East Midlands Validation Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Validation skills within the East Midlands region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Validation over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Andover Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bootle Bracknell Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newport Norfolk North Wales North West Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Runcorn Sandwich Scotland Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swindon Tadworth Thames Valley Trowbridge UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	69	82
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	21	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.030 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	2.318 %	1.059 %
Daily rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum daily rate	£331	£200
Average daily rate	£341	£200
% change on same period last year	+70.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£351	£200
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£293
% change on same period last year	+15.17 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£8.00	£8.39
Average hourly rate	£10.00	£8.39
% change on same period last year	+19.18 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.00	£8.39
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.30	£33.53
% change on same period last year	-3.67 %
Processes & Methodologies East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	906	944
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.288 %	0.953 %
Daily rates quoted	305	191
Average minimum daily rate	£378	£352
Average daily rate	£401	£375
% change on same period last year	+7.04 %
Average maximum daily rate	£424	£398
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£371
% change on same period last year	+1.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	69	120
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.83	£24.39
Average hourly rate	£31.36	£26.52
% change on same period last year	+18.25 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.88	£28.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.32	£30.04
% change on same period last year	-2.39 %
Validation 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 Validation across the East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies 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 Validation 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 Validation across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 7 October 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 Validation 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 Validation across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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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 Validation within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 7 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	-2	8	-	-
Leicestershire	-	5	£341	-
Nottinghamshire	+6	5	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing Validation 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 Validation.

1 16 (44.44 %) Oracle 2 12 (33.33 %) SQL 2 12 (33.33 %) Microsoft 3 10 (27.78 %) SQL Server 4 9 (25.00 %) C# 4 9 (25.00 %) .NET 4 9 (25.00 %) ASP.NET 5 8 (22.22 %) WebServices 5 8 (22.22 %) ADO.NET 5 8 (22.22 %) Back Office 5 8 (22.22 %) Finance 6 7 (19.44 %) Migration 6 7 (19.44 %) Degree 6 7 (19.44 %) Data Validation 7 5 (13.89 %) Data Cleansing

8 4 (11.11 %) Agile Software Development 8 4 (11.11 %) NHS 8 4 (11.11 %) UML 8 4 (11.11 %) OO 9 3 (8.333 %) Oracle Reports 9 3 (8.333 %) Apache 9 3 (8.333 %) Oracle 9i 9 3 (8.333 %) Windows 9 3 (8.333 %) AIX 9 3 (8.333 %) Solaris 9 3 (8.333 %) Business Intelligence 9 3 (8.333 %) J2EE 9 3 (8.333 %) Java 9 3 (8.333 %) PL/SQL 9 3 (8.333 %) JUnit

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing Validation 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 Validation. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 9 (25.00 %) .NET 1 9 (25.00 %) ASP.NET 2 8 (22.22 %) WebServices 2 8 (22.22 %) ADO.NET 3 3 (8.333 %) J2EE 3 3 (8.333 %) MVC 3 3 (8.333 %) Spring 3 3 (8.333 %) JSTL 3 3 (8.333 %) Spring MVC 4 2 (5.556 %) SOAP 5 1 (2.778 %) LINQ 5 1 (2.778 %) ASP.NET 2.0 5 1 (2.778 %) AJAX 5 1 (2.778 %) WebSphere 5 1 (2.778 %) Hibernate 5 1 (2.778 %) HTML 5 1 (2.778 %) XML 5 1 (2.778 %) XSLT 5 1 (2.778 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 3 (8.333 %) Apache 2 2 (5.556 %) SharePoint 3 1 (2.778 %) ATG Dynamo
Applications 1 2 (5.556 %) MS Excel 1 2 (5.556 %) SmartSuite	Business Applications 1 3 (8.333 %) Oracle HRMS 2 2 (5.556 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 3 1 (2.778 %) Oracle 11i 3 1 (2.778 %) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking 1 2 (5.556 %) NetScreen 1 2 (5.556 %) Firewall 2 1 (2.778 %) Cisco ASA 2 1 (2.778 %) HTTP 2 1 (2.778 %) HTTPS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (27.78 %) SQL Server 2 5 (13.89 %) Data Cleansing 3 3 (8.333 %) Oracle 10g 3 3 (8.333 %) Oracle Reports 3 3 (8.333 %) Oracle 9i 4 2 (5.556 %) ETL 4 2 (5.556 %) Crystal Reports
Development Applications 1 3 (8.333 %) JUnit 2 1 (2.778 %) Subversion 2 1 (2.778 %) Rational Performance Tester	General 1 8 (22.22 %) Back Office 1 8 (22.22 %) Finance 2 3 (8.333 %) Health 3 2 (5.556 %) Legal 3 2 (5.556 %) Banking 3 2 (5.556 %) Insurance 3 2 (5.556 %) Marketing 4 1 (2.778 %) Government 4 1 (2.778 %) Local Government
Job Titles 1 12 (33.33 %) Analyst 2 8 (22.22 %) Developer 3 4 (11.11 %) Data Analyst 3 4 (11.11 %) .NET Developer 3 4 (11.11 %) C# Developer 4 3 (8.333 %) C# Software Engineer 4 3 (8.333 %) Oracle DBA 4 3 (8.333 %) Systems Analyst 4 3 (8.333 %) DBA 4 3 (8.333 %) Software Engineer 4 3 (8.333 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 3 (8.333 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 5 2 (5.556 %) Senior Data Analyst 5 2 (5.556 %) Information Analyst 5 2 (5.556 %) SQL Developer 5 2 (5.556 %) SQL Server Developer 5 2 (5.556 %) Firewall Engineer 5 2 (5.556 %) Compliance Manager 5 2 (5.556 %) Software Manager 5 2 (5.556 %) Report Writer	Miscellaneous 1 4 (11.11 %) NHS 2 3 (8.333 %) Data Conversion 3 2 (5.556 %) Management Information System 4 1 (2.778 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 3 (8.333 %) Windows 1 3 (8.333 %) AIX 1 3 (8.333 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (19.44 %) Migration 1 7 (19.44 %) Data Validation 2 4 (11.11 %) Agile Software Development 2 4 (11.11 %) UML 2 4 (11.11 %) OO 3 3 (8.333 %) Business Intelligence 3 3 (8.333 %) Data Migration 4 2 (5.556 %) Risk Assessment 4 2 (5.556 %) Information Management 4 2 (5.556 %) Disaster Recovery 5 1 (2.778 %) E-business 5 1 (2.778 %) Data Security 5 1 (2.778 %) Workflow 5 1 (2.778 %) Benchmarking 5 1 (2.778 %) Service Delivery 5 1 (2.778 %) Data Analysis 5 1 (2.778 %) Web Development 5 1 (2.778 %) Performance Testing 5 1 (2.778 %) Test Management 5 1 (2.778 %) Test Scripting
Programming Languages 1 12 (33.33 %) SQL 2 9 (25.00 %) C# 3 3 (8.333 %) Java 3 3 (8.333 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 7 (19.44 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (5.556 %) SLA	Vendors 1 16 (44.44 %) Oracle 2 12 (33.33 %) Microsoft 3 3 (8.333 %) IBM 4 2 (5.556 %) Cisco 4 2 (5.556 %) Cognos 4 2 (5.556 %) Juniper 4 2 (5.556 %) Nokia 4 2 (5.556 %) CheckPoint 5 1 (2.778 %) ATG 5 1 (2.778 %) CA 5 1 (2.778 %) Progress