East of England Validation Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Validation 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 Validation over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Alderley Edge Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Hounslow Kent Knutsford Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Musselburgh Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Reading Runcorn Scotland Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wolverhampton Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	113	112
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	34	41
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.045 %	0.041 %
As % of the category below	1.541 %	1.762 %
Daily rates quoted	4	4
Average minimum daily rate	£294	£394
Average daily rate	£313	£413
% change on same period last year	-24.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£331	£431
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£351
% change on same period last year	-2.99 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£37.00	£32.92
Average hourly rate	£38.65	£34.76
% change on same period last year	+11.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.30	£36.61
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.98	£30.93
% change on same period last year	+9.85 %
Processes & Methodologies East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	2207	2327
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.942 %	2.354 %
Daily rates quoted	810	817
Average minimum daily rate	£375	£362
Average daily rate	£399	£383
% change on same period last year	+4.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£422	£403
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	209	236
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.47	£28.76
Average hourly rate	£30.60	£30.20
% change on same period last year	+1.32 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.74	£31.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
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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 Validation 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 Validation 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 Validation across the East of England region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Validation 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 Validation across the East of England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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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 Validation 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	+1	12	-	-
East Anglia	-	9	-	-
Cambridgeshire	-13	6	£325	-13.33 %
Suffolk	+7	3	£425	+13.33 %
Bedfordshire	+13	2	-	-
Norfolk	+2	2	£250	-
Essex	+3	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 11 (16.92 %) Pharmaceutical 2 9 (13.85 %) ASIC 2 9 (13.85 %) ASIC Verification 3 8 (12.31 %) SQL 3 8 (12.31 %) Oracle 4 7 (10.77 %) UNIX 4 7 (10.77 %) 3G 4 7 (10.77 %) Quality Management 5 6 (9.231 %) GPRS 5 6 (9.231 %) GSM 5 6 (9.231 %) XML 6 5 (7.692 %) SAP 6 5 (7.692 %) JDBC 6 5 (7.692 %) SOAP 6 5 (7.692 %) WebServices

6 5 (7.692 %) RAD 6 5 (7.692 %) J2EE 6 5 (7.692 %) WebSphere Application Server 6 5 (7.692 %) Shell Script 6 5 (7.692 %) HTTP 6 5 (7.692 %) XML Schema 6 5 (7.692 %) Regression Testing 6 5 (7.692 %) Finance 6 5 (7.692 %) Handset 6 5 (7.692 %) Log4j 6 5 (7.692 %) Korn 6 5 (7.692 %) WebSphere 6 5 (7.692 %) Test Scripting 7 4 (6.154 %) Document Management 7 4 (6.154 %) Business Analysis

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 6 (9.231 %) XML 2 5 (7.692 %) JDBC 2 5 (7.692 %) SOAP 2 5 (7.692 %) WebServices 2 5 (7.692 %) J2EE 2 5 (7.692 %) XML Schema 2 5 (7.692 %) WebSphere 3 3 (4.615 %) CSS 3 3 (4.615 %) XHTML 3 3 (4.615 %) HTML 4 1 (1.538 %) .NET 4 1 (1.538 %) ASP.NET 4 1 (1.538 %) XSLT 4 1 (1.538 %) CORBA 4 1 (1.538 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 5 (7.692 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 2 (3.077 %) SAS
Applications 1 1 (1.538 %) MS Office 1 1 (1.538 %) MS Excel 1 1 (1.538 %) MS PowerPoint 1 1 (1.538 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 2 (3.077 %) SAP ERP 2 1 (1.538 %) Summit
Communications & Networking 1 7 (10.77 %) 3G 2 6 (9.231 %) GPRS 2 6 (9.231 %) GSM 3 5 (7.692 %) HTTP 4 1 (1.538 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (1.538 %) UMTS 4 1 (1.538 %) HSDPA 4 1 (1.538 %) HSUPA 4 1 (1.538 %) CDMA	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (3.077 %) DB2 2 1 (1.538 %) MS Access 2 1 (1.538 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (1.538 %) GIS 2 1 (1.538 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (1.538 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 5 (7.692 %) Log4j 2 1 (1.538 %) Eclipse	General 1 11 (16.92 %) Pharmaceutical 2 5 (7.692 %) Finance 3 4 (6.154 %) Automotive 3 4 (6.154 %) Telecoms 4 3 (4.615 %) Electric 4 3 (4.615 %) Manufacturing 5 2 (3.077 %) Local Government 5 2 (3.077 %) Marketing 5 2 (3.077 %) Government 5 2 (3.077 %) Education 5 2 (3.077 %) Electronics 6 1 (1.538 %) Chemicals 6 1 (1.538 %) Construction 6 1 (1.538 %) Health 6 1 (1.538 %) Legal
Job Titles 1 9 (13.85 %) Developer 2 7 (10.77 %) Analyst 3 6 (9.231 %) Software Engineer 4 5 (7.692 %) Test Engineer 4 5 (7.692 %) Hardware Engineer 5 4 (6.154 %) Architect 5 4 (6.154 %) Web Developer 6 3 (4.615 %) J2EE Developer 6 3 (4.615 %) Information Analyst 6 3 (4.615 %) Programmer 6 3 (4.615 %) Document Controller 7 2 (3.077 %) GSM Engineer 7 2 (3.077 %) Quality Engineer 7 2 (3.077 %) Senior Analyst 7 2 (3.077 %) Design Engineer 7 2 (3.077 %) Senior Consultant 7 2 (3.077 %) Consultant 7 2 (3.077 %) Project Manager 7 2 (3.077 %) Business Analyst 8 1 (1.538 %) Author	Miscellaneous 1 9 (13.85 %) ASIC 1 9 (13.85 %) ASIC Verification 2 5 (7.692 %) Handset 3 3 (4.615 %) VHDL 3 3 (4.615 %) Verilog 3 3 (4.615 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 3 3 (4.615 %) Mainframe 4 2 (3.077 %) Client/Server 4 2 (3.077 %) NHS 5 1 (1.538 %) PMI 5 1 (1.538 %) Device Driver 5 1 (1.538 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 7 (10.77 %) UNIX 2 3 (4.615 %) Windows 3 1 (1.538 %) VxWorks 3 1 (1.538 %) Symbian OS	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (10.77 %) Quality Management 2 5 (7.692 %) RAD 2 5 (7.692 %) Regression Testing 2 5 (7.692 %) Test Scripting 3 4 (6.154 %) Business Analysis 3 4 (6.154 %) Document Management 3 4 (6.154 %) PRINCE2 3 4 (6.154 %) Change Management 4 3 (4.615 %) UML 4 3 (4.615 %) OO 4 3 (4.615 %) ITIL 4 3 (4.615 %) QMS 5 2 (3.077 %) Statistical Analysis 5 2 (3.077 %) Use Case 5 2 (3.077 %) Internet Marketing 5 2 (3.077 %) Software Engineering 5 2 (3.077 %) CRM 5 2 (3.077 %) ERP 6 1 (1.538 %) Project Management 6 1 (1.538 %) E-Commerce
Programming Languages 1 8 (12.31 %) SQL 2 5 (7.692 %) Shell Script 2 5 (7.692 %) Korn 3 4 (6.154 %) C 3 4 (6.154 %) C++ 4 2 (3.077 %) Java 4 2 (3.077 %) Assembly Language 5 1 (1.538 %) JavaScript 5 1 (1.538 %) C# 5 1 (1.538 %) Transact-SQL 5 1 (1.538 %) VB 5 1 (1.538 %) Embedded C++	Qualifications 1 3 (4.615 %) ITIL Certification 1 3 (4.615 %) Degree 2 1 (1.538 %) HNC 2 1 (1.538 %) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (3.077 %) 21 CFR Part 11 2 1 (1.538 %) ISO9000 2 1 (1.538 %) ISO9001 2 1 (1.538 %) GxP 2 1 (1.538 %) QA	System Software 1 2 (3.077 %) NetBackup
Vendors 1 8 (12.31 %) Oracle 2 5 (7.692 %) SAP 3 2 (3.077 %) IBM 3 2 (3.077 %) EMC 3 2 (3.077 %) ADIC 4 1 (1.538 %) ILOG 4 1 (1.538 %) ESRI 4 1 (1.538 %) Cadence 4 1 (1.538 %) Symbian