Hertfordshire Server Support Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Server Support role in IT contracts within the Hertfordshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Server Support in their job title over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Server Support
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Croydon Dalkeith Derbyshire Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Essex Glasgow Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Hertfordshire Hull Kent Leeds Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Rotherham Salford Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stratford-upon-Avon Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Tadworth Thirsk Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Witham Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	69	88
Rank change on same period last year	+19
Matching contract IT job ads	2	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	0.217 %	0.438 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£122
Average daily rate	£425	£128
% change on same period last year	+231.16 %
Average maximum daily rate	£450	£135
UK excluding London average daily rate	£246	£244
% change on same period last year	+0.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£28.00
Average hourly rate	£17.50	£29.00
% change on same period last year	-39.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.65	£24.47
% change on same period last year	-11.51 %
Job Titles Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	921	1599
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.480 %	1.717 %
Daily rates quoted	284	619
Average minimum daily rate	£337	£324
Average daily rate	£357	£344
% change on same period last year	+3.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£378	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	112	194
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.57	£23.77
Average hourly rate	£27.67	£24.98
% change on same period last year	+10.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.76	£26.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.10	£24.04
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %
Server Support 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.

Server Support
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Server Support across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Server Support
Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Server Support across the Hertfordshire 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 Server Support within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 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
Watford	+20	2	£425	+193.10 %

Server Support East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited Server Support in their job title 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 with Server Support in their job title.

1 4 (57.14 %) Windows XP 1 4 (57.14 %) Windows 1 4 (57.14 %) Active Directory 2 3 (42.86 %) HP 2 3 (42.86 %) IBM 2 3 (42.86 %) VMware 3 2 (28.57 %) CCNA 3 2 (28.57 %) Manufacturing 3 2 (28.57 %) VLAN 3 2 (28.57 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 2 (28.57 %) Red Hat Linux 3 2 (28.57 %) Red Hat 3 2 (28.57 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (28.57 %) Citrix 3 2 (28.57 %) Cisco Certification

3 2 (28.57 %) IGRP 3 2 (28.57 %) MSI 3 2 (28.57 %) Linux 3 2 (28.57 %) C 4 1 (14.29 %) Java 4 1 (14.29 %) Perl 4 1 (14.29 %) SQL 4 1 (14.29 %) VBScript 4 1 (14.29 %) VB 4 1 (14.29 %) J2EE 4 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server 4 1 (14.29 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 1 (14.29 %) MS Office 4 1 (14.29 %) UNIX 4 1 (14.29 %) JBoss

Server Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited Server Support in their job title 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 with Server Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (14.29 %) J2EE 1 1 (14.29 %) J2SE 1 1 (14.29 %) Middleware 1 1 (14.29 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 1 (14.29 %) WebSphere Application Server 1 1 (14.29 %) JBoss 1 1 (14.29 %) SharePoint 1 1 (14.29 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 1 (14.29 %) MS Office 1 1 (14.29 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 2 (28.57 %) IGRP 1 2 (28.57 %) VLAN 2 1 (14.29 %) WAN 2 1 (14.29 %) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server 1 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2000 1 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 2 (28.57 %) MSI
General 1 2 (28.57 %) Manufacturing 2 1 (14.29 %) Construction	Operating Systems 1 4 (57.14 %) Windows 1 4 (57.14 %) Windows XP 2 2 (28.57 %) Windows Server 2003 2 2 (28.57 %) Red Hat Linux 2 2 (28.57 %) Linux 3 1 (14.29 %) UNIX 3 1 (14.29 %) AIX 3 1 (14.29 %) HPUX 3 1 (14.29 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Programming Languages 1 2 (28.57 %) C 2 1 (14.29 %) Java 2 1 (14.29 %) Perl 2 1 (14.29 %) SQL 2 1 (14.29 %) VBScript 2 1 (14.29 %) VB 2 1 (14.29 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 2 (28.57 %) CCNA 1 2 (28.57 %) Cisco Certification
System Software 1 4 (57.14 %) Active Directory 2 2 (28.57 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 1 (14.29 %) VMware ESX	Systems Management 1 1 (14.29 %) Tivoli 1 1 (14.29 %) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors 1 3 (42.86 %) IBM 1 3 (42.86 %) HP 1 3 (42.86 %) VMware 2 2 (28.57 %) Citrix 2 2 (28.57 %) Red Hat 3 1 (14.29 %) Cisco 3 1 (14.29 %) Motorola 3 1 (14.29 %) Dell 3 1 (14.29 %) Nortel 3 1 (14.29 %) Microsoft