Leeds Chemicals Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Chemicals' in contract IT jobs within the Leeds 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 Chemicals over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Chemical
Location Aberdeen Berkshire Cheshire City of London Dorset Durham East Anglia East of England Edinburgh England Essex Leeds London Manchester Middlesex Midlands North East North West Reading Scotland South East South West Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Surrey Thames Valley UK Warrington West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	69
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.613 %
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	£350	£435
% change on same period last year	-19.54 %
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	£36.67	£27.92
% change on same period last year	+31.34 %
General Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	574	489
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.757 %	0.487 %
Daily rates quoted	184	97
Average minimum daily rate	£341	£386
Average daily rate	£361	£419
% change on same period last year	-13.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£382	£451
UK excluding London average daily rate	£382	£381
% change on same period last year	+0.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	24
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.29	£25.57
Average hourly rate	£20.21	£26.92
% change on same period last year	-24.92 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.13	£28.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.85	£27.05
% change on same period last year	+2.97 %
Chemicals West Yorkshire

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.

Chemicals
Demand Trend

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