City of London Speakerbus Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Speakerbus products and/or services in IT contracts within the City of London region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Speakerbus over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location City of London England London UK	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	205	173
Rank change on same period last year	-32
Matching contract IT job ads	1	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	0.029 %	0.602 %
Daily rates quoted	1	10
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£285
Average daily rate	£425	£290
% change on same period last year	+46.55 %
Average maximum daily rate	£450	£295
UK excluding London average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
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	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Vendors City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	3429	3321
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.828 %	3.356 %
Daily rates quoted	1807	1379
Average minimum daily rate	£396	£440
Average daily rate	£429	£466
% change on same period last year	-7.91 %
Average maximum daily rate	£462	£493
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£354
% change on same period last year	+1.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	173	130
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.72	£23.30
Average hourly rate	£23.69	£24.30
% change on same period last year	-2.53 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.65	£25.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.44	£24.37
% change on same period last year	+0.26 %
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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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Speakerbus plc.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Speakerbus across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors 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 Speakerbus 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 Speakerbus across the City of London region.

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Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Speakerbus 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 Speakerbus.

1 4 (100.00 %) PBX 1 4 (100.00 %) Nortel 1 4 (100.00 %) Avaya 1 4 (100.00 %) Front Office 1 4 (100.00 %) BT 1 4 (100.00 %) Banking 1 4 (100.00 %) Investment Banking 2 2 (50.00 %) Remedy 2 2 (50.00 %) Service Delivery 3 1 (25.00 %) Finance

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Speakerbus 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 Speakerbus. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 4 (100.00 %) PBX	General 1 4 (100.00 %) Front Office 1 4 (100.00 %) Banking 1 4 (100.00 %) Investment Banking 2 1 (25.00 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 4 (100.00 %) Voice Engineer 2 2 (50.00 %) Support Engineer 3 1 (25.00 %) Avaya Engineer	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (50.00 %) Service Delivery
Vendors 1 4 (100.00 %) Nortel 1 4 (100.00 %) Avaya 1 4 (100.00 %) BT 2 2 (50.00 %) Remedy