England Fat Client Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Fat Client skills within the England region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Fat Client over the 3 months to 1 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Berkshire Bournemouth Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheltenham City of London Devon Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Exeter Gloucestershire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Lancashire Leeds London Luton Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Peterborough Poole Preston Reading Redditch Salisbury Scotland South East South Wales South West UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 1 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	445	495
Rank change on same period last year	+50
Matching contract IT job ads	88	127
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.140 %	0.135 %
As % of the category below	0.665 %	0.665 %
Daily rates quoted	30	48
Average minimum daily rate	£360	£343
Average daily rate	£379	£364
% change on same period last year	+4.32 %
Average maximum daily rate	£398	£385
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£312
% change on same period last year	+14.56 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.81	£23.71
Average hourly rate	£17.86	£25.04
% change on same period last year	-28.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.91	£26.36
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.17	£30.86
% change on same period last year	-44.34 %
Miscellaneous England
Matching contract IT job ads	13236	19101
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	20.99 %	20.33 %
Daily rates quoted	4841	6806
Average minimum daily rate	£411	£463
Average daily rate	£443	£496
% change on same period last year	-10.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£475	£529
UK excluding London average daily rate	£345	£342
% change on same period last year	+1.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	1133	1482
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.69	£23.23
Average hourly rate	£25.48	£25.21
% change on same period last year	+1.06 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.27	£27.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.63	£25.42
% change on same period last year	+0.80 %
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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 Fat Client across the 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 Fat Client 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 Fat Client across the England region over the 3 months to 1 December 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 Fat Client 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 Fat Client across the England region over the 3 months to 1 December 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fat Client within the England region over the 3 months to 1 December 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
South East	+58	23	£412	+29.57 %
London	+58	21	£423	+4.03 %
South West	+35	18	£173	-
East Midlands	+28	9	£423	-
East of England	+28	6	-	-
Yorkshire	+39	5	-	-
Midlands	+18	3	-	-
West Midlands	+14	3	£325	+160.00 %
North West	+14	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Fat Client 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 Fat Client.

1 195 (100.00 %) Thin Client 2 106 (54.36 %) Windows 3 71 (36.41 %) Citrix 4 63 (32.31 %) Microsoft 5 51 (26.15 %) Active Directory 6 42 (21.54 %) Cisco 6 42 (21.54 %) Security Cleared 7 40 (20.51 %) Windows Server 2003 8 38 (19.49 %) Windows XP 8 38 (19.49 %) VMware 9 31 (15.90 %) Firewall 10 29 (14.87 %) Government 11 28 (14.36 %) UNIX 11 28 (14.36 %) Oracle 11 28 (14.36 %) HP

12 27 (13.85 %) SC Cleared 13 26 (13.33 %) Java 14 25 (12.82 %) .NET 14 25 (12.82 %) MS Exchange 14 25 (12.82 %) WAN 15 24 (12.31 %) SQL 15 24 (12.31 %) VMware Infrastructure 16 23 (11.79 %) Linux 16 23 (11.79 %) Windows 2000 17 22 (11.28 %) LAN 18 21 (10.77 %) SQL Server 19 20 (10.26 %) Migration 20 19 (9.744 %) Middleware 21 18 (9.231 %) Microsoft Certification 21 18 (9.231 %) ITIL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Fat Client 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 Fat Client. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 25 (12.82 %) .NET 2 19 (9.744 %) Middleware 3 15 (7.692 %) ASP.NET 3 15 (7.692 %) WinForms 4 14 (7.179 %) XML 5 12 (6.154 %) J2EE 6 11 (5.641 %) WPF 6 11 (5.641 %) WF 7 10 (5.128 %) WebServices 8 9 (4.615 %) Servlets 9 8 (4.103 %) JAX-WS 10 7 (3.590 %) HTML 10 7 (3.590 %) JDBC 10 7 (3.590 %) EJB 11 6 (3.077 %) Hibernate 11 6 (3.077 %) Swing 11 6 (3.077 %) JMS 11 6 (3.077 %) EJB 3.0 11 6 (3.077 %) Spring 11 6 (3.077 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 25 (12.82 %) MS Exchange 2 15 (7.692 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 7 (3.590 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 6 (3.077 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 6 (3.077 %) JBoss 4 6 (3.077 %) Tomcat 5 3 (1.538 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 2 (1.026 %) IIS 6 2 (1.026 %) SharePoint 6 2 (1.026 %) BizTalk Server 7 1 (0.513 %) Oracle Workflow 7 1 (0.513 %) NetWeaver 7 1 (0.513 %) Lotus Notes 7 1 (0.513 %) Lotus Domino
Applications 1 16 (8.205 %) MS Office 1 16 (8.205 %) MS Excel 2 1 (0.513 %) MS Visio 2 1 (0.513 %) CA Clarity 2 1 (0.513 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 4 (2.051 %) Summit 2 1 (0.513 %) Dynamics AX 2 1 (0.513 %) JDE EnterpriseOne 2 1 (0.513 %) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking 1 31 (15.90 %) Firewall 2 25 (12.82 %) WAN 3 22 (11.28 %) LAN 4 17 (8.718 %) DNS 5 16 (8.205 %) SAN 6 14 (7.179 %) DHCP 7 13 (6.667 %) VoIP 8 12 (6.154 %) VPN 9 11 (5.641 %) TCP/IP 10 10 (5.128 %) Network Security 11 9 (4.615 %) OSPF 12 8 (4.103 %) BGP 12 8 (4.103 %) Cisco IOS 13 6 (3.077 %) VLAN 13 6 (3.077 %) LDAP 14 5 (2.564 %) iSCSI 14 5 (2.564 %) NetScreen 15 4 (2.051 %) IP Telephony 16 3 (1.538 %) Cisco PIX 16 3 (1.538 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 21 (10.77 %) SQL Server 2 9 (4.615 %) GIS 3 7 (3.590 %) Datawarehouse 3 7 (3.590 %) RDBMS 3 7 (3.590 %) Oracle 10g 4 6 (3.077 %) SQL Server 2000 4 6 (3.077 %) SQL Server 2005 5 5 (2.564 %) Crystal Reports 6 4 (2.051 %) MS Access 7 1 (0.513 %) Oracle BI EE 7 1 (0.513 %) Oracle 9i 7 1 (0.513 %) DB2 7 1 (0.513 %) TOAD
Development Applications 1 10 (5.128 %) Oracle Forms 2 4 (2.051 %) Cactus 3 3 (1.538 %) JUnit 4 2 (1.026 %) LoadRunner 4 2 (1.026 %) MSI 5 1 (0.513 %) NUnit 5 1 (0.513 %) TestDirector 5 1 (0.513 %) SilkPerformer	General 1 29 (14.87 %) Government 2 15 (7.692 %) Finance 3 14 (7.179 %) Construction 4 8 (4.103 %) Insurance 4 8 (4.103 %) Telecoms 5 7 (3.590 %) Banking 5 7 (3.590 %) Investment Banking 6 5 (2.564 %) Auditing 7 4 (2.051 %) Education 8 3 (1.538 %) Financial Institution 9 2 (1.026 %) Publishing 10 1 (0.513 %) Criminal Justice 10 1 (0.513 %) Health 10 1 (0.513 %) Legal 10 1 (0.513 %) Front Office
Job Titles 1 42 (21.54 %) Architect 2 22 (11.28 %) Analyst 3 17 (8.718 %) Developer 4 16 (8.205 %) Network Engineer 5 14 (7.179 %) Technical Architect 6 12 (6.154 %) Security Specialist 7 11 (5.641 %) Consultant 7 11 (5.641 %) Support Analyst 7 11 (5.641 %) Network Specialist 7 11 (5.641 %) Network Security Specialist 8 10 (5.128 %) Administrator 8 10 (5.128 %) C# Developer 9 9 (4.615 %) Solutions Architect 9 9 (4.615 %) Senior Developer 9 9 (4.615 %) Systems Engineer 10 8 (4.103 %) 3rd Line Support 11 7 (3.590 %) Applications Support 11 7 (3.590 %) Security Architect 12 6 (3.077 %) Systems Architect 12 6 (3.077 %) Infrastructure Architect	Miscellaneous 1 195 (100.00 %) Thin Client 2 14 (7.179 %) Credit Risk 3 12 (6.154 %) N-Tier 4 7 (3.590 %) Clustering 5 6 (3.077 %) PKI 6 5 (2.564 %) Client/Server 6 5 (2.564 %) Fixed Income 7 4 (2.051 %) NHS 7 4 (2.051 %) Video Conferencing 7 4 (2.051 %) CESG 8 2 (1.026 %) Data Integration 9 1 (0.513 %) Equities 9 1 (0.513 %) Derivative 9 1 (0.513 %) Mathematics 9 1 (0.513 %) Computer Science 9 1 (0.513 %) Smartcard 9 1 (0.513 %) Blackberry 9 1 (0.513 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 106 (54.36 %) Windows 2 40 (20.51 %) Windows Server 2003 3 38 (19.49 %) Windows XP 4 28 (14.36 %) UNIX 5 23 (11.79 %) Linux 5 23 (11.79 %) Windows 2000 6 14 (7.179 %) Solaris 7 10 (5.128 %) Windows Vista 8 5 (2.564 %) Windows 2000 Server 9 2 (1.026 %) Red Hat Linux 9 2 (1.026 %) Windows NT 9 2 (1.026 %) NetWare 10 1 (0.513 %) OpenVMS 10 1 (0.513 %) Windows Server 2008 10 1 (0.513 %) Ubuntu 10 1 (0.513 %) Windows Mobile	Processes & Methodologies 1 42 (21.54 %) Security Cleared 2 27 (13.85 %) SC Cleared 3 20 (10.26 %) Migration 4 18 (9.231 %) ITIL 5 15 (7.692 %) OO 5 15 (7.692 %) Disaster Recovery 6 12 (6.154 %) UML 7 9 (4.615 %) Network Design 8 8 (4.103 %) Technical Architecture 8 8 (4.103 %) Data Migration 9 7 (3.590 %) DV Cleared 9 7 (3.590 %) Validation 10 6 (3.077 %) SOA 10 6 (3.077 %) Test Scripting 11 5 (2.564 %) OOD 11 5 (2.564 %) Operations Management 12 3 (1.538 %) User Acceptance Testing 12 3 (1.538 %) Business Continuity 12 3 (1.538 %) E-Commerce 12 3 (1.538 %) PRINCE2
Programming Languages 1 26 (13.33 %) Java 2 24 (12.31 %) SQL 3 16 (8.205 %) C# 4 8 (4.103 %) VB 5 6 (3.077 %) C 6 5 (2.564 %) C++ 7 4 (2.051 %) VBScript 8 3 (1.538 %) JavaScript 9 1 (0.513 %) Transact-SQL	Qualifications 1 18 (9.231 %) Microsoft Certification 2 17 (8.718 %) Cisco Certification 3 16 (8.205 %) CCNA 4 9 (4.615 %) CCNP 5 8 (4.103 %) CCIE 5 8 (4.103 %) CCSA 5 8 (4.103 %) CCSE 5 8 (4.103 %) Degree 6 7 (3.590 %) MCP 7 5 (2.564 %) MCSE 7 5 (2.564 %) MCSA 7 5 (2.564 %) Citrix Certification 8 4 (2.051 %) Sun Certification 9 2 (1.026 %) ISEB 10 1 (0.513 %) HND 10 1 (0.513 %) ITIL Certification 10 1 (0.513 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.026 %) SLA 1 2 (1.026 %) ISO27001	System Software 1 51 (26.15 %) Active Directory 2 24 (12.31 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 8 (4.103 %) Terminal Services 3 8 (4.103 %) NetBackup 4 7 (3.590 %) Terminal Server 4 7 (3.590 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 4 (2.051 %) MetaFrame 6 3 (1.538 %) VMware ESX 7 2 (1.026 %) Backup Exec 7 2 (1.026 %) ISA Server 8 1 (0.513 %) Xen
Systems Management 1 5 (2.564 %) MOM 1 5 (2.564 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 3 (1.538 %) OpenView Configuration Management 3 2 (1.026 %) Tivoli 3 2 (1.026 %) EMC NetWorker 3 2 (1.026 %) SCCM 4 1 (0.513 %) SCOM 4 1 (0.513 %) OpenView 4 1 (0.513 %) WSUS	Vendors 1 71 (36.41 %) Citrix 2 63 (32.31 %) Microsoft 3 42 (21.54 %) Cisco 4 38 (19.49 %) VMware 5 28 (14.36 %) Oracle 5 28 (14.36 %) HP 6 16 (8.205 %) Sun 7 9 (4.615 %) Novell 8 8 (4.103 %) Nokia 8 8 (4.103 %) CheckPoint 8 8 (4.103 %) Blue Coat 9 7 (3.590 %) Dell 10 6 (3.077 %) Wyse 11 5 (2.564 %) Altiris 11 5 (2.564 %) Sybase 12 4 (2.051 %) Infragistics 12 4 (2.051 %) ProCurve 12 4 (2.051 %) Kaspersky 13 3 (1.538 %) Symantec 13 3 (1.538 %) IBM