Hampshire Ascential Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Ascential products and/or services in IT contracts within the Hampshire region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Ascential over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Brentford Buckinghamshire Cheshire City of London Dorset Edinburgh England Farnborough Hampshire High Wycombe London Middlesex North West Scotland Somerset South East South West Swindon Taunton UK Wiltshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	105	-
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	0.108 %	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	£444	£500
% change on same period last year	-11.25 %
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	£53.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Vendors Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	927	1083
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.223 %	1.079 %
Daily rates quoted	216	248
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£346
Average daily rate	£362	£364
% change on same period last year	-0.58 %
Average maximum daily rate	£386	£382
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£358
% change on same period last year	+0.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	197	223
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.79	£24.35
Average hourly rate	£25.50	£26.29
% change on same period last year	-3.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.22	£28.23
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£24.82
% change on same period last year	-4.13 %
Ascential South East

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 the Ascential Software Corporation.

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Demand Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ascential within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 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
Farnborough	-	1	-	-

Ascential South East

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Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing Ascential 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 Ascential.

1 2 (66.67 %) SAP 1 2 (66.67 %) Migration 1 2 (66.67 %) WebSphere 1 2 (66.67 %) Data Migration 2 1 (33.33 %) System Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) PL/SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 2 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 9i 2 1 (33.33 %) Datawarehouse 2 1 (33.33 %) ETL 2 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 10g 2 1 (33.33 %) DataStage

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing Ascential 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 Ascential. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (66.67 %) WebSphere	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 9i 1 1 (33.33 %) Datawarehouse 1 1 (33.33 %) ETL 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 10g 1 1 (33.33 %) DataStage
Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Data Manager 1 2 (66.67 %) SAP Manager 1 2 (66.67 %) SAP Data Migration Manager 2 1 (33.33 %) ETL Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) DataStage Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) Developer	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Migration 1 2 (66.67 %) Data Migration 2 1 (33.33 %) System Testing
Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) PL/SQL 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL	Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) SAP 2 1 (33.33 %) Oracle