Home Counties Chip and PIN Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Chip and PIN skills within the Home Counties region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Chip and PIN over the 3 months to 20 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Berkshire East Midlands England Home Counties Leeds Northampton Northamptonshire Reading South East Thames Valley UK West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	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	£698	£265
% change on same period last year	+162.87 %
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	-	£50.50
% change on same period last year	-
Miscellaneous Home Counties
Matching contract IT job ads	10	42
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.046 %
Daily rates quoted	4	4
Average minimum daily rate	£213	£220
Average daily rate	£281	£220
% change on same period last year	+27.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£220
UK excluding London average daily rate	£345	£341
% change on same period last year	+1.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	-
Average hourly rate	£16.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.52	£25.59
% change on same period last year	-0.26 %
Chip and PIN 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 Chip and PIN across the Home Counties region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous 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 Chip and PIN across the Home Counties region.

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Top 1 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties region citing Chip and PIN 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 Chip and PIN.

1 1 (100.00 %) Auditing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties region citing Chip and PIN 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 Chip and PIN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

General 1 1 (100.00 %) Auditing