Essex Quark Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Quark 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 Quark over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Cheshire City of London Croydon East of England England Essex Hampshire Hertfordshire London Manchester North West South East St Albans UK Warwickshire West Midlands	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	-	£263
% change on same period last year	-
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	£23.33	£13.20
% change on same period last year	+76.83 %
Vendors Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	329	335
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.439 %	0.334 %
Daily rates quoted	102	88
Average minimum daily rate	£358	£304
Average daily rate	£374	£332
% change on same period last year	+12.51 %
Average maximum daily rate	£390	£361
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£359
% change on same period last year	+0.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	39	76
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.16	£26.61
Average hourly rate	£25.74	£27.44
% change on same period last year	-6.18 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.32	£28.26
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.10	£24.81
% change on same period last year	-2.85 %
Quark 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 Quark, Inc.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Quark 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 Quark 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 Quark across the Essex region.

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Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing Quark 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 Quark.

1 1 (100.00 %) HTML 1 1 (100.00 %) JavaScript 1 1 (100.00 %) Photoshop 1 1 (100.00 %) XHTML 1 1 (100.00 %) Publishing 1 1 (100.00 %) Web Design

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing Quark 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 Quark. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (100.00 %) HTML 1 1 (100.00 %) XHTML	Applications 1 1 (100.00 %) Photoshop
General 1 1 (100.00 %) Publishing	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (100.00 %) Web Design
Programming Languages 1 1 (100.00 %) JavaScript