Cheshire Quark Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Quark products and/or services in IT contracts within the Cheshire region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Quark over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Blackpool Canary Wharf Cheshire East of England England Hertfordshire Lancashire London Manchester Midlands North West Oxford Oxfordshire South East St Albans UK Warwickshire West Midlands	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	65
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.239 %
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	-	£211
% 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	£17.50	£10.93
% change on same period last year	+60.05 %
Vendors Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	358	418
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.509 %	0.422 %
Daily rates quoted	95	114
Average minimum daily rate	£299	£315
Average daily rate	£311	£327
% change on same period last year	-5.03 %
Average maximum daily rate	£322	£339
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£355
% change on same period last year	+1.00 %
Hourly rates quoted	66	25
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.83	£22.08
Average hourly rate	£22.87	£22.64
% change on same period last year	+1.02 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.91	£23.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.38	£24.36
% change on same period last year	+0.06 %
Quark 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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Quark, Inc.

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Demand Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Quark 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 Quark.

1 5 (100.00 %) Photoshop 1 5 (100.00 %) QuarkXPress 1 5 (100.00 %) Adobe Illustrator 1 5 (100.00 %) Graphic Design 2 4 (80.00 %) Advertising 2 4 (80.00 %) Marketing 2 4 (80.00 %) FreeHand 3 3 (60.00 %) Microsoft 3 3 (60.00 %) Acrobat 4 1 (20.00 %) Flash 4 1 (20.00 %) Aerospace

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Quark 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 Quark. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 5 (100.00 %) Photoshop 1 5 (100.00 %) QuarkXPress 1 5 (100.00 %) Adobe Illustrator 2 4 (80.00 %) FreeHand 3 3 (60.00 %) Acrobat	Development Applications 1 1 (20.00 %) Flash
General 1 5 (100.00 %) Graphic Design 2 4 (80.00 %) Advertising 2 4 (80.00 %) Marketing 3 1 (20.00 %) Aerospace	Job Titles 1 2 (40.00 %) Graduate 2 1 (20.00 %) Graphic Designer 2 1 (20.00 %) Photoshop Designer
Vendors 1 3 (60.00 %) Microsoft