Essex CA Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of CA products and/or services in IT contracts within the Essex region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited CA over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basildon Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Burton-upon-Trent Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Coventry Crawley Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire Isle of Man Knutsford Lancashire Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Lothian Manchester Merseyside Midlands North West Reading Scotland Slough South East South West Staffordshire Surrey UK Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	48	56
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	10	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	2.915 %	1.170 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£350
Average daily rate	-	£463
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£575
UK excluding London average daily rate	£403	£371
% change on same period last year	+8.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.85	£26.64
% change on same period last year	+12.02 %
Vendors Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	343	342
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.453 %	0.341 %
Daily rates quoted	109	97
Average minimum daily rate	£349	£309
Average daily rate	£364	£337
% change on same period last year	+8.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£379	£365
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£358
% change on same period last year	+0.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	41	80
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.93	£25.56
Average hourly rate	£26.51	£26.44
% change on same period last year	+0.27 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.10	£27.32
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.70	£24.82
% change on same period last year	-4.50 %
CA East of England

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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within CA, Inc.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing CA across the Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors 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 CA across the Essex region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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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 CA within the Essex region over the 3 months to 21 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
Basildon	+4	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing CA 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 CA.

1 10 (76.92 %) IBM 1 10 (76.92 %) Mainframe 1 10 (76.92 %) IBM Mainframe 2 8 (61.54 %) CICS 2 8 (61.54 %) zOS 3 2 (15.38 %) Unicenter 4 1 (7.692 %) Service Management 4 1 (7.692 %) Data Security 4 1 (7.692 %) Finance 4 1 (7.692 %) Blue Coat 4 1 (7.692 %) MS PowerPoint 4 1 (7.692 %) SCOM 4 1 (7.692 %) MVS 4 1 (7.692 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (7.692 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)

4 1 (7.692 %) JCL 4 1 (7.692 %) 3G 4 1 (7.692 %) Blackberry 4 1 (7.692 %) Microsoft 4 1 (7.692 %) Active Directory 4 1 (7.692 %) HP 4 1 (7.692 %) Compaq 4 1 (7.692 %) Dell 4 1 (7.692 %) ITIL 4 1 (7.692 %) Windows 4 1 (7.692 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (7.692 %) Windows XP 4 1 (7.692 %) MS Exchange 4 1 (7.692 %) LAN 4 1 (7.692 %) TCP/IP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing CA 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 CA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 8 (61.54 %) CICS 2 1 (7.692 %) MS Exchange	Applications 1 1 (7.692 %) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking 1 1 (7.692 %) 3G 1 1 (7.692 %) LAN 1 1 (7.692 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (7.692 %) VPN	General 1 1 (7.692 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 9 (69.23 %) Systems Programmer 1 9 (69.23 %) Programmer 2 2 (15.38 %) Support Analyst 2 2 (15.38 %) Analyst 3 1 (7.692 %) Systems Support 3 1 (7.692 %) Administrator 3 1 (7.692 %) Systems Architect 3 1 (7.692 %) Installations Engineer 3 1 (7.692 %) Architect 3 1 (7.692 %) LAN Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 10 (76.92 %) Mainframe 1 10 (76.92 %) IBM Mainframe 2 1 (7.692 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 8 (61.54 %) zOS 2 1 (7.692 %) MVS 2 1 (7.692 %) Windows Server 2003 2 1 (7.692 %) Windows 2 1 (7.692 %) Windows 2000 2 1 (7.692 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (7.692 %) Service Management 1 1 (7.692 %) Data Security 1 1 (7.692 %) ITIL
Programming Languages 1 1 (7.692 %) JCL	System Software 1 1 (7.692 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 2 (15.38 %) Unicenter 2 1 (7.692 %) SCOM 2 1 (7.692 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 10 (76.92 %) IBM 2 1 (7.692 %) Blue Coat 2 1 (7.692 %) Microsoft 2 1 (7.692 %) HP 2 1 (7.692 %) Compaq 2 1 (7.692 %) Dell 2 1 (7.692 %) Cisco