Lancashire CA Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of CA products and/or services in IT contracts within the Lancashire region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited CA over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basildon Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Burton-upon-Trent Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Coventry Crawley Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire Isle of Man Knutsford Lancashire Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Lothian Manchester Merseyside Midlands North West Reading Scotland Slough South East South West Staffordshire Surrey UK Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	35	46
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	3	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	2.055 %	1.376 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£290	£325
Average daily rate	£303	£325
% change on same period last year	-6.92 %
Average maximum daily rate	£315	£325
UK excluding London average daily rate	£407	£389
% change on same period last year	+4.66 %
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	£29.85	£25.07
% change on same period last year	+19.04 %
Vendors Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	146	218
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.195 %	0.217 %
Daily rates quoted	26	48
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£345
Average daily rate	£336	£356
% change on same period last year	-5.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£352	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£359
% change on same period last year	+0.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	35	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.23	£25.32
Average hourly rate	£20.16	£26.60
% change on same period last year	-24.19 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.10	£27.87
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.10	£24.81
% change on same period last year	-2.85 %
CA North West

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 CA, Inc.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing CA across the Lancashire 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 CA across the Lancashire 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 CA across the Lancashire 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 CA within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
Blackburn	-	1	-	-

CA North West

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region citing CA 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 CA.

1 4 (50.00 %) Mainframe 2 3 (37.50 %) REXX 3 2 (25.00 %) Windows 3 2 (25.00 %) Microsoft 3 2 (25.00 %) Finance 3 2 (25.00 %) PrintSoft PReS 3 2 (25.00 %) JCL 4 1 (12.50 %) ISPF 4 1 (12.50 %) WSUS 4 1 (12.50 %) Back Office 4 1 (12.50 %) VSAM 4 1 (12.50 %) Insurance 4 1 (12.50 %) VMware 4 1 (12.50 %) VMware ESX 4 1 (12.50 %) Backup Exec

4 1 (12.50 %) Compuware 4 1 (12.50 %) Active Directory 4 1 (12.50 %) HP 4 1 (12.50 %) Intel 4 1 (12.50 %) Citrix 4 1 (12.50 %) CICS 4 1 (12.50 %) MS Visio 4 1 (12.50 %) DHCP 4 1 (12.50 %) FTP 4 1 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (12.50 %) DNS 4 1 (12.50 %) IBM 4 1 (12.50 %) zOS 4 1 (12.50 %) MVS 4 1 (12.50 %) Legato

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region citing CA 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 CA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (12.50 %) ISPF	Application Platforms 1 1 (12.50 %) CICS
Applications 1 2 (25.00 %) PrintSoft PReS 2 1 (12.50 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 1 (12.50 %) DHCP 1 1 (12.50 %) FTP 1 1 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (12.50 %) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 1 1 (12.50 %) DB2	General 1 2 (25.00 %) Finance 2 1 (12.50 %) Insurance 2 1 (12.50 %) Back Office
Job Titles 1 7 (87.50 %) Analyst 2 2 (25.00 %) Server Support 2 2 (25.00 %) Support Analyst 2 2 (25.00 %) Server Support Analyst 2 2 (25.00 %) Server Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Senior Server Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) IT Business Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Systems Programmer 3 1 (12.50 %) Business Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Integration Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Senior Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Senior Support Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Programmer 3 1 (12.50 %) Systems Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 4 (50.00 %) Mainframe 2 1 (12.50 %) VSAM
Operating Systems 1 2 (25.00 %) Windows 2 1 (12.50 %) zOS 2 1 (12.50 %) MVS	Programming Languages 1 3 (37.50 %) REXX 2 2 (25.00 %) JCL 3 1 (12.50 %) SQL
System Software 1 1 (12.50 %) Active Directory 1 1 (12.50 %) VMware ESX 1 1 (12.50 %) Backup Exec	Systems Management 1 1 (12.50 %) Legato 1 1 (12.50 %) Tivoli 1 1 (12.50 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 1 1 (12.50 %) AutoSys 1 1 (12.50 %) WSUS
Vendors 1 2 (25.00 %) Microsoft 2 1 (12.50 %) Compuware 2 1 (12.50 %) HP 2 1 (12.50 %) Intel 2 1 (12.50 %) Citrix 2 1 (12.50 %) VMware 2 1 (12.50 %) IBM