Leeds Handset Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Handsets skills within the Leeds region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Handset over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Handsets
Location Aberdeen Barking Basingstoke Berkshire Brighton Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London East Anglia East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Glasgow Godalming Hampshire Haverhill Hayes Hertfordshire Home Counties Leeds London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport North East North West Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Somerset South East South Wales South West Southampton Staines Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands Wiltshire Woking	3 months to 25 Jul 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	£272	£386
% change on same period last year	-29.55 %
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	£29.12	£32.68
% change on same period last year	-10.88 %
Miscellaneous Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	343	267
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.457 %	0.270 %
Daily rates quoted	100	43
Average minimum daily rate	£358	£360
Average daily rate	£382	£408
% change on same period last year	-6.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£406	£457
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£354
% change on same period last year	-0.56 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	21
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.83	£19.87
Average hourly rate	£17.08	£21.03
% change on same period last year	-18.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.33	£22.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.44	£29.20
% change on same period last year	-16.30 %
Handset 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.

Handset
Demand Trend

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

Handset
Daily Rate Trend

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