Hertfordshire Lotus Notes Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for IBM Lotus Notes skills within the Hertfordshire region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Lotus Notes over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM Lotus Notes
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Atherstone Belfast Berkshire Beverley Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth 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 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	52	71
Rank change on same period last year	+19
Matching contract IT job ads	18	24
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.028 %	0.026 %
As % of the category below	11.61 %	8.791 %
Daily rates quoted	5	6
Average minimum daily rate	£265	£182
Average daily rate	£295	£190
% change on same period last year	+55.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£325	£198
UK excluding London average daily rate	£215	£216
% change on same period last year	-0.22 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£7.00	£14.74
Average hourly rate	£7.00	£15.68
% change on same period last year	-55.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£7.00	£16.61
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.62	£18.02
% change on same period last year	-2.22 %
Application Platforms Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	155	273
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.244 %	0.293 %
Daily rates quoted	61	86
Average minimum daily rate	£335	£310
Average daily rate	£349	£323
% change on same period last year	+8.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£363	£335
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£340
% change on same period last year	+3.45 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	24
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.69	£20.14
Average hourly rate	£23.62	£21.19
% change on same period last year	+11.44 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.54	£22.24
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.01	£23.80
% change on same period last year	+0.89 %
Lotus Notes East of England

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.

Lotus Notes
Demand Trend

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

Lotus Notes
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Lotus Notes across the Hertfordshire region.

Lotus Notes
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Lotus Notes across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

Lotus Notes
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Lotus Notes
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lotus Notes within the Hertfordshire 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
Stevenage	+2	1	-	-

Lotus Notes East of England

Lotus Notes
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 26 (100.00 %) Lotus 2 14 (53.85 %) MS Office 3 11 (42.31 %) Active Directory 3 11 (42.31 %) Citrix 4 9 (34.62 %) Windows 5 7 (26.92 %) Validation 6 5 (19.23 %) Test Scripting 7 4 (15.38 %) Security Cleared 7 4 (15.38 %) QA 7 4 (15.38 %) SQL Server 8 3 (11.54 %) MS Excel 8 3 (11.54 %) Microsoft 8 3 (11.54 %) TestDirector 8 3 (11.54 %) Windows Server 2003 8 3 (11.54 %) Project Management

8 3 (11.54 %) Performance Testing 8 3 (11.54 %) Test Management 9 2 (7.692 %) .NET Framework 9 2 (7.692 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 9 2 (7.692 %) Northgate 9 2 (7.692 %) Civica 9 2 (7.692 %) Capita 9 2 (7.692 %) Academy Housing 9 2 (7.692 %) Orchard 9 2 (7.692 %) arcHouse 9 2 (7.692 %) VC++ 9 2 (7.692 %) Asset Management 9 2 (7.692 %) Anite 9 2 (7.692 %) VMware 9 2 (7.692 %) Pharmaceutical

Lotus Notes
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 2 (7.692 %) .NET 1 2 (7.692 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 1 (3.846 %) Lotus Domino
Applications 1 14 (53.85 %) MS Office 2 3 (11.54 %) MS Excel 3 1 (3.846 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 2 (7.692 %) Academy Housing 1 2 (7.692 %) arcHouse
Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.846 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (15.38 %) SQL Server 2 2 (7.692 %) OLAP 2 2 (7.692 %) MS Access 2 2 (7.692 %) Data Mining 2 2 (7.692 %) SQL Server 2000 2 2 (7.692 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 2 2 (7.692 %) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 3 (11.54 %) TestDirector	General 1 2 (7.692 %) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles 1 7 (26.92 %) Analyst 2 4 (15.38 %) Administrator 2 4 (15.38 %) Test Consultant 2 4 (15.38 %) Consultant 3 2 (7.692 %) Support Analyst 3 2 (7.692 %) Helpdesk Analyst 3 2 (7.692 %) Software Developer 3 2 (7.692 %) Project Manager 3 2 (7.692 %) Business Analyst 3 2 (7.692 %) Tester 3 2 (7.692 %) Developer 3 2 (7.692 %) Infrastructure Consultant 3 2 (7.692 %) Business Project Manager 3 2 (7.692 %) Project Administrator 3 2 (7.692 %) Business Manager 4 1 (3.846 %) Active Directory Specialist 4 1 (3.846 %) Helpdesk Operator 4 1 (3.846 %) Procurement Administrator 4 1 (3.846 %) Citrix Consultant 4 1 (3.846 %) Test Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 2 (7.692 %) NHS 1 2 (7.692 %) Informatics 2 1 (3.846 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 9 (34.62 %) Windows 2 3 (11.54 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (3.846 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 1 (3.846 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (3.846 %) Windows XP 3 1 (3.846 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (26.92 %) Validation 2 5 (19.23 %) Test Scripting 3 4 (15.38 %) Security Cleared 4 3 (11.54 %) Performance Testing 4 3 (11.54 %) Test Management 4 3 (11.54 %) Project Management 5 2 (7.692 %) Asset Management 6 1 (3.846 %) ITIL 6 1 (3.846 %) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages 1 2 (7.692 %) C# 1 2 (7.692 %) C++ 1 2 (7.692 %) SQL 1 2 (7.692 %) VBA 1 2 (7.692 %) VC++	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (15.38 %) QA
System Software 1 11 (42.31 %) Active Directory 2 1 (3.846 %) NetBackup 2 1 (3.846 %) Citrix Presentation Server	Systems Management 1 1 (3.846 %) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors 1 26 (100.00 %) Lotus 2 11 (42.31 %) Citrix 3 3 (11.54 %) Microsoft 4 2 (7.692 %) Anite 4 2 (7.692 %) VMware 4 2 (7.692 %) Northgate 4 2 (7.692 %) Civica 4 2 (7.692 %) Capita 4 2 (7.692 %) Orchard 5 1 (3.846 %) Sun 5 1 (3.846 %) HP 5 1 (3.846 %) Novell 5 1 (3.846 %) Symantec 5 1 (3.846 %) Cisco