Hertfordshire CA Contracts

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

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Location Basildon Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Burton-upon-Trent Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Coventry Crawley Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire Isle of Man Knutsford Lancashire Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Lothian Manchester Merseyside Midlands North West Reading Scotland Slough South East South West Staffordshire Surrey UK Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	78	92
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching contract IT job ads	4	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.640 %	0.129 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£500	-
Average daily rate	£548	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£595	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£403	£371
% change on same period last year	+8.68 %
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	£29.85	£26.64
% change on same period last year	+12.02 %
Vendors Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	625	773
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.825 %	0.770 %
Daily rates quoted	214	314
Average minimum daily rate	£347	£338
Average daily rate	£367	£357
% change on same period last year	+2.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£386	£376
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£358
% change on same period last year	+0.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	72	81
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.72	£20.98
Average hourly rate	£27.58	£22.78
% change on same period last year	+21.05 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.44	£24.59
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.70	£24.82
% change on same period last year	-4.50 %
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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 CA, Inc.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CA across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 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 CA across the Hertfordshire region.

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Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing CA 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 CA.

1 9 (81.82 %) Unicenter 1 9 (81.82 %) Retail 2 7 (63.64 %) ITIL 3 5 (45.45 %) Six Sigma 3 5 (45.45 %) Asset Management 3 5 (45.45 %) COBIT 4 4 (36.36 %) ITIL Certification 4 4 (36.36 %) Security Management 5 3 (27.27 %) Configuration Management 5 3 (27.27 %) Change Management 6 2 (18.18 %) SQL Server 6 2 (18.18 %) Windows 7 1 (9.091 %) MS Excel 7 1 (9.091 %) TCP/IP 7 1 (9.091 %) Microsoft

7 1 (9.091 %) C 7 1 (9.091 %) UNIX 7 1 (9.091 %) Windows Server 2003 7 1 (9.091 %) Business Analysis 7 1 (9.091 %) Release Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing CA 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 CA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 1 (9.091 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (18.18 %) SQL Server	General 1 9 (81.82 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 8 (72.73 %) Architect 2 5 (45.45 %) Solutions Architect 3 4 (36.36 %) Technical Architect 4 1 (9.091 %) Consultant 4 1 (9.091 %) Systems Engineer 4 1 (9.091 %) Business Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) Software Consultant 4 1 (9.091 %) Technical Solutions Architect	Operating Systems 1 2 (18.18 %) Windows 2 1 (9.091 %) UNIX 2 1 (9.091 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (63.64 %) ITIL 2 5 (45.45 %) Six Sigma 2 5 (45.45 %) Asset Management 3 4 (36.36 %) Security Management 4 3 (27.27 %) Configuration Management 4 3 (27.27 %) Change Management 5 1 (9.091 %) Business Analysis 5 1 (9.091 %) Release Management	Programming Languages 1 1 (9.091 %) C
Qualifications 1 4 (36.36 %) ITIL Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (45.45 %) COBIT
Systems Management 1 9 (81.82 %) Unicenter	Vendors 1 1 (9.091 %) Microsoft