East of England ADO Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited ADO over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
Location Batley Brighton Bristol City of London Coventry East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Glasgow Halifax Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Leeds London Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Midlands North West Oxford Oxfordshire Scotland Sheffield Shropshire South East South West South Yorkshire Telford UK Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	145	127
Rank change on same period last year	-18
Matching contract IT job ads	6	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	0.484 %	1.564 %
Daily rates quoted	2	12
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£258
Average daily rate	£400	£283
% change on same period last year	+41.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£450	£308
UK excluding London average daily rate	£343	£284
% change on same period last year	+20.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£30.00
Average hourly rate	-	£33.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.67	£31.38
% change on same period last year	-30.94 %
Application Development East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	1239	1087
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.634 %	1.153 %
Daily rates quoted	404	316
Average minimum daily rate	£345	£334
Average daily rate	£376	£356
% change on same period last year	+5.64 %
Average maximum daily rate	£407	£378
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£336
% change on same period last year	+3.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	88	130
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.96	£30.18
Average hourly rate	£32.38	£31.95
% change on same period last year	+1.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.79	£33.71
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.44	£33.08
% change on same period last year	-1.93 %
ADO 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.

ADO
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ADO across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

ADO
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ADO across the East of England region.

ADO
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ADO across the East of England region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

ADO
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ADO across the East of England region.

ADO
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing ADO within the East of England region over the 3 months to 4 July 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
Hertfordshire	-15	6	£400	+41.17 %

ADO England

ADO
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing ADO 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 ADO.

1 9 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 8 (88.89 %) VB 3 6 (66.67 %) SQL 3 6 (66.67 %) Transact-SQL 4 5 (55.56 %) .NET 5 4 (44.44 %) Government 5 4 (44.44 %) Active Directory 5 4 (44.44 %) Citrix 5 4 (44.44 %) SAN 5 4 (44.44 %) Lotus 5 4 (44.44 %) Windows Server 2003 5 4 (44.44 %) Lotus Domino 5 4 (44.44 %) OpenView Configuration Management 5 4 (44.44 %) VBScript 5 4 (44.44 %) Windows

5 4 (44.44 %) ADSI 5 4 (44.44 %) DHCP 5 4 (44.44 %) WINS 5 4 (44.44 %) DNS 5 4 (44.44 %) IBM 5 4 (44.44 %) WMI 6 3 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 6 3 (33.33 %) Microsoft 6 3 (33.33 %) ASP 6 3 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 6 3 (33.33 %) C# 7 2 (22.22 %) CRM 7 2 (22.22 %) SQL Server 7 7 2 (22.22 %) SQL Server 2000 7 2 (22.22 %) Metastorm

ADO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing ADO 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 ADO. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 5 (55.56 %) .NET 2 4 (44.44 %) ADSI 2 4 (44.44 %) WMI 3 3 (33.33 %) ASP 3 3 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 4 2 (22.22 %) SOAP 4 2 (22.22 %) XML 5 1 (11.11 %) .NET Framework 5 1 (11.11 %) ADO.NET	Application Platforms 1 4 (44.44 %) Lotus Domino 2 1 (11.11 %) SharePoint
Business Applications 1 2 (22.22 %) e-Work	Communications & Networking 1 4 (44.44 %) DHCP 1 4 (44.44 %) WINS 1 4 (44.44 %) DNS 1 4 (44.44 %) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 2 (22.22 %) SQL Server 7 2 2 (22.22 %) SQL Server 2000 2 2 (22.22 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 1 (11.11 %) Visual Studio
General 1 4 (44.44 %) Government 2 2 (22.22 %) Retail 2 2 (22.22 %) Billing 2 2 (22.22 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 5 (55.56 %) Developer 2 4 (44.44 %) .NET Developer 3 2 (22.22 %) C# Developer 3 2 (22.22 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 1 (11.11 %) .NET Designer 4 1 (11.11 %) Web Developer
Operating Systems 1 4 (44.44 %) Windows 1 4 (44.44 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (22.22 %) CRM 3 1 (11.11 %) UML
Programming Languages 1 8 (88.89 %) VB 2 6 (66.67 %) SQL 2 6 (66.67 %) Transact-SQL 3 4 (44.44 %) VBScript 4 3 (33.33 %) C# 5 2 (22.22 %) VB6 5 2 (22.22 %) XPath	System Software 1 4 (44.44 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 4 (44.44 %) OpenView Configuration Management	Vendors 1 4 (44.44 %) IBM 1 4 (44.44 %) Citrix 1 4 (44.44 %) Lotus 2 3 (33.33 %) Microsoft 3 2 (22.22 %) Metastorm