.61
Average hourly rate	£30.21	£33.93
% change on same period last year	-10.96 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.76	£37.26
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.28	£23.70
% change on same period last year	+2.44 %
LiveLink North West

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 LiveLink across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms 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 LiveLink across the Cheshire 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 LiveLink across the Cheshire region.

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Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing LiveLink 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 LiveLink.

1 2 (100.00 %) SQL 1 2 (100.00 %) SharePoint 1 2 (100.00 %) Documentum 1 2 (100.00 %) RDBMS 1 2 (100.00 %) Microsoft 1 2 (100.00 %) Publishing 1 2 (100.00 %) Content Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing LiveLink 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 LiveLink. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 2 (100.00 %) SharePoint 1 2 (100.00 %) Documentum	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (100.00 %) RDBMS
General 1 2 (100.00 %) Publishing	Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) Consultant
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (100.00 %) Content Management	Programming Languages 1 2 (100.00 %) SQL
Vendors 1 2 (100.00 %) Microsoft