East Midlands Degree Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Degree in IT contracts within the East Midlands region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Degree over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Aylesbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cwmbran Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Douglas Dundee Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harrow Havant Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Kegworth Kent Kettering Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Romford Rotherham Runcorn Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Tamworth Teddington Thames Valley Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	56	40
Rank change on same period last year	-16
Matching contract IT job ads	38	53
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.050 %	0.053 %
As % of the category below	17.51 %	21.20 %
Daily rates quoted	12	3
Average minimum daily rate	£298	£289
Average daily rate	£323	£289
% change on same period last year	+11.60 %
Average maximum daily rate	£348	£289
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£295
% change on same period last year	+20.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.17	£21.18
Average hourly rate	£30.50	£21.43
% change on same period last year	+42.29 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.83	£21.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.93	£31.68
% change on same period last year	-15.00 %
Qualifications East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	217	250
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.286 %	0.249 %
Daily rates quoted	72	65
Average minimum daily rate	£298	£305
Average daily rate	£320	£322
% change on same period last year	-0.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£342	£339
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£329
% change on same period last year	+0.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	27	26
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.35	£24.05
Average hourly rate	£20.30	£24.51
% change on same period last year	-17.18 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.25	£24.98
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.31	£25.67
% change on same period last year	-5.30 %
Degree 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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Degree across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 August 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 Degree across the East Midlands region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Degree across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 August 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
Derbyshire	-8	14	£133	-58.97 %
Nottinghamshire	+1	9	£288	+18.31 %
Leicestershire	+3	8	-	-
Northamptonshire	-7	6	£465	+55.00 %

Degree England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing Degree 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 Degree.

1 18 (24.66 %) Oracle 2 16 (21.92 %) .NET 3 14 (19.18 %) C# 3 14 (19.18 %) ASP.NET 3 14 (19.18 %) Microsoft 4 13 (17.81 %) Windows 4 13 (17.81 %) C++ 5 12 (16.44 %) SQL 5 12 (16.44 %) SQL Server 5 12 (16.44 %) UML 6 11 (15.07 %) OO 7 10 (13.70 %) ADO.NET 7 10 (13.70 %) Java 7 10 (13.70 %) Mathematics 8 9 (12.33 %) JavaScript

8 9 (12.33 %) C 9 8 (10.96 %) Windows Server 2003 9 8 (10.96 %) Agile Software Development 10 7 (9.589 %) Statistics 10 7 (9.589 %) Project Management 10 7 (9.589 %) Back Office 10 7 (9.589 %) Validation 10 7 (9.589 %) WebServices 11 6 (8.219 %) Crystal Reports 11 6 (8.219 %) SAS 11 6 (8.219 %) UNIX 12 5 (6.849 %) ISO9001 12 5 (6.849 %) MS Excel 12 5 (6.849 %) VB 12 5 (6.849 %) Health

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 16 (21.92 %) .NET 2 14 (19.18 %) ASP.NET 3 10 (13.70 %) ADO.NET 4 7 (9.589 %) WebServices 5 5 (6.849 %) AJAX 6 4 (5.479 %) HTML 7 3 (4.110 %) XML 8 2 (2.740 %) J2EE 8 2 (2.740 %) Swing 9 1 (1.370 %) SVG 9 1 (1.370 %) XHTML 9 1 (1.370 %) J2ME 9 1 (1.370 %) CSS 9 1 (1.370 %) SOAP 9 1 (1.370 %) Hibernate 9 1 (1.370 %) Spring 9 1 (1.370 %) MooTools	Application Platforms 1 6 (8.219 %) SAS 2 2 (2.740 %) SharePoint 3 1 (1.370 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (1.370 %) Apache 3 1 (1.370 %) Papyrus
Applications 1 5 (6.849 %) MS Excel 1 5 (6.849 %) Spreadsheet 2 4 (5.479 %) MS Office 3 1 (1.370 %) MS Project 3 1 (1.370 %) Adobe Illustrator	Business Applications 1 1 (1.370 %) Oracle 11i 1 1 (1.370 %) Teamcenter
Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.370 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (1.370 %) LAN 1 1 (1.370 %) WAN 1 1 (1.370 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (16.44 %) SQL Server 2 6 (8.219 %) Crystal Reports 3 4 (5.479 %) Oracle 10g 4 3 (4.110 %) Oracle Reports 5 1 (1.370 %) RDBMS 5 1 (1.370 %) DTS 5 1 (1.370 %) MS Access 5 1 (1.370 %) MySQL 5 1 (1.370 %) PostgreSQL
Development Applications 1 4 (5.479 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (1.370 %) WinRunner 2 1 (1.370 %) TestDirector 2 1 (1.370 %) QuickTest Pro 2 1 (1.370 %) Eclipse 2 1 (1.370 %) JUnit 2 1 (1.370 %) Subversion	General 1 7 (9.589 %) Back Office 2 5 (6.849 %) Health 3 4 (5.479 %) Banking 3 4 (5.479 %) Finance 4 3 (4.110 %) Aerospace 4 3 (4.110 %) Games 4 3 (4.110 %) Insurance 5 2 (2.740 %) Marketing 5 2 (2.740 %) Auditing 5 2 (2.740 %) Retail 5 2 (2.740 %) Automotive 5 2 (2.740 %) Education 5 2 (2.740 %) Government 5 2 (2.740 %) Pharmaceutical 6 1 (1.370 %) Electronics 6 1 (1.370 %) Home Office 6 1 (1.370 %) 3D Graphics 6 1 (1.370 %) Manufacturing 6 1 (1.370 %) Multimedia 6 1 (1.370 %) Retail Banking
Job Titles 1 16 (21.92 %) Developer 2 15 (20.55 %) Analyst 3 9 (12.33 %) Software Engineer 4 7 (9.589 %) Java Developer 5 5 (6.849 %) C# Developer 5 5 (6.849 %) Procurement Manager 6 4 (5.479 %) SAS Analyst 6 4 (5.479 %) Programmer 6 4 (5.479 %) Graduate 7 3 (4.110 %) Support Analyst 7 3 (4.110 %) Project Manager 7 3 (4.110 %) Business Analyst 7 3 (4.110 %) .NET Developer 7 3 (4.110 %) C++ Developer 7 3 (4.110 %) Helpdesk Support 7 3 (4.110 %) C# Software Engineer 7 3 (4.110 %) C++/Java Developer 8 2 (2.740 %) Java/J2EE Developer 8 2 (2.740 %) Real Time Software Engineer 8 2 (2.740 %) Real Time Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 10 (13.70 %) Mathematics 2 7 (9.589 %) Statistics 3 4 (5.479 %) Computer Science 4 2 (2.740 %) Physics 4 2 (2.740 %) Web 2.0 5 1 (1.370 %) NHS 5 1 (1.370 %) W3C 5 1 (1.370 %) ASIC 5 1 (1.370 %) Management Information System 5 1 (1.370 %) Credit Risk 5 1 (1.370 %) CMDB 5 1 (1.370 %) Life Science
Operating Systems 1 13 (17.81 %) Windows 2 8 (10.96 %) Windows Server 2003 3 6 (8.219 %) UNIX 4 4 (5.479 %) Windows XP 5 3 (4.110 %) Linux 5 3 (4.110 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 2 (2.740 %) Red Hat Linux 6 2 (2.740 %) Windows 2000 6 2 (2.740 %) Windows CE	Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (16.44 %) UML 2 11 (15.07 %) OO 3 8 (10.96 %) Agile Software Development 4 7 (9.589 %) Project Management 4 7 (9.589 %) Validation 5 5 (6.849 %) E-Procurement 5 5 (6.849 %) Software Engineering 6 4 (5.479 %) OOD 7 3 (4.110 %) PRINCE2 7 3 (4.110 %) Software Testing 7 3 (4.110 %) Time Management 8 2 (2.740 %) System Testing 8 2 (2.740 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 2 (2.740 %) Unit Testing 8 2 (2.740 %) Test Scripting 8 2 (2.740 %) Data Analysis 8 2 (2.740 %) Change Management 8 2 (2.740 %) ITIL 9 1 (1.370 %) Data Modelling 9 1 (1.370 %) CRM
Programming Languages 1 14 (19.18 %) C# 2 13 (17.81 %) C++ 3 12 (16.44 %) SQL 4 10 (13.70 %) Java 5 9 (12.33 %) JavaScript 5 9 (12.33 %) C 6 5 (6.849 %) VB 7 1 (1.370 %) FoxPro (VFP) 7 1 (1.370 %) VBScript 7 1 (1.370 %) DHTML 7 1 (1.370 %) Perl 7 1 (1.370 %) PHP 7 1 (1.370 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 4 (5.479 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (4.110 %) HNC 2 3 (4.110 %) MCP 2 3 (4.110 %) ISEB 3 2 (2.740 %) ISTQB 3 2 (2.740 %) ISEB Practitioner 3 2 (2.740 %) MCSE 3 2 (2.740 %) HND 4 1 (1.370 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 1 (1.370 %) MCSA 4 1 (1.370 %) MCDST 4 1 (1.370 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (6.849 %) ISO9001 1 5 (6.849 %) QA 2 1 (1.370 %) GCP 2 1 (1.370 %) ISO9000	System Software 1 4 (5.479 %) Active Directory 2 1 (1.370 %) NetBackup
Vendors 1 18 (24.66 %) Oracle 2 14 (19.18 %) Microsoft 3 3 (4.110 %) Remedy 4 2 (2.740 %) Red Hat 5 1 (1.370 %) VERITAS 5 1 (1.370 %) Adobe 5 1 (1.370 %) SolidWorks