Home Counties Degree Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Degree in IT contracts within the Home Counties region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Degree over the 3 months to 28 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Aylesbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cwmbran Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Douglas Dundee Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harlow Harrow Havant Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Kegworth Kent Kettering Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Romford Rotherham Runcorn Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Tamworth Teddington Thames Valley Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 28 Aug 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	£354	£302
% change on same period last year	+17.38 %
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	£27.29	£31.46
% change on same period last year	-13.28 %
Qualifications Home Counties
Matching contract IT job ads	8	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.002 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£450
Average daily rate	£400	£450
% change on same period last year	-11.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£330
% change on same period last year	+0.77 %
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	£24.57	£25.85
% change on same period last year	-4.95 %
Degree 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 Degree across the Home Counties region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Degree
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Degree across the Home Counties 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 Degree across the Home Counties region.

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Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 28 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties region citing Degree 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 Degree.

1 11 (61.11 %) MS Excel 1 11 (61.11 %) MS Office 2 10 (55.56 %) Windows 2 10 (55.56 %) Windows 2000 2 10 (55.56 %) Windows NT 2 10 (55.56 %) Windows XP 2 10 (55.56 %) VPN 2 10 (55.56 %) Intel 2 10 (55.56 %) Time Management 3 6 (33.33 %) SQL 4 5 (27.78 %) VBA 4 5 (27.78 %) Management Information System 5 1 (5.556 %) Education 5 1 (5.556 %) Government 5 1 (5.556 %) Local Government

5 1 (5.556 %) MS Access 5 1 (5.556 %) Microsoft 5 1 (5.556 %) Performance Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 28 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties region citing Degree 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 Degree. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 11 (61.11 %) MS Office 1 11 (61.11 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 10 (55.56 %) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (5.556 %) MS Access	General 1 1 (5.556 %) Education 1 1 (5.556 %) Government 1 1 (5.556 %) Local Government
Job Titles 1 17 (94.44 %) Analyst 2 10 (55.56 %) Helpdesk Analyst 3 6 (33.33 %) Supply Chain Analyst 4 1 (5.556 %) Junior Analyst 4 1 (5.556 %) Junior	Miscellaneous 1 5 (27.78 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 10 (55.56 %) Windows 1 10 (55.56 %) Windows 2000 1 10 (55.56 %) Windows NT 1 10 (55.56 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (55.56 %) Time Management 2 1 (5.556 %) Performance Management
Programming Languages 1 6 (33.33 %) SQL 2 5 (27.78 %) VBA	Vendors 1 10 (55.56 %) Intel 2 1 (5.556 %) Microsoft