Dudley Lotus Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Lotus products and/or services in IT contracts within the Dudley region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Lotus over the 3 months to 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Atherstone Belfast Berkshire Beverley Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Cornwall County Antrim Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Durham East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenock Guernsey Guildford Hampshire Hartlepool Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hull Inverclyde Jersey Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Neath Port Talbot Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Port Talbot Portsmouth Pudsey Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Surrey Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
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	£223	£235
% change on same period last year	-5.08 %
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	£17.24	£17.87
% change on same period last year	-3.54 %
Vendors Dudley
Matching contract IT job ads	4	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.010 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£242
Average daily rate	-	£242
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£242
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£348
% change on same period last year	+2.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£9.00	£26.53
Average hourly rate	£9.00	£28.20
% change on same period last year	-68.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£9.00	£29.87
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.89	£24.00
% change on same period last year	-0.42 %
Lotus 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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within IBM Lotus Software.

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Demand Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Dudley region citing Lotus 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 Lotus.

1 1 (100.00 %) VB 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Office 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows 1 1 (100.00 %) Lotus Notes 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows XP 1 1 (100.00 %) VPN 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft 1 1 (100.00 %) Blackberry

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Dudley region citing Lotus 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 Lotus. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (100.00 %) Lotus Notes	Applications 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 1 (100.00 %) VPN	Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Analyst 1 1 (100.00 %) Helpdesk Analyst 1 1 (100.00 %) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 1 (100.00 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows XP
Programming Languages 1 1 (100.00 %) VB	Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft