City of London Publishing Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Publishing' in contract IT jobs within the City of London region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Publishing over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Beaconsfield Berkshire Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London Corby Croydon Docklands, London Durham Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Feltham Glasgow Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hornchurch Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leeds Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Scotland Sheffield Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stratford-upon-Avon Street Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Taunton Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	148	182
Rank change on same period last year	+34
Matching contract IT job ads	71	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.091 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	1.166 %	0.235 %
Daily rates quoted	29	4
Average minimum daily rate	£311	£144
Average daily rate	£332	£148
% change on same period last year	+125.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£354	£151
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£309
% change on same period last year	+6.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.45	£14.00
Average hourly rate	£17.84	£15.25
% change on same period last year	+16.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.23	£16.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.48	£21.88
% change on same period last year	+7.31 %
General City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	6088	5108
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	7.811 %	5.739 %
Daily rates quoted	3151	2267
Average minimum daily rate	£443	£473
Average daily rate	£483	£505
% change on same period last year	-4.46 %
Average maximum daily rate	£522	£538
UK excluding London average daily rate	£390	£372
% change on same period last year	+4.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	211	120
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.90	£23.97
Average hourly rate	£24.98	£26.33
% change on same period last year	-5.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.06	£28.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.74	£26.10
% change on same period last year	-1.35 %
Publishing London

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Publishing across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Publishing across the City of London region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Publishing across the City of London region over the past 3 months.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Publishing across the City of London region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Publishing across the City of London region over the past 3 months.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the City of London region citing Publishing also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Publishing.

1 18 (18.95 %) .NET 2 15 (15.79 %) HTML 2 15 (15.79 %) ASP.NET 2 15 (15.79 %) Windows 3 14 (14.74 %) C# 4 13 (13.68 %) XML 4 13 (13.68 %) Content Management 5 12 (12.63 %) SQL Server 6 11 (11.58 %) Photoshop 7 10 (10.53 %) MS Office 7 10 (10.53 %) Internet 7 10 (10.53 %) Microsoft 8 9 (9.474 %) UML 8 9 (9.474 %) MS Excel 8 9 (9.474 %) Degree

9 8 (8.421 %) XHTML 9 8 (8.421 %) Apache 9 8 (8.421 %) CSS 9 8 (8.421 %) JavaScript 9 8 (8.421 %) SQL 10 7 (7.368 %) Intranet 10 7 (7.368 %) Solaris 10 7 (7.368 %) CMS 11 6 (6.316 %) Government 11 6 (6.316 %) Advertising 11 6 (6.316 %) Management Information System 11 6 (6.316 %) Marketing 11 6 (6.316 %) XSLT 11 6 (6.316 %) PRINCE2 11 6 (6.316 %) Unix

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the City of London region citing Publishing also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Publishing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 18 (18.95 %) .NET 2 15 (15.79 %) HTML 2 15 (15.79 %) ASP.NET 3 13 (13.68 %) XML 4 8 (8.421 %) XHTML 4 8 (8.421 %) CSS 5 6 (6.316 %) ASP 5 6 (6.316 %) XSLT 6 5 (5.263 %) J2EE 7 4 (4.211 %) LAMP 8 3 (3.158 %) AJAX 8 3 (3.158 %) MDX 8 3 (3.158 %) Drupal 9 1 (1.053 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 1 (1.053 %) WCF 9 1 (1.053 %) LINQ 9 1 (1.053 %) WebSphere 9 1 (1.053 %) RSS 9 1 (1.053 %) XML Schema 9 1 (1.053 %) SGML	Application Platforms 1 8 (8.421 %) Apache 2 7 (7.368 %) CMS 3 5 (5.263 %) Tomcat 4 4 (4.211 %) SharePoint 5 3 (3.158 %) Lotus Notes 5 3 (3.158 %) BizTalk Server 6 2 (2.105 %) WebLogic 7 1 (1.053 %) IIS 7 1 (1.053 %) MS Exchange 7 1 (1.053 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 11 (11.58 %) Photoshop 2 10 (10.53 %) MS Office 3 9 (9.474 %) MS Excel 4 3 (3.158 %) MS PowerPoint 5 2 (2.105 %) MS Project 5 2 (2.105 %) MS Visio 5 2 (2.105 %) QuarkXPress 6 1 (1.053 %) RoboHelp 6 1 (1.053 %) Fireworks 6 1 (1.053 %) Adobe Illustrator 6 1 (1.053 %) InDesign 6 1 (1.053 %) Acrobat	Business Applications 1 1 (1.053 %) WebTrends
Communications & Networking 1 10 (10.53 %) Internet 2 7 (7.368 %) Intranet 3 3 (3.158 %) Firewall 3 3 (3.158 %) TCP/IP 3 3 (3.158 %) VPN 4 2 (2.105 %) LAN 4 2 (2.105 %) WAN 4 2 (2.105 %) FTP 5 1 (1.053 %) HTTP 5 1 (1.053 %) SNMP 5 1 (1.053 %) SMTP 5 1 (1.053 %) DNS 5 1 (1.053 %) Extranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (12.63 %) SQL Server 2 6 (6.316 %) MySQL 3 5 (5.263 %) SQL Server 2005 4 3 (3.158 %) OLAP 4 3 (3.158 %) Oracle 10g 4 3 (3.158 %) SQL Server 2000 5 2 (2.105 %) Oracle 9i 5 2 (2.105 %) Datawarehouse 6 1 (1.053 %) ETL 6 1 (1.053 %) TOAD 6 1 (1.053 %) RDBMS 6 1 (1.053 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 1 (1.053 %) DecisionStream 6 1 (1.053 %) Reference Data
Development Applications 1 6 (6.316 %) Visual Studio 1 6 (6.316 %) Dreamweaver 2 1 (1.053 %) FrontPage 2 1 (1.053 %) JIRA 2 1 (1.053 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 1 (1.053 %) Flash	General 1 6 (6.316 %) Government 1 6 (6.316 %) Advertising 1 6 (6.316 %) Marketing 2 4 (4.211 %) Banking 2 4 (4.211 %) Health 2 4 (4.211 %) Education 3 3 (3.158 %) Pharmaceutical 4 2 (2.105 %) Finance 4 2 (2.105 %) Games 4 2 (2.105 %) Investment Banking 5 1 (1.053 %) Music 5 1 (1.053 %) Online Games 5 1 (1.053 %) Front Office 5 1 (1.053 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 27 (28.42 %) Developer 2 23 (24.21 %) Analyst 3 14 (14.74 %) Project Manager 4 8 (8.421 %) Business Analyst 4 8 (8.421 %) Administrator 5 6 (6.316 %) Web Developer 5 6 (6.316 %) C# Developer 6 4 (4.211 %) Architect 6 4 (4.211 %) Senior Analyst 6 4 (4.211 %) Support Specialist 6 4 (4.211 %) Senior Developer 7 3 (3.158 %) Senior Manager 7 3 (3.158 %) Systems Administrator 7 3 (3.158 %) Support Analyst 7 3 (3.158 %) Senior Project Manager 7 3 (3.158 %) Programme Manager 7 3 (3.158 %) UNIX Administrator 7 3 (3.158 %) Analyst Developer 7 3 (3.158 %) IT Administrator 7 3 (3.158 %) PC Support	Miscellaneous 1 6 (6.316 %) Management Information System 2 4 (4.211 %) Statistics 3 3 (3.158 %) Mathematics 4 2 (2.105 %) Taxonomies 4 2 (2.105 %) Web 2.0 4 2 (2.105 %) Fixed Income 5 1 (1.053 %) Equities 5 1 (1.053 %) Freedom of Information 5 1 (1.053 %) Replication 5 1 (1.053 %) Derivative
Operating Systems 1 15 (15.79 %) Windows 2 7 (7.368 %) Solaris 3 6 (6.316 %) Unix 4 5 (5.263 %) Linux 5 3 (3.158 %) Windows 2000 5 3 (3.158 %) Windows XP 5 3 (3.158 %) Mac OS X 6 1 (1.053 %) Mac OS X Server 6 1 (1.053 %) VMS 6 1 (1.053 %) FreeBSD	Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (13.68 %) Content Management 2 9 (9.474 %) UML 3 6 (6.316 %) PRINCE2 3 6 (6.316 %) E-Commerce 3 6 (6.316 %) Project Management 4 4 (4.211 %) Service Delivery 4 4 (4.211 %) OO 5 3 (3.158 %) ERP 5 3 (3.158 %) ITIL 5 3 (3.158 %) Disaster Recovery 5 3 (3.158 %) GAP Analysis 5 3 (3.158 %) BCP 5 3 (3.158 %) Document Management 5 3 (3.158 %) Workflow 5 3 (3.158 %) Business Continuity 5 3 (3.158 %) Logistics 6 2 (2.105 %) Systems Analysis 6 2 (2.105 %) Migration 6 2 (2.105 %) Stakeholder Management 6 2 (2.105 %) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages 1 14 (14.74 %) C# 2 8 (8.421 %) JavaScript 2 8 (8.421 %) SQL 3 6 (6.316 %) PHP 3 6 (6.316 %) VB 3 6 (6.316 %) Java 4 4 (4.211 %) VC++ 5 3 (3.158 %) VB.NET 5 3 (3.158 %) Transact-SQL 6 2 (2.105 %) C++ 6 2 (2.105 %) VBA 7 1 (1.053 %) ActionScript 7 1 (1.053 %) Python 7 1 (1.053 %) VB6 7 1 (1.053 %) DCL 7 1 (1.053 %) Ruby 7 1 (1.053 %) PHP5 7 1 (1.053 %) Perl 7 1 (1.053 %) VBScript 7 1 (1.053 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 9 (9.474 %) Degree 2 3 (3.158 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 2 (2.105 %) MCP 3 2 (2.105 %) MCSE 3 2 (2.105 %) MCSA 3 2 (2.105 %) Microsoft Certification 4 1 (1.053 %) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (3.158 %) QA 2 1 (1.053 %) ISO9001 2 1 (1.053 %) SLA	System Software 1 3 (3.158 %) Active Directory 2 1 (1.053 %) Squid
Systems Management 1 3 (3.158 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 10 (10.53 %) Microsoft 2 4 (4.211 %) Oracle 3 3 (3.158 %) SAP 3 3 (3.158 %) Adobe 3 3 (3.158 %) Lotus 4 2 (2.105 %) Sun 4 2 (2.105 %) HP 4 2 (2.105 %) Intel 4 2 (2.105 %) BEA 5 1 (1.053 %) Tridion 5 1 (1.053 %) Cognos 5 1 (1.053 %) IBM 5 1 (1.053 %) Vignette 5 1 (1.053 %) Sage 5 1 (1.053 %) Quark 5 1 (1.053 %) Omniture 5 1 (1.053 %) Coremetrics 5 1 (1.053 %) Macromedia