The first table below looks at the demand for Degree in IT contracts advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Degree over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the Chester region.

Note that 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.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Degree
Rank 16 19 21
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +2
Contract jobs citing Degree 8 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 5.839% 2.609% 1.250%
As % of the Qualifications category 18.60% 30.00% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 2
Average daily rate £175 £350 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-50.00% +9.37%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.00 £30.00 £33.75
% change year-on-year
-30.00% -11.11%
All Qualifications
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
43 10 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 31.39% 8.696% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 3
Average daily rate £400 £250 £283
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+60.00% -11.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £150 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £359 £332
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
Average hourly rate £44.90 - £12.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
Degree
Cheshire

Degree
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Degree across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Chester Degree Jobs Demand Trend

Degree
Daily Rate Trend

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

Chester Degree Daily Rate Trend

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Degree across the Chester region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Chester Degree Daily Rate Histogram

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Chester Degree Hourly Rate Trend

Degree
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 6 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (50.00%) Information Security
2 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 4 (50.00%) Change Management
3 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 3 (37.50%) Banking
3 3 (37.50%) Service Delivery
4 2 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
4 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 2 (25.00%) Retail
4 2 (25.00%) Load Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (25.00%) IDMS
4 2 (25.00%) Computer Security
4 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2012
4 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 2 (25.00%) T-SQL
4 2 (25.00%) MySQL
4 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (25.00%) OLTP

Degree
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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.

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Internet
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (12.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MySQL
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (25.00%) OLTP
1 2 (25.00%) VLDB
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (25.00%) IDMS
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2012
2 1 (12.50%) GIS
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
1 3 (37.50%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Retail
2 2 (25.00%) Legal
2 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Billing
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Graduate
2 2 (25.00%) DBA
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Services Delivery Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Security Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Service Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Information Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Storage Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) IT Services Delivery Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Information Security Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) IT Services Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Junior Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Junior Information Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Junior
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (25.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (25.00%) Replication
3 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) UNIX
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) AIX
1 1 (12.50%) Tru64
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) ITIL
1 4 (50.00%) Information Security
1 4 (50.00%) Change Management
2 3 (37.50%) Service Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Service Management
3 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (25.00%) Load Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Security
3 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (12.50%) ITIL V3
4 1 (12.50%) Portfolio Management
4 1 (12.50%) Change Control
4 1 (12.50%) Capacity Management
4 1 (12.50%) Information Management
4 1 (12.50%) Ethical Hacking
4 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
1 2 (25.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CISSP
1 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 1 (12.50%) CEH
1 1 (12.50%) EnCE
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) SAP
1 1 (12.50%) IBM
1 1 (12.50%) HP
1 1 (12.50%) NetApp
1 1 (12.50%) Brocade
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