Kent N-Tier Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for N-Tier skills within the Kent region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited N-Tier over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ayr Basildon Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Lancaster Liverpool London Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Midlands Newport North West Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Scotland Shropshire Slough South Ayrshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staines Surrey Sutton-in-Ashfield Telford Thames Valley UK Wales West Malling West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	46	50
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	2	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	1.667 %	1.942 %
Daily rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£376
Average daily rate	£325	£388
% change on same period last year	-16.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£401
UK excluding London average daily rate	£307	£393
% change on same period last year	-21.89 %
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	£43.94	£33.13
% change on same period last year	+32.64 %
Miscellaneous Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	120	103
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.193 %	0.111 %
Daily rates quoted	30	11
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£383
Average daily rate	£330	£395
% change on same period last year	-16.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£345	£408
UK excluding London average daily rate	£345	£345
% change on same period last year	-
Hourly rates quoted	15	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.92	£16.96
Average hourly rate	£20.04	£18.29
% change on same period last year	+9.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.17	£19.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.41	£25.59
% change on same period last year	-0.69 %
N-Tier 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 N-Tier across the Kent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous 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 N-Tier across the Kent region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing N-Tier across the Kent region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing N-Tier within the Kent region over the 3 months to 2 December 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
West Malling	-	1	£325	-

N-Tier South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing N-Tier 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 N-Tier.

1 3 (100.00 %) SQL 2 2 (66.67 %) .NET 2 2 (66.67 %) JavaScript 2 2 (66.67 %) Unit Testing 2 2 (66.67 %) CSS 3 1 (33.33 %) Back Office 3 1 (33.33 %) MVC 3 1 (33.33 %) Finance 3 1 (33.33 %) Migration 3 1 (33.33 %) NUnit 3 1 (33.33 %) Spring 3 1 (33.33 %) Insurance 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (33.33 %) .NET Framework 3 1 (33.33 %) XPath

3 1 (33.33 %) Velocity 3 1 (33.33 %) Spring MVC 3 1 (33.33 %) JSP 3 1 (33.33 %) Struts 3 1 (33.33 %) WebServices 3 1 (33.33 %) XML 3 1 (33.33 %) XSD 3 1 (33.33 %) XSL 3 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 3 1 (33.33 %) Tomcat 3 1 (33.33 %) J2SE 3 1 (33.33 %) SOA 3 1 (33.33 %) IBM 3 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 10g 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2000

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing N-Tier 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 N-Tier. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (66.67 %) CSS 1 2 (66.67 %) .NET 2 1 (33.33 %) J2EE 2 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (33.33 %) HTML 2 1 (33.33 %) JSP 2 1 (33.33 %) Struts 2 1 (33.33 %) WebServices 2 1 (33.33 %) XML 2 1 (33.33 %) XSD 2 1 (33.33 %) XSL 2 1 (33.33 %) J2SE 2 1 (33.33 %) MVC 2 1 (33.33 %) Spring 2 1 (33.33 %) .NET Framework 2 1 (33.33 %) Velocity 2 1 (33.33 %) Spring MVC	Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) Tomcat 1 1 (33.33 %) Jetty
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 10g 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2000 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) JUnit 1 1 (33.33 %) NUnit
General 1 1 (33.33 %) Back Office 1 1 (33.33 %) Finance 1 1 (33.33 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) Programmer 2 1 (33.33 %) Java Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) .NET Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) .NET Programmer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Unit Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) SOA 2 1 (33.33 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 3 (100.00 %) SQL 2 2 (66.67 %) JavaScript 3 1 (33.33 %) PL/SQL 3 1 (33.33 %) DHTML 3 1 (33.33 %) Java 3 1 (33.33 %) Shell Script 3 1 (33.33 %) XPath
Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 1 1 (33.33 %) IBM