Dorset CAD Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Computer-Aided Design (CAD) skills within the Dorset region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited CAD over the 3 months to 8 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
Location Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Burgess Hill Canary Wharf Cheltenham City of London Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Huddersfield Kent London Manchester Middlesbrough Midlands North West North Yorkshire Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Salford Scotland Sevenoaks South East South West Staffordshire Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley UK Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	43
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.766 %
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	£344	£216
% change on same period last year	+59.18 %
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	£26.82	£26.59
% change on same period last year	+0.87 %
Processes & Methodologies Dorset
Matching contract IT job ads	278	261
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.389 %	0.268 %
Daily rates quoted	95	129
Average minimum daily rate	£358	£338
Average daily rate	£379	£355
% change on same period last year	+6.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£371
% change on same period last year	+1.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	62	32
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.54	£33.85
Average hourly rate	£32.78	£36.19
% change on same period last year	-9.43 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.01	£38.53
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.37	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-2.09 %
CAD South West

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.

CAD
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing CAD across the Dorset region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

CAD
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing CAD across the Dorset region.