Coventry Client/Server Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Client Server skills within the Coventry region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Client/Server over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Client Server
Location Aberdeen Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Coventry Cramlington Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hertfordshire Kent Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Merseyside Midlands Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northumberland Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Suffolk Surrey Swindon Taunton Tyne and Wear UK Wales West Bromwich West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	36	-
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	2.899 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£300	-
Average daily rate	£320	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£340	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£343	£332
% change on same period last year	+3.18 %
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	£26.34	£32.87
% change on same period last year	-19.87 %
Miscellaneous Coventry
Matching contract IT job ads	69	27
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.091 %	0.027 %
Daily rates quoted	19	5
Average minimum daily rate	£281	£344
Average daily rate	£294	£369
% change on same period last year	-20.39 %
Average maximum daily rate	£307	£394
UK excluding London average daily rate	£351	£352
% change on same period last year	-0.23 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.25	£29.33
Average hourly rate	£17.63	£31.50
% change on same period last year	-44.04 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.00	£33.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.25	£28.69
% change on same period last year	-11.97 %
Client/Server West Midlands

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.

Client/Server
Demand Trend

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

Client/Server
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Client/Server across the Coventry region.

Client/Server
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Client/Server across the Coventry region.

Client/Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Coventry region citing Client/Server 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 Client/Server.

1 2 (66.67 %) UNIX 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows 1 2 (66.67 %) Linux 1 2 (66.67 %) Oracle 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) J2EE 2 1 (33.33 %) C 2 1 (33.33 %) HTML 2 1 (33.33 %) Java 2 1 (33.33 %) PL/SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) DB2 2 1 (33.33 %) JUnit 2 1 (33.33 %) CSS 2 1 (33.33 %) JSP 2 1 (33.33 %) Servlets

2 1 (33.33 %) Struts 2 1 (33.33 %) XSLT 2 1 (33.33 %) OOA/OOD 2 1 (33.33 %) Swing 2 1 (33.33 %) E-Commerce 2 1 (33.33 %) N-Tier 2 1 (33.33 %) AWT 2 1 (33.33 %) IBM 2 1 (33.33 %) CICS 2 1 (33.33 %) Borland 2 1 (33.33 %) Internet 2 1 (33.33 %) Mainframe 2 1 (33.33 %) Validation 2 1 (33.33 %) Migration 2 1 (33.33 %) Stakeholder Management

Client/Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Coventry region citing Client/Server 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 Client/Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (33.33 %) J2EE 1 1 (33.33 %) HTML 1 1 (33.33 %) CSS 1 1 (33.33 %) JSP 1 1 (33.33 %) Servlets 1 1 (33.33 %) Struts 1 1 (33.33 %) XSLT 1 1 (33.33 %) Swing 1 1 (33.33 %) AWT	Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) CICS
Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) DB2 1 1 (33.33 %) Data Cleansing
Development Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) JUnit 1 1 (33.33 %) StarTeam	Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Test Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Team Leader 1 1 (33.33 %) Data Migration Specialist 1 1 (33.33 %) J2EE Team Leader 1 1 (33.33 %) Software Test Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) N-Tier 1 1 (33.33 %) Mainframe 1 1 (33.33 %) IBM Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 2 (66.67 %) UNIX 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows 1 2 (66.67 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) OOA/OOD 1 1 (33.33 %) E-Commerce 1 1 (33.33 %) Validation 1 1 (33.33 %) Migration 1 1 (33.33 %) Stakeholder Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Test Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Data Migration 1 1 (33.33 %) Data Validation	Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) C 2 1 (33.33 %) Java 2 1 (33.33 %) PL/SQL
Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) Oracle 2 1 (33.33 %) IBM 2 1 (33.33 %) Borland