Home Counties Games Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Games' 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 Games over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Games
Location Bath Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff City of London Coventry Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Harrow Hertfordshire Home Counties Ipswich Kent Leatherhead Leeds Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport North East North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Scotland Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Tamworth Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wimbledon Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 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	£308
% change on same period last year	+14.72 %
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	£29.96	£21.35
% change on same period last year	+40.35 %
General Home Counties
Matching contract IT job ads	34	57
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.045 %	0.058 %
Daily rates quoted	6	7
Average minimum daily rate	£240	£370
Average daily rate	£240	£381
% change on same period last year	-36.98 %
Average maximum daily rate	£240	£392
UK excluding London average daily rate	£383	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£15.20
Average hourly rate	£25.00	£16.30
% change on same period last year	+53.37 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.00	£17.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.78	£27.25
% change on same period last year	-1.70 %
Games 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.

Games
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Games across the Home Counties region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Games
Daily Rate Trend

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