East of England RSS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Really Simple Syndication (RSS) skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited RSS over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
Location City of London Coventry East of England England Hampshire Hertfordshire London M4 Corridor Midlands Oxfordshire Sheffield South East South Yorkshire Southampton Surrey UK Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	143	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	4	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.351 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£350
% change on same period last year	-0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.25	£22.50
% change on same period last year	+47.77 %
Application Development East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	1141	1279
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.521 %	1.294 %
Daily rates quoted	374	371
Average minimum daily rate	£349	£337
Average daily rate	£379	£358
% change on same period last year	+5.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£409	£379
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	77	155
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.30	£30.01
Average hourly rate	£31.23	£31.53
% change on same period last year	-0.93 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.16	£33.04
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
RSS 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.

RSS
Demand Trend

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

RSS
Daily Rate Trend

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

RSS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

RSS
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RSS within the East of England region over the 3 months to 25 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	-	4	-	-

RSS England

RSS
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing RSS 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 RSS.

1 4 (66.67 %) Java 1 4 (66.67 %) C 2 2 (33.33 %) HTML 2 2 (33.33 %) CMS 2 2 (33.33 %) Spring 2 2 (33.33 %) AOP 2 2 (33.33 %) AJAX 2 2 (33.33 %) Spring MVC 2 2 (33.33 %) JavaScript 2 2 (33.33 %) J2EE 2 2 (33.33 %) Oracle 2 2 (33.33 %) CSS 2 2 (33.33 %) JSP 2 2 (33.33 %) XML 2 2 (33.33 %) Tomcat

2 2 (33.33 %) XHTML 2 2 (33.33 %) Eclipse 2 2 (33.33 %) Symbian 2 2 (33.33 %) HTTP 2 2 (33.33 %) TeamSite 2 2 (33.33 %) MATLAB

RSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing RSS 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 RSS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (33.33 %) HTML 1 2 (33.33 %) J2EE 1 2 (33.33 %) CSS 1 2 (33.33 %) JSP 1 2 (33.33 %) XML 1 2 (33.33 %) XHTML 1 2 (33.33 %) Spring 1 2 (33.33 %) AJAX 1 2 (33.33 %) Spring MVC	Application Platforms 1 2 (33.33 %) Tomcat 1 2 (33.33 %) TeamSite 1 2 (33.33 %) CMS
Applications 1 2 (33.33 %) MATLAB	Communications & Networking 1 2 (33.33 %) HTTP
Development Applications 1 2 (33.33 %) Eclipse	Job Titles 1 4 (66.67 %) Developer
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (33.33 %) AOP	Programming Languages 1 4 (66.67 %) C 1 4 (66.67 %) Java 2 2 (33.33 %) JavaScript
Vendors 1 2 (33.33 %) Oracle 1 2 (33.33 %) Symbian