Lancashire Client/Server Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Client Server skills within the Lancashire region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Client/Server over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Client Server
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Fleetwood Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Scotland Sheffield South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staines Surbiton Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	39	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	1.667 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£309
% change on same period last year	+10.33 %
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	£23.75	£32.68
% change on same period last year	-27.32 %
Miscellaneous Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	60	60
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.084 %	0.061 %
Daily rates quoted	18	19
Average minimum daily rate	£253	£258
Average daily rate	£268	£270
% change on same period last year	-1.04 %
Average maximum daily rate	£282	£282
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£345
% change on same period last year	+1.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.67	£19.16
Average hourly rate	£24.42	£20.29
% change on same period last year	+20.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.18	£21.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.99	£26.29
% change on same period last year	-4.93 %
Client/Server 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.

Client/Server
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Client/Server across the Lancashire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Client/Server
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Client/Server across the Lancashire region.

Client/Server
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Client/Server across the Lancashire region.

Client/Server
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Client/Server within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
Fleetwood	-	1	-	-

Client/Server North West

Client/Server
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region citing Client/Server 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 Client/Server.

1 2 (66.67 %) MS Office 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows 1 2 (66.67 %) MS Excel 1 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft 1 2 (66.67 %) Active Directory 1 2 (66.67 %) Citrix 1 2 (66.67 %) Novell 1 2 (66.67 %) Terminal Services 1 2 (66.67 %) Mainframe 1 2 (66.67 %) Incident Management 1 2 (66.67 %) VME

Client/Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region citing Client/Server 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 Client/Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) MS Office 1 2 (66.67 %) MS Excel	Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) 1st Line Support 2 1 (33.33 %) Helpdesk Support 2 1 (33.33 %) Developer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (66.67 %) Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows 1 2 (66.67 %) VME
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Incident Management	System Software 1 2 (66.67 %) Active Directory 1 2 (66.67 %) Terminal Services
Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft 1 2 (66.67 %) Citrix 1 2 (66.67 %) Novell