East of England Replication Contracts

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

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Location Abingdon Avon Belfast Berkshire Bracknell Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester City of London Corby County Antrim Croydon Docklands, London Durham East Midlands East of England England Essex Glasgow Hampshire Hartlepool Hertfordshire Ipswich Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Renfrewshire Salisbury Scotland South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stafford Staffordshire Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	143	126
Rank change on same period last year	-17
Matching contract IT job ads	8	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	0.983 %	2.946 %
Daily rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum daily rate	£433	£413
Average daily rate	£442	£419
% change on same period last year	+5.51 %
Average maximum daily rate	£450	£425
UK excluding London average daily rate	£419	£367
% change on same period last year	+14.16 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£30.33
Average hourly rate	£32.50	£32.43
% change on same period last year	+0.20 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£34.53
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.39	£39.73
% change on same period last year	-20.99 %
Miscellaneous East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	814	611
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.073 %	0.648 %
Daily rates quoted	243	189
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£331
Average daily rate	£346	£348
% change on same period last year	-0.58 %
Average maximum daily rate	£376	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£362	£350
% change on same period last year	+3.34 %
Hourly rates quoted	129	92
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.29	£26.55
Average hourly rate	£30.37	£28.25
% change on same period last year	+7.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.44	£29.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.27	£28.32
% change on same period last year	-14.29 %
Replication 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 Replication across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous 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 Replication 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 Replication 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 Replication 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	-9	3	£425	+0.05 %
Cambridgeshire	-9	3	£475	+15.15 %
Suffolk	+2	1	-	-
Essex	-3	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 Replication 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 Replication.

1 6 (35.29 %) Windows 1 6 (35.29 %) SAN 2 5 (29.41 %) EMC 2 5 (29.41 %) SQL 3 4 (23.53 %) Finance 3 4 (23.53 %) SQL Server 2000 3 4 (23.53 %) Perl 3 4 (23.53 %) Oracle 3 4 (23.53 %) SQL Server 3 4 (23.53 %) SQL Server 2005 4 3 (17.65 %) Brocade 4 3 (17.65 %) Celerra 4 3 (17.65 %) PHP 4 3 (17.65 %) Oracle Forms 4 3 (17.65 %) MySQL

4 3 (17.65 %) JSP 4 3 (17.65 %) Oracle 10g 4 3 (17.65 %) JDeveloper 4 3 (17.65 %) Oracle 9i 4 3 (17.65 %) Cisco 4 3 (17.65 %) webMethods 4 3 (17.65 %) Windows Server 2003 4 3 (17.65 %) Oracle EBS 4 3 (17.65 %) CLARiiON 5 2 (11.76 %) Clustering 5 2 (11.76 %) NetBackup 5 2 (11.76 %) Dell 5 2 (11.76 %) Disaster Recovery 5 2 (11.76 %) VERITAS 5 2 (11.76 %) BCP

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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 Replication 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 Replication. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (17.65 %) JSP 2 2 (11.76 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 2 (11.76 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 1 (5.882 %) IIS
Applications 1 1 (5.882 %) MS Project 1 1 (5.882 %) MS Office 1 1 (5.882 %) MS Excel 1 1 (5.882 %) MS Visio 1 1 (5.882 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 3 (17.65 %) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking 1 6 (35.29 %) SAN 2 1 (5.882 %) Internet 2 1 (5.882 %) VLAN 2 1 (5.882 %) LDAP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (23.53 %) SQL Server 1 4 (23.53 %) SQL Server 2000 1 4 (23.53 %) SQL Server 2005 2 3 (17.65 %) MySQL 2 3 (17.65 %) Oracle 10g 2 3 (17.65 %) Oracle 9i 3 1 (5.882 %) DTS 3 1 (5.882 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 1 (5.882 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 1 (5.882 %) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 3 (17.65 %) Oracle Forms 1 3 (17.65 %) JDeveloper 2 2 (11.76 %) Eclipse	General 1 4 (23.53 %) Finance 2 1 (5.882 %) Education 2 1 (5.882 %) Government 2 1 (5.882 %) Health 2 1 (5.882 %) Retail 2 1 (5.882 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 5 (29.41 %) DBA 1 5 (29.41 %) SQL DBA 2 4 (23.53 %) SQL Server DBA 3 3 (17.65 %) Developer 3 3 (17.65 %) Consultant 3 3 (17.65 %) Oracle Developer 4 2 (11.76 %) Project Manager 4 2 (11.76 %) Administrator 4 2 (11.76 %) WebSphere Administrator 4 2 (11.76 %) Storage Consultant 5 1 (5.882 %) SAN Consultant 5 1 (5.882 %) Storage Engineer 5 1 (5.882 %) SAN Engineer 5 1 (5.882 %) Senior Project Manager 5 1 (5.882 %) Senior Manager	Miscellaneous 1 3 (17.65 %) CLARiiON 1 3 (17.65 %) Celerra 2 2 (11.76 %) Clustering 3 1 (5.882 %) Firmware
Operating Systems 1 6 (35.29 %) Windows 2 3 (17.65 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (11.76 %) Unix 3 2 (11.76 %) AIX 3 2 (11.76 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (5.882 %) Windows NT 4 1 (5.882 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (11.76 %) PRINCE2 1 2 (11.76 %) BCP 1 2 (11.76 %) Disaster Recovery 1 2 (11.76 %) Logistics 1 2 (11.76 %) SC Cleared 1 2 (11.76 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (5.882 %) Business Continuity 2 1 (5.882 %) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages 1 5 (29.41 %) SQL 2 4 (23.53 %) Perl 3 3 (17.65 %) PHP 4 1 (5.882 %) PL/SQL 4 1 (5.882 %) Transact-SQL 4 1 (5.882 %) Shell Script 4 1 (5.882 %) Java	Qualifications 1 2 (11.76 %) PMP 1 2 (11.76 %) PMI Certification 2 1 (5.882 %) MCITP 2 1 (5.882 %) Degree
System Software 1 2 (11.76 %) NetBackup 2 1 (5.882 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 1 (5.882 %) EMC Navisphere
Vendors 1 5 (29.41 %) EMC 2 4 (23.53 %) Oracle 3 3 (17.65 %) Cisco 3 3 (17.65 %) webMethods 3 3 (17.65 %) Brocade 4 2 (11.76 %) IBM 4 2 (11.76 %) Dell 4 2 (11.76 %) VERITAS 5 1 (5.882 %) CA 5 1 (5.882 %) HP