London assyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Axios Systems assyst skills within the London region with a comparison to our Business Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited assyst over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Cambridgeshire City of London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Leeds London Maidenhead Newport Norfolk Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Peterborough Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West Sutton Coldfield Swindon Taunton Telford UK Uxbridge Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	386	455
Rank change on same period last year	+69
Matching contract IT job ads	13	24
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.025 %
As % of the category below	0.541 %	0.700 %
Daily rates quoted	10	3
Average minimum daily rate	£301	£313
Average daily rate	£305	£313
% change on same period last year	-2.73 %
Average maximum daily rate	£309	£313
UK excluding London average daily rate	£174	£264
% change on same period last year	-34.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£17.40
Average hourly rate	£24.00	£17.60
% change on same period last year	+36.36 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.00	£17.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£12.27	£18.03
% change on same period last year	-31.90 %
Business Applications London
Matching contract IT job ads	2404	3427
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.169 %	3.584 %
Daily rates quoted	802	1041
Average minimum daily rate	£458	£461
Average daily rate	£490	£500
% change on same period last year	-2.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£522	£539
UK excluding London average daily rate	£450	£442
% change on same period last year	+1.91 %
Hourly rates quoted	49	40
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.53	£28.74
Average hourly rate	£39.29	£31.89
% change on same period last year	+23.20 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£46.05	£35.04
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.07	£27.81
% change on same period last year	+11.73 %
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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 assyst across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Business Applications 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 assyst across the London region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing assyst across the London region over the 3 months to 8 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 assyst across the London region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing assyst within the London region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
City of London	-16	8	£323	+69.92 %
Uxbridge	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing assyst 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 assyst.

1 11 (37.93 %) ITIL 2 10 (34.48 %) Citrix 2 10 (34.48 %) Microsoft 2 10 (34.48 %) Banking 3 9 (31.03 %) Investment Banking 3 9 (31.03 %) Windows 4 8 (27.59 %) Active Directory 4 8 (27.59 %) Terminal Services 5 7 (24.14 %) Windows XP 6 6 (20.69 %) Windows Server 2003 7 4 (13.79 %) MS Office 7 4 (13.79 %) SQL 7 4 (13.79 %) Oracle 7 4 (13.79 %) Incident Management 8 3 (10.34 %) LANDesk

8 3 (10.34 %) SLA 8 3 (10.34 %) MCP 8 3 (10.34 %) Service Management 8 3 (10.34 %) ITSM 8 3 (10.34 %) Finance 8 3 (10.34 %) Government 8 3 (10.34 %) Bugzilla 8 3 (10.34 %) Microsoft Certification 8 3 (10.34 %) Configuration Management 9 2 (6.897 %) Primavera 9 2 (6.897 %) Remedy 9 2 (6.897 %) Blackberry 9 2 (6.897 %) A+ Certification 9 2 (6.897 %) SQL Server 7 9 2 (6.897 %) SQL Server 2000

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing assyst 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 assyst. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (6.897 %) JSP 1 2 (6.897 %) HTML 2 1 (3.448 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 2 (6.897 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (3.448 %) WebLogic 2 1 (3.448 %) Apache
Applications 1 4 (13.79 %) MS Office 2 2 (6.897 %) MS Project 3 1 (3.448 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 2 (6.897 %) DHCP 1 2 (6.897 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (3.448 %) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (6.897 %) SQL Server 7 1 2 (6.897 %) SQL Server 2000 1 2 (6.897 %) Oracle OWB 1 2 (6.897 %) SQL Server 1 2 (6.897 %) ETL 1 2 (6.897 %) Oracle 8/8i 1 2 (6.897 %) MS Access 1 2 (6.897 %) DTS 1 2 (6.897 %) Oracle Discoverer 1 2 (6.897 %) TOAD 2 1 (3.448 %) Oracle 10g	Development Applications 1 3 (10.34 %) Bugzilla
General 1 10 (34.48 %) Banking 2 9 (31.03 %) Investment Banking 3 3 (10.34 %) Finance 3 3 (10.34 %) Government 4 1 (3.448 %) Insurance 4 1 (3.448 %) Education	Job Titles 1 11 (37.93 %) Analyst 2 7 (24.14 %) Citrix Engineer 3 6 (20.69 %) Senior Citrix Engineer 4 5 (17.24 %) Support Analyst 4 5 (17.24 %) Service Analyst 5 4 (13.79 %) Service Desk Analyst 6 3 (10.34 %) IT Support Analyst 6 3 (10.34 %) Senior Support Analyst 6 3 (10.34 %) Helpdesk Analyst 6 3 (10.34 %) Applications Developer 6 3 (10.34 %) Senior Analyst 6 3 (10.34 %) Helpdesk Support 6 3 (10.34 %) Desktop Support 6 3 (10.34 %) Developer 7 2 (6.897 %) Support Technician 7 2 (6.897 %) Administrator 7 2 (6.897 %) Desktop Support Technician 7 2 (6.897 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 8 1 (3.448 %) WebLogic Administrator 8 1 (3.448 %) Citrix Support
Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.897 %) Blackberry 2 1 (3.448 %) Management Information System	Operating Systems 1 9 (31.03 %) Windows 2 7 (24.14 %) Windows XP 3 6 (20.69 %) Windows Server 2003 4 2 (6.897 %) Windows NT 5 1 (3.448 %) Unix
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (37.93 %) ITIL 2 4 (13.79 %) Incident Management 3 3 (10.34 %) Service Management 3 3 (10.34 %) ITSM 3 3 (10.34 %) Configuration Management 4 2 (6.897 %) Change Management 4 2 (6.897 %) RAD 4 2 (6.897 %) SSADM 4 2 (6.897 %) DSDM 4 2 (6.897 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 2 (6.897 %) Project Planning 4 2 (6.897 %) Software Engineering 5 1 (3.448 %) Problem Management 5 1 (3.448 %) Business Intelligence	Programming Languages 1 4 (13.79 %) SQL 2 2 (6.897 %) Java 2 2 (6.897 %) PL/SQL 2 2 (6.897 %) VB 2 2 (6.897 %) VBA 2 2 (6.897 %) VB6
Qualifications 1 3 (10.34 %) MCP 1 3 (10.34 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (6.897 %) A+ Certification 2 2 (6.897 %) MCSE	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (10.34 %) SLA
System Software 1 8 (27.59 %) Active Directory 1 8 (27.59 %) Terminal Services	Systems Management 1 1 (3.448 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 1 (3.448 %) OpenView
Vendors 1 10 (34.48 %) Citrix 1 10 (34.48 %) Microsoft 2 4 (13.79 %) Oracle 3 3 (10.34 %) LANDesk 4 2 (6.897 %) Primavera 4 2 (6.897 %) Remedy 5 1 (3.448 %) HP