Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Intranet skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Intranet over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkIntranet
Location
3 months to
21 Nov 2008
Same period last year
Rank100110
Rank change on same period last yearUp+10
Matching contract IT job ads2346
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.036 %0.049 %
As % of the category below3.853 %5.412 %
Daily rates quoted1012
Average minimum daily rate£268£273
Average daily rate£281£290
% change on same period last year-3.13 %
Average maximum daily rate£293£306
UK excluding London average daily rate£316£337
% change on same period last year-6.15 %
Hourly rates quoted513
Average minimum hourly rate£22.80£24.54
Average hourly rate£25.30£25.73
% change on same period last year-1.67 %
Average maximum hourly rate£27.80£26.92
UK excluding London average hourly rate£20.74£23.65
% change on same period last year-12.32 %
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
East of England
Matching contract IT job ads597850
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.940 %0.911 %
Daily rates quoted137224
Average minimum daily rate£294£289
Average daily rate£309£308
% change on same period last year+0.24 %
Average maximum daily rate£324£327
UK excluding London average daily rate£347£332
% change on same period last year+4.47 %
Hourly rates quoted121185
Average minimum hourly rate£27.99£28.13
Average hourly rate£29.73£29.96
% change on same period last year-0.77 %
Average maximum hourly rate£31.47£31.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate£27.93£29.11
% change on same period last year-4.05 %
Intranet EnglandIntranet
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.

Intranet
Demand Trend

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

East of England Intranet Demand Trend

Intranet
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England Intranet Daily Rate Trend

Intranet
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Intranet across the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

East of England Intranet Daily Rate Histogram

Intranet
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England Intranet Hourly Rate Trend

Intranet
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Intranet across the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

East of England Intranet Hourly Rate Histogram

Intranet
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Intranet 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.

LocationRank 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
HertfordshireUp+3415£291-
CambridgeshireUp+95£160+6.66 %
EssexDown-42--
BedfordshireUp+21£450+71.42 %
Intranet EnglandIntranet
England

Intranet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

123 (60.53 %)Internet
214 (36.84 %)Windows
313 (34.21 %)CSS
313 (34.21 %)Java
313 (34.21 %)Content Management
412 (31.58 %)JSP
511 (28.95 %)Perl
511 (28.95 %)Oracle
511 (28.95 %)UNIX
511 (28.95 %)CMS
511 (28.95 %)Morello
511 (28.95 %)JSTL
610 (26.32 %)Windows XP
610 (26.32 %)Microsoft
79 (23.68 %)Tomcat
79 (23.68 %)SQL
79 (23.68 %)Windows Server 2003
88 (21.05 %)SQL Server
88 (21.05 %)Oracle 10g
97 (18.42 %)Sun
97 (18.42 %)Active Directory
97 (18.42 %)XHTML
97 (18.42 %)MS Excel
97 (18.42 %)Solaris
106 (15.79 %).NET
106 (15.79 %)VB
106 (15.79 %)MS Exchange
115 (13.16 %)SharePoint
115 (13.16 %)ASP.NET
115 (13.16 %)Windows 2000

Intranet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
113 (34.21 %)CSS
212 (31.58 %)JSP
311 (28.95 %)JSTL
47 (18.42 %)XHTML
56 (15.79 %).NET
65 (13.16 %)ASP.NET
74 (10.53 %)XML
83 (7.895 %)HTML
83 (7.895 %)WebServices
92 (5.263 %)Java SE
92 (5.263 %)Java EE
92 (5.263 %)Hibernate
101 (2.632 %)AJAX
101 (2.632 %)Windows SharePoint Services
101 (2.632 %).NET Framework
101 (2.632 %)XSLT
101 (2.632 %)ASP
101 (2.632 %)Servlets
101 (2.632 %)SOAP
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
111 (28.95 %)CMS
111 (28.95 %)Morello
29 (23.68 %)Tomcat
36 (15.79 %)MS Exchange
45 (13.16 %)SharePoint
53 (7.895 %)Content Management Server
53 (7.895 %)SharePoint Portal Server
53 (7.895 %)SharePoint Server 2007
62 (5.263 %)Exchange Server 2003
62 (5.263 %)Oracle 10gAS
62 (5.263 %)IIS
62 (5.263 %)BizTalk Server
71 (2.632 %)Oracle Application Server
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
17 (18.42 %)MS Excel
24 (10.53 %)MS Office
31 (2.632 %)MS Visio
31 (2.632 %)InDesign
31 (2.632 %)MS PowerPoint
31 (2.632 %)InfoPath
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
123 (60.53 %)Internet
24 (10.53 %)LAN
24 (10.53 %)WAN
33 (7.895 %)DHCP
33 (7.895 %)DNS
42 (5.263 %)Extranet
42 (5.263 %)TCP/IP
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
18 (21.05 %)SQL Server
18 (21.05 %)Oracle 10g
25 (13.16 %)SQL Server 2005
33 (7.895 %)Crystal Reports
42 (5.263 %)Oracle 8/8i
42 (5.263 %)DB2
42 (5.263 %)DB2 UDB
42 (5.263 %)SQL Server 7
51 (2.632 %)dBASE
51 (2.632 %)Oracle 9i
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
13 (7.895 %)MSI
22 (5.263 %)Visual Studio
22 (5.263 %)VSS/SourceSafe
22 (5.263 %)Flash
31 (2.632 %)InstallShield
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
15 (13.16 %)Government
22 (5.263 %)Publishing
22 (5.263 %)Local Government
31 (2.632 %)Law
31 (2.632 %)Telecoms
31 (2.632 %)Finance
31 (2.632 %)Education
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
118 (47.37 %)Developer
213 (34.21 %)Web Developer
35 (13.16 %)Analyst
43 (7.895 %)Administrator
52 (5.263 %)Systems Administrator
52 (5.263 %)Coordinator
52 (5.263 %)Applications Packager
52 (5.263 %)Support Engineer
52 (5.263 %)Lead Developer
52 (5.263 %)Desktop Support
52 (5.263 %)Business Manager
61 (2.632 %)Server Analyst
61 (2.632 %)Lead Java Developer
61 (2.632 %)JSP Developer
61 (2.632 %)Perl Web Developer
61 (2.632 %)SharePoint Developer
61 (2.632 %)VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
61 (2.632 %)SQL Server Analyst
61 (2.632 %)Lead Software Developer
61 (2.632 %)Software Developer
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
12 (5.263 %)NHS
12 (5.263 %)Blackberry
12 (5.263 %)Management Information System
21 (2.632 %)Statistics
21 (2.632 %)Data Protection Act
21 (2.632 %)Wiki
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
114 (36.84 %)Windows
211 (28.95 %)UNIX
310 (26.32 %)Windows XP
49 (23.68 %)Windows Server 2003
57 (18.42 %)Solaris
65 (13.16 %)Windows 2000
72 (5.263 %)Windows NT
72 (5.263 %)Windows Vista
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
113 (34.21 %)Content Management
25 (13.16 %)Configuration Management
33 (7.895 %)Workflow
42 (5.263 %)OO
42 (5.263 %)RUP
42 (5.263 %)SOA
42 (5.263 %)Code Coverage
42 (5.263 %)Continuous Integration
42 (5.263 %)SC Cleared
42 (5.263 %)Security Cleared
51 (2.632 %)ITIL
51 (2.632 %)Performance Management
51 (2.632 %)Data Protection
51 (2.632 %)ERP
51 (2.632 %)Migration
51 (2.632 %)Project Management
51 (2.632 %)Disaster Recovery
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
113 (34.21 %)Java
211 (28.95 %)Perl
39 (23.68 %)SQL
46 (15.79 %)VB
53 (7.895 %)VBScript
62 (5.263 %)PL/SQL
62 (5.263 %)C#
71 (2.632 %)DHTML
71 (2.632 %)JavaScript
71 (2.632 %)VB.NET
71 (2.632 %)VBA
71 (2.632 %)VB6
71 (2.632 %)C
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
12 (5.263 %)MCSE
12 (5.263 %)Microsoft Certification
21 (2.632 %)Network+ Certification
21 (2.632 %)Degree
21 (2.632 %)MCSA
21 (2.632 %)CCNP
21 (2.632 %)CCNA
21 (2.632 %)Cisco Certification
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (2.632 %)SLA
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
17 (18.42 %)Active Directory
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
15 (13.16 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
111 (28.95 %)Oracle
210 (26.32 %)Microsoft
37 (18.42 %)Sun
42 (5.263 %)Adobe
42 (5.263 %)IBM
51 (2.632 %)Macromedia
51 (2.632 %)Cisco
51 (2.632 %)HP
51 (2.632 %)Intel
51 (2.632 %)Sage
51 (2.632 %)LANDesk