Essex Junior Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Junior role in IT contracts within the Essex 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 Junior in their job title over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Junior
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Avon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastbourne Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Halifax Hampshire Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hove Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallington Walsall Ware Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Witney Wokingham Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	53	52
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	5	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	0.733 %	1.130 %
Daily rates quoted	2	4
Average minimum daily rate	£198	£142
Average daily rate	£209	£175
% change on same period last year	+19.45 %
Average maximum daily rate	£220	£208
UK excluding London average daily rate	£250	£238
% change on same period last year	+4.65 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	-
Average hourly rate	£20.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£14.26	£13.89
% change on same period last year	+2.64 %
Job Titles Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	682	708
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.900 %	0.705 %
Daily rates quoted	251	207
Average minimum daily rate	£286	£310
Average daily rate	£302	£333
% change on same period last year	-9.29 %
Average maximum daily rate	£319	£356
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	89	163
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.88	£27.25
Average hourly rate	£26.75	£28.03
% change on same period last year	-4.56 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.62	£28.81
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.60	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-8.13 %
Junior 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.

Junior
Demand Trend

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

Junior
Daily Rate Trend

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

Junior
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Junior 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 Junior 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
Brentwood	0	1	-	-
Colchester	-	1	£338	-

Junior East of England

Junior
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region that cited Junior 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 Junior in their job title.

1 3 (37.50 %) MS Excel 1 3 (37.50 %) HTML 2 2 (25.00 %) Education 2 2 (25.00 %) Degree 3 1 (12.50 %) Content Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Data Analysis 3 1 (12.50 %) Business Analysis 3 1 (12.50 %) Marketing 3 1 (12.50 %) Web Development 3 1 (12.50 %) QA 3 1 (12.50 %) Spreadsheet 3 1 (12.50 %) SEO 3 1 (12.50 %) Photoshop 3 1 (12.50 %) MS Project 3 1 (12.50 %) MS Office

3 1 (12.50 %) CSS 3 1 (12.50 %) Flash 3 1 (12.50 %) MS Access 3 1 (12.50 %) SharePoint 3 1 (12.50 %) Broadband 3 1 (12.50 %) VPN 3 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft 3 1 (12.50 %) CCNA 3 1 (12.50 %) Cisco Certification 3 1 (12.50 %) NHS 3 1 (12.50 %) W3C 3 1 (12.50 %) Internet 3 1 (12.50 %) Project Management

Junior
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region that cited Junior 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 Junior in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (37.50 %) HTML 2 1 (12.50 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 1 (12.50 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 3 (37.50 %) MS Excel 2 1 (12.50 %) Spreadsheet 2 1 (12.50 %) Photoshop 2 1 (12.50 %) MS Project 2 1 (12.50 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 1 (12.50 %) Broadband 1 1 (12.50 %) VPN 1 1 (12.50 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) MS Access	Development Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) Flash
General 1 2 (25.00 %) Education 2 1 (12.50 %) Marketing	Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) NHS 1 1 (12.50 %) W3C
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (12.50 %) Content Management 1 1 (12.50 %) Data Analysis 1 1 (12.50 %) Business Analysis 1 1 (12.50 %) Web Development 1 1 (12.50 %) SEO 1 1 (12.50 %) Project Management	Qualifications 1 2 (25.00 %) Degree 2 1 (12.50 %) CCNA 2 1 (12.50 %) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (12.50 %) QA	Vendors 1 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft