Home Counties Electronics Contracts

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Electronics' in contract IT jobs within the Home Counties region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Electronics over the 3 months to 4 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Ceredigion Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire City of London Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Devon Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Maidenhead Manchester Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Quay Newquay Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Oxfordshire Portsmouth Prestwick Reading Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Somerset South Ayrshire South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Thames Valley UK Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	27
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	3.226 %
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	£335	£291
% change on same period last year	+14.98 %
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	£32.77	£30.16
% change on same period last year	+8.63 %
General Home Counties
Matching contract IT job ads	34	62
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.046 %	0.062 %
Daily rates quoted	6	11
Average minimum daily rate	£348	£371
Average daily rate	£365	£388
% change on same period last year	-5.94 %
Average maximum daily rate	£382	£405
UK excluding London average daily rate	£383	£381
% change on same period last year	+0.36 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£12.00
Average hourly rate	-	£13.81
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£15.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.19	£27.23
% change on same period last year	+3.53 %
Electronics 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 Electronics across the Home Counties region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Electronics across the Home Counties region.

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Top 4 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties region citing Electronics 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 Electronics.

1 1 (100.00 %) HNC 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Excel 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft 1 1 (100.00 %) EMC

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties region citing Electronics 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 Electronics. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Excel	Qualifications 1 1 (100.00 %) HNC
Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft 1 1 (100.00 %) EMC