Lancashire Education Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Education' in contract IT jobs within the Lancashire region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Education over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Education
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Gateshead Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Harlow Hayes Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Reading Scotland Scunthorpe Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southend-on-Sea Stevenage Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Teddington Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Witham Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	27	49
Rank change on same period last year	+22
Matching contract IT job ads	8	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	7.207 %	0.781 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£400
Average daily rate	-	£450
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£304	£375
% change on same period last year	-19.03 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.83	-
Average hourly rate	£17.46	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.09	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.07	£26.37
% change on same period last year	-12.53 %
General Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	111	256
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.146 %	0.255 %
Daily rates quoted	30	74
Average minimum daily rate	£374	£331
Average daily rate	£394	£337
% change on same period last year	+16.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£413	£343
UK excluding London average daily rate	£382	£381
% change on same period last year	+0.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	25	30
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.53	£23.80
Average hourly rate	£25.12	£26.23
% change on same period last year	-4.22 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.70	£28.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.85	£27.05
% change on same period last year	+2.97 %
Education 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.

Education
Demand Trend

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

Education
Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Education across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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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 Education within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Lancaster	-	3	-	-
Blackpool	-	2	-	-
Burnley	-	1	-	-

Education North West

Education
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region citing Education 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 Education.

1 3 (37.50 %) Project Management 1 3 (37.50 %) PRINCE2 1 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft 2 2 (25.00 %) Windows 3 1 (12.50 %) SAN 3 1 (12.50 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 3 1 (12.50 %) Physics 3 1 (12.50 %) Electric 3 1 (12.50 %) Government 3 1 (12.50 %) Stakeholder Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Clustering 3 1 (12.50 %) VHDL

Education
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking 1 1 (12.50 %) SAN	General 1 1 (12.50 %) Electric 1 1 (12.50 %) Government
Job Titles 1 3 (37.50 %) Project Manager 1 3 (37.50 %) Junior 1 3 (37.50 %) Junior Project Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) Support Technician 2 1 (12.50 %) Support Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 1 1 (12.50 %) Physics 1 1 (12.50 %) Clustering 1 1 (12.50 %) VHDL
Operating Systems 1 2 (25.00 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) Project Management 1 3 (37.50 %) PRINCE2 2 1 (12.50 %) Stakeholder Management
Vendors 1 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft