East of England BT Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of BT products and/or services in IT contracts within the East of England region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited BT over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Bath Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chippenham City of London Colchester Crawley East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Hampshire Hertfordshire Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds London Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Scotland Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Wales Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	144	136
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching contract IT job ads	7	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	0.400 %	0.450 %
Daily rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£400
Average daily rate	£406	£400
% change on same period last year	+1.56 %
Average maximum daily rate	£413	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£322	£367
% change on same period last year	-12.26 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.92	£33.58
% change on same period last year	-28.78 %
Vendors East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	1752	1778
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.310 %	1.886 %
Daily rates quoted	499	527
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£337
Average daily rate	£358	£359
% change on same period last year	-0.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£379	£380
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£356
% change on same period last year	+1.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	231	256
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.98	£23.33
Average hourly rate	£22.18	£24.78
% change on same period last year	-10.47 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.38	£26.23
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.91	£25.10
% change on same period last year	-8.72 %
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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 BT Group plc.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing BT across the East of England 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 BT across the East of England 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 BT across the East of England 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 job ads citing BT 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	-6	6	£406	+1.56 %
Essex	-2	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 12 (54.55 %) Telecoms 2 7 (31.82 %) VoIP 3 6 (27.27 %) PBX 4 5 (22.73 %) Degree 4 5 (22.73 %) Nortel 5 4 (18.18 %) Cisco 5 4 (18.18 %) PSTN 5 4 (18.18 %) SMS 5 4 (18.18 %) ADSL 5 4 (18.18 %) DECT 5 4 (18.18 %) GSM 5 4 (18.18 %) Windows 5 4 (18.18 %) Symposium 5 4 (18.18 %) Retail 5 4 (18.18 %) Project Management

5 4 (18.18 %) Nortel Meridian 6 3 (13.64 %) Finance 6 3 (13.64 %) Firewall 6 3 (13.64 %) Java 6 3 (13.64 %) Microsoft 6 3 (13.64 %) VERITAS 7 2 (9.091 %) Red Hat 7 2 (9.091 %) Sophos 7 2 (9.091 %) VPN 7 2 (9.091 %) Active Directory 7 2 (9.091 %) HP 7 2 (9.091 %) Dell 7 2 (9.091 %) BEA 7 2 (9.091 %) Unix 7 2 (9.091 %) Siemens

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 2 (9.091 %) J2EE 1 2 (9.091 %) EJB 1 2 (9.091 %) JSP 1 2 (9.091 %) Struts 1 2 (9.091 %) XML 1 2 (9.091 %) Swing 1 2 (9.091 %) WebSphere 2 1 (4.545 %) CSS 2 1 (4.545 %) ASP 2 1 (4.545 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 2 (9.091 %) WebLogic 1 2 (9.091 %) JBoss 1 2 (9.091 %) MS Exchange 1 2 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 1 (4.545 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 7 (31.82 %) VoIP 2 6 (27.27 %) PBX 3 4 (18.18 %) PSTN 3 4 (18.18 %) SMS 3 4 (18.18 %) ADSL 3 4 (18.18 %) DECT 3 4 (18.18 %) GSM 3 4 (18.18 %) Symposium 3 4 (18.18 %) Nortel Meridian 4 3 (13.64 %) Firewall 5 2 (9.091 %) Wireless 5 2 (9.091 %) BSS 5 2 (9.091 %) VPN 5 2 (9.091 %) ISDN 5 2 (9.091 %) Cisco IPT 5 2 (9.091 %) LLU 5 2 (9.091 %) Cisco PIX 6 1 (4.545 %) BT 21CN 6 1 (4.545 %) NGN 6 1 (4.545 %) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (9.091 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 2 (9.091 %) Ant 1 2 (9.091 %) JUnit 1 2 (9.091 %) JBuilder 1 2 (9.091 %) Eclipse 1 2 (9.091 %) IntelliJ 2 1 (4.545 %) Dreamweaver 2 1 (4.545 %) FrontPage
General 1 12 (54.55 %) Telecoms 2 4 (18.18 %) Retail 3 3 (13.64 %) Finance 4 1 (4.545 %) Electronics	Job Titles 1 6 (27.27 %) Analyst 1 6 (27.27 %) Architect 2 4 (18.18 %) Telecoms Analyst 3 3 (13.64 %) Java Architect 4 2 (9.091 %) OSS Programme Manager 4 2 (9.091 %) IT Administrator 4 2 (9.091 %) Programme Manager 4 2 (9.091 %) Developer 4 2 (9.091 %) Administrator 4 2 (9.091 %) Systems Manager 4 2 (9.091 %) Java Developer 4 2 (9.091 %) IT Manager 4 2 (9.091 %) Consultant 4 2 (9.091 %) Systems Administrator 4 2 (9.091 %) Support Analyst 5 1 (4.545 %) Technical Support 5 1 (4.545 %) Support Engineer 5 1 (4.545 %) Solutions Designer 5 1 (4.545 %) Senior Tester 5 1 (4.545 %) Project Manager
Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.545 %) BBC 1 1 (4.545 %) VAX 1 1 (4.545 %) IPTV 1 1 (4.545 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 4 (18.18 %) Windows 2 2 (9.091 %) Windows NT 2 2 (9.091 %) Unix 3 1 (4.545 %) VMS 3 1 (4.545 %) OS/2 3 1 (4.545 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (18.18 %) Project Management 2 1 (4.545 %) Change Management 2 1 (4.545 %) Project Planning 2 1 (4.545 %) Business Development 2 1 (4.545 %) ITIL	Programming Languages 1 3 (13.64 %) Java 2 2 (9.091 %) C 2 2 (9.091 %) C++ 3 1 (4.545 %) DHTML
Qualifications 1 5 (22.73 %) Degree 2 1 (4.545 %) CCIE 2 1 (4.545 %) CCSP 2 1 (4.545 %) CCNP 2 1 (4.545 %) CCNA 2 1 (4.545 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (4.545 %) MBA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (4.545 %) SLA
System Software 1 2 (9.091 %) Active Directory 2 1 (4.545 %) NetBackup	Vendors 1 5 (22.73 %) Nortel 2 4 (18.18 %) Cisco 3 3 (13.64 %) Microsoft 3 3 (13.64 %) VERITAS 4 2 (9.091 %) Red Hat 4 2 (9.091 %) Siemens 4 2 (9.091 %) Symantec 4 2 (9.091 %) Sophos 4 2 (9.091 %) BEA 4 2 (9.091 %) HP 4 2 (9.091 %) Dell 5 1 (4.545 %) Nokia 5 1 (4.545 %) Macromedia 5 1 (4.545 %) IBM 5 1 (4.545 %) Olivetti 5 1 (4.545 %) Siebel 5 1 (4.545 %) CheckPoint