East Midlands Computer Science Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Computer Science (Computing Science) skills within the East Midlands region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Computer Science over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Computer Science (Computing Science)
Location Abingdon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England England Farnborough Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hertfordshire Horsham Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield South East South West South Yorkshire Stevenage Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells UK Wales West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Worcestershire Wycombe Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	86	92
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	1	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.344 %	0.601 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£350
Average daily rate	-	£350
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£383
% change on same period last year	-7.80 %
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	£29.86	£27.02
% change on same period last year	+10.50 %
Miscellaneous East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	291	333
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.458 %	0.357 %
Daily rates quoted	48	46
Average minimum daily rate	£285	£336
Average daily rate	£305	£352
% change on same period last year	-13.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£325	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£344	£343
% change on same period last year	+0.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	40	65
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.65	£13.63
Average hourly rate	£22.65	£16.63
% change on same period last year	+36.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.66	£19.62
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.46	£25.58
% change on same period last year	-0.46 %
Computer Science England

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.

Computer Science
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Computer Science across the East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Computer Science
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Computer Science across the East Midlands region.

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Computer Science across the East Midlands region.

Computer Science
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Leicestershire	+16	1	-	-

Computer Science England

Computer Science
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing Computer Science 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 Computer Science.

1 3 (100.00 %) Degree 2 2 (66.67 %) Games 2 2 (66.67 %) SQL 2 2 (66.67 %) .NET 2 2 (66.67 %) XML 3 1 (33.33 %) XAML 3 1 (33.33 %) XSD 3 1 (33.33 %) XSLT 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 3 1 (33.33 %) OO 3 1 (33.33 %) XHTML 3 1 (33.33 %) J2ME 3 1 (33.33 %) SVG 3 1 (33.33 %) Adobe 3 1 (33.33 %) W3C

3 1 (33.33 %) Configuration Management 3 1 (33.33 %) MySQL 3 1 (33.33 %) CSS 3 1 (33.33 %) SOAP 3 1 (33.33 %) WebServices 3 1 (33.33 %) C# 3 1 (33.33 %) C++ 3 1 (33.33 %) Java 3 1 (33.33 %) JavaScript 3 1 (33.33 %) PHP 3 1 (33.33 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 1 (33.33 %) WinForms 3 1 (33.33 %) TDD 3 1 (33.33 %) Web 2.0 3 1 (33.33 %) .NET Framework

Computer Science
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing Computer Science 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 Computer Science. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (66.67 %) XML 1 2 (66.67 %) .NET 2 1 (33.33 %) CSS 2 1 (33.33 %) SOAP 2 1 (33.33 %) WebServices 2 1 (33.33 %) XSD 2 1 (33.33 %) XSLT 2 1 (33.33 %) XHTML 2 1 (33.33 %) J2ME 2 1 (33.33 %) SVG 2 1 (33.33 %) WinForms 2 1 (33.33 %) .NET Framework 2 1 (33.33 %) WPF 2 1 (33.33 %) Silverlight 2 1 (33.33 %) MooTools	Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) Adobe Illustrator
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) MySQL	General 1 2 (66.67 %) Games
Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) Web Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) Consultant 2 1 (33.33 %) Applications Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) .NET Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) C# Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) C# Application Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) .NET Applications Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) W3C 1 1 (33.33 %) Web 2.0 1 1 (33.33 %) Mathematics
Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) OO 1 1 (33.33 %) Configuration Management 1 1 (33.33 %) TDD 1 1 (33.33 %) Unit Testing 1 1 (33.33 %) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) XAML 2 1 (33.33 %) C++/CLI 2 1 (33.33 %) C# 2 1 (33.33 %) C++ 2 1 (33.33 %) Java 2 1 (33.33 %) JavaScript 2 1 (33.33 %) PHP	Qualifications 1 3 (100.00 %) Degree
Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Adobe