Exeter Government Contracts

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Government' in contract IT jobs within the Exeter region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Government over the 3 months to 1 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Government
Location Abingdon Andover Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cumbria Dagenham Darlington Devon Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochdale Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 1 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	16	23
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	3	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	8.824 %	21.05 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£400
Average daily rate	-	£500
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£600
UK excluding London average daily rate	£402	£395
% change on same period last year	+1.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£38.00
Average hourly rate	-	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.25	£25.49
% change on same period last year	-0.91 %
General Exeter
Matching contract IT job ads	34	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.054 %	0.020 %
Daily rates quoted	11	5
Average minimum daily rate	£252	£295
Average daily rate	£262	£323
% change on same period last year	-18.79 %
Average maximum daily rate	£272	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.02 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.33	£31.50
Average hourly rate	£25.00	£33.75
% change on same period last year	-25.92 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.67	£36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.29	£26.57
% change on same period last year	+2.73 %
Government Devon

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.

Government
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Government across the Exeter region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Government
Daily Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Exeter region citing Government 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 Government.

1 3 (37.50 %) Health 2 2 (25.00 %) Project Management 2 2 (25.00 %) Local Government 3 1 (12.50 %) Software Testing 3 1 (12.50 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 1 (12.50 %) Cisco PIX 3 1 (12.50 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (12.50 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (12.50 %) Cisco ASA 3 1 (12.50 %) NPfIT 3 1 (12.50 %) Service Delivery 3 1 (12.50 %) Change Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Firewall 3 1 (12.50 %) Stakeholder Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Information Security

3 1 (12.50 %) SSH 3 1 (12.50 %) C 3 1 (12.50 %) C++ 3 1 (12.50 %) SQL 3 1 (12.50 %) Business Objects 3 1 (12.50 %) LAN 3 1 (12.50 %) WAN 3 1 (12.50 %) VPN 3 1 (12.50 %) HTTPS 3 1 (12.50 %) Cisco 3 1 (12.50 %) Embedded C 3 1 (12.50 %) Embedded C++ 3 1 (12.50 %) CCNA 3 1 (12.50 %) OpenView 3 1 (12.50 %) CiscoWorks

Government
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Exeter region citing Government 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 Government. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 1 (12.50 %) LAN 1 1 (12.50 %) WAN 1 1 (12.50 %) VPN 1 1 (12.50 %) HTTPS 1 1 (12.50 %) MPLS 1 1 (12.50 %) Firewall 1 1 (12.50 %) SSH 1 1 (12.50 %) Cisco PIX 1 1 (12.50 %) Cisco ASA	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) BusinessObjects
General 1 3 (37.50 %) Health 2 2 (25.00 %) Local Government	Job Titles 1 1 (12.50 %) Project Manager 1 1 (12.50 %) Tester 1 1 (12.50 %) Network Engineer 1 1 (12.50 %) DBA 1 1 (12.50 %) Administrator 1 1 (12.50 %) Change Manager 1 1 (12.50 %) Business Change Manager 1 1 (12.50 %) Delivery Manager 1 1 (12.50 %) Business Manager 1 1 (12.50 %) Auditor
Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) NHS 1 1 (12.50 %) NPfIT	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (25.00 %) Project Management 2 1 (12.50 %) Service Delivery 2 1 (12.50 %) Change Management 2 1 (12.50 %) Stakeholder Management 2 1 (12.50 %) Information Security 2 1 (12.50 %) Software Testing 2 1 (12.50 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 1 (12.50 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (12.50 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 1 (12.50 %) C 1 1 (12.50 %) C++ 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL 1 1 (12.50 %) Embedded C 1 1 (12.50 %) Embedded C++	Qualifications 1 1 (12.50 %) CCNA 1 1 (12.50 %) Cisco Certification
Systems Management 1 1 (12.50 %) OpenView 1 1 (12.50 %) CiscoWorks	Vendors 1 1 (12.50 %) Business Objects 1 1 (12.50 %) Cisco 1 1 (12.50 %) Juniper