East of England Government Contracts

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Government' in contract IT jobs within the East of England region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Government over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Andover Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochdale Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	41	34
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	112	184
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.176 %	0.197 %
As % of the category below	8.110 %	9.446 %
Daily rates quoted	38	60
Average minimum daily rate	£504	£349
Average daily rate	£533	£371
% change on same period last year	+43.70 %
Average maximum daily rate	£563	£393
UK excluding London average daily rate	£400	£395
% change on same period last year	+1.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.09	£24.28
Average hourly rate	£20.39	£26.08
% change on same period last year	-21.81 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.69	£27.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.42	£25.31
% change on same period last year	-3.51 %
General East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	1381	1948
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.175 %	2.087 %
Daily rates quoted	418	719
Average minimum daily rate	£347	£336
Average daily rate	£371	£360
% change on same period last year	+3.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£395	£383
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£375
% change on same period last year	+1.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	155	231
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.50	£27.62
Average hourly rate	£27.14	£29.62
% change on same period last year	-8.38 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.77	£31.62
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.36	£26.71
% change on same period last year	+2.45 %
Government 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 Government across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the General 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 Government 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 Government across the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 November 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 Government across the East of England region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Government across the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 November 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 Government within the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 November 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
Essex	-3	44	£563	+39.01 %
Cambridgeshire	0	21	£358	+0.70 %
Hertfordshire	-6	18	£471	+31.32 %
Bedfordshire	+11	16	£544	+35.93 %
Norfolk	-3	11	£600	+14.28 %
Suffolk	+8	2	£225	-16.92 %
East Anglia	0	1	-	-

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Government
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Government 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 Government.

1 90 (34.48 %) Security Cleared 2 57 (21.84 %) Oracle 3 39 (14.94 %) Local Government 4 36 (13.79 %) E-Commerce 5 35 (13.41 %) SC Cleared 6 34 (13.03 %) Internet 7 31 (11.88 %) Java 8 30 (11.49 %) XML 8 30 (11.49 %) DSDM 9 29 (11.11 %) SQL 10 23 (8.812 %) Project Management 10 23 (8.812 %) Windows 10 23 (8.812 %) UML 11 22 (8.429 %) Client/Server 11 22 (8.429 %) ETL

11 22 (8.429 %) Matrix Management 12 21 (8.046 %) Enterprise Architecture 12 21 (8.046 %) VB 12 21 (8.046 %) J2EE 13 20 (7.663 %) OO 13 20 (7.663 %) Microsoft 14 18 (6.897 %) Change Management 14 18 (6.897 %) E-business 14 18 (6.897 %) Finance 15 16 (6.130 %) BC Cleared 16 15 (5.747 %) JMS 16 15 (5.747 %) MS Office 17 14 (5.364 %) Business Objects 17 14 (5.364 %) PRINCE2 17 14 (5.364 %) UNIX

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 30 (11.49 %) XML 2 21 (8.046 %) J2EE 3 15 (5.747 %) JMS 4 13 (4.981 %) .NET 5 11 (4.215 %) ODBC 6 5 (1.916 %) JSP 6 5 (1.916 %) Servlets 7 4 (1.533 %) HTML 7 4 (1.533 %) ADO 7 4 (1.533 %) ADSI 7 4 (1.533 %) XSLT 7 4 (1.533 %) WMI 7 4 (1.533 %) WebSphere 8 3 (1.149 %) Middleware 9 2 (0.766 %) MVC 9 2 (0.766 %) XML Schema 9 2 (0.766 %) Struts 10 1 (0.383 %) WebServices 10 1 (0.383 %) XSD 10 1 (0.383 %) SAX	Application Platforms 1 9 (3.448 %) MS Exchange 2 7 (2.682 %) WebLogic 3 5 (1.916 %) JBoss 4 4 (1.533 %) Lotus Domino 4 4 (1.533 %) Tuxedo 5 3 (1.149 %) MQSeries 5 3 (1.149 %) Apache 6 2 (0.766 %) Oracle Workflow 6 2 (0.766 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 2 (0.766 %) Exchange Server 2007 7 1 (0.383 %) Oracle Application Server 7 1 (0.383 %) CMS
Applications 1 15 (5.747 %) MS Office 2 9 (3.448 %) MS Excel 3 5 (1.916 %) Spreadsheet 4 4 (1.533 %) MS PowerPoint 5 2 (0.766 %) MS Project 5 2 (0.766 %) InDesign 6 1 (0.383 %) QuarkXPress	Business Applications 1 4 (1.533 %) SAP ERP 2 3 (1.149 %) ResourceLink 3 2 (0.766 %) Oracle EBS R12 3 2 (0.766 %) Oracle Financials 3 2 (0.766 %) Oracle EBS 3 2 (0.766 %) Oracle Applications 3 2 (0.766 %) SalesLogix 4 1 (0.383 %) SAP PS
Communications & Networking 1 34 (13.03 %) Internet 2 8 (3.065 %) TCP/IP 3 7 (2.682 %) Cisco PIX 4 6 (2.299 %) Firewall 4 6 (2.299 %) DNS 4 6 (2.299 %) LAN 4 6 (2.299 %) WAN 4 6 (2.299 %) DHCP 5 5 (1.916 %) SAN 5 5 (1.916 %) Intranet 6 3 (1.149 %) VPN 7 2 (0.766 %) OSPF 7 2 (0.766 %) BGP 8 1 (0.383 %) Cisco ASA 8 1 (0.383 %) Wireless 8 1 (0.383 %) ASN.1 8 1 (0.383 %) VLAN 8 1 (0.383 %) RIP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 22 (8.429 %) ETL 2 14 (5.364 %) BusinessObjects 2 14 (5.364 %) BODI 3 13 (4.981 %) SQL Server 3 13 (4.981 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 7 (2.682 %) Oracle 9i 5 3 (1.149 %) MS Access 5 3 (1.149 %) Cognos Impromptu 5 3 (1.149 %) Oracle Discoverer 5 3 (1.149 %) Oracle 10g 6 2 (0.766 %) Oracle Reports 7 1 (0.383 %) DB2 7 1 (0.383 %) Datawarehouse 7 1 (0.383 %) Ingres
Development Applications 1 2 (0.766 %) VSS/SourceSafe 1 2 (0.766 %) Oracle Forms 1 2 (0.766 %) QuickTest Pro 1 2 (0.766 %) MSI 2 1 (0.383 %) Telelogic DOORS 2 1 (0.383 %) Subversion 2 1 (0.383 %) LoadRunner 2 1 (0.383 %) JUnit 2 1 (0.383 %) PVCS 2 1 (0.383 %) Dreamweaver 2 1 (0.383 %) TestDirector	General 1 39 (14.94 %) Local Government 2 18 (6.897 %) Finance 3 14 (5.364 %) Telecoms 4 13 (4.981 %) Marketing 5 7 (2.682 %) Pensions 5 7 (2.682 %) Law 6 4 (1.533 %) Publishing 6 4 (1.533 %) Health 6 4 (1.533 %) Aerospace 7 2 (0.766 %) Electronics 7 2 (0.766 %) Education 8 1 (0.383 %) Electric 8 1 (0.383 %) Back Office 8 1 (0.383 %) Construction 8 1 (0.383 %) Criminal Justice 8 1 (0.383 %) Military 8 1 (0.383 %) Banking 8 1 (0.383 %) Retail 8 1 (0.383 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 38 (14.56 %) Developer 2 31 (11.88 %) Project Manager 3 25 (9.579 %) Analyst 4 21 (8.046 %) Technical Manager 5 19 (7.280 %) Programme Manager 6 12 (4.598 %) Consultant 7 10 (3.831 %) DBA 7 10 (3.831 %) Java Developer 8 9 (3.448 %) Oracle DBA 8 9 (3.448 %) Architect 8 9 (3.448 %) Desktop Support 9 8 (3.065 %) .NET Developer 10 7 (2.682 %) Senior Manager 11 6 (2.299 %) Support Analyst 11 6 (2.299 %) Support Engineer 11 6 (2.299 %) Technical Project Manager 11 6 (2.299 %) Technical Analyst 12 5 (1.916 %) Desktop Engineer 12 5 (1.916 %) Data Analyst 12 5 (1.916 %) Test Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 22 (8.429 %) Client/Server 2 7 (2.682 %) NHS 3 5 (1.916 %) RMADS 4 4 (1.533 %) Video Conferencing 4 4 (1.533 %) N-Tier 5 2 (0.766 %) VHDL 5 2 (0.766 %) Freedom of Information 5 2 (0.766 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 5 2 (0.766 %) Data Protection Act 5 2 (0.766 %) Freedom of Information Act 6 1 (0.383 %) Wiki 6 1 (0.383 %) IBM Mainframe 6 1 (0.383 %) PKI 6 1 (0.383 %) Data Extraction 6 1 (0.383 %) Cryptography 6 1 (0.383 %) EPoS 6 1 (0.383 %) Firmware 6 1 (0.383 %) Mainframe 6 1 (0.383 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 23 (8.812 %) Windows 2 14 (5.364 %) UNIX 3 11 (4.215 %) Solaris 3 11 (4.215 %) Windows XP 4 10 (3.831 %) Windows Server 2003 5 8 (3.065 %) Windows 2000 6 6 (2.299 %) Linux 7 4 (1.533 %) AIX 7 4 (1.533 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 2 (0.766 %) Windows NT 9 1 (0.383 %) NetWare 9 1 (0.383 %) HPUX 9 1 (0.383 %) Red Hat Linux 9 1 (0.383 %) Embedded Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 90 (34.48 %) Security Cleared 2 36 (13.79 %) E-Commerce 3 35 (13.41 %) SC Cleared 4 30 (11.49 %) DSDM 5 23 (8.812 %) UML 5 23 (8.812 %) Project Management 6 22 (8.429 %) Matrix Management 7 21 (8.046 %) Enterprise Architecture 8 20 (7.663 %) OO 9 18 (6.897 %) Change Management 9 18 (6.897 %) E-business 10 16 (6.130 %) BC Cleared 11 14 (5.364 %) PRINCE2 12 13 (4.981 %) Risk Management 13 12 (4.598 %) ITIL 14 10 (3.831 %) Migration 14 10 (3.831 %) Stakeholder Management 15 9 (3.448 %) Configuration Management 15 9 (3.448 %) EAI 15 9 (3.448 %) CTC Cleared
Programming Languages 1 31 (11.88 %) Java 2 29 (11.11 %) SQL 3 21 (8.046 %) VB 4 10 (3.831 %) VB.NET 5 7 (2.682 %) VBA 5 7 (2.682 %) PL/SQL 5 7 (2.682 %) C 6 6 (2.299 %) VBScript 7 4 (1.533 %) C++ 7 4 (1.533 %) Transact-SQL 8 3 (1.149 %) VB6 9 2 (0.766 %) Shell Script 9 2 (0.766 %) C# 10 1 (0.383 %) JavaScript 10 1 (0.383 %) Perl 10 1 (0.383 %) XPath 10 1 (0.383 %) Python 10 1 (0.383 %) Embedded C	Qualifications 1 6 (2.299 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 5 (1.916 %) Degree 3 4 (1.533 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 4 (1.533 %) ISEB 4 3 (1.149 %) Cisco Certification 4 3 (1.149 %) CCIE 5 2 (0.766 %) ITIL Certification 6 1 (0.383 %) CIPD 6 1 (0.383 %) HNC 6 1 (0.383 %) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (1.533 %) QA 2 3 (1.149 %) SLA 3 1 (0.383 %) ISO27001 3 1 (0.383 %) PCI DSS	System Software 1 10 (3.831 %) Active Directory 2 2 (0.766 %) VMware ESX 2 2 (0.766 %) AquaLogic 2 2 (0.766 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (0.383 %) NetBackup 3 1 (0.383 %) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management 1 4 (1.533 %) OpenView Configuration Management 2 3 (1.149 %) ZENworks 2 3 (1.149 %) OpenView 3 2 (0.766 %) OVSD 3 2 (0.766 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 4 1 (0.383 %) CiscoWorks	Vendors 1 57 (21.84 %) Oracle 2 20 (7.663 %) Microsoft 3 14 (5.364 %) Business Objects 4 11 (4.215 %) Cisco 5 7 (2.682 %) IBM 5 7 (2.682 %) SAP 5 7 (2.682 %) HP 5 7 (2.682 %) Citrix 6 6 (2.299 %) BEA 7 5 (1.916 %) Novell 8 4 (1.533 %) Lotus 8 4 (1.533 %) VMware 9 3 (1.149 %) Northgate 9 3 (1.149 %) Dell 9 3 (1.149 %) Adobe 10 2 (0.766 %) Brocade 10 2 (0.766 %) NEC 11 1 (0.383 %) InterSystems 11 1 (0.383 %) Telelogic 11 1 (0.383 %) Sun