Lancashire Junior Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Junior role in IT contracts within the Lancashire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Junior in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Avon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Chatham Chertsey Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dartford Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset East Anglia East Ayrshire East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kilmarnock Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Paddington Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Rotherham Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staines Suffolk Surrey Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Ware Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	38	41
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	3	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	0.862 %	1.263 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£145	-
Average daily rate	£148	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£150	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£242	£231
% change on same period last year	+4.69 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.00	£6.50
Average hourly rate	£23.09	£7.50
% change on same period last year	+207.86 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.18	£8.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.18	£13.80
% change on same period last year	+10.05 %
Job Titles Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	348	475
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.459 %	0.504 %
Daily rates quoted	71	113
Average minimum daily rate	£318	£321
Average daily rate	£332	£330
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Average maximum daily rate	£347	£340
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	55	73
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.48	£23.66
Average hourly rate	£22.28	£25.60
% change on same period last year	-12.98 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.07	£27.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
Junior 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Junior across the Lancashire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles 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 Junior 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 Junior 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 Junior across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 4 July 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 job ads citing Junior within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 4 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
Lancaster	-	2	-	-
Preston	-	1	£148	-

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Top 4 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region that cited Junior in their job title 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 with Junior in their job title.

1 2 (50.00 %) Finance 1 2 (50.00 %) Education 1 2 (50.00 %) PRINCE2 1 2 (50.00 %) Project Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region that cited Junior in their job title 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 with Junior in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

General 1 2 (50.00 %) Finance 1 2 (50.00 %) Education

Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (50.00 %) PRINCE2 1 2 (50.00 %) Project Management