England Technical Author Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Technical Author role in IT contracts within the England region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Technical Author in their job title over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Technical Author
Location Abingdon Aylesbury Basildon Berkshire Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London Crawley Derby Derbyshire Dundee East Midlands East of England England Essex Fareham Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire London M4 Corridor Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Preston Reading Redditch Scotland Slough Somerset South East South West Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Witham Woking Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	366	366
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	158	289
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.249 %	0.310 %
As % of the category below	0.302 %	0.363 %
Daily rates quoted	26	69
Average minimum daily rate	£278	£273
Average daily rate	£301	£286
% change on same period last year	+5.42 %
Average maximum daily rate	£325	£299
UK excluding London average daily rate	£272	£264
% change on same period last year	+3.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	19	31
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.67	£21.78
Average hourly rate	£25.08	£23.52
% change on same period last year	+6.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.50	£25.26
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.29	£24.87
% change on same period last year	-6.35 %
Job Titles England
Matching contract IT job ads	52250	79626
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	82.30 %	85.32 %
Daily rates quoted	16864	24512
Average minimum daily rate	£366	£390
Average daily rate	£392	£414
% change on same period last year	-5.34 %
Average maximum daily rate	£417	£438
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£351
% change on same period last year	+0.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	5137	7273
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.14	£23.57
Average hourly rate	£23.59	£25.15
% change on same period last year	-6.22 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.04	£26.74
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.37	£24.42
% change on same period last year	-4.31 %
Technical Author UK

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.

Technical Author
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Technical Author across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Technical Author
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Technical Author 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 Technical Author across the England region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

Technical Author
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Technical Author
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Technical Author across the England region over the 3 months to 21 November 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 Technical Author within the England region over the 3 months to 21 November 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	+30	61	£276	+6.59 %
London	+49	47	£341	+9.44 %
South West	+2	16	£245	-17.13 %
East of England	+8	14	£215	-3.18 %
West Midlands	-2	4	£375	+36.36 %
East Midlands	+7	4	-	-
Yorkshire	+28	4	-	-
Midlands	+18	3	-	-
North West	+3	2	-	-
North East	+9	1	-	-

Technical Author UK

Technical Author
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Technical Author in their job title 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 with Technical Author in their job title.

1 100 (25.84 %) Security Cleared 2 84 (21.71 %) SC Cleared 3 58 (14.99 %) Government 4 40 (10.34 %) Microsoft 5 39 (10.08 %) MS Visio 6 34 (8.786 %) FrameMaker 7 33 (8.527 %) Windows 8 30 (7.752 %) Finance 9 28 (7.235 %) PRINCE2 9 28 (7.235 %) Programme Management 10 26 (6.718 %) Adobe 11 24 (6.202 %) MS Office 12 23 (5.943 %) Finnish Language 12 23 (5.943 %) German Language 12 23 (5.943 %) Greek Language

12 23 (5.943 %) Norwegian Language 12 23 (5.943 %) Spanish Language 12 23 (5.943 %) Swedish Language 12 23 (5.943 %) Arabic Language 12 23 (5.943 %) Danish Language 13 21 (5.426 %) HTML 14 20 (5.168 %) XML 15 18 (4.651 %) Telecoms 16 17 (4.393 %) MS Excel 17 16 (4.134 %) Linux 17 16 (4.134 %) ITIL 17 16 (4.134 %) Oracle 18 13 (3.359 %) SharePoint 19 12 (3.101 %) Internet 20 11 (2.842 %) Publishing

Technical Author
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Technical Author in their job title 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 with Technical Author in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 21 (5.426 %) HTML 2 20 (5.168 %) XML 3 6 (1.550 %) .NET 4 4 (1.034 %) CSS 5 3 (0.775 %) WebServices 5 3 (0.775 %) .NET Framework 6 2 (0.517 %) JSP 6 2 (0.517 %) SGML 7 1 (0.258 %) Series 60 7 1 (0.258 %) XBRL	Application Platforms 1 13 (3.359 %) SharePoint 2 4 (1.034 %) MS Exchange 2 4 (1.034 %) CMS 2 4 (1.034 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 2 (0.517 %) IIS 4 1 (0.258 %) Lotus Notes 4 1 (0.258 %) SAS 4 1 (0.258 %) Plone
Applications 1 39 (10.08 %) MS Visio 2 34 (8.786 %) FrameMaker 3 24 (6.202 %) MS Office 4 17 (4.393 %) MS Excel 5 10 (2.584 %) RoboHelp 6 9 (2.326 %) MS PowerPoint 7 7 (1.809 %) Acrobat 8 4 (1.034 %) MS Project 9 3 (0.775 %) Paint Shop Pro 10 2 (0.517 %) Photoshop 11 1 (0.258 %) XMetaL 11 1 (0.258 %) CorelDRAW 11 1 (0.258 %) Adobe Illustrator	Communications & Networking 1 12 (3.101 %) Internet 2 7 (1.809 %) Firewall 3 6 (1.550 %) Wireless 4 5 (1.292 %) 3G 5 4 (1.034 %) GSM 6 3 (0.775 %) WCDMA 6 3 (0.775 %) VoIP 6 3 (0.775 %) Intranet 7 2 (0.517 %) WAN 7 2 (0.517 %) TETRA 7 2 (0.517 %) LAN 7 2 (0.517 %) Broadband 7 2 (0.517 %) UMTS 8 1 (0.258 %) SDH 8 1 (0.258 %) SMTP 8 1 (0.258 %) DHCP 8 1 (0.258 %) HTTP 8 1 (0.258 %) DNS 8 1 (0.258 %) DWDM 8 1 (0.258 %) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (2.326 %) SQL Server 2 7 (1.809 %) GIS 3 3 (0.775 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (0.258 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (0.258 %) Datawarehouse 4 1 (0.258 %) Oracle 10g	Development Applications 1 3 (0.775 %) Flash 1 3 (0.775 %) Dreamweaver 2 2 (0.517 %) ProC 2 2 (0.517 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (0.517 %) Eclipse 3 1 (0.258 %) PVCS 3 1 (0.258 %) ClearCase 3 1 (0.258 %) FrontPage 3 1 (0.258 %) StarTeam
General 1 58 (14.99 %) Government 2 30 (7.752 %) Finance 3 18 (4.651 %) Telecoms 4 11 (2.842 %) Publishing 5 9 (2.326 %) Aerospace 6 8 (2.067 %) Electronics 7 7 (1.809 %) Insurance 8 6 (1.550 %) Military 8 6 (1.550 %) Pharmaceutical 8 6 (1.550 %) Home Office 9 5 (1.292 %) Electric 10 4 (1.034 %) Education 10 4 (1.034 %) Marketing 11 3 (0.775 %) Banking 11 3 (0.775 %) Construction 11 3 (0.775 %) Health 12 2 (0.517 %) Games 12 2 (0.517 %) Automotive 12 2 (0.517 %) Front Office 12 2 (0.517 %) Back Office	Miscellaneous 1 23 (5.943 %) Arabic Language 1 23 (5.943 %) Danish Language 1 23 (5.943 %) German Language 1 23 (5.943 %) Greek Language 1 23 (5.943 %) Norwegian Language 1 23 (5.943 %) Spanish Language 1 23 (5.943 %) Swedish Language 1 23 (5.943 %) Finnish Language 2 9 (2.326 %) French Language 2 9 (2.326 %) Dutch Language 3 5 (1.292 %) Management Information System 4 4 (1.034 %) Mainframe 5 3 (0.775 %) LIMS 5 3 (0.775 %) E-Learning 6 2 (0.517 %) Mandarin Language 6 2 (0.517 %) NHS 6 2 (0.517 %) Wiki 7 1 (0.258 %) iSeries 7 1 (0.258 %) AS400 7 1 (0.258 %) Handset
Operating Systems 1 33 (8.527 %) Windows 2 16 (4.134 %) Linux 3 5 (1.292 %) UNIX 3 5 (1.292 %) Windows Vista 4 4 (1.034 %) Windows Server 2003 5 3 (0.775 %) Solaris 6 2 (0.517 %) AIX 6 2 (0.517 %) Red Hat Linux 7 1 (0.258 %) SUSE 7 1 (0.258 %) Windows Server 2008 7 1 (0.258 %) HPUX 7 1 (0.258 %) Windows 2000 7 1 (0.258 %) Windows NT 7 1 (0.258 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 100 (25.84 %) Security Cleared 2 84 (21.71 %) SC Cleared 3 28 (7.235 %) PRINCE2 3 28 (7.235 %) Programme Management 4 16 (4.134 %) ITIL 5 10 (2.584 %) Project Management 6 8 (2.067 %) Disaster Recovery 6 8 (2.067 %) Validation 7 7 (1.809 %) ERP 8 6 (1.550 %) Migration 8 6 (1.550 %) Content Management 9 5 (1.292 %) Stakeholder Management 9 5 (1.292 %) Document Management 10 4 (1.034 %) Time Management 10 4 (1.034 %) Change Management 10 4 (1.034 %) Business Continuity 11 3 (0.775 %) Service Delivery 11 3 (0.775 %) Agile Software Development 11 3 (0.775 %) ITSM 11 3 (0.775 %) Service Management
Programming Languages 1 7 (1.809 %) C 2 5 (1.292 %) Java 3 3 (0.775 %) SQL 3 3 (0.775 %) C++ 4 1 (0.258 %) Python 4 1 (0.258 %) C#	Qualifications 1 7 (1.809 %) Degree 2 4 (1.034 %) HND 3 3 (0.775 %) HNC 4 1 (0.258 %) MCP 4 1 (0.258 %) ISEB 4 1 (0.258 %) Microsoft Certification 4 1 (0.258 %) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (0.517 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 1 2 (0.517 %) QA 2 1 (0.258 %) GCP 2 1 (0.258 %) GMP	System Software 1 6 (1.550 %) Active Directory 2 4 (1.034 %) NetBackup
Systems Management 1 5 (1.292 %) CiscoWorks 2 3 (0.775 %) Tivoli	Vendors 1 40 (10.34 %) Microsoft 2 26 (6.718 %) Adobe 3 16 (4.134 %) Oracle 4 7 (1.809 %) Cisco 5 4 (1.034 %) SAP 5 4 (1.034 %) NetApp 5 4 (1.034 %) Nokia 5 4 (1.034 %) Symantec 6 3 (0.775 %) CheckPoint 6 3 (0.775 %) Citrix 7 2 (0.517 %) Ericsson 7 2 (0.517 %) Red Hat 7 2 (0.517 %) Sun 7 2 (0.517 %) Hummingbird 8 1 (0.258 %) BT 8 1 (0.258 %) Nortel 8 1 (0.258 %) Macromedia 8 1 (0.258 %) Symbian 8 1 (0.258 %) IBM 8 1 (0.258 %) Lotus