Essex Client/Server Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Client Server skills within the Essex region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Client/Server over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Client Server
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Borehamwood Bournemouth Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London Coventry Cramlington Crawley Darlington Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastbourne Edinburgh England Essex Folkestone Glasgow Gloucestershire Gwent Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Havant Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds London Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northumberland Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Portsmouth Prescot Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southend-on-Sea Suffolk Surrey Swindon Taunton Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire West Bromwich West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	34	38
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	28	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.037 %	0.022 %
As % of the category below	14.89 %	22.11 %
Daily rates quoted	14	5
Average minimum daily rate	£448	£527
Average daily rate	£471	£532
% change on same period last year	-11.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£494	£537
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£363
% change on same period last year	-3.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.50	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£39.50	£26.00
% change on same period last year	+51.92 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£44.50	£27.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.50	£28.29
% change on same period last year	+4.27 %
Miscellaneous Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	188	95
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.248 %	0.101 %
Daily rates quoted	73	33
Average minimum daily rate	£310	£368
Average daily rate	£336	£379
% change on same period last year	-11.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£362	£390
UK excluding London average daily rate	£362	£350
% change on same period last year	+3.34 %
Hourly rates quoted	22	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.47	£23.93
Average hourly rate	£30.30	£25.16
% change on same period last year	+20.41 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.13	£26.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.27	£28.32
% change on same period last year	-14.29 %
Client/Server 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.

Client/Server
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Client/Server across the Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Client/Server
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Client/Server across the Essex region.

Client/Server
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Client/Server across the Essex region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

Client/Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Client/Server
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Client/Server within the Essex region over the 3 months to 4 July 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
Southend-on-Sea	-	6	£511	-
Chelmsford	-	2	£338	-
Brentwood	-2	1	-	-

Client/Server East of England

Client/Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing Client/Server 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 Client/Server.

1 27 (58.70 %) Oracle 2 19 (41.30 %) Java 3 15 (32.61 %) Internet 3 15 (32.61 %) SQL 4 14 (30.43 %) DSDM 5 13 (28.26 %) E-Commerce 6 12 (26.09 %) Government 6 12 (26.09 %) Unix 7 8 (17.39 %) MS Visio 7 8 (17.39 %) PL/SQL 7 8 (17.39 %) Security Cleared 8 7 (15.22 %) J2EE 8 7 (15.22 %) Oracle 9i 8 7 (15.22 %) Configuration Management 9 6 (13.04 %) Project Management

9 6 (13.04 %) SAN 9 6 (13.04 %) Apache 9 6 (13.04 %) Oracle 11i 9 6 (13.04 %) Sun 9 6 (13.04 %) Ant 9 6 (13.04 %) JUnit 9 6 (13.04 %) Solaris 9 6 (13.04 %) Oracle RAC 10 5 (10.87 %) QA 10 5 (10.87 %) Technical Architecture 10 5 (10.87 %) WebServices 10 5 (10.87 %) OO 10 5 (10.87 %) JBoss 10 5 (10.87 %) VERITAS 10 5 (10.87 %) Agile Software Development

Client/Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing Client/Server 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 Client/Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 7 (15.22 %) J2EE 2 5 (10.87 %) WebServices 2 5 (10.87 %) JSF 3 4 (8.696 %) XML 4 3 (6.522 %) Ruby on Rails 5 1 (2.174 %) .NET Framework 5 1 (2.174 %) HTML 5 1 (2.174 %) .NET 5 1 (2.174 %) XSLT 5 1 (2.174 %) ODBC 5 1 (2.174 %) XHTML 5 1 (2.174 %) JMS 5 1 (2.174 %) COM+ 5 1 (2.174 %) CSS 5 1 (2.174 %) JSP 5 1 (2.174 %) Servlets 5 1 (2.174 %) Struts	Application Platforms 1 6 (13.04 %) Apache 2 5 (10.87 %) JBoss 3 3 (6.522 %) Tuxedo 4 2 (4.348 %) IBM HTTP Server 4 2 (4.348 %) Oracle Application Server 5 1 (2.174 %) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications 1 8 (17.39 %) MS Visio 2 3 (6.522 %) MS Office 2 3 (6.522 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 6 (13.04 %) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking 1 15 (32.61 %) Internet 2 6 (13.04 %) SAN 3 2 (4.348 %) Intranet 3 2 (4.348 %) WAN 3 2 (4.348 %) HTTP 3 2 (4.348 %) Extranet 3 2 (4.348 %) OSPF 3 2 (4.348 %) BGP 3 2 (4.348 %) EIGRP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (15.22 %) Oracle 9i 2 3 (6.522 %) Ingres 3 1 (2.174 %) ETL 3 1 (2.174 %) Oracle Discoverer 3 1 (2.174 %) Oracle 10g 3 1 (2.174 %) BusinessObjects 3 1 (2.174 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 3 1 (2.174 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 1 (2.174 %) BODI 3 1 (2.174 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (2.174 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 3 1 (2.174 %) SQL Server 3 1 (2.174 %) Crystal Reports 3 1 (2.174 %) Oracle Reports
Development Applications 1 6 (13.04 %) Ant 1 6 (13.04 %) JUnit 2 4 (8.696 %) Eclipse 2 4 (8.696 %) TestDirector 2 4 (8.696 %) Log4j 2 4 (8.696 %) FitNesse 3 2 (4.348 %) Subversion 3 2 (4.348 %) PVCS 4 1 (2.174 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 1 (2.174 %) Oracle Forms	General 1 12 (26.09 %) Government 2 4 (8.696 %) Pharmaceutical 3 3 (6.522 %) Finance 4 2 (4.348 %) Military 5 1 (2.174 %) Automotive
Job Titles 1 18 (39.13 %) Developer 2 17 (36.96 %) Project Manager 3 13 (28.26 %) Technical Project Manager 3 13 (28.26 %) Technical Manager 4 6 (13.04 %) Architect 5 5 (10.87 %) Java Developer 6 3 (6.522 %) Analyst 6 3 (6.522 %) C Developer 7 2 (4.348 %) Network Planner 7 2 (4.348 %) Oracle Developer 8 1 (2.174 %) .NET Developer 8 1 (2.174 %) Team Leader 8 1 (2.174 %) Systems Architect 8 1 (2.174 %) Technical Tester 8 1 (2.174 %) Java Analyst Programmer 8 1 (2.174 %) Java Programmer 8 1 (2.174 %) Developer Analyst 8 1 (2.174 %) Senior .NET Developer 8 1 (2.174 %) Financial Business Analyst 8 1 (2.174 %) Network Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (4.348 %) Mainframe 2 1 (2.174 %) Management Information System 2 1 (2.174 %) IBM Mainframe 2 1 (2.174 %) N-Tier
Operating Systems 1 12 (26.09 %) Unix 2 6 (13.04 %) Solaris 3 3 (6.522 %) Windows 4 1 (2.174 %) HPUX 4 1 (2.174 %) Linux 4 1 (2.174 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (2.174 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (30.43 %) DSDM 2 13 (28.26 %) E-Commerce 3 8 (17.39 %) Security Cleared 4 7 (15.22 %) Configuration Management 5 6 (13.04 %) Project Management 6 5 (10.87 %) Agile Software Development 6 5 (10.87 %) OO 6 5 (10.87 %) Technical Architecture 7 4 (8.696 %) SC Cleared 7 4 (8.696 %) Matrix Management 7 4 (8.696 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 4 (8.696 %) Performance Testing 7 4 (8.696 %) Extreme Programming 7 4 (8.696 %) Enterprise Architecture 8 3 (6.522 %) Migration 8 3 (6.522 %) PRINCE2 9 2 (4.348 %) Disaster Recovery 9 2 (4.348 %) Project Planning 9 2 (4.348 %) TDD 9 2 (4.348 %) Business Analysis
Programming Languages 1 19 (41.30 %) Java 2 15 (32.61 %) SQL 3 8 (17.39 %) PL/SQL 4 4 (8.696 %) C 5 3 (6.522 %) VB 5 3 (6.522 %) Shell Script 5 3 (6.522 %) Ruby 6 2 (4.348 %) Delphi 6 2 (4.348 %) JavaScript 7 1 (2.174 %) C# 7 1 (2.174 %) C++ 7 1 (2.174 %) VC++ 7 1 (2.174 %) Korn 7 1 (2.174 %) VB6	Qualifications 1 1 (2.174 %) MCP 1 1 (2.174 %) MCSE 1 1 (2.174 %) ISEB 1 1 (2.174 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (2.174 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (10.87 %) QA	System Software 1 6 (13.04 %) Oracle RAC
Vendors 1 27 (58.70 %) Oracle 2 6 (13.04 %) Sun 3 5 (10.87 %) VERITAS 3 5 (10.87 %) Brocade 4 4 (8.696 %) Microsoft 5 3 (6.522 %) IBM 5 3 (6.522 %) BEA 6 1 (2.174 %) Business Objects 6 1 (2.174 %) Cisco