Gloucestershire Handset Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Handsets skills within the Gloucestershire region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Handset over the 3 months to 7 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Barking Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London East Anglia East of England Edinburgh England Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Hampshire Haverhill Hayes Hertfordshire Home Counties Ipswich London M4 Corridor Manchester Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport North East North West Reading Rugby Scotland Somerset South East South Wales South West Southampton Staines Suffolk Surrey Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands Wiltshire	3 months to 7 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	45	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	2.000 %	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	£294	£344
% change on same period last year	-14.64 %
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	£31.43	£32.39
% change on same period last year	-2.93 %
Miscellaneous Gloucestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	50	70
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.066 %	0.074 %
Daily rates quoted	17	14
Average minimum daily rate	£398	£309
Average daily rate	£421	£340
% change on same period last year	+24.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£445	£371
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£350
% change on same period last year	+3.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.57	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£18.89	£31.25
% change on same period last year	-39.55 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.21	£32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.45	£28.43
% change on same period last year	-14.01 %
Handset 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 Handset across the Gloucestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

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Top 5 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing Handset 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 Handset.

1 1 (100.00 %) HTML 1 1 (100.00 %) XML 1 1 (100.00 %) Cisco 1 1 (100.00 %) Avaya 1 1 (100.00 %) Firmware

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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 citing Handset 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 Handset. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (100.00 %) HTML 1 1 (100.00 %) XML	Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (100.00 %) Firmware	Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) Cisco 1 1 (100.00 %) Avaya