Coventry Government Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Government' in contract IT jobs within the Coventry region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Government over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Government
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Avon Barnet Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bootle Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hove Huddersfield Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidstone Malvern Manchester Mansfield Melrose Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northumbria Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochdale Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Torpoint Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	4	5
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	51	30
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.067 %	0.032 %
As % of the category below	30.00 %	33.71 %
Daily rates quoted	23	9
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£312
Average daily rate	£417	£324
% change on same period last year	+28.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£434	£336
UK excluding London average daily rate	£391	£366
% change on same period last year	+6.86 %
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	£27.68	£29.21
% change on same period last year	-5.25 %
General Coventry
Matching contract IT job ads	170	89
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.224 %	0.094 %
Daily rates quoted	49	20
Average minimum daily rate	£331	£318
Average daily rate	£349	£335
% change on same period last year	+4.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£351
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£372
% change on same period last year	+3.96 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.65	£20.40
Average hourly rate	£26.65	£22.70
% change on same period last year	+17.38 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.65	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.47	£27.20
% change on same period last year	-2.68 %
Government 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Government across the Coventry 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 IT contract jobs citing Government across the Coventry region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Government across the Coventry region over the 3 months to 4 July 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 Government across the Coventry region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Coventry region citing Government 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 Government.

1 54 (48.65 %) PRINCE2 2 36 (32.43 %) Education 3 21 (18.92 %) Local Government 4 20 (18.02 %) MS Project 5 16 (14.41 %) Business Analysis 6 14 (12.61 %) Risk Management 7 12 (10.81 %) MS Excel 7 12 (10.81 %) Test Scripting 7 12 (10.81 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 8 11 (9.910 %) MS PowerPoint 8 11 (9.910 %) Service Management 9 10 (9.009 %) UML 9 10 (9.009 %) .NET 10 9 (8.108 %) Project Management 10 9 (8.108 %) Finance

11 8 (7.207 %) Information Management 11 8 (7.207 %) ISEB 12 7 (6.306 %) RUP 12 7 (6.306 %) ITIL 12 7 (6.306 %) Agile Software Development 12 7 (6.306 %) Programme Management 13 6 (5.405 %) Management Information System 13 6 (5.405 %) MS Access 13 6 (5.405 %) VB 13 6 (5.405 %) MS Office 13 6 (5.405 %) SharePoint 14 5 (4.505 %) MS Visio 14 5 (4.505 %) SQL Server 14 5 (4.505 %) Software Testing 14 5 (4.505 %) User Acceptance Testing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Coventry region citing Government 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 Government. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 10 (9.009 %) .NET 2 4 (3.604 %) ASP.NET 2 4 (3.604 %) XML 3 3 (2.703 %) SOAP 3 3 (2.703 %) AJAX 4 2 (1.802 %) CSS 4 2 (1.802 %) XHTML 5 1 (0.901 %) HTML 5 1 (0.901 %) XSL 5 1 (0.901 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 6 (5.405 %) SharePoint 2 1 (0.901 %) ColdFusion 2 1 (0.901 %) CMS
Applications 1 20 (18.02 %) MS Project 2 12 (10.81 %) MS Excel 3 11 (9.910 %) MS PowerPoint 4 6 (5.405 %) MS Office 5 5 (4.505 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 4 (3.604 %) TCP/IP 2 3 (2.703 %) Ethernet 3 1 (0.901 %) FTP 3 1 (0.901 %) ISDN 3 1 (0.901 %) VoIP 3 1 (0.901 %) Internet 3 1 (0.901 %) 3G 3 1 (0.901 %) SS7 3 1 (0.901 %) Q.931 3 1 (0.901 %) 2G
Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (5.405 %) MS Access 2 5 (4.505 %) SQL Server 3 2 (1.802 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 1 (0.901 %) MySQL 4 1 (0.901 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 3 (2.703 %) VSS/SourceSafe 1 3 (2.703 %) ClearCase 2 1 (0.901 %) Subversion
General 1 36 (32.43 %) Education 2 21 (18.92 %) Local Government 3 9 (8.108 %) Finance 4 3 (2.703 %) Military 5 1 (0.901 %) Telecoms 5 1 (0.901 %) Health	Job Titles 1 23 (20.72 %) Project Manager 2 14 (12.61 %) Developer 3 13 (11.71 %) Analyst 4 8 (7.207 %) Project Support Officer 4 8 (7.207 %) Programme Planner 4 8 (7.207 %) Project Officer 5 7 (6.306 %) Test Manager 6 6 (5.405 %) Test Analyst 6 6 (5.405 %) Senior Manager 6 6 (5.405 %) Change Manager 6 6 (5.405 %) Access Developer 7 5 (4.505 %) Business Manager 7 5 (4.505 %) Business Change Manager 7 5 (4.505 %) Senior Project Manager 7 5 (4.505 %) Web Developer 7 5 (4.505 %) Project Planner 7 5 (4.505 %) Business Analyst 8 4 (3.604 %) Service Manager 8 4 (3.604 %) Administrator 8 4 (3.604 %) Project Administrator
Miscellaneous 1 6 (5.405 %) Management Information System 2 2 (1.802 %) Web 2.0 2 2 (1.802 %) NHS 2 2 (1.802 %) W3C	Operating Systems 1 3 (2.703 %) VxWorks 2 2 (1.802 %) Windows 3 1 (0.901 %) Linux 3 1 (0.901 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 54 (48.65 %) PRINCE2 2 16 (14.41 %) Business Analysis 3 14 (12.61 %) Risk Management 4 12 (10.81 %) Test Scripting 5 11 (9.910 %) Service Management 6 10 (9.009 %) UML 7 9 (8.108 %) Project Management 8 8 (7.207 %) Information Management 9 7 (6.306 %) Programme Management 9 7 (6.306 %) Agile Software Development 9 7 (6.306 %) ITIL 9 7 (6.306 %) RUP 10 5 (4.505 %) User Acceptance Testing 10 5 (4.505 %) Software Testing 10 5 (4.505 %) System Testing 11 4 (3.604 %) Security Cleared 11 4 (3.604 %) Quality Management 11 4 (3.604 %) Web Design 12 3 (2.703 %) Change Management 12 3 (2.703 %) Configuration Management	Programming Languages 1 6 (5.405 %) VB 2 4 (3.604 %) SQL 2 4 (3.604 %) C# 2 4 (3.604 %) C++ 3 3 (2.703 %) C 4 2 (1.802 %) VB.NET 4 2 (1.802 %) JavaScript 5 1 (0.901 %) PHP 5 1 (0.901 %) Java
Qualifications 1 12 (10.81 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 8 (7.207 %) ISEB 3 4 (3.604 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 3 (2.703 %) Degree 5 2 (1.802 %) ITIL Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (3.604 %) QA 2 2 (1.802 %) SLA 3 1 (0.901 %) WAI
Vendors 1 3 (2.703 %) Microsoft