East Midlands Technical Specialist Contracts

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

Technical Specialist
Location Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentwood Bridgend Cheshire Cirencester City of London County Antrim County Londonderry Crewe Cwmbran Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Leeds London Maidstone Manchester Midlands Newbury Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Potters Bar Reading Salisbury Scotland Shropshire South East South Wales South West Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Torfaen UK Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	89	78
Rank change on same period last year	-11
Matching contract IT job ads	4	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	0.235 %	0.526 %
Daily rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum daily rate	£413	£320
Average daily rate	£438	£324
% change on same period last year	+34.96 %
Average maximum daily rate	£463	£328
UK excluding London average daily rate	£425	£367
% change on same period last year	+15.97 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£20.00
Average hourly rate	-	£20.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.50	£25.50
% change on same period last year	+15.68 %
Job Titles East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	1701	1902
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.245 %	1.894 %
Daily rates quoted	509	375
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£328
Average daily rate	£370	£344
% change on same period last year	+7.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£390	£361
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	181	279
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.23	£21.06
Average hourly rate	£19.75	£22.68
% change on same period last year	-12.92 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.27	£24.31
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.60	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-8.13 %
Technical Specialist 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.

Technical Specialist
Demand Trend

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

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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 Technical Specialist 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
Nottinghamshire	-7	2	£438	+34.96 %
Northamptonshire	-14	1	-	-

Technical Specialist England

Technical Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region that cited Technical Specialist in their job title 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 with Technical Specialist in their job title.

1 6 (46.15 %) PLM 1 6 (46.15 %) Teamcenter 2 5 (38.46 %) Manufacturing 3 4 (30.77 %) Aerospace 3 4 (30.77 %) Automotive 3 4 (30.77 %) CAD 4 3 (23.08 %) Windows 4 3 (23.08 %) Migration 5 2 (15.38 %) Quality Management 5 2 (15.38 %) QA 5 2 (15.38 %) UNIX 5 2 (15.38 %) AIX 5 2 (15.38 %) Solaris 5 2 (15.38 %) MCSE 5 2 (15.38 %) Oracle

5 2 (15.38 %) MS Visio 5 2 (15.38 %) MS Exchange 5 2 (15.38 %) Cisco 5 2 (15.38 %) Microsoft 5 2 (15.38 %) Sun 5 2 (15.38 %) Active Directory 5 2 (15.38 %) Windows Server 2003 5 2 (15.38 %) Microsoft Certification 6 1 (7.692 %) CNA 6 1 (7.692 %) Novell Certification 6 1 (7.692 %) BEA 6 1 (7.692 %) SAN 6 1 (7.692 %) ADIC 6 1 (7.692 %) BMC 6 1 (7.692 %) NetApp

Technical Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region that cited Technical Specialist in their job title 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 with Technical Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (7.692 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 2 (15.38 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (7.692 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 2 (15.38 %) MS Visio 2 1 (7.692 %) MS Office 2 1 (7.692 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 6 (46.15 %) Teamcenter
Communications & Networking 1 1 (7.692 %) SAN 1 1 (7.692 %) Firewall	General 1 5 (38.46 %) Manufacturing 2 4 (30.77 %) Aerospace 2 4 (30.77 %) Automotive 3 1 (7.692 %) Banking
Miscellaneous 1 1 (7.692 %) Blackberry 1 1 (7.692 %) AS400	Operating Systems 1 3 (23.08 %) Windows 2 2 (15.38 %) UNIX 2 2 (15.38 %) AIX 2 2 (15.38 %) Solaris 2 2 (15.38 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (7.692 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (46.15 %) PLM 2 4 (30.77 %) CAD 3 3 (23.08 %) Migration 4 2 (15.38 %) Quality Management 5 1 (7.692 %) Performance Management	Programming Languages 1 1 (7.692 %) C 1 1 (7.692 %) C++ 1 1 (7.692 %) Java 1 1 (7.692 %) Perl
Qualifications 1 2 (15.38 %) MCSE 1 2 (15.38 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (7.692 %) CNA 2 1 (7.692 %) Novell Certification 2 1 (7.692 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (7.692 %) CCNP 2 1 (7.692 %) CCNA 2 1 (7.692 %) CCDA 2 1 (7.692 %) CCDP 2 1 (7.692 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (15.38 %) QA 2 1 (7.692 %) ISO9001
System Software 1 2 (15.38 %) Active Directory 2 1 (7.692 %) ISA Server 2 1 (7.692 %) NetBackup	Systems Management 1 1 (7.692 %) Legato 1 1 (7.692 %) BMC PATROL
Vendors 1 2 (15.38 %) Oracle 1 2 (15.38 %) Cisco 1 2 (15.38 %) Microsoft 1 2 (15.38 %) Sun 2 1 (7.692 %) BEA 2 1 (7.692 %) ADIC 2 1 (7.692 %) BMC 2 1 (7.692 %) NetApp 2 1 (7.692 %) Nokia 2 1 (7.692 %) CheckPoint 2 1 (7.692 %) EMC