The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term LLPG in IT contracts advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LLPG over the 3 months to 23 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Local Land and Property Gazetteer (LLPG)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing LLPG 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester - - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
35 15 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 24.82% 12.93% 16.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 10
Average daily rate £375 £363 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% +3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £350 £254
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £493 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Average hourly rate £9.00 £14.00 £10.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.71% +40.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
LLPG
Cheshire

LLPG
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing LLPG 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 LLPG.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) GIS
1 1 (100.00%) ESRI
1 1 (100.00%) ArcGIS
1 1 (100.00%) Publishing
1 1 (100.00%) ArcSDE
1 1 (100.00%) Local Government
1 1 (100.00%) Data Conversion

LLPG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing LLPG 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 LLPG. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) ArcGIS
1 1 (100.00%) ArcSDE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) GIS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Publishing
1 1 (100.00%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Conversion
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) ESRI