East Midlands Lotus Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Lotus products and/or services in IT contracts within the East Midlands 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 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Atherstone Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Beverley Birmingham Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Channel Islands Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Deeside Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorchester Dorking Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Flintshire Glasgow Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Hartlepool Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hounslow Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Neath Port Talbot Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Port Talbot Portsmouth Pudsey Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rochdale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weymouth Wiltshire Windlesham Windsor Wolverhampton Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	89	76
Rank change on same period last year	-13
Matching contract IT job ads	4	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	0.557 %	2.246 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£75	-
Average daily rate	£78	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£80	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£198	£212
% change on same period last year	-6.51 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	6
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£17.43
Average hourly rate	-	£18.21
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.46	£17.61
% change on same period last year	+10.50 %
Vendors East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	718	846
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.023 %	0.875 %
Daily rates quoted	195	155
Average minimum daily rate	£323	£337
Average daily rate	£339	£355
% change on same period last year	-4.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£355	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£353
% change on same period last year	+2.16 %
Hourly rates quoted	92	146
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.89	£20.37
Average hourly rate	£21.80	£21.21
% change on same period last year	+2.78 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.72	£22.06
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.37	£24.17
% change on same period last year	+0.83 %
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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 East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors 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 Lotus across the East Midlands region.

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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 East Midlands region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lotus within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 15 October 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	1	£78	-
Leicestershire	+10	1	-	-
Lincolnshire	-6	1	-	-
Nottinghamshire	-2	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 19 (100.00 %) Lotus Notes 2 15 (78.95 %) Windows 3 12 (63.16 %) Windows Server 2003 4 10 (52.63 %) Active Directory 5 9 (47.37 %) LAN 5 9 (47.37 %) WAN 5 9 (47.37 %) TCP/IP 6 8 (42.11 %) DNS 6 8 (42.11 %) Lotus Domino 7 7 (36.84 %) Windows XP 7 7 (36.84 %) CheckPoint 7 7 (36.84 %) Firewall 7 7 (36.84 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 5 (26.32 %) ARCserve 9 4 (21.05 %) BMC PATROL

9 4 (21.05 %) BMC 9 4 (21.05 %) Windows 2000 10 3 (15.79 %) Service Management 10 3 (15.79 %) LotusScript 10 3 (15.79 %) Web Development 10 3 (15.79 %) Retail 10 3 (15.79 %) XML 10 3 (15.79 %) XSL 10 3 (15.79 %) DHTML 10 3 (15.79 %) HTML 10 3 (15.79 %) JavaScript 10 3 (15.79 %) Microsoft 10 3 (15.79 %) Symantec 11 2 (10.53 %) Norton AntiVirus 11 2 (10.53 %) CA

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 Development 1 3 (15.79 %) HTML 1 3 (15.79 %) XML 1 3 (15.79 %) XSL	Application Platforms 1 19 (100.00 %) Lotus Notes 2 8 (42.11 %) Lotus Domino 3 1 (5.263 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 2 (10.53 %) MS Office 1 2 (10.53 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 9 (47.37 %) LAN 1 9 (47.37 %) WAN 1 9 (47.37 %) TCP/IP 2 8 (42.11 %) DNS 3 7 (36.84 %) Firewall 4 1 (5.263 %) Internet
General 1 3 (15.79 %) Retail 2 2 (10.53 %) Manufacturing	Job Titles 1 5 (26.32 %) Analyst 2 4 (21.05 %) 3rd Line Support 3 3 (15.79 %) Domino Developer 3 3 (15.79 %) Developer 4 2 (10.53 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 4 2 (10.53 %) 2nd Line Support 4 2 (10.53 %) Senior Analyst 4 2 (10.53 %) Helpdesk Support 4 2 (10.53 %) Helpdesk Analyst 4 2 (10.53 %) Support Engineer 5 1 (5.263 %) Coordinator 5 1 (5.263 %) Trainer 5 1 (5.263 %) Desktop Support 5 1 (5.263 %) Consultant 5 1 (5.263 %) Systems Administrator 5 1 (5.263 %) Systems Engineer 5 1 (5.263 %) Server Support 5 1 (5.263 %) Support Technician 5 1 (5.263 %) Support Analyst 5 1 (5.263 %) Lotus Notes Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (5.263 %) EPoS	Operating Systems 1 15 (78.95 %) Windows 2 12 (63.16 %) Windows Server 2003 3 7 (36.84 %) Windows XP 3 7 (36.84 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 4 (21.05 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (5.263 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (15.79 %) Service Management 1 3 (15.79 %) Web Development	Programming Languages 1 3 (15.79 %) DHTML 1 3 (15.79 %) JavaScript 1 3 (15.79 %) LotusScript 2 2 (10.53 %) C 2 2 (10.53 %) Perl 2 2 (10.53 %) VB
Qualifications 1 1 (5.263 %) MCP 1 1 (5.263 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 10 (52.63 %) Active Directory 2 1 (5.263 %) VMware ESX 2 1 (5.263 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 5 (26.32 %) ARCserve 2 4 (21.05 %) BMC PATROL 3 2 (10.53 %) Norton AntiVirus	Vendors 1 7 (36.84 %) CheckPoint 2 4 (21.05 %) BMC 3 3 (15.79 %) Microsoft 3 3 (15.79 %) Symantec 4 2 (10.53 %) CA 5 1 (5.263 %) VERITAS 5 1 (5.263 %) Citrix 5 1 (5.263 %) VMware