Hampshire Internet Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Internet skills within the Hampshire region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Internet over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Andover Aylesbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cwmbran Darlington Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Jersey Kent Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Wareham Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	55	51
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	51	84
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.068 %	0.085 %
As % of the category below	12.14 %	16.77 %
Daily rates quoted	6	20
Average minimum daily rate	£352	£288
Average daily rate	£356	£302
% change on same period last year	+17.97 %
Average maximum daily rate	£360	£316
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£339
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	24
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.08	£27.70
Average hourly rate	£22.08	£31.37
% change on same period last year	-29.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.09	£35.04
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.50	£23.69
% change on same period last year	-0.80 %
Communications & Networking Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	420	501
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.560 %	0.507 %
Daily rates quoted	72	89
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£322
Average daily rate	£345	£340
% change on same period last year	+1.59 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	92	125
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.90	£31.15
Average hourly rate	£29.71	£33.29
% change on same period last year	-10.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.53	£35.42
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.58
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
Internet 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Internet across the Hampshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking 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 Internet across the Hampshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Internet across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 25 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 Internet across the Hampshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Internet across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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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 Internet within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 25 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
Southampton	+4	9	£375	-
Basingstoke	+16	8	-	-
Portsmouth	-	3	-	-
Farnborough	+5	2	£390	+11.42 %
Aldershot	-	1	-	-
Andover	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing Internet 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 Internet.

1 19 (17.43 %) Linux 2 18 (16.51 %) Security Cleared 3 17 (15.60 %) Intranet 4 16 (14.68 %) Microsoft 4 16 (14.68 %) .NET 5 15 (13.76 %) SQL Server 5 15 (13.76 %) XML 5 15 (13.76 %) VPN 6 14 (12.84 %) LAN 6 14 (12.84 %) Solaris 6 14 (12.84 %) Perl 6 14 (12.84 %) Telecoms 7 13 (11.93 %) Firewall 7 13 (11.93 %) WAN 7 13 (11.93 %) Broadband

8 12 (11.01 %) ATM 8 12 (11.01 %) MPLS 8 12 (11.01 %) SQL 8 12 (11.01 %) Windows 8 12 (11.01 %) Frame Relay 9 11 (10.09 %) VLAN 9 11 (10.09 %) Apache 9 11 (10.09 %) PHP 9 11 (10.09 %) SAP 9 11 (10.09 %) MS Office 9 11 (10.09 %) Project Management 9 11 (10.09 %) TCP/IP 9 11 (10.09 %) SLA 9 11 (10.09 %) SC Cleared 10 10 (9.174 %) Java

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing Internet 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 Internet. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 16 (14.68 %) .NET 2 15 (13.76 %) XML 3 7 (6.422 %) HTML 3 7 (6.422 %) ASP 4 6 (5.505 %) ASP.NET 4 6 (5.505 %) .NET Framework 5 5 (4.587 %) CSS 5 5 (4.587 %) XHTML 6 4 (3.670 %) Struts 6 4 (3.670 %) WebServices 6 4 (3.670 %) JSP 6 4 (3.670 %) AJAX 7 3 (2.752 %) J2EE 8 2 (1.835 %) ActiveX 8 2 (1.835 %) WebSphere 8 2 (1.835 %) Hibernate 8 2 (1.835 %) BAPI 8 2 (1.835 %) Spring 9 1 (0.917 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 1 (0.917 %) SAP Basis	Application Platforms 1 11 (10.09 %) Apache 2 9 (8.257 %) IIS 3 8 (7.339 %) CMS 4 7 (6.422 %) Tomcat 5 5 (4.587 %) MS Exchange 6 4 (3.670 %) BizTalk Server 7 1 (0.917 %) ColdFusion 7 1 (0.917 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 1 (0.917 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 11 (10.09 %) MS Office 2 10 (9.174 %) MS Excel 3 6 (5.505 %) Photoshop 4 4 (3.670 %) Acrobat 5 3 (2.752 %) MS Project 5 3 (2.752 %) MS PowerPoint 5 3 (2.752 %) Spreadsheet 6 2 (1.835 %) QuarkXPress 7 1 (0.917 %) AutoCAD 7 1 (0.917 %) 3ds Max 7 1 (0.917 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 2 (1.835 %) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking 1 17 (15.60 %) Intranet 2 15 (13.76 %) VPN 3 14 (12.84 %) LAN 4 13 (11.93 %) WAN 4 13 (11.93 %) Broadband 4 13 (11.93 %) Firewall 5 12 (11.01 %) Frame Relay 5 12 (11.01 %) MPLS 5 12 (11.01 %) ATM 6 11 (10.09 %) TCP/IP 6 11 (10.09 %) VLAN 7 8 (7.339 %) SSL 8 6 (5.505 %) DNS 9 5 (4.587 %) SMTP 9 5 (4.587 %) DHCP 9 5 (4.587 %) LDAP 9 5 (4.587 %) VoIP 10 4 (3.670 %) IMAP 11 3 (2.752 %) WLAN 11 3 (2.752 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 15 (13.76 %) SQL Server 2 8 (7.339 %) MySQL 2 8 (7.339 %) SQL Server 2005 3 4 (3.670 %) BusinessObjects 4 3 (2.752 %) SQL Server 7 4 3 (2.752 %) SQL Server 2000 5 1 (0.917 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 7 (6.422 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (0.917 %) WinRunner 2 1 (0.917 %) TestDirector 2 1 (0.917 %) QuickTest Pro 2 1 (0.917 %) LoadRunner	General 1 14 (12.84 %) Telecoms 2 6 (5.505 %) Finance 3 5 (4.587 %) Marketing 4 4 (3.670 %) Government 5 3 (2.752 %) Billing 6 2 (1.835 %) Auditing 6 2 (1.835 %) Health 6 2 (1.835 %) Publishing 6 2 (1.835 %) Retail 7 1 (0.917 %) Multimedia 7 1 (0.917 %) Education 7 1 (0.917 %) Legal 7 1 (0.917 %) Manufacturing 7 1 (0.917 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 23 (21.10 %) Developer 2 16 (14.68 %) Consultant 3 12 (11.01 %) Network Consultant 4 11 (10.09 %) Analyst 5 9 (8.257 %) Systems Engineer 6 7 (6.422 %) Project Manager 6 7 (6.422 %) Administrator 6 7 (6.422 %) Team Leader 7 6 (5.505 %) Business Analyst 8 4 (3.670 %) Architect 8 4 (3.670 %) Applications Developer 8 4 (3.670 %) Software Engineer 8 4 (3.670 %) Business Project Manager 8 4 (3.670 %) Business Manager 8 4 (3.670 %) .NET Developer 8 4 (3.670 %) Project Administrator 9 3 (2.752 %) C# Developer 9 3 (2.752 %) .NET Team Leader 9 3 (2.752 %) Tridion Developer 9 3 (2.752 %) Support Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 4 (3.670 %) Data Protection Act 2 3 (2.752 %) Management Information System 2 3 (2.752 %) PKI 2 3 (2.752 %) PDA 3 1 (0.917 %) Statistics 3 1 (0.917 %) Web 2.0
Operating Systems 1 19 (17.43 %) Linux 2 14 (12.84 %) Solaris 3 12 (11.01 %) Windows 4 9 (8.257 %) UNIX 5 3 (2.752 %) Debian 6 2 (1.835 %) Windows NT 7 1 (0.917 %) SUSE 7 1 (0.917 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (16.51 %) Security Cleared 2 11 (10.09 %) SC Cleared 2 11 (10.09 %) Project Management 3 10 (9.174 %) Service Delivery 3 10 (9.174 %) E-Commerce 4 7 (6.422 %) Content Management 5 6 (5.505 %) CRM 5 6 (5.505 %) Network Design 6 5 (4.587 %) Test Scripting 6 5 (4.587 %) PRINCE2 7 4 (3.670 %) UML 7 4 (3.670 %) Migration 7 4 (3.670 %) Load Balancing 7 4 (3.670 %) Business Analysis 7 4 (3.670 %) Data Protection 8 3 (2.752 %) Incident Management 8 3 (2.752 %) Stakeholder Management 9 2 (1.835 %) Configuration Management 9 2 (1.835 %) CMMI 9 2 (1.835 %) Search Engine Marketing
Programming Languages 1 14 (12.84 %) Perl 2 12 (11.01 %) SQL 3 11 (10.09 %) PHP 4 10 (9.174 %) Java 5 9 (8.257 %) VB 6 6 (5.505 %) C++ 6 6 (5.505 %) VBScript 6 6 (5.505 %) JavaScript 7 5 (4.587 %) C# 8 4 (3.670 %) Python 8 4 (3.670 %) VB.NET 8 4 (3.670 %) VB6 9 3 (2.752 %) C 10 1 (0.917 %) Transact-SQL 10 1 (0.917 %) ABAP 10 1 (0.917 %) VBA 10 1 (0.917 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 2 (1.835 %) Cisco Certification 1 2 (1.835 %) Degree 2 1 (0.917 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (0.917 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (0.917 %) ISEB Practitioner 2 1 (0.917 %) MCP 2 1 (0.917 %) HNC 2 1 (0.917 %) HND 2 1 (0.917 %) CCIE 2 1 (0.917 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 11 (10.09 %) SLA 2 5 (4.587 %) ISO27001 3 3 (2.752 %) BS7799 4 1 (0.917 %) QA 4 1 (0.917 %) PCI DSS 4 1 (0.917 %) ISO9000	System Software 1 3 (2.752 %) Active Directory 2 2 (1.835 %) Backup Exec 2 2 (1.835 %) Squid
Systems Management 1 3 (2.752 %) SCCM 2 2 (1.835 %) Norton AntiVirus 3 1 (0.917 %) ARCserve	Vendors 1 16 (14.68 %) Microsoft 2 11 (10.09 %) SAP 3 5 (4.587 %) Sun 3 5 (4.587 %) Tridion 4 4 (3.670 %) Adobe 4 4 (3.670 %) Business Objects 4 4 (3.670 %) Finjan 5 3 (2.752 %) Cisco 5 3 (2.752 %) Intel 5 3 (2.752 %) Symantec 5 3 (2.752 %) McAfee Security 5 3 (2.752 %) Hummingbird 6 2 (1.835 %) Google 6 2 (1.835 %) VERITAS 6 2 (1.835 %) Nokia 6 2 (1.835 %) Oracle 6 2 (1.835 %) Quark 7 1 (0.917 %) CheckPoint 7 1 (0.917 %) Novell 7 1 (0.917 %) Red Hat