Lancashire Orchard Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Orchard 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 Orchard over the 3 months to 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location City of London East Midlands England Hampshire Lancashire London Merseyside North West South East South West UK Wales Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	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	£250	£275
% change on same period last year	-9.09 %
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	£27.50	£25.00
% change on same period last year	+10.00 %
Vendors Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	145	176
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.235 %	0.192 %
Daily rates quoted	31	34
Average minimum daily rate	£266	£326
Average daily rate	£283	£341
% change on same period last year	-16.97 %
Average maximum daily rate	£299	£355
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£348
% change on same period last year	+2.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	31	31
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.45	£20.08
Average hourly rate	£19.12	£22.36
% change on same period last year	-14.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.79	£24.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.89	£24.00
% change on same period last year	-0.42 %
Orchard 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 Orchard Information Systems Ltd.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Orchard 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 Orchard across the Lancashire region.

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Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region citing Orchard 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 Orchard.

1 2 (100.00 %) Northgate 1 2 (100.00 %) Academy Housing 2 1 (50.00 %) arcHouse 2 1 (50.00 %) Civica 2 1 (50.00 %) Comino 2 1 (50.00 %) Capita 2 1 (50.00 %) Change Management 2 1 (50.00 %) Anite

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region citing Orchard 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 Orchard. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Business Applications 1 2 (100.00 %) Academy Housing 2 1 (50.00 %) arcHouse	Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) Project Manager 2 1 (50.00 %) Implementation Manager 2 1 (50.00 %) Implementation Project Manager 2 1 (50.00 %) Business Project Manager 2 1 (50.00 %) Business Manager
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (50.00 %) Change Management	Vendors 1 2 (100.00 %) Northgate 2 1 (50.00 %) Civica 2 1 (50.00 %) Comino 2 1 (50.00 %) Capita 2 1 (50.00 %) Anite