Gloucestershire Lotus Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Lotus products and/or services in IT contracts within the Gloucestershire region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Lotus over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Atherstone Belfast Berkshire Beverley Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Cornwall County Antrim Croydon Cumbria Deeside Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Feltham Flintshire Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenock Guernsey Guildford Hampshire Hartlepool Hertfordshire Hull Inverclyde Ipswich Jersey Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Neath Port Talbot Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Port Talbot Portsmouth Pudsey Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	48	50
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	2	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.881 %	1.796 %
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	£218	£212
% change on same period last year	+2.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£9.00	£15.00
Average hourly rate	£9.75	£17.50
% change on same period last year	-44.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£10.50	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.80	£18.43
% change on same period last year	-3.43 %
Vendors Gloucestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	227	167
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.358 %	0.179 %
Daily rates quoted	57	29
Average minimum daily rate	£365	£330
Average daily rate	£375	£342
% change on same period last year	+9.79 %
Average maximum daily rate	£385	£353
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£348
% change on same period last year	+2.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.52	£23.67
Average hourly rate	£21.50	£24.78
% change on same period last year	-13.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.49	£25.89
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.26	£24.41
% change on same period last year	-0.60 %
Lotus 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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within IBM Lotus Software.

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Demand Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lotus within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 21 November 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	-	1	-	-

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Top 5 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing Lotus 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 Lotus.

1 2 (100.00 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (50.00 %) MS Excel 2 1 (50.00 %) Project Management 2 1 (50.00 %) Insurance 2 1 (50.00 %) MS Office

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing Lotus 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 Lotus. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 2 (100.00 %) Lotus Notes	Applications 1 1 (50.00 %) MS Office 1 1 (50.00 %) MS Excel
General 1 1 (50.00 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 1 (50.00 %) Consultant 1 1 (50.00 %) PMO Consultant
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (50.00 %) Project Management