East of England Data Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Data Management skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Data Management over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bootle Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chesterfield City of London Clapham Coventry Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Driffield Dunfermline Dunstable East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Farnborough Fife Glasgow Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Horsham Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Preston Reading Redcar Rugby Salisbury Scotland Somerset South East South Wales South West Southampton Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	132	127
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	19	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	0.854 %	0.785 %
Daily rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£190
Average daily rate	£463	£203
% change on same period last year	+128.39 %
Average maximum daily rate	£525	£215
UK excluding London average daily rate	£399	£307
% change on same period last year	+30.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.00	£22.76
Average hourly rate	£33.00	£23.20
% change on same period last year	+42.25 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.00	£23.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.99	£24.67
% change on same period last year	+13.45 %
Processes & Methodologies East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	2224	2166
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.933 %	2.298 %
Daily rates quoted	857	749
Average minimum daily rate	£375	£360
Average daily rate	£399	£381
% change on same period last year	+4.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£424	£403
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	189	213
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.65	£27.80
Average hourly rate	£31.80	£29.25
% change on same period last year	+8.73 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.95	£30.69
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.40	£30.19
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
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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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Data Management across the East of England 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 Data Management across the East of England region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Data Management across the East of England region over the 3 months to 4 July 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 Data Management 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 Data Management 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
Bedfordshire	+9	6	-	-
Cambridgeshire	-8	5	-	-
Norfolk	+10	4	-	-
Suffolk	-	2	£475	-
Hertfordshire	-7	2	£450	+260.00 %

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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 Data Management 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 Data Management.

1 20 (38.46 %) Finance 2 17 (32.69 %) SQL 3 15 (28.85 %) Linux 4 14 (26.92 %) Oracle 5 13 (25.00 %) Data Analysis 5 13 (25.00 %) Data Modelling 6 11 (21.15 %) Unix 6 11 (21.15 %) DB2 6 11 (21.15 %) Release Management 7 10 (19.23 %) Spring 7 10 (19.23 %) Hibernate 7 10 (19.23 %) J2EE 7 10 (19.23 %) HPUX 7 10 (19.23 %) Solaris 7 10 (19.23 %) IBM

8 9 (17.31 %) Eclipse 8 9 (17.31 %) WebSphere Application Server 8 9 (17.31 %) WebSphere 9 8 (15.38 %) Windows 10 6 (11.54 %) CRM 10 6 (11.54 %) SQL Server 10 6 (11.54 %) Insurance 10 6 (11.54 %) Reference Data 11 5 (9.615 %) Java 11 5 (9.615 %) .NET 11 5 (9.615 %) UML 12 4 (7.692 %) C# 12 4 (7.692 %) C++ 12 4 (7.692 %) IntelliJ 12 4 (7.692 %) SAN

Data Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 10 (19.23 %) J2EE 1 10 (19.23 %) Spring 1 10 (19.23 %) Hibernate 2 9 (17.31 %) WebSphere 3 5 (9.615 %) .NET 4 3 (5.769 %) WebServices 4 3 (5.769 %) .NET Remoting 4 3 (5.769 %) WCF 4 3 (5.769 %) WPF 5 2 (3.846 %) ASP.NET 6 1 (1.923 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 9 (17.31 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 2 (3.846 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (3.846 %) Exchange Server 5.5 3 1 (1.923 %) SAS 3 1 (1.923 %) IIS
Applications 1 2 (3.846 %) MS Office 2 1 (1.923 %) MS Excel 2 1 (1.923 %) MS PowerPoint 2 1 (1.923 %) NASTRAN 2 1 (1.923 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 1 (1.923 %) Oracle Applications 1 1 (1.923 %) Teamcenter 1 1 (1.923 %) Oracle Clinical
Communications & Networking 1 4 (7.692 %) SAN 2 2 (3.846 %) Firewall 2 2 (3.846 %) Cisco PIX 2 2 (3.846 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (21.15 %) DB2 2 6 (11.54 %) SQL Server 2 6 (11.54 %) Reference Data 3 3 (5.769 %) MySQL 4 2 (3.846 %) Oracle 10g 5 1 (1.923 %) BusinessObjects 5 1 (1.923 %) EDRMS 5 1 (1.923 %) SQL Server 2005 5 1 (1.923 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 1 (1.923 %) Datawarehouse 5 1 (1.923 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 9 (17.31 %) Eclipse 2 4 (7.692 %) IntelliJ	General 1 20 (38.46 %) Finance 2 6 (11.54 %) Insurance 3 3 (5.769 %) Financial Institution 3 3 (5.769 %) Telecoms 4 2 (3.846 %) Health 4 2 (3.846 %) FMCG 4 2 (3.846 %) Retail 5 1 (1.923 %) Pharmaceutical 5 1 (1.923 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 19 (36.54 %) Analyst 2 14 (26.92 %) Data Analyst 3 12 (23.08 %) DBA 4 10 (19.23 %) DB2 DBA 5 5 (9.615 %) Developer 5 5 (9.615 %) .NET Developer 6 4 (7.692 %) C# Developer 6 4 (7.692 %) Administrator 7 3 (5.769 %) Programme Manager 8 2 (3.846 %) Desktop Support 8 2 (3.846 %) Architect 8 2 (3.846 %) Systems Analyst 8 2 (3.846 %) Data Architect 8 2 (3.846 %) Programmer 8 2 (3.846 %) Programme Director 8 2 (3.846 %) Technical Analyst 9 1 (1.923 %) ASP.NET Developer 9 1 (1.923 %) Project Engineer 9 1 (1.923 %) SAS Programmer 9 1 (1.923 %) C++ Analyst Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (5.769 %) Data Extraction 2 2 (3.846 %) Statistics 2 2 (3.846 %) Video Conferencing 2 2 (3.846 %) NHS 2 2 (3.846 %) Management Information System 2 2 (3.846 %) AS400 3 1 (1.923 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 15 (28.85 %) Linux 2 11 (21.15 %) Unix 3 10 (19.23 %) HPUX 3 10 (19.23 %) Solaris 4 8 (15.38 %) Windows 5 4 (7.692 %) i5/OS 6 3 (5.769 %) Ubuntu 7 2 (3.846 %) Windows 2000 7 2 (3.846 %) Windows XP 7 2 (3.846 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (25.00 %) Data Modelling 1 13 (25.00 %) Data Analysis 2 11 (21.15 %) Release Management 3 6 (11.54 %) CRM 4 5 (9.615 %) UML 5 3 (5.769 %) Programme Management 5 3 (5.769 %) PRINCE2 5 3 (5.769 %) Workflow 5 3 (5.769 %) Migration 6 2 (3.846 %) Stakeholder Management 6 2 (3.846 %) Project Management 6 2 (3.846 %) Service Delivery 6 2 (3.846 %) ITIL 6 2 (3.846 %) Network Design 6 2 (3.846 %) ERD 6 2 (3.846 %) Security Cleared 7 1 (1.923 %) Data Protection 7 1 (1.923 %) Content Management 7 1 (1.923 %) Information Management 7 1 (1.923 %) Document Management
Programming Languages 1 17 (32.69 %) SQL 2 5 (9.615 %) Java 3 4 (7.692 %) C# 3 4 (7.692 %) C++ 4 3 (5.769 %) Transact-SQL 5 2 (3.846 %) VB.NET 5 2 (3.846 %) XAML	Qualifications 1 1 (1.923 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Systems Management 1 2 (3.846 %) ZENworks 2 1 (1.923 %) WSUS	Vendors 1 14 (26.92 %) Oracle 2 10 (19.23 %) IBM 3 2 (3.846 %) Microsoft 3 2 (3.846 %) Compaq 3 2 (3.846 %) EMC 3 2 (3.846 %) Novell 3 2 (3.846 %) Cisco 4 1 (1.923 %) UGS 4 1 (1.923 %) Business Objects 4 1 (1.923 %) NetApp