Chester Degree Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Degree in IT contracts within the Chester 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 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Degree
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Airdrie Alcester Ballymena Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chertsey Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Coatbridge Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Fife Filton Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Isleworth Kent Kidlington Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rotherham Salisbury Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Surrey Swindon Teddington Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Wirral Witham Woking Worcester Worcestershire Wycombe York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	28	29
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	3	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	11.54 %	10.00 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£270	-
Average daily rate	£270	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£270	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£332
% change on same period last year	+4.33 %
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	£28.68	£29.10
% change on same period last year	-1.43 %
Qualifications Chester
Matching contract IT job ads	26	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.042 %	0.011 %
Daily rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum daily rate	£258	£283
Average daily rate	£258	£283
% change on same period last year	-8.94 %
Average maximum daily rate	£258	£283
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£327
% change on same period last year	+1.08 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.72	-
Average hourly rate	£25.72	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.72	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.70	£25.15
% change on same period last year	+2.18 %
Degree Cheshire

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 Chester 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 Chester 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 Chester region.

Degree
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, 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 (54.55 %) Finance 2 4 (36.36 %) Marketing 3 3 (27.27 %) Data Protection 3 3 (27.27 %) Data Modelling 3 3 (27.27 %) NetBackup 3 3 (27.27 %) Banking 4 2 (18.18 %) UNIX 4 2 (18.18 %) Linux 4 2 (18.18 %) Management Information System 4 2 (18.18 %) Direct Marketing 4 2 (18.18 %) Mathematics 4 2 (18.18 %) Statistical Analysis 5 1 (9.091 %) Statistics 5 1 (9.091 %) International Banking 5 1 (9.091 %) Operations Research

5 1 (9.091 %) Technical Architecture 5 1 (9.091 %) Validation 5 1 (9.091 %) Computer Science 5 1 (9.091 %) Internet Marketing 5 1 (9.091 %) Digital Marketing 5 1 (9.091 %) MS Excel 5 1 (9.091 %) SQL 5 1 (9.091 %) Oracle 5 1 (9.091 %) ITIL 5 1 (9.091 %) SAS 5 1 (9.091 %) Microsoft 5 1 (9.091 %) HP 5 1 (9.091 %) SAN 5 1 (9.091 %) VERITAS 5 1 (9.091 %) Internet

Degree
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, 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.

Application Platforms 1 1 (9.091 %) SAS	Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 1 (9.091 %) SAN 1 1 (9.091 %) Internet	General 1 6 (54.55 %) Finance 2 4 (36.36 %) Marketing 3 3 (27.27 %) Banking 4 1 (9.091 %) International Banking 4 1 (9.091 %) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles 1 3 (27.27 %) Data Modeller 2 1 (9.091 %) Marketing Manager 2 1 (9.091 %) IT Operations Manager 2 1 (9.091 %) Operations Manager	Miscellaneous 1 2 (18.18 %) Management Information System 1 2 (18.18 %) Mathematics 2 1 (9.091 %) Computer Science 2 1 (9.091 %) Statistics
Operating Systems 1 2 (18.18 %) UNIX 1 2 (18.18 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (27.27 %) Data Modelling 1 3 (27.27 %) Data Protection 2 2 (18.18 %) Direct Marketing 2 2 (18.18 %) Statistical Analysis 3 1 (9.091 %) Operations Research 3 1 (9.091 %) Technical Architecture 3 1 (9.091 %) Service Management 3 1 (9.091 %) Validation 3 1 (9.091 %) Internet Marketing 3 1 (9.091 %) Digital Marketing 3 1 (9.091 %) ITIL
Programming Languages 1 1 (9.091 %) SQL	System Software 1 3 (27.27 %) NetBackup
Vendors 1 1 (9.091 %) Oracle 1 1 (9.091 %) Microsoft 1 1 (9.091 %) HP 1 1 (9.091 %) VERITAS