Gloucestershire Author Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Author role in IT contracts within the Gloucestershire 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 Author in their job title over the 3 months to 7 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Ashton-under-Lyne Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Crawley Croydon Cumbria Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Filton Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Romford Salisbury Scotland Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Wales Ware Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	35	49
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching contract IT job ads	11	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	2.402 %	0.583 %
Daily rates quoted	9	0
Average minimum daily rate	£311	-
Average daily rate	£311	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£311	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£287	£350
% change on same period last year	-17.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.00	-
Average hourly rate	£36.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.36	£22.49
% change on same period last year	+30.56 %
Job Titles Gloucestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	458	515
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.603 %	0.546 %
Daily rates quoted	155	133
Average minimum daily rate	£329	£331
Average daily rate	£342	£345
% change on same period last year	-1.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£354	£359
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	58	103
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.86	£22.58
Average hourly rate	£25.86	£23.78
% change on same period last year	+8.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.85	£24.98
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.40	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.22 %
Author South West

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Author across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 7 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Author across the Gloucestershire 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 job ads citing Author within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 7 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
Cheltenham	-	8	£313	-
Gloucester	-	1	£300	-
Filton	-	1	-	-

Author South West

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region that cited Author 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 Author in their job title.

1 9 (69.23 %) Security Cleared 2 8 (61.54 %) HTML 2 8 (61.54 %) MS Visio 3 7 (53.85 %) Dreamweaver 3 7 (53.85 %) Microsoft 3 7 (53.85 %) Adobe 3 7 (53.85 %) MS PowerPoint 3 7 (53.85 %) FrontPage 3 7 (53.85 %) RoboHelp 3 7 (53.85 %) GoLive 4 6 (46.15 %) QA 4 6 (46.15 %) FrameMaker 4 6 (46.15 %) MS Project 5 5 (38.46 %) OVSD 5 5 (38.46 %) Migration

6 4 (30.77 %) DV Cleared 7 3 (23.08 %) PVCS 7 3 (23.08 %) Telecoms 8 2 (15.38 %) Education 8 2 (15.38 %) Government 8 2 (15.38 %) HND 8 2 (15.38 %) Documentum 8 2 (15.38 %) Pensions 8 2 (15.38 %) Degree 9 1 (7.692 %) Incident Management 9 1 (7.692 %) Change Management 9 1 (7.692 %) Windchill 9 1 (7.692 %) MS Office 9 1 (7.692 %) Windows 9 1 (7.692 %) MS Excel

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region that cited Author 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 Author in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 8 (61.54 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 2 (15.38 %) Documentum
Applications 1 8 (61.54 %) MS Visio 2 7 (53.85 %) RoboHelp 2 7 (53.85 %) MS PowerPoint 3 6 (46.15 %) MS Project 3 6 (46.15 %) FrameMaker 4 1 (7.692 %) Windchill 4 1 (7.692 %) MS Office 4 1 (7.692 %) MS Excel	Development Applications 1 7 (53.85 %) Dreamweaver 1 7 (53.85 %) GoLive 1 7 (53.85 %) FrontPage 2 3 (23.08 %) PVCS
General 1 3 (23.08 %) Telecoms 2 2 (15.38 %) Education 2 2 (15.38 %) Government 2 2 (15.38 %) Pensions	Operating Systems 1 1 (7.692 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (69.23 %) Security Cleared 2 5 (38.46 %) Migration 3 4 (30.77 %) DV Cleared 4 1 (7.692 %) Change Management 4 1 (7.692 %) Incident Management	Qualifications 1 2 (15.38 %) HND 1 2 (15.38 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (46.15 %) QA	Systems Management 1 5 (38.46 %) OVSD 2 1 (7.692 %) OpenView
Vendors 1 7 (53.85 %) Microsoft 1 7 (53.85 %) Adobe 2 1 (7.692 %) HP