City of London RoboHelp Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Adobe RoboHelp skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited RoboHelp over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Adobe RoboHelp
Location Cheltenham City of London East of England England Gloucestershire Guildford Hertfordshire London Newcastle North East South East South West Surrey Tyne and Wear UK Ware	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	213	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.212 %	0.000 %
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	£289	£263
% change on same period last year	+9.96 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	-
Average hourly rate	£22.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.80	£23.50
% change on same period last year	+1.27 %
Applications City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	943	734
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.257 %	0.743 %
Daily rates quoted	431	282
Average minimum daily rate	£327	£343
Average daily rate	£354	£364
% change on same period last year	-2.92 %
Average maximum daily rate	£380	£386
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£285
% change on same period last year	+4.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	111	62
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.57	£18.60
Average hourly rate	£21.11	£19.47
% change on same period last year	+8.45 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.65	£20.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.01	£18.99
% change on same period last year	-5.13 %
RoboHelp 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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing RoboHelp across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing RoboHelp 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 RoboHelp.

1 2 (66.67 %) MS Office 1 2 (66.67 %) CSS 1 2 (66.67 %) XML 1 2 (66.67 %) HTML 1 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft 2 1 (33.33 %) JavaScript 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows XP 2 1 (33.33 %) MS Visio 2 1 (33.33 %) Dreamweaver 2 1 (33.33 %) Front Office 2 1 (33.33 %) Finance 2 1 (33.33 %) Publishing 2 1 (33.33 %) Validation 2 1 (33.33 %) Games

2 1 (33.33 %) Fixed Income 2 1 (33.33 %) E-Learning 2 1 (33.33 %) Banking 2 1 (33.33 %) Investment Banking 2 1 (33.33 %) MS PowerPoint 2 1 (33.33 %) Degree

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing RoboHelp 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 RoboHelp. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (66.67 %) HTML 1 2 (66.67 %) CSS 1 2 (66.67 %) XML	Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) MS Office 2 1 (33.33 %) MS Visio 2 1 (33.33 %) MS PowerPoint
Development Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 1 (33.33 %) Front Office 1 1 (33.33 %) Finance 1 1 (33.33 %) Publishing 1 1 (33.33 %) Games 1 1 (33.33 %) Banking 1 1 (33.33 %) Investment Banking
Job Titles 1 3 (100.00 %) Author 1 3 (100.00 %) Technical Author	Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) Fixed Income 1 1 (33.33 %) E-Learning
Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Validation
Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) JavaScript	Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) Degree
Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft