Leeds Reference Data Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Reference Data skills within the Leeds region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Reference Data over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Bedfordshire Canary Wharf City of London Docklands, London Dunstable East Midlands East of England England Glasgow Hertfordshire Leeds Liverpool London Luton Merseyside Midlands North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Scotland South West UK	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
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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
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UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£334
% change on same period last year	+8.03 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
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% change on same period last year	-
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UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.00	-
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Database & Business Intelligence Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	273	220
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.360 %	0.233 %
Daily rates quoted	56	30
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£320
Average daily rate	£314	£339
% change on same period last year	-7.37 %
Average maximum daily rate	£327	£357
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£354
% change on same period last year	-1.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.38	£25.50
Average hourly rate	£31.19	£27.16
% change on same period last year	+14.84 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.00	£28.81
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.43	£30.86
% change on same period last year	+5.09 %
Reference Data 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 Reference Data across the Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

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Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Reference Data 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 Reference Data.

1 3 (100.00 %) Validation 1 3 (100.00 %) Data Validation 2 2 (66.67 %) Data Analysis 2 2 (66.67 %) MS Office 2 2 (66.67 %) MS Excel 2 2 (66.67 %) MS Access 3 1 (33.33 %) NHS 3 1 (33.33 %) XML 3 1 (33.33 %) Quality Management 3 1 (33.33 %) Health

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Reference Data 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 Reference Data. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (33.33 %) XML	Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) MS Office 1 2 (66.67 %) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (66.67 %) MS Access	General 1 1 (33.33 %) Health
Job Titles 1 3 (100.00 %) Analyst 1 3 (100.00 %) Test Analyst 2 2 (66.67 %) Data Analyst 3 1 (33.33 %) Senior Test Analyst 3 1 (33.33 %) Senior Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) NHS
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (100.00 %) Validation 1 3 (100.00 %) Data Validation 2 2 (66.67 %) Data Analysis 3 1 (33.33 %) Quality Management