England Degree Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Degree in IT contracts within the England region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Degree over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Aylesbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cwmbran Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Douglas Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harrow Havant Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Kegworth Kent Kettering Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Market Drayton Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Tamworth Teddington Thames Valley Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	54	54
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	1906	2705
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.540 %	2.698 %
As % of the category below	26.05 %	29.58 %
Daily rates quoted	647	881
Average minimum daily rate	£392	£386
Average daily rate	£418	£416
% change on same period last year	+0.64 %
Average maximum daily rate	£445	£445
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£302
% change on same period last year	+16.98 %
Hourly rates quoted	240	311
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.08	£28.69
Average hourly rate	£26.71	£30.22
% change on same period last year	-11.59 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.35	£31.74
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.35	£31.46
% change on same period last year	-13.08 %
Qualifications England
Matching contract IT job ads	7316	9146
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	9.751 %	9.124 %
Daily rates quoted	2566	2832
Average minimum daily rate	£344	£349
Average daily rate	£364	£368
% change on same period last year	-0.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£385	£386
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£330
% change on same period last year	+0.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	767	928
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.22	£24.46
Average hourly rate	£24.84	£26.05
% change on same period last year	-4.64 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.46	£27.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.62	£25.85
% change on same period last year	-4.74 %
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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 Degree across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications 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 Degree across the England region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Degree across the England region over the 3 months to 29 August 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 Degree across the England region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Degree across the England region over the 3 months to 29 August 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 Degree within the England region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
London	-5	1038	£447	-1.62 %
South East	+16	388	£368	+22.06 %
East of England	-5	131	£365	+62.93 %
South West	-16	84	£311	-10.64 %
North West	-3	74	£280	+0.72 %
Yorkshire	+31	67	£348	+34.57 %
West Midlands	-28	41	£294	-33.19 %
East Midlands	-9	40	£323	+11.60 %
Midlands	+8	20	£439	+3.29 %
North East	-6	8	-	-
South Coast	+3	1	£700	+124.00 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Degree 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 Degree.

1 765 (20.83 %) Finance 2 568 (15.47 %) SQL 3 508 (13.83 %) Windows 4 494 (13.45 %) Java 5 451 (12.28 %) Computer Science 6 396 (10.78 %) Microsoft 7 387 (10.54 %) Project Management 8 378 (10.29 %) Oracle 9 348 (9.477 %) Banking 10 347 (9.450 %) .NET 11 338 (9.205 %) C++ 12 334 (9.096 %) SQL Server 13 329 (8.960 %) UNIX 14 323 (8.796 %) PRINCE2 15 300 (8.170 %) C#

16 288 (7.843 %) XML 17 264 (7.190 %) Front Office 18 254 (6.917 %) Mathematics 19 249 (6.781 %) MS Excel 20 242 (6.590 %) OO 21 232 (6.318 %) Linux 22 231 (6.291 %) Education 22 231 (6.291 %) Investment Banking 23 225 (6.127 %) MS Office 24 215 (5.855 %) J2EE 25 212 (5.773 %) Derivative 26 211 (5.746 %) ITIL 27 186 (5.065 %) HTML 27 186 (5.065 %) Security Cleared 28 175 (4.766 %) C

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Degree 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 Degree. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 347 (9.450 %) .NET 2 288 (7.843 %) XML 3 215 (5.855 %) J2EE 4 186 (5.065 %) HTML 5 161 (4.385 %) CSS 6 151 (4.112 %) Hibernate 7 142 (3.867 %) Spring 8 138 (3.758 %) ASP.NET 9 103 (2.805 %) AJAX 10 77 (2.097 %) WebServices 11 69 (1.879 %) ASP 12 67 (1.825 %) Struts 13 61 (1.661 %) JDBC 14 58 (1.580 %) XSLT 15 54 (1.471 %) Middleware 16 51 (1.389 %) STL 17 48 (1.307 %) JSP 18 44 (1.198 %) EJB 19 40 (1.089 %) JMS 20 38 (1.035 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 94 (2.560 %) MS Exchange 2 85 (2.315 %) WebLogic 3 60 (1.634 %) SAS 4 53 (1.443 %) SharePoint 5 50 (1.362 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 48 (1.307 %) Apache 7 34 (0.926 %) CMS 8 31 (0.844 %) Tomcat 9 30 (0.817 %) IIS 10 18 (0.490 %) JBoss 11 17 (0.463 %) ArcGIS 12 13 (0.354 %) ArcSDE 12 13 (0.354 %) BizTalk Server 12 13 (0.354 %) WebSphere Application Server 12 13 (0.354 %) MQSeries 12 13 (0.354 %) Oracle Application Server 12 13 (0.354 %) SharePoint Server 2007 13 12 (0.327 %) Lotus Notes 14 11 (0.300 %) Exchange Server 2000 15 10 (0.272 %) ArcIMS
Applications 1 249 (6.781 %) MS Excel 2 225 (6.127 %) MS Office 3 103 (2.805 %) MS Project 4 94 (2.560 %) MS PowerPoint 5 66 (1.797 %) Photoshop 6 58 (1.580 %) Spreadsheet 7 44 (1.198 %) MS Visio 8 25 (0.681 %) Adobe Illustrator 9 17 (0.463 %) MATLAB 10 16 (0.436 %) NASTRAN 11 12 (0.327 %) Acrobat 12 11 (0.300 %) SPSS 13 10 (0.272 %) Simulink 13 10 (0.272 %) Pro/ENGINEER 13 10 (0.272 %) FreeHand 14 6 (0.163 %) Fireworks 15 4 (0.109 %) Quicktime 16 3 (0.082 %) RoboHelp 16 3 (0.082 %) CATIA 16 3 (0.082 %) Adobe Premiere	Business Applications 1 12 (0.327 %) HFM 2 11 (0.300 %) Hyperion Enterprise 3 8 (0.218 %) Oracle Applications 4 6 (0.163 %) SoftGrid 4 6 (0.163 %) SAP HR 5 5 (0.136 %) FENICS FX 5 5 (0.136 %) Kondor+ 6 4 (0.109 %) JDE OneWorld 6 4 (0.109 %) Oracle EBS 7 3 (0.082 %) WebTrends 7 3 (0.082 %) SAP FI 7 3 (0.082 %) Oracle Financials 7 3 (0.082 %) Oracle 11i 7 3 (0.082 %) SAP CO 7 3 (0.082 %) SAP ERP 7 3 (0.082 %) Teamcenter 7 3 (0.082 %) SAP FI/CO 8 2 (0.054 %) SAP Payroll 8 2 (0.054 %) Summit 8 2 (0.054 %) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking 1 102 (2.778 %) Internet 2 89 (2.424 %) TCP/IP 3 75 (2.042 %) SAN 4 70 (1.906 %) Firewall 5 62 (1.688 %) DNS 6 61 (1.661 %) VPN 7 52 (1.416 %) LAN 8 50 (1.362 %) WAN 9 46 (1.253 %) Intranet 10 31 (0.844 %) VoIP 11 30 (0.817 %) DVB 12 25 (0.681 %) GSM 12 25 (0.681 %) Ethernet 13 22 (0.599 %) Wireless 14 21 (0.572 %) Broadband 15 20 (0.545 %) UMTS 16 19 (0.517 %) DHCP 16 19 (0.517 %) Network Security 17 16 (0.436 %) SSL 18 15 (0.408 %) LDAP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 334 (9.096 %) SQL Server 2 87 (2.369 %) SQL Server 2005 3 81 (2.206 %) MySQL 4 67 (1.825 %) SQL Server 2000 5 59 (1.607 %) Oracle 10g 6 45 (1.225 %) RDBMS 7 44 (1.198 %) GIS 8 42 (1.144 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 40 (1.089 %) Datawarehouse 9 40 (1.089 %) BusinessObjects 10 35 (0.953 %) Crystal Reports 11 34 (0.926 %) OLAP 12 32 (0.871 %) Oracle 9i 13 22 (0.599 %) MS Access 13 22 (0.599 %) DB2 14 20 (0.545 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 15 19 (0.517 %) Oracle Reports 16 13 (0.354 %) Data Mining 16 13 (0.354 %) ETL 16 13 (0.354 %) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 80 (2.179 %) Eclipse 2 65 (1.770 %) Flash 3 57 (1.552 %) Subversion 4 55 (1.498 %) Visual Studio 5 36 (0.980 %) Ant 5 36 (0.980 %) ClearCase 6 27 (0.735 %) JUnit 7 26 (0.708 %) Dreamweaver 8 20 (0.545 %) VSS/SourceSafe 8 20 (0.545 %) NUnit 9 17 (0.463 %) QuickTest Pro 9 17 (0.463 %) ClearQuest 10 14 (0.381 %) LabVIEW 11 13 (0.354 %) Rational Rose 12 11 (0.300 %) TestDirector 12 11 (0.300 %) RequisitePro 13 7 (0.191 %) CruiseControl 13 7 (0.191 %) IntelliJ 13 7 (0.191 %) Selenium 13 7 (0.191 %) FitNesse	General 1 765 (20.83 %) Finance 2 348 (9.477 %) Banking 3 264 (7.190 %) Front Office 4 231 (6.291 %) Education 4 231 (6.291 %) Investment Banking 5 167 (4.548 %) Government 6 161 (4.385 %) Telecoms 7 120 (3.268 %) Marketing 8 113 (3.077 %) Health 9 94 (2.560 %) Pharmaceutical 10 88 (2.397 %) Electronics 11 79 (2.151 %) Electric 11 79 (2.151 %) Retail 12 70 (1.906 %) Insurance 13 63 (1.716 %) Back Office 14 62 (1.688 %) Aerospace 15 53 (1.443 %) Financial Institution 16 49 (1.334 %) Legal 17 48 (1.307 %) Games 18 43 (1.171 %) Construction
Job Titles 1 890 (24.24 %) Developer 2 702 (19.12 %) Analyst 3 279 (7.598 %) Project Manager 4 263 (7.162 %) Java Developer 5 208 (5.664 %) Business Analyst 6 169 (4.602 %) Consultant 7 134 (3.649 %) Software Engineer 8 123 (3.350 %) Support Analyst 9 112 (3.050 %) C# Developer 10 110 (2.996 %) Senior Developer 11 104 (2.832 %) C++ Developer 12 101 (2.751 %) Programmer 13 93 (2.533 %) Junior 14 92 (2.505 %) Administrator 15 90 (2.451 %) Graduate 16 89 (2.424 %) Architect 17 84 (2.288 %) J2EE Developer 18 80 (2.179 %) .NET Developer 19 74 (2.015 %) Web Developer 20 63 (1.716 %) Java/J2EE Developer	Miscellaneous 1 451 (12.28 %) Computer Science 2 254 (6.917 %) Mathematics 3 212 (5.773 %) Derivative 4 127 (3.459 %) Fixed Income 5 123 (3.350 %) Equities 6 90 (2.451 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 7 74 (2.015 %) NHS 7 74 (2.015 %) Physics 8 72 (1.961 %) Statistics 9 70 (1.906 %) Management Information System 10 57 (1.552 %) Credit Derivative 11 52 (1.416 %) Market Risk 12 44 (1.198 %) Equity Derivative 13 40 (1.089 %) Clustering 14 37 (1.008 %) STB 15 31 (0.844 %) Interest Rate Derivative 16 24 (0.654 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 17 23 (0.626 %) Handset 17 23 (0.626 %) Client/Server 17 23 (0.626 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 508 (13.83 %) Windows 2 329 (8.960 %) UNIX 3 232 (6.318 %) Linux 4 126 (3.431 %) Windows Server 2003 5 89 (2.424 %) Windows XP 6 82 (2.233 %) Solaris 7 78 (2.124 %) Windows 2000 8 52 (1.416 %) Red Hat Linux 9 34 (0.926 %) Windows 2000 Server 10 26 (0.708 %) Windows NT 10 26 (0.708 %) VMS 11 23 (0.626 %) Windows Vista 12 9 (0.245 %) AIX 12 9 (0.245 %) Mac OS X 12 9 (0.245 %) Windows CE 13 7 (0.191 %) Windows Mobile 14 6 (0.163 %) OpenVMS 15 5 (0.136 %) HPUX 16 4 (0.109 %) zOS 16 4 (0.109 %) Embedded Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 387 (10.54 %) Project Management 2 323 (8.796 %) PRINCE2 3 242 (6.590 %) OO 4 211 (5.746 %) ITIL 5 186 (5.065 %) Security Cleared 6 159 (4.330 %) UML 7 149 (4.058 %) Agile Software Development 8 119 (3.241 %) Business Analysis 9 107 (2.914 %) Software Engineering 10 105 (2.859 %) SC Cleared 11 104 (2.832 %) Change Management 12 98 (2.669 %) Data Analysis 13 92 (2.505 %) Risk Management 14 85 (2.315 %) Migration 15 80 (2.179 %) Scrum 16 75 (2.042 %) Asset Management 17 69 (1.879 %) Web Development 17 69 (1.879 %) User Acceptance Testing 18 63 (1.716 %) Project Planning 19 61 (1.661 %) Validation
Programming Languages 1 568 (15.47 %) SQL 2 494 (13.45 %) Java 3 338 (9.205 %) C++ 4 300 (8.170 %) C# 5 175 (4.766 %) C 6 169 (4.602 %) JavaScript 7 127 (3.459 %) VBA 8 111 (3.023 %) VB 9 75 (2.042 %) Perl 10 62 (1.688 %) Shell Script 11 50 (1.362 %) PHP 12 46 (1.253 %) VB.NET 13 45 (1.225 %) Transact-SQL 13 45 (1.225 %) PL/SQL 14 44 (1.198 %) VC++ 15 34 (0.926 %) DHTML 16 31 (0.844 %) ActionScript 16 31 (0.844 %) Embedded C 17 28 (0.763 %) Python 18 22 (0.599 %) Embedded C++	Qualifications 1 155 (4.221 %) Microsoft Certification 2 102 (2.778 %) MCSE 3 82 (2.233 %) HND 4 80 (2.179 %) HNC 4 80 (2.179 %) PRINCE2 Certification 5 70 (1.906 %) Cisco Certification 6 62 (1.688 %) ISEB 7 49 (1.334 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 8 45 (1.225 %) MCP 9 43 (1.171 %) CCNA 9 43 (1.171 %) ITIL Certification 10 27 (0.735 %) CISSP 11 25 (0.681 %) MBA 12 24 (0.654 %) PhD 13 22 (0.599 %) ACCA 14 21 (0.572 %) CCNP 15 20 (0.545 %) MCSA 15 20 (0.545 %) RHCE 16 17 (0.463 %) CISM 16 17 (0.463 %) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 86 (2.342 %) QA 2 52 (1.416 %) SLA 3 17 (0.463 %) ISO9001 4 13 (0.354 %) ISO9000 4 13 (0.354 %) ISO27001 5 11 (0.300 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 5 11 (0.300 %) Basel II 6 8 (0.218 %) BS7799 7 7 (0.191 %) GCP 8 5 (0.136 %) ISO17799 8 5 (0.136 %) GAMP 8 5 (0.136 %) COBIT 8 5 (0.136 %) JSP 440 8 5 (0.136 %) PCI DSS 9 4 (0.109 %) BS15000 10 3 (0.082 %) 21 CFR Part 11 10 3 (0.082 %) GxP 11 2 (0.054 %) ISO12207 11 2 (0.054 %) ISO15504 11 2 (0.054 %) WAI	System Software 1 126 (3.431 %) Active Directory 2 22 (0.599 %) VMware ESX 3 21 (0.572 %) NetBackup 4 13 (0.354 %) Backup Exec 5 7 (0.191 %) Terminal Server 6 6 (0.163 %) VMware Infrastructure 7 5 (0.136 %) Terminal Services 8 4 (0.109 %) MSMQ 8 4 (0.109 %) NFS 9 3 (0.082 %) MetaFrame 9 3 (0.082 %) Orbix 9 3 (0.082 %) Oracle RMAN 9 3 (0.082 %) Snort 9 3 (0.082 %) ClearTrust 10 2 (0.054 %) Oracle RAC 10 2 (0.054 %) ISA Server 10 2 (0.054 %) Citrix Presentation Server 11 1 (0.027 %) Samba 11 1 (0.027 %) Novell eDirectory
Systems Management 1 13 (0.354 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 10 (0.272 %) OpenView 3 7 (0.191 %) ServiceCenter 4 6 (0.163 %) Legato 4 6 (0.163 %) Tivoli 4 6 (0.163 %) Norton AntiVirus 5 4 (0.109 %) BMC PATROL 6 3 (0.082 %) MOM 6 3 (0.082 %) ZENworks 6 3 (0.082 %) Netcool 6 3 (0.082 %) OpenView Configuration Management 6 3 (0.082 %) AutoSys 6 3 (0.082 %) DameWare 6 3 (0.082 %) EMC NetWorker 7 2 (0.054 %) RepliStor 7 2 (0.054 %) OVSD 7 2 (0.054 %) MIMEsweeper 7 2 (0.054 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 7 2 (0.054 %) ARCserve 8 1 (0.027 %) MIIS	Vendors 1 396 (10.78 %) Microsoft 2 378 (10.29 %) Oracle 3 87 (2.369 %) SAP 4 78 (2.124 %) Sybase 5 76 (2.070 %) Cisco 6 57 (1.552 %) VMware 7 55 (1.498 %) EMC 8 54 (1.471 %) HP 9 52 (1.416 %) Red Hat 10 51 (1.389 %) IBM 11 50 (1.362 %) Citrix 12 41 (1.117 %) Adobe 13 40 (1.089 %) Business Objects 14 38 (1.035 %) Sun 14 38 (1.035 %) Bloomberg 15 28 (0.763 %) Remedy 16 27 (0.735 %) TIBCO 16 27 (0.735 %) Intel 17 24 (0.654 %) Fidessa 18 23 (0.626 %) BEA