Kent Novell Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Novell products and/or services in IT contracts within the Kent region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Novell over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Barking Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridgeshire Canterbury Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire City of London Coventry Crawley Devon Dewsbury Dorset Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Hammersmith Hampshire Hartlepool Havant Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Inverness Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North East North West Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wirral Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	41	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	5	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	2.404 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£175	-
Average daily rate	£175	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£175	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£290	£281
% change on same period last year	+3.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	-
Average hourly rate	£25.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.12	£16.89
% change on same period last year	-4.56 %
Vendors Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	208	268
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.277 %	0.271 %
Daily rates quoted	60	42
Average minimum daily rate	£306	£281
Average daily rate	£321	£293
% change on same period last year	+9.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£336	£304
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£359
% change on same period last year	-0.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	34	58
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.92	£20.27
Average hourly rate	£25.08	£22.17
% change on same period last year	+13.11 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.24	£24.06
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.25	£24.99
% change on same period last year	-6.94 %
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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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Novell, Inc.

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Demand Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Novell within the Kent region over the 3 months to 25 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
Canterbury	-	4	-	-

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Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing Novell 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 Novell.

1 5 (71.43 %) GroupWise 2 4 (57.14 %) Health 2 4 (57.14 %) Active Directory 3 3 (42.86 %) Microsoft 3 3 (42.86 %) MS Exchange 4 2 (28.57 %) LAN 4 2 (28.57 %) WAN 4 2 (28.57 %) VB 4 2 (28.57 %) .NET 4 2 (28.57 %) UNIX 4 2 (28.57 %) Windows 4 2 (28.57 %) Citrix 4 2 (28.57 %) MS Excel 4 2 (28.57 %) NDS 4 2 (28.57 %) Migration

4 2 (28.57 %) SAN 5 1 (14.29 %) Terminal Services 5 1 (14.29 %) Clustering 5 1 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 1 (14.29 %) Network Security 5 1 (14.29 %) DNS 5 1 (14.29 %) Cisco 5 1 (14.29 %) Windows NT 5 1 (14.29 %) Cisco Certification 5 1 (14.29 %) CCNA 5 1 (14.29 %) AIX 5 1 (14.29 %) Linux 5 1 (14.29 %) DHCP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing Novell 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 Novell. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (28.57 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 5 (71.43 %) GroupWise 2 3 (42.86 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 2 (28.57 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 2 (28.57 %) LAN 1 2 (28.57 %) WAN 1 2 (28.57 %) SAN 2 1 (14.29 %) Network Security 2 1 (14.29 %) DHCP 2 1 (14.29 %) DNS
General 1 4 (57.14 %) Health	Job Titles 1 1 (14.29 %) Network Engineer 1 1 (14.29 %) Technical Support 1 1 (14.29 %) Support Engineer 1 1 (14.29 %) 3rd Line Support 1 1 (14.29 %) 2nd Line Support 1 1 (14.29 %) Administrator 1 1 (14.29 %) Infrastructure Specialist 1 1 (14.29 %) Novell Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (14.29 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 2 (28.57 %) UNIX 1 2 (28.57 %) Windows 2 1 (14.29 %) AIX 2 1 (14.29 %) Linux 2 1 (14.29 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (28.57 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 2 (28.57 %) VB
Qualifications 1 1 (14.29 %) CCNA 1 1 (14.29 %) Cisco Certification	System Software 1 4 (57.14 %) Active Directory 2 2 (28.57 %) NDS 3 1 (14.29 %) Terminal Services
Vendors 1 3 (42.86 %) Microsoft 2 2 (28.57 %) Citrix 3 1 (14.29 %) Cisco