East of England GAP Analysis Contracts

This section looks at the demand for GAP Analysis 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 jobs that have cited GAP Analysis over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Crawley Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Hitchin Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Lothian Luton Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Oxfordshire Reading Salisbury Scotland South East South Wales South West Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	122	137
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	16	24
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.024 %
As % of the category below	0.745 %	1.000 %
Daily rates quoted	9	6
Average minimum daily rate	£511	£368
Average daily rate	£544	£376
% change on same period last year	+44.70 %
Average maximum daily rate	£578	£384
UK excluding London average daily rate	£403	£410
% change on same period last year	-1.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.00	-
Average hourly rate	£17.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.25	£27.00
% change on same period last year	-36.11 %
Processes & Methodologies East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	2148	2401
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.835 %	2.391 %
Daily rates quoted	734	833
Average minimum daily rate	£375	£357
Average daily rate	£400	£377
% change on same period last year	+5.93 %
Average maximum daily rate	£424	£398
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	215	268
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.01	£30.49
Average hourly rate	£30.26	£31.93
% change on same period last year	-5.22 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.51	£33.37
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.30	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.42 %
GAP Analysis 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 GAP Analysis 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 GAP Analysis 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 GAP Analysis across the East of England 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 GAP Analysis 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 jobs citing GAP Analysis within the East of England 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
Hertfordshire	+6	14	£544	+51.65 %
Norfolk	-	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing GAP Analysis 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 GAP Analysis.

1 10 (34.48 %) Business Analysis 2 7 (24.14 %) Retail 2 7 (24.14 %) Pharmaceutical 3 6 (20.69 %) XHTML 3 6 (20.69 %) JavaScript 3 6 (20.69 %) CSS 3 6 (20.69 %) XSL 3 6 (20.69 %) XSLT 3 6 (20.69 %) Pensions 4 4 (13.79 %) Finance 5 3 (10.34 %) BPR 5 3 (10.34 %) Document Management 5 3 (10.34 %) Insurance 6 2 (6.897 %) Mainframe 6 2 (6.897 %) PRINCE2

6 2 (6.897 %) SQL Server 6 2 (6.897 %) Stakeholder Management 7 1 (3.448 %) Manufacturing 7 1 (3.448 %) Validation 7 1 (3.448 %) Migration 7 1 (3.448 %) IIS 7 1 (3.448 %) ASP 7 1 (3.448 %) Windows 7 1 (3.448 %) Windows 2000 7 1 (3.448 %) HTML 7 1 (3.448 %) Project Management 7 1 (3.448 %) NHS 7 1 (3.448 %) Middleware 7 1 (3.448 %) Back Office 7 1 (3.448 %) Workflow

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing GAP Analysis 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 GAP Analysis. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 6 (20.69 %) XHTML 1 6 (20.69 %) CSS 1 6 (20.69 %) XSL 1 6 (20.69 %) XSLT 2 1 (3.448 %) ASP 2 1 (3.448 %) HTML 2 1 (3.448 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 1 (3.448 %) IIS
Applications 1 1 (3.448 %) Spreadsheet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (6.897 %) SQL Server
General 1 7 (24.14 %) Retail 1 7 (24.14 %) Pharmaceutical 2 6 (20.69 %) Pensions 3 4 (13.79 %) Finance 4 3 (10.34 %) Insurance 5 1 (3.448 %) Manufacturing 5 1 (3.448 %) Back Office	Job Titles 1 18 (62.07 %) Business Analyst 1 18 (62.07 %) Analyst 2 7 (24.14 %) Architect 3 4 (13.79 %) Solutions Architect 4 3 (10.34 %) Business Process Analyst 4 3 (10.34 %) Process Analyst 5 2 (6.897 %) Project Manager 6 1 (3.448 %) Senior Analyst 6 1 (3.448 %) Senior Project Manager 6 1 (3.448 %) Technical Analyst 6 1 (3.448 %) Technical Writer 6 1 (3.448 %) Information Manager 6 1 (3.448 %) Business Project Manager 6 1 (3.448 %) Author 6 1 (3.448 %) Technical Author 6 1 (3.448 %) Senior Manager 6 1 (3.448 %) Senior Business Analyst 6 1 (3.448 %) Coordinator 6 1 (3.448 %) Technical Business Analyst 6 1 (3.448 %) Business Manager
Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.897 %) Mainframe 2 1 (3.448 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 1 (3.448 %) Windows 1 1 (3.448 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (34.48 %) Business Analysis 2 3 (10.34 %) BPR 2 3 (10.34 %) Document Management 3 2 (6.897 %) PRINCE2 3 2 (6.897 %) Stakeholder Management 4 1 (3.448 %) Validation 4 1 (3.448 %) Migration 4 1 (3.448 %) Project Management 4 1 (3.448 %) Workflow 4 1 (3.448 %) Use Case 4 1 (3.448 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 1 (3.448 %) Data Migration	Programming Languages 1 6 (20.69 %) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (3.448 %) QA