Kent Local Government Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Local Government' in contract IT jobs within the Kent region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Local Government over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Local Government
Location Barnsley Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridgeshire Cardiff Carlisle Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Cumbria Devon Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Hove Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Melrose Merseyside Midlands Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Rochdale Romford Rotherham Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southport Suffolk Surrey Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walsall West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	35	46
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	13	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	6.468 %	3.478 %
Daily rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum daily rate	£273	£450
Average daily rate	£275	£508
% change on same period last year	-45.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£278	£567
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£330
% change on same period last year	+14.14 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.25	-
Average hourly rate	£15.75	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.25	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.85	£18.25
% change on same period last year	+14.19 %
General Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	201	230
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.265 %	0.241 %
Daily rates quoted	35	59
Average minimum daily rate	£299	£311
Average daily rate	£320	£330
% change on same period last year	-2.93 %
Average maximum daily rate	£341	£348
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£372
% change on same period last year	+3.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	37	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.91	£24.15
Average hourly rate	£22.30	£26.95
% change on same period last year	-17.27 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.69	£29.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.46	£26.98
% change on same period last year	-1.94 %
Local Government 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.

Local Government
Demand Trend

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

Local Government
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Local Government across the Kent region.

Local Government
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Local Government across the Kent region.

Local Government
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Local Government
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Local Government 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	-	8	£300	-

Local Government South East

Local Government
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 24 (100.00 %) Government 2 7 (29.17 %) Microsoft 2 7 (29.17 %) Finance 3 5 (20.83 %) Project Management 3 5 (20.83 %) Legal 4 4 (16.67 %) HTML 4 4 (16.67 %) .NET 4 4 (16.67 %) XML 4 4 (16.67 %) MS Excel 5 3 (12.50 %) Windows 5 3 (12.50 %) MS Exchange 5 3 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 5 3 (12.50 %) MS Office 5 3 (12.50 %) ASP 5 3 (12.50 %) C#

5 3 (12.50 %) GIS 5 3 (12.50 %) AJAX 6 2 (8.333 %) Performance Management 6 2 (8.333 %) Exchange Server 5.5 6 2 (8.333 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 2 (8.333 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 2 (8.333 %) Degree 6 2 (8.333 %) Data Analysis 6 2 (8.333 %) ESRI 6 2 (8.333 %) ArcIMS 6 2 (8.333 %) Wireless 6 2 (8.333 %) WebServices 6 2 (8.333 %) AutoCAD 6 2 (8.333 %) JavaScript 6 2 (8.333 %) Oracle

Local Government
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 4 (16.67 %) HTML 1 4 (16.67 %) .NET 1 4 (16.67 %) XML 2 3 (12.50 %) ASP 2 3 (12.50 %) AJAX 3 2 (8.333 %) WebServices 3 2 (8.333 %) ASP.NET 4 1 (4.167 %) XSLT 4 1 (4.167 %) CSS 4 1 (4.167 %) ArcObjects	Application Platforms 1 3 (12.50 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (8.333 %) Exchange Server 5.5 2 2 (8.333 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 2 (8.333 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 2 (8.333 %) ArcIMS 3 1 (4.167 %) Content Management Server 3 1 (4.167 %) ArcSDE 3 1 (4.167 %) CMS
Applications 1 4 (16.67 %) MS Excel 2 3 (12.50 %) MS Office 3 2 (8.333 %) AutoCAD 4 1 (4.167 %) Acrobat 4 1 (4.167 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 2 (8.333 %) Wireless 1 2 (8.333 %) Broadband 1 2 (8.333 %) Internet 2 1 (4.167 %) LAN 2 1 (4.167 %) WAN 2 1 (4.167 %) VPN 2 1 (4.167 %) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (12.50 %) GIS 2 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server 7 2 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 1 (4.167 %) VSS/SourceSafe
General 1 24 (100.00 %) Government 2 7 (29.17 %) Finance 3 5 (20.83 %) Legal	Job Titles 1 4 (16.67 %) Trainer 2 3 (12.50 %) Developer 2 3 (12.50 %) Project Officer 3 2 (8.333 %) Strategy Manager 3 2 (8.333 %) Business Manager 3 2 (8.333 %) .NET Developer 4 1 (4.167 %) Junior 4 1 (4.167 %) Coordinator 4 1 (4.167 %) Project Manager 4 1 (4.167 %) Analyst 4 1 (4.167 %) Web Developer 4 1 (4.167 %) Network Engineer 4 1 (4.167 %) Helpdesk Analyst 4 1 (4.167 %) Administrator 4 1 (4.167 %) Project Coordinator 4 1 (4.167 %) IT Trainer 4 1 (4.167 %) Junior Developer 4 1 (4.167 %) IT Administrator 4 1 (4.167 %) Junior Web Developer 4 1 (4.167 %) Implementation Specialist
Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.167 %) Blackberry 1 1 (4.167 %) Asset Management 1 1 (4.167 %) PDA	Operating Systems 1 3 (12.50 %) Windows 2 2 (8.333 %) Unix 2 2 (8.333 %) Windows NT 3 1 (4.167 %) Windows XP 3 1 (4.167 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (20.83 %) Project Management 2 3 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 3 2 (8.333 %) Performance Management 3 2 (8.333 %) Data Analysis 4 1 (4.167 %) PRINCE 4 1 (4.167 %) SEO 4 1 (4.167 %) Programme Management	Programming Languages 1 3 (12.50 %) C# 2 2 (8.333 %) JavaScript 3 1 (4.167 %) VB 3 1 (4.167 %) C
Qualifications 1 2 (8.333 %) Degree 2 1 (4.167 %) ECDL 2 1 (4.167 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (4.167 %) CCNA 2 1 (4.167 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (4.167 %) QA
System Software 1 2 (8.333 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 7 (29.17 %) Microsoft 2 2 (8.333 %) ESRI 2 2 (8.333 %) Oracle 2 2 (8.333 %) Citrix 3 1 (4.167 %) Mapinfo 3 1 (4.167 %) Cisco