City of London Technical Specialist Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Technical Specialist role in IT contracts within the City of London region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Technical Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Technical Specialist
Location Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentwood Bridgend Cheshire Cirencester City of London County Antrim County Londonderry Crewe Cwmbran Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Leeds London Maidstone Manchester Midlands Newbury Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Potters Bar Reading Salisbury Scotland Shropshire South East South Wales South West Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Torfaen UK Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	214	181
Rank change on same period last year	-33
Matching contract IT job ads	12	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	0.146 %	0.270 %
Daily rates quoted	3	6
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£413
Average daily rate	£310	£423
% change on same period last year	-26.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£320	£433
UK excluding London average daily rate	£425	£367
% change on same period last year	+15.97 %
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	£29.50	£25.50
% change on same period last year	+15.68 %
Job Titles City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	8220	6670
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	10.85 %	6.643 %
Daily rates quoted	4487	2711
Average minimum daily rate	£419	£442
Average daily rate	£457	£474
% change on same period last year	-3.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£495	£506
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	348	219
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.35	£21.88
Average hourly rate	£25.10	£23.16
% change on same period last year	+8.36 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.85	£24.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.60	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-8.13 %
Technical Specialist 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 Technical Specialist across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles 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 Technical Specialist 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 Technical Specialist across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Technical Specialist in their job title 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 with Technical Specialist in their job title.

1 6 (25.00 %) Oracle 2 5 (20.83 %) Finance 2 5 (20.83 %) Law 2 5 (20.83 %) Migration 3 4 (16.67 %) Windows 3 4 (16.67 %) Microsoft 3 4 (16.67 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 3 (12.50 %) Banking 4 3 (12.50 %) Validation 4 3 (12.50 %) Data Migration 4 3 (12.50 %) MS Excel 4 3 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 4 3 (12.50 %) SQL Server 4 3 (12.50 %) Citrix 4 3 (12.50 %) Project Management

4 3 (12.50 %) RDBMS 5 2 (8.333 %) Change Management 5 2 (8.333 %) Borland 5 2 (8.333 %) Legal 5 2 (8.333 %) Wireless 5 2 (8.333 %) .NET 5 2 (8.333 %) UNIX 5 2 (8.333 %) MS Project 5 2 (8.333 %) MS Office 5 2 (8.333 %) XML 5 2 (8.333 %) Solaris 5 2 (8.333 %) WAN 5 2 (8.333 %) SharePoint 5 2 (8.333 %) MS Visio 5 2 (8.333 %) Configuration Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Technical Specialist in their job title 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 with Technical Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (8.333 %) .NET 1 2 (8.333 %) XML 2 1 (4.167 %) WebSphere 2 1 (4.167 %) JMS 2 1 (4.167 %) Java RMI 2 1 (4.167 %) XML Schema 2 1 (4.167 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 2 (8.333 %) SharePoint 2 1 (4.167 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 1 (4.167 %) SAS 2 1 (4.167 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 1 (4.167 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications 1 3 (12.50 %) MS Excel 2 2 (8.333 %) MS Project 2 2 (8.333 %) MS Office 2 2 (8.333 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (4.167 %) SunGard Vivista 1 1 (4.167 %) MAXIMO
Communications & Networking 1 2 (8.333 %) Wireless 1 2 (8.333 %) WAN 2 1 (4.167 %) HTTPS 2 1 (4.167 %) LDAP 2 1 (4.167 %) Firewall 2 1 (4.167 %) Wi-Fi	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (12.50 %) SQL Server 1 3 (12.50 %) RDBMS 2 1 (4.167 %) Data Cleansing 2 1 (4.167 %) Reference Data 2 1 (4.167 %) ETL 2 1 (4.167 %) Oracle 10g 2 1 (4.167 %) Oracle 9i
Development Applications 1 2 (8.333 %) StarTeam 2 1 (4.167 %) JUnit	General 1 5 (20.83 %) Finance 1 5 (20.83 %) Law 2 3 (12.50 %) Banking 3 2 (8.333 %) Legal 4 1 (4.167 %) Investment Banking 4 1 (4.167 %) Front Office 4 1 (4.167 %) Back Office 4 1 (4.167 %) Telecoms 4 1 (4.167 %) Construction 4 1 (4.167 %) Government 4 1 (4.167 %) Health
Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.167 %) Market Risk 1 1 (4.167 %) PDA 1 1 (4.167 %) Fixed Income 1 1 (4.167 %) Blackberry 1 1 (4.167 %) Management Information System	Operating Systems 1 4 (16.67 %) Windows 2 2 (8.333 %) UNIX 2 2 (8.333 %) Solaris 2 2 (8.333 %) Windows Mobile 3 1 (4.167 %) Windows XP 3 1 (4.167 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (20.83 %) Migration 2 4 (16.67 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 3 (12.50 %) Validation 3 3 (12.50 %) Data Migration 3 3 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 3 3 (12.50 %) Project Management 4 2 (8.333 %) Change Management 4 2 (8.333 %) Configuration Management 5 1 (4.167 %) Problem Management 5 1 (4.167 %) System Testing 5 1 (4.167 %) Content Management 5 1 (4.167 %) Information Management 5 1 (4.167 %) Security Cleared 5 1 (4.167 %) Data Modelling 5 1 (4.167 %) CRM 5 1 (4.167 %) UML 5 1 (4.167 %) CAD	Programming Languages 1 1 (4.167 %) Java 1 1 (4.167 %) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (4.167 %) SLA	System Software 1 1 (4.167 %) Oracle RAC 1 1 (4.167 %) Active Directory 1 1 (4.167 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management 1 1 (4.167 %) Tivoli	Vendors 1 6 (25.00 %) Oracle 2 4 (16.67 %) Microsoft 3 3 (12.50 %) Citrix 4 2 (8.333 %) Borland 5 1 (4.167 %) Calypso 5 1 (4.167 %) Sybase 5 1 (4.167 %) FileNet