Lancashire Migration Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Migration skills within the Lancashire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Migration over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Addlestone Amersham Argyll and Bute Atherstone Avon Aylesbury Barking Barnsley Barry Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Chalfont St Giles Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Clevedon Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dover Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Grays Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Helensburgh Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Rochester Rotherham Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stirling Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wolverhampton Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	24	31
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	14	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	8.000 %	5.294 %
Daily rates quoted	5	3
Average minimum daily rate	£312	£357
Average daily rate	£343	£365
% change on same period last year	-6.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£374	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£390	£383
% change on same period last year	+1.75 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.33	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£23.17	£26.25
% change on same period last year	-11.74 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.00	£27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.83	£23.29
% change on same period last year	+10.90 %
Processes & Methodologies Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	175	340
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.233 %	0.339 %
Daily rates quoted	37	81
Average minimum daily rate	£365	£348
Average daily rate	£384	£359
% change on same period last year	+7.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£404	£369
UK excluding London average daily rate	£379	£376
% change on same period last year	+0.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	37	34
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.86	£25.40
Average hourly rate	£25.20	£27.39
% change on same period last year	-8.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.53	£29.37
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.35	£30.32
% change on same period last year	+0.10 %
Migration 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 Migration across the Lancashire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies 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 Migration across the Lancashire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Migration across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Migration 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 Migration across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 29 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 Migration 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
Blackpool	+7	4	£350	-5.40 %
Preston	+5	2	£360	-
Lancaster	-	1	£320	-

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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 Migration 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 Migration.

1 13 (40.63 %) SQL 1 13 (40.63 %) Data Migration 2 9 (28.13 %) SQL Server 2 9 (28.13 %) Finance 2 9 (28.13 %) Government 3 6 (18.75 %) Oracle 3 6 (18.75 %) NHS 4 5 (15.63 %) Informatica 4 5 (15.63 %) XML 4 5 (15.63 %) Data Integration 5 4 (12.50 %) Resource Management 5 4 (12.50 %) NPfIT 5 4 (12.50 %) Oracle EBS 5 4 (12.50 %) C++ 6 3 (9.375 %) C#

6 3 (9.375 %) VBA 6 3 (9.375 %) .NET 6 3 (9.375 %) SAP 6 3 (9.375 %) Sybase 6 3 (9.375 %) UML 6 3 (9.375 %) Active Directory 6 3 (9.375 %) SQL Server 2000 6 3 (9.375 %) AutoSys 6 3 (9.375 %) Configuration Management 6 3 (9.375 %) Health 6 3 (9.375 %) HL7 6 3 (9.375 %) Insurance 6 3 (9.375 %) SQL Server 2005 7 2 (6.250 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 2 (6.250 %) Local Government

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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 Migration 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 Migration. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 5 (15.63 %) XML 2 3 (9.375 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 2 (6.250 %) CMS 2 1 (3.125 %) Content Management Server
Business Applications 1 4 (12.50 %) Oracle EBS 2 2 (6.250 %) Teamcenter 3 1 (3.125 %) Navision 3 1 (3.125 %) Oracle Applications	Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.125 %) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (28.13 %) SQL Server 2 3 (9.375 %) SQL Server 2000 2 3 (9.375 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (6.250 %) Data Cleansing 4 1 (3.125 %) Adabas	Development Applications 1 2 (6.250 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (3.125 %) TestDirector
General 1 9 (28.13 %) Finance 1 9 (28.13 %) Government 2 3 (9.375 %) Health 2 3 (9.375 %) Insurance 3 2 (6.250 %) Local Government 3 2 (6.250 %) Military 4 1 (3.125 %) Telecoms 4 1 (3.125 %) Pensions	Job Titles 1 8 (25.00 %) Analyst 2 5 (15.63 %) Consultant 2 5 (15.63 %) Developer 3 4 (12.50 %) Systems Architect 3 4 (12.50 %) Architect 4 3 (9.375 %) Senior Technical Analyst 4 3 (9.375 %) Senior Analyst 4 3 (9.375 %) Technical Analyst 4 3 (9.375 %) Active Directory Specialist 5 2 (6.250 %) Data Migration Analyst 5 2 (6.250 %) UAT Analyst 5 2 (6.250 %) Data Analyst 5 2 (6.250 %) .NET Developer 5 2 (6.250 %) Test Analyst 6 1 (3.125 %) Coordinator 6 1 (3.125 %) Software Developer 6 1 (3.125 %) Network Engineer 6 1 (3.125 %) Applications Specialist 6 1 (3.125 %) Support Specialist 6 1 (3.125 %) Applications Support
Miscellaneous 1 6 (18.75 %) NHS 2 5 (15.63 %) Data Integration 3 4 (12.50 %) NPfIT	Operating Systems 1 1 (3.125 %) UNIX 1 1 (3.125 %) Windows 1 1 (3.125 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (40.63 %) Data Migration 2 4 (12.50 %) Resource Management 3 3 (9.375 %) UML 3 3 (9.375 %) Configuration Management 4 2 (6.250 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 2 (6.250 %) BC Cleared 4 2 (6.250 %) Security Cleared 4 2 (6.250 %) Data Mapping 4 2 (6.250 %) PLM 4 2 (6.250 %) PDM 5 1 (3.125 %) E-Commerce 5 1 (3.125 %) Web Development 5 1 (3.125 %) Content Management 5 1 (3.125 %) Data Analysis	Programming Languages 1 13 (40.63 %) SQL 2 4 (12.50 %) C++ 3 3 (9.375 %) C# 3 3 (9.375 %) VBA 4 2 (6.250 %) Progress 4GL 4 2 (6.250 %) Java 5 1 (3.125 %) C 5 1 (3.125 %) VB
Qualifications 1 2 (6.250 %) Degree 2 1 (3.125 %) ISEB 2 1 (3.125 %) Avaya Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (9.375 %) HL7
System Software 1 3 (9.375 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 3 (9.375 %) AutoSys
Vendors 1 6 (18.75 %) Oracle 2 5 (15.63 %) Informatica 3 3 (9.375 %) SAP 3 3 (9.375 %) Sybase 4 2 (6.250 %) VMware 4 2 (6.250 %) UGS 4 2 (6.250 %) Microsoft 4 2 (6.250 %) Progress 5 1 (3.125 %) JD Edwards 5 1 (3.125 %) Agresso 5 1 (3.125 %) Avaya 5 1 (3.125 %) Cognos