Kent Internet Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Internet skills within the Kent region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Internet over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Aylesbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cwmbran Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Jersey Kegworth Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Moreton-in-Marsh Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rugby Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Wareham Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	32	38
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	16	16
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	15.38 %	13.22 %
Daily rates quoted	1	6
Average minimum daily rate	£393	£232
Average daily rate	£393	£242
% change on same period last year	+62.42 %
Average maximum daily rate	£393	£252
UK excluding London average daily rate	£347	£339
% change on same period last year	+2.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.50	£45.00
Average hourly rate	£33.56	£47.50
% change on same period last year	-29.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.63	£50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.57	£25.37
% change on same period last year	-11.05 %
Communications & Networking Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	104	121
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.137 %	0.127 %
Daily rates quoted	9	18
Average minimum daily rate	£289	£236
Average daily rate	£304	£251
% change on same period last year	+21.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£318	£266
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£344
% change on same period last year	-0.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	24	35
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.86	£19.97
Average hourly rate	£24.38	£21.12
% change on same period last year	+15.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.90	£22.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.60	£28.49
% change on same period last year	-10.13 %
Internet 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 Internet across the Kent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking 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 Internet across the Kent 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 Internet across the Kent region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Internet across the Kent region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Internet within the Kent region over the 3 months to 8 July 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
Maidstone	+1	7	-	-
Chatham	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing Internet 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 Internet.

1 22 (70.97 %) Windows 2 17 (54.84 %) XML 3 15 (48.39 %) WebServices 3 15 (48.39 %) .NET 4 14 (45.16 %) ASP 4 14 (45.16 %) AJAX 5 13 (41.94 %) Unix 6 12 (38.71 %) MS Excel 6 12 (38.71 %) Oracle 6 12 (38.71 %) GIS 6 12 (38.71 %) ESRI 6 12 (38.71 %) ArcIMS 7 11 (35.48 %) HTML 8 10 (32.26 %) SQL 8 10 (32.26 %) VB

8 10 (32.26 %) Microsoft 9 9 (29.03 %) C# 9 9 (29.03 %) ArcObjects 10 8 (25.81 %) Degree 11 7 (22.58 %) MS PowerPoint 11 7 (22.58 %) Publishing 11 7 (22.58 %) Java 11 7 (22.58 %) JavaScript 11 7 (22.58 %) Intranet 12 5 (16.13 %) XHTML 12 5 (16.13 %) SQL Server 12 5 (16.13 %) IIS 12 5 (16.13 %) CSS 13 4 (12.90 %) OO 13 4 (12.90 %) ADO

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing Internet 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 Internet. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 17 (54.84 %) XML 2 15 (48.39 %) WebServices 2 15 (48.39 %) .NET 3 14 (45.16 %) ASP 3 14 (45.16 %) AJAX 4 11 (35.48 %) HTML 5 9 (29.03 %) ArcObjects 6 5 (16.13 %) XHTML 6 5 (16.13 %) CSS 7 4 (12.90 %) ADO 7 4 (12.90 %) ADSI 8 3 (9.677 %) Adobe Flex 8 3 (9.677 %) Flex 2 9 2 (6.452 %) SOAP 9 2 (6.452 %) ASP.NET 10 1 (3.226 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 12 (38.71 %) ArcIMS 2 5 (16.13 %) IIS 3 4 (12.90 %) ArcSDE 4 2 (6.452 %) MS Exchange 5 1 (3.226 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 1 (3.226 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 1 (3.226 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 1 (3.226 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 12 (38.71 %) MS Excel 2 7 (22.58 %) MS PowerPoint 3 3 (9.677 %) MS Office 4 1 (3.226 %) Acrobat 4 1 (3.226 %) MS Visio 4 1 (3.226 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 3 (9.677 %) Summit
Communications & Networking 1 7 (22.58 %) Intranet 2 3 (9.677 %) LAN 2 3 (9.677 %) TCP/IP 3 2 (6.452 %) VPN 3 2 (6.452 %) ADSL 3 2 (6.452 %) Firewall 4 1 (3.226 %) Cisco PIX 4 1 (3.226 %) ISDN 4 1 (3.226 %) WAN 4 1 (3.226 %) HTTP 4 1 (3.226 %) DNS 4 1 (3.226 %) DSL	Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (38.71 %) GIS 2 5 (16.13 %) SQL Server 3 1 (3.226 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 1 (3.226 %) JIRA	General 1 7 (22.58 %) Publishing 2 4 (12.90 %) Government 3 3 (9.677 %) Pharmaceutical 4 2 (6.452 %) Finance 4 2 (6.452 %) Local Government 4 2 (6.452 %) Banking 5 1 (3.226 %) Legal 5 1 (3.226 %) Investment Banking 5 1 (3.226 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 11 (35.48 %) Developer 2 7 (22.58 %) GIS Developer 3 6 (19.35 %) Applications Developer 4 3 (9.677 %) Programmer 4 3 (9.677 %) Analyst 5 2 (6.452 %) Web Developer 5 2 (6.452 %) .NET Developer 5 2 (6.452 %) Web Applications Developer 5 2 (6.452 %) Web Programmer 6 1 (3.226 %) Web Manager 6 1 (3.226 %) Junior Network Engineer 6 1 (3.226 %) Web Tester 6 1 (3.226 %) Procurement Administrator 6 1 (3.226 %) Functional Tester 6 1 (3.226 %) Service Desk Analyst 6 1 (3.226 %) ASP Developer 6 1 (3.226 %) Technical Manager 6 1 (3.226 %) Security Engineer 6 1 (3.226 %) Web Project Manager 6 1 (3.226 %) Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 4 (12.90 %) Mathematics 2 3 (9.677 %) RIA 3 1 (3.226 %) PKI 3 1 (3.226 %) Bioinformatics 3 1 (3.226 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 22 (70.97 %) Windows 2 13 (41.94 %) Unix 3 2 (6.452 %) Windows 2000 3 2 (6.452 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (3.226 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (12.90 %) OO 1 4 (12.90 %) Requirements Analysis 2 2 (6.452 %) Project Management 2 2 (6.452 %) Migration 3 1 (3.226 %) Knowledge Management 3 1 (3.226 %) Web Development 3 1 (3.226 %) Data Migration 3 1 (3.226 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (3.226 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (3.226 %) E-business 3 1 (3.226 %) Data Modelling 3 1 (3.226 %) B2B 3 1 (3.226 %) Configuration Management 3 1 (3.226 %) ERP
Programming Languages 1 10 (32.26 %) SQL 1 10 (32.26 %) VB 2 9 (29.03 %) C# 3 7 (22.58 %) Java 3 7 (22.58 %) JavaScript 4 3 (9.677 %) ActionScript 5 1 (3.226 %) Korn 5 1 (3.226 %) Shell Script 5 1 (3.226 %) DHTML 5 1 (3.226 %) Perl 5 1 (3.226 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 8 (25.81 %) Degree 2 1 (3.226 %) CCNA 2 1 (3.226 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (3.226 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (3.226 %) MCSE 2 1 (3.226 %) MCSA
System Software 1 1 (3.226 %) VMware Infrastructure 1 1 (3.226 %) VMware ESX 1 1 (3.226 %) Backup Exec 1 1 (3.226 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 12 (38.71 %) Oracle 1 12 (38.71 %) ESRI 2 10 (32.26 %) Microsoft 3 3 (9.677 %) Cisco 4 2 (6.452 %) Symantec 4 2 (6.452 %) CheckPoint 4 2 (6.452 %) HP 5 1 (3.226 %) VMware 5 1 (3.226 %) Adobe 5 1 (3.226 %) Sun 5 1 (3.226 %) Intel 5 1 (3.226 %) Citrix 5 1 (3.226 %) Nokia