Leeds Insurance Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Insurance' 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 Insurance over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Amersham Avon Barnsley Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dorking Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hitchin Ipswich Kendal Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Liverpool London Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Potters Bar Reading Redhill Reigate Romford Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Skelmersdale South Coast South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	67	50
Rank change on same period last year	-17
Matching contract IT job ads	11	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	1.947 %	4.526 %
Daily rates quoted	7	0
Average minimum daily rate	£307	-
Average daily rate	£325	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£344	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£410	£384
% change on same period last year	+6.84 %
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	£23.53	£26.87
% change on same period last year	-12.42 %
General Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	565	464
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.753 %	0.469 %
Daily rates quoted	185	101
Average minimum daily rate	£335	£320
Average daily rate	£355	£343
% change on same period last year	+3.54 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£366
UK excluding London average daily rate	£383	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	25
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.84	£24.55
Average hourly rate	£14.97	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-42.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.09	£27.58
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.78	£27.25
% change on same period last year	-1.70 %
Insurance 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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Insurance across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Insurance across the Leeds region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Insurance 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 Insurance.

1 9 (37.50 %) Finance 2 7 (29.17 %) Project Management 3 6 (25.00 %) C# 3 6 (25.00 %) .NET 4 5 (20.83 %) XML 4 5 (20.83 %) ASP.NET 5 4 (16.67 %) Banking 5 4 (16.67 %) Legal 5 4 (16.67 %) PRINCE2 5 4 (16.67 %) Windows 6 3 (12.50 %) Business Objects 6 3 (12.50 %) MS Project 6 3 (12.50 %) Microsoft 6 3 (12.50 %) BusinessObjects 6 3 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 Certification

6 3 (12.50 %) Stakeholder Management 6 3 (12.50 %) Business Analysis 6 3 (12.50 %) Degree 7 2 (8.333 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 2 (8.333 %) BusinessObjects XI 7 2 (8.333 %) System Testing 7 2 (8.333 %) SQL Server 7 2 (8.333 %) WinForms 7 2 (8.333 %) Health 7 2 (8.333 %) AS400 7 2 (8.333 %) PRINCE 7 2 (8.333 %) MS Visio 7 2 (8.333 %) HTML 8 1 (4.167 %) JavaScript 8 1 (4.167 %) PHP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Insurance 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 Insurance. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 6 (25.00 %) .NET 2 5 (20.83 %) ASP.NET 2 5 (20.83 %) XML 3 2 (8.333 %) WinForms 3 2 (8.333 %) HTML 4 1 (4.167 %) SOAP 4 1 (4.167 %) WebServices 4 1 (4.167 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 1 (4.167 %) IIS
Applications 1 3 (12.50 %) MS Project 2 2 (8.333 %) MS Visio 3 1 (4.167 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (4.167 %) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (12.50 %) BusinessObjects 2 2 (8.333 %) SQL Server 2 2 (8.333 %) BusinessObjects XI 3 1 (4.167 %) Data Cleansing 3 1 (4.167 %) MySQL 3 1 (4.167 %) DTS 3 1 (4.167 %) ETL 3 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server Integration Services	Development Applications 1 1 (4.167 %) Rational Rose
General 1 9 (37.50 %) Finance 2 4 (16.67 %) Legal 2 4 (16.67 %) Banking 3 2 (8.333 %) Health 4 1 (4.167 %) Telecoms 4 1 (4.167 %) Pensions 4 1 (4.167 %) Graphic Design	Job Titles 1 8 (33.33 %) Developer 1 8 (33.33 %) Analyst 2 6 (25.00 %) Project Manager 3 5 (20.83 %) Business Analyst 3 5 (20.83 %) C# Developer 4 3 (12.50 %) Insurance Business Analyst 5 2 (8.333 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 5 2 (8.333 %) Business Objects Developer 5 2 (8.333 %) Business Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) Senior Manager 6 1 (4.167 %) Process Analyst 6 1 (4.167 %) Data Analyst 6 1 (4.167 %) Senior Project Manager 6 1 (4.167 %) Business Systems Analyst 6 1 (4.167 %) Systems Analyst 6 1 (4.167 %) Web Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) PHP Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) Implementation Manager 6 1 (4.167 %) Implementation Project Manager 6 1 (4.167 %) ETL Developer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (8.333 %) AS400 2 1 (4.167 %) IVR	Operating Systems 1 4 (16.67 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (29.17 %) Project Management 2 4 (16.67 %) PRINCE2 3 3 (12.50 %) Stakeholder Management 3 3 (12.50 %) Business Analysis 4 2 (8.333 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 2 (8.333 %) System Testing 4 2 (8.333 %) PRINCE 5 1 (4.167 %) Data Migration 5 1 (4.167 %) Risk Management 5 1 (4.167 %) Migration 5 1 (4.167 %) Web Development 5 1 (4.167 %) Resource Management 5 1 (4.167 %) Risk Analysis 5 1 (4.167 %) Use Case 5 1 (4.167 %) Asset Management 5 1 (4.167 %) Data Analysis 5 1 (4.167 %) Critical Path Analysis 5 1 (4.167 %) UML 5 1 (4.167 %) OOP 5 1 (4.167 %) OO	Programming Languages 1 6 (25.00 %) C# 2 1 (4.167 %) JavaScript 2 1 (4.167 %) PHP 2 1 (4.167 %) SQL 2 1 (4.167 %) VB 2 1 (4.167 %) VB.NET 2 1 (4.167 %) VB6
Qualifications 1 3 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 Certification 1 3 (12.50 %) Degree	Vendors 1 3 (12.50 %) Business Objects 1 3 (12.50 %) Microsoft 2 1 (4.167 %) Unisys