Knutsford ISPF Contracts

This section looks at the demand for IBM Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF) skills within the Knutsford region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited ISPF over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF)
Location Blackburn Buckinghamshire East of England England Hertfordshire Knutsford Lancashire Leeds London Manchester Milton Keynes North West South East UK West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
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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 %
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UK excluding London average daily rate	£264	£375
% change on same period last year	-29.56 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
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% change on same period last year	-
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UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	£26.00
% change on same period last year	-
Application Development Knutsford
Matching contract IT job ads	18	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.004 %
Daily rates quoted	6	3
Average minimum daily rate	£370	£403
Average daily rate	£391	£419
% change on same period last year	-6.64 %
Average maximum daily rate	£412	£435
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
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UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.55	£33.03
% change on same period last year	-1.44 %
ISPF Cheshire

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.

ISPF
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ISPF across the Knutsford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.