Chester Tandem Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Tandem skills within the Chester region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Tandem over the 3 months to 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Tandem
Location Aylesbury Bath Belfast Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Chester City of London County Antrim Docklands, London East Midlands England Harrogate Leeds London North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Oxford Oxfordshire Somerset South East South West Staines Surrey Swindon UK Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	28
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	7.692 %
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	£518	£474
% change on same period last year	+9.30 %
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	£26.13	£46.60
% change on same period last year	-43.93 %
Miscellaneous Chester
Matching contract IT job ads	37	26
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.060 %	0.028 %
Daily rates quoted	5	1
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£350
Average daily rate	£329	£350
% change on same period last year	-6.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£333	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£344	£345
% change on same period last year	-0.45 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.78	£10.17
Average hourly rate	£28.28	£11.50
% change on same period last year	+145.89 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.78	£12.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.75	£25.58
% change on same period last year	+0.65 %
Tandem 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.

Tandem
Demand Trend

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