Local Government Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Local Government in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Local Government over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our General category for the England region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Local Government
Rank 380 393 455
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +62
Contract jobs citing Local Government 138 173 118
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.332% 0.324% 0.207%
As % of the General category 0.767% 0.717% 0.412%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 98 60
Average daily rate £358 £330 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -9.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £221 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £469 £480 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £340 £360
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -5.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 18 16
Average hourly rate £21.05 £21.33 £15.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.34% +35.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.34 £11.18 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.42 £28.30 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.25 £19.89 £15.50
% change year-on-year
+11.87% +28.30%
All of the General Category
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category		 17981 24121 28620
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 43.31% 45.17% 50.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 11126 14708 17416
Average daily rate £450 £440 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -12.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 606 693 900
Average hourly rate £25.00 £22.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.00 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £41.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Local Government
UK

Local Government
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Local Government across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

England Local Government Jobs Demand Trend

Local Government
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Local Government across the England region.

England Local Government Daily Rate Trend

Local Government
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Local Government across the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England Local Government Daily Rate Histogram

Local Government
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Local Government across the England region.

England Local Government Hourly Rate Trend

Local Government
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Local Government across the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England Local Government Hourly Rate Histogram

Local Government
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Local Government within the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
South East +31 33 £300 -14.28%
North West +26 31 £419 +9.83%
London -2 27 £415 +25.75%
East of England +20 17 £325 -4.41%
South West +36 12 £284 -48.40%
West Midlands -1 6 £325 +10.16%
Yorkshire -12 6 £363 -21.83%
East Midlands -16 3 £350 +9.37%
Midlands +3 2 £350 -
Local Government
UK

Local Government
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Local Government 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 Local Government.

1 75 (24.67%) Windows
2 71 (23.36%) Project Management
3 67 (22.04%) ITIL
4 61 (20.07%) PRINCE2
5 58 (19.08%) Microsoft
5 58 (19.08%) Finance
6 52 (17.11%) Windows 7
7 42 (13.82%) Migration
8 38 (12.50%) Active Directory
9 36 (11.84%) Windows XP
9 36 (11.84%) Service Delivery
10 31 (10.20%) Citrix
11 30 (9.868%) SharePoint
11 30 (9.868%) SQL
12 24 (7.895%) Oracle
12 24 (7.895%) MS Office
13 23 (7.566%) SQL Server
13 23 (7.566%) SCCM
14 22 (7.237%) Business Analysis
14 22 (7.237%) Microsoft Certification
14 22 (7.237%) Change Management
15 20 (6.579%) VMware
16 19 (6.250%) Business Intelligence
16 19 (6.250%) Stakeholder Management
16 19 (6.250%) Management Information System
17 17 (5.592%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 17 (5.592%) Windows Server 2008
18 16 (5.263%) TCP/IP
18 16 (5.263%) MS Excel
19 15 (4.934%) MS Visio

Local Government
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Local Government 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 Local Government. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (4.276%) CSS
2 12 (3.947%) HTML
3 11 (3.618%) .NET
4 8 (2.632%) ASP.NET
5 7 (2.303%) Application Packaging
6 6 (1.974%) XML
7 4 (1.316%) Java EE
7 4 (1.316%) Spring
7 4 (1.316%) WDK
7 4 (1.316%) J2EE
8 3 (0.987%) Web Services
8 3 (0.987%) WCF
9 2 (0.658%) HTML5
9 2 (0.658%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 2 (0.658%) .NET Framework
9 2 (0.658%) XHTML
9 2 (0.658%) XSL
9 2 (0.658%) ASP
9 2 (0.658%) WinForms
10 1 (0.329%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 30 (9.868%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.961%) MS Exchange
2 9 (2.961%) SharePoint 2010
3 5 (1.645%) Exchange Server 2003
4 4 (1.316%) Captiva
4 4 (1.316%) Documentum
5 3 (0.987%) CMS
5 3 (0.987%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 3 (0.987%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.658%) WordPress
6 2 (0.658%) GroupWise
6 2 (0.658%) IIS
6 2 (0.658%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.329%) ArcIMS
7 1 (0.329%) Apache
7 1 (0.329%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.329%) ArcSDE
7 1 (0.329%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.329%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.329%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 24 (7.895%) MS Office
2 16 (5.263%) MS Excel
3 15 (4.934%) MS Visio
4 8 (2.632%) MS Project
5 6 (1.974%) Photoshop
6 5 (1.645%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (1.645%) Acrobat
7 2 (0.658%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.329%) Fireworks
8 1 (0.329%) QuarkXPress
8 1 (0.329%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.974%) Oracle EBS R12
2 5 (1.645%) Oracle HRMS
2 5 (1.645%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.316%) Agresso
3 4 (1.316%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (0.987%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.658%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.658%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.329%) Academy Housing
6 1 (0.329%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 1 (0.329%) Google Analytics
6 1 (0.329%) ResourceLink
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.263%) TCP/IP
2 14 (4.605%) Firewall
3 12 (3.947%) VPN
3 12 (3.947%) LAN
4 9 (2.961%) WAN
5 8 (2.632%) Intranet
6 7 (2.303%) Internet
7 6 (1.974%) SSL
8 5 (1.645%) SAN
9 3 (0.987%) Wireless
10 2 (0.658%) Unified Communications
10 2 (0.658%) DNS
10 2 (0.658%) 3G
10 2 (0.658%) Extranet
10 2 (0.658%) Broadband
10 2 (0.658%) DHCP
10 2 (0.658%) VoIP
11 1 (0.329%) 2G
11 1 (0.329%) OSPF
11 1 (0.329%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.566%) SQL Server
2 17 (5.592%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 12 (3.947%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (3.618%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (2.632%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
5 8 (2.632%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 7 (2.303%) GIS
6 7 (2.303%) Crystal Reports
7 6 (1.974%) SQL Server 2005
7 6 (1.974%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (1.316%) SQL Server 2008
8 4 (1.316%) MS Access
9 3 (0.987%) Oracle 8/8i
9 3 (0.987%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.658%) EDMS
11 1 (0.329%) DTS
11 1 (0.329%) SQL Server 2000
11 1 (0.329%) Oracle Discoverer
11 1 (0.329%) Oracle 11g
11 1 (0.329%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 9 (2.961%) MSI
2 7 (2.303%) Wise Package Studio
3 3 (0.987%) Visual Studio
3 3 (0.987%) InstallShield
3 3 (0.987%) AdminStudio
4 1 (0.329%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.329%) Dreamweaver
General
1 58 (19.08%) Finance
2 14 (4.605%) Publishing
3 10 (3.289%) Telecoms
4 8 (2.632%) Legal
5 5 (1.645%) Back Office
6 1 (0.329%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 49 (16.12%) Project Manager
2 47 (15.46%) Analyst
3 34 (11.18%) Business Analyst
4 29 (9.539%) Developer
5 20 (6.579%) Architect
6 19 (6.250%) Consultant
7 17 (5.592%) Desktop Support
8 11 (3.618%) Applications Packager
9 9 (2.961%) Support Engineer
9 9 (2.961%) IT Project Manager
10 8 (2.632%) Report Developer
10 8 (2.632%) Oracle Consultant
10 8 (2.632%) Coordinator
10 8 (2.632%) Programme Manager
10 8 (2.632%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (2.303%) Technical Analyst
11 7 (2.303%) SharePoint Developer
12 6 (1.974%) Designer
12 6 (1.974%) Help Desk Support
13 5 (1.645%) Functional Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.250%) Management Information System
2 9 (2.961%) NHS
3 4 (1.316%) iPad
3 4 (1.316%) Taxonomies
3 4 (1.316%) Blackberry
4 3 (0.987%) IVR
4 3 (0.987%) Handset
4 3 (0.987%) Thin Client
4 3 (0.987%) Fat Client
4 3 (0.987%) Copywriting
4 3 (0.987%) Social Media
5 2 (0.658%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (0.658%) Data Conversion
5 2 (0.658%) Data Integration
5 2 (0.658%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (0.658%) Statistics
5 2 (0.658%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (0.658%) Economics
5 2 (0.658%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.329%) LLPG
Operating Systems
1 75 (24.67%) Windows
2 52 (17.11%) Windows 7
3 36 (11.84%) Windows XP
4 17 (5.592%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (2.303%) UNIX
6 6 (1.974%) Linux
6 6 (1.974%) Windows 2000
7 3 (0.987%) Windows Vista
8 2 (0.658%) Android
9 1 (0.329%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.329%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (23.36%) Project Management
2 67 (22.04%) ITIL
3 61 (20.07%) PRINCE2
4 42 (13.82%) Migration
5 36 (11.84%) Service Delivery
6 22 (7.237%) Business Analysis
6 22 (7.237%) Change Management
7 19 (6.250%) Business Intelligence
7 19 (6.250%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (4.276%) Data Modelling
9 12 (3.947%) Service Management
10 11 (3.618%) CRM
10 11 (3.618%) TOGAF
11 10 (3.289%) User Acceptance Testing
11 10 (3.289%) Risk Management
12 9 (2.961%) Workflow
12 9 (2.961%) PRINCE
13 8 (2.632%) Data Migration
13 8 (2.632%) Content Management
13 8 (2.632%) BPR
Programming Languages
1 30 (9.868%) SQL
2 14 (4.605%) VBScript
3 10 (3.289%) T-SQL
4 8 (2.632%) C#
4 8 (2.632%) Java
5 6 (1.974%) PL/SQL
6 4 (1.316%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.658%) Python
7 2 (0.658%) VB
8 1 (0.329%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.329%) PHP
8 1 (0.329%) C++
8 1 (0.329%) XPath
Qualifications
1 22 (7.237%) Microsoft Certification
2 15 (4.934%) MCP
2 15 (4.934%) Degree
3 11 (3.618%) ITIL Certification
4 9 (2.961%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 9 (2.961%) Security Cleared
5 7 (2.303%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 6 (1.974%) SC Cleared
6 6 (1.974%) MCSE
7 4 (1.316%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.316%) Citrix Certification
7 4 (1.316%) CCNA
7 4 (1.316%) ISEB
8 1 (0.329%) CISA
8 1 (0.329%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.329%) MCSA
8 1 (0.329%) CCA
8 1 (0.329%) CISSP
8 1 (0.329%) ISEB Practitioner
8 1 (0.329%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.276%) SLA
1 13 (4.276%) QA
2 10 (3.289%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.316%) WAI
3 4 (1.316%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.987%) TickIT
5 2 (0.658%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.329%) WCAG
6 1 (0.329%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.605%) Microsoft App-V
3 12 (3.947%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.632%) XenApp
5 5 (1.645%) VMware Workstation
5 5 (1.645%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 2 (0.658%) vSphere
7 1 (0.329%) VMware ESX
7 1 (0.329%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.329%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 23 (7.566%) SCCM
2 6 (1.974%) AppDNA
3 3 (0.987%) NetBackup
4 2 (0.658%) Backup Exec
5 1 (0.329%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 58 (19.08%) Microsoft
2 31 (10.20%) Citrix
3 24 (7.895%) Oracle
4 20 (6.579%) VMware
5 10 (3.289%) Cisco
6 7 (2.303%) Business Objects
6 7 (2.303%) CheckPoint
7 6 (1.974%) Kaspersky
7 6 (1.974%) Symantec
7 6 (1.974%) Clearswift
7 6 (1.974%) SAP
7 6 (1.974%) SurfControl
8 5 (1.645%) AppSense
8 5 (1.645%) Adobe
9 4 (1.316%) Fujitsu
9 4 (1.316%) Northgate
9 4 (1.316%) HP
9 4 (1.316%) EMC
9 4 (1.316%) McAfee
10 3 (0.987%) Capita
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