Essex Technical Specialist Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Technical Specialist 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 job ads that have cited Technical Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Technical Specialist
Location Alderley Edge Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bridgend Buckinghamshire Canterbury Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Crewe Croydon Docklands, London Doncaster East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Knutsford Leeds London Maidenhead Manchester Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North East North West Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford UK Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 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	£428	£340
% change on same period last year	+26.06 %
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	£29.75	£18.75
% change on same period last year	+58.66 %
Job Titles Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	644	632
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.849 %	0.670 %
Daily rates quoted	249	188
Average minimum daily rate	£276	£331
Average daily rate	£292	£356
% change on same period last year	-18.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£308	£381
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	104	144
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.68	£25.12
Average hourly rate	£28.17	£25.86
% change on same period last year	+8.93 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.66	£26.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
Technical Specialist 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.

Technical Specialist
Demand Trend

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

Technical Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

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

Technical Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Technical Specialist
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region that cited Technical Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title.

1 3 (50.00 %) Shell Script 1 3 (50.00 %) Unix 1 3 (50.00 %) Active Directory 1 3 (50.00 %) Mac OS X 1 3 (50.00 %) Apple 2 2 (33.33 %) Content Management 2 2 (33.33 %) Automotive 2 2 (33.33 %) Publishing 2 2 (33.33 %) CGI 3 1 (16.67 %) MS Project 3 1 (16.67 %) PVCS 3 1 (16.67 %) iPlanet 3 1 (16.67 %) Project Management 3 1 (16.67 %) Disaster Recovery 3 1 (16.67 %) ACTC

3 1 (16.67 %) WebSphere

Technical Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region that cited Technical Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (33.33 %) CGI 2 1 (16.67 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 1 (16.67 %) iPlanet
Applications 1 1 (16.67 %) MS Project	Development Applications 1 1 (16.67 %) PVCS
General 1 2 (33.33 %) Automotive 1 2 (33.33 %) Publishing	Operating Systems 1 3 (50.00 %) Unix 1 3 (50.00 %) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (33.33 %) Content Management 2 1 (16.67 %) Project Management 2 1 (16.67 %) Disaster Recovery	Programming Languages 1 3 (50.00 %) Shell Script
Qualifications 1 1 (16.67 %) ACTC	System Software 1 3 (50.00 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 3 (50.00 %) Apple