London Statistics Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Statistics skills within the London region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Statistics over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Statistics
Location Alderley Edge Barnsley Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Glasgow Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire London Loughborough M4 Corridor Maidenhead Middlesex Midlands Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Oxford Oxfordshire Preston Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southend-on-Sea Surrey Swansea Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Ware Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	321	366
Rank change on same period last year	+45
Matching contract IT job ads	95	111
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.125 %	0.111 %
As % of the category below	1.034 %	0.803 %
Daily rates quoted	33	39
Average minimum daily rate	£335	£253
Average daily rate	£354	£269
% change on same period last year	+31.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£373	£284
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£299
% change on same period last year	+18.37 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.44	£17.06
Average hourly rate	£15.99	£19.66
% change on same period last year	-18.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.54	£22.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.28	£28.16
% change on same period last year	-38.62 %
Miscellaneous London
Matching contract IT job ads	9192	13824
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	12.13 %	13.77 %
Daily rates quoted	4581	6096
Average minimum daily rate	£473	£491
Average daily rate	£510	£527
% change on same period last year	-3.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£547	£563
UK excluding London average daily rate	£351	£352
% change on same period last year	-0.23 %
Hourly rates quoted	360	466
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.18	£23.94
Average hourly rate	£27.07	£25.78
% change on same period last year	+5.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.97	£27.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.25	£28.69
% change on same period last year	-11.97 %
Statistics England

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.

Statistics
Demand Trend

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

Statistics
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Statistics 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 Statistics across the London region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

Statistics
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Statistics across the London region.

Statistics
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Statistics across the London region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

Statistics
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Statistics within the London region over the 3 months to 21 August 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	-7	34	£384	+78.83 %
Croydon	-	2	£170	-
Docklands, London	-	1	-	-
Canary Wharf	+11	1	£275	+218.84 %

Statistics England

Statistics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Statistics 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 Statistics.

1 54 (26.34 %) Finance 2 38 (18.54 %) Degree 3 37 (18.05 %) SQL 4 35 (17.07 %) SQL Server 5 26 (12.68 %) Mathematics 6 25 (12.20 %) UNIX 7 24 (11.71 %) .NET 8 23 (11.22 %) Banking 9 22 (10.73 %) Data Analysis 9 22 (10.73 %) Government 9 22 (10.73 %) MS Excel 10 20 (9.756 %) Health 11 19 (9.268 %) VBA 12 18 (8.780 %) ASP.NET 13 17 (8.293 %) Oracle

13 17 (8.293 %) Microsoft 14 16 (7.805 %) Windows 14 16 (7.805 %) Publishing 14 16 (7.805 %) SQL Server 2005 15 15 (7.317 %) Marketing 15 15 (7.317 %) SQL Server 2000 16 14 (6.829 %) ITIL 16 14 (6.829 %) Data Modelling 16 14 (6.829 %) MS Office 16 14 (6.829 %) Management Information System 16 14 (6.829 %) Project Management 16 14 (6.829 %) Data Management 17 13 (6.341 %) IIS 18 12 (5.854 %) XML 18 12 (5.854 %) Linux

Statistics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Statistics 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 Statistics. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 24 (11.71 %) .NET 2 18 (8.780 %) ASP.NET 3 12 (5.854 %) XML 4 11 (5.366 %) CSS 5 10 (4.878 %) HTML 6 8 (3.902 %) ASP 7 7 (3.415 %) WebServices 7 7 (3.415 %) MDX 8 4 (1.951 %) XHTML 9 3 (1.463 %) CGI 9 3 (1.463 %) Ruby on Rails 10 1 (0.488 %) SAP XI 10 1 (0.488 %) Hibernate 10 1 (0.488 %) WSDL 10 1 (0.488 %) J2EE 10 1 (0.488 %) SOAP 10 1 (0.488 %) STL 10 1 (0.488 %) UDDI 10 1 (0.488 %) ActiveX 10 1 (0.488 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 13 (6.341 %) IIS 2 9 (4.390 %) SAS 3 7 (3.415 %) CMS 4 5 (2.439 %) MS Exchange 5 4 (1.951 %) SharePoint 6 3 (1.463 %) Zope 6 3 (1.463 %) Plone 6 3 (1.463 %) Tomcat 6 3 (1.463 %) Apache 7 1 (0.488 %) NetWeaver 7 1 (0.488 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 7 1 (0.488 %) Exchange Server 5.5 7 1 (0.488 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 22 (10.73 %) MS Excel 2 14 (6.829 %) MS Office 3 11 (5.366 %) Spreadsheet 4 6 (2.927 %) MS PowerPoint 5 4 (1.951 %) Photoshop 5 4 (1.951 %) MS Project 5 4 (1.951 %) SPSS 6 2 (0.976 %) MATLAB 7 1 (0.488 %) AutoCAD 7 1 (0.488 %) Adobe Illustrator 7 1 (0.488 %) MS Visio 7 1 (0.488 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 5 (2.439 %) WebTrends 2 2 (0.976 %) Google Analytics 3 1 (0.488 %) SAP FI/CO 3 1 (0.488 %) SAP CO 3 1 (0.488 %) SAP FI 3 1 (0.488 %) Navision 3 1 (0.488 %) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking 1 7 (3.415 %) Intranet 1 7 (3.415 %) TCP/IP 2 6 (2.927 %) Internet 3 3 (1.463 %) DNS 4 2 (0.976 %) Broadband 4 2 (0.976 %) LAN 4 2 (0.976 %) PBX 4 2 (0.976 %) WAN 4 2 (0.976 %) Firewall 5 1 (0.488 %) Extranet 5 1 (0.488 %) DHCP 5 1 (0.488 %) FTP 5 1 (0.488 %) GPRS 5 1 (0.488 %) GGSN 5 1 (0.488 %) SGSN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 35 (17.07 %) SQL Server 2 16 (7.805 %) SQL Server 2005 3 15 (7.317 %) SQL Server 2000 4 10 (4.878 %) OLAP 5 9 (4.390 %) MS Access 6 5 (2.439 %) Datawarehouse 7 4 (1.951 %) Base SAS 7 4 (1.951 %) DTS 7 4 (1.951 %) GIS 8 3 (1.463 %) BusinessObjects 8 3 (1.463 %) ETL 8 3 (1.463 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 9 2 (0.976 %) SQL Server Integration Services 9 2 (0.976 %) MySQL 9 2 (0.976 %) Data Mining 9 2 (0.976 %) RDBMS 9 2 (0.976 %) PowerCenter 9 2 (0.976 %) Oracle OWB 10 1 (0.488 %) Oracle Discoverer 10 1 (0.488 %) Crystal Reports
Development Applications 1 7 (3.415 %) Visual Studio 2 5 (2.439 %) Dreamweaver 3 4 (1.951 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 1 (0.488 %) TestDirector 4 1 (0.488 %) Flash	General 1 54 (26.34 %) Finance 2 23 (11.22 %) Banking 3 22 (10.73 %) Government 4 20 (9.756 %) Health 5 16 (7.805 %) Publishing 6 15 (7.317 %) Marketing 7 8 (3.902 %) Investment Banking 7 8 (3.902 %) Telecoms 8 7 (3.415 %) Front Office 8 7 (3.415 %) Financial Institution 8 7 (3.415 %) Pharmaceutical 9 5 (2.439 %) Local Government 10 4 (1.951 %) Retail 10 4 (1.951 %) Education 11 3 (1.463 %) Legal 12 2 (0.976 %) Games 12 2 (0.976 %) Law 13 1 (0.488 %) Back Office 13 1 (0.488 %) Construction 13 1 (0.488 %) Advertising
Job Titles 1 95 (46.34 %) Analyst 2 24 (11.71 %) Developer 3 23 (11.22 %) Data Analyst 4 16 (7.805 %) Administrator 5 12 (5.854 %) Senior Analyst 6 11 (5.366 %) Support Specialist 7 10 (4.878 %) Support Analyst 8 9 (4.390 %) Project Manager 9 7 (3.415 %) Applications Support 9 7 (3.415 %) Business Analyst 9 7 (3.415 %) Analyst Developer 9 7 (3.415 %) Information Analyst 9 7 (3.415 %) Business Manager 9 7 (3.415 %) Business Project Manager 10 6 (2.927 %) Senior Analyst Developer 10 6 (2.927 %) Applications Support Analyst 10 6 (2.927 %) Senior Developer 11 5 (2.439 %) SAS Analyst 12 4 (1.951 %) Excel Developer 12 4 (1.951 %) Financial Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 26 (12.68 %) Mathematics 2 14 (6.829 %) Management Information System 3 9 (4.390 %) NHS 4 4 (1.951 %) Market Risk 5 3 (1.463 %) W3C 6 2 (0.976 %) Streaming Media 6 2 (0.976 %) Derivative 6 2 (0.976 %) Data Extraction 6 2 (0.976 %) Podcast 6 2 (0.976 %) Physics 6 2 (0.976 %) Equities 7 1 (0.488 %) AS400 7 1 (0.488 %) Fixed Income 7 1 (0.488 %) Blackberry 7 1 (0.488 %) Computer Science 7 1 (0.488 %) French Language 7 1 (0.488 %) Blog 7 1 (0.488 %) Informatics 7 1 (0.488 %) Credit Risk 7 1 (0.488 %) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems 1 25 (12.20 %) UNIX 2 16 (7.805 %) Windows 3 12 (5.854 %) Linux 4 8 (3.902 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 8 (3.902 %) Windows Server 2003 4 8 (3.902 %) Solaris 5 2 (0.976 %) Windows 2000 5 2 (0.976 %) SUSE 5 2 (0.976 %) Debian 6 1 (0.488 %) Mac OS X 6 1 (0.488 %) VxWorks 6 1 (0.488 %) Windows XP 6 1 (0.488 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 22 (10.73 %) Data Analysis 2 14 (6.829 %) ITIL 2 14 (6.829 %) Data Modelling 2 14 (6.829 %) Project Management 2 14 (6.829 %) Data Management 3 12 (5.854 %) Service Management 4 10 (4.878 %) Security Cleared 4 10 (4.878 %) Operations Research 4 10 (4.878 %) Stakeholder Management 5 9 (4.390 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 8 (3.902 %) PRINCE2 7 7 (3.415 %) Risk Management 7 7 (3.415 %) Service Delivery 7 7 (3.415 %) BPR 7 7 (3.415 %) ERP 7 7 (3.415 %) Six Sigma 7 7 (3.415 %) Business Intelligence 7 7 (3.415 %) Business Analysis 7 7 (3.415 %) Content Management 8 6 (2.927 %) Use Case
Programming Languages 1 37 (18.05 %) SQL 2 19 (9.268 %) VBA 3 11 (5.366 %) Perl 4 10 (4.878 %) VB 5 9 (4.390 %) Shell Script 6 8 (3.902 %) Python 7 7 (3.415 %) Java 7 7 (3.415 %) JavaScript 7 7 (3.415 %) PHP 8 5 (2.439 %) Ruby 9 4 (1.951 %) C 10 3 (1.463 %) PL/SQL 10 3 (1.463 %) Transact-SQL 11 2 (0.976 %) C# 11 2 (0.976 %) C++ 12 1 (0.488 %) XQuery 12 1 (0.488 %) DHTML 12 1 (0.488 %) VB.NET 12 1 (0.488 %) ABAP 12 1 (0.488 %) SAS Macro	Qualifications 1 38 (18.54 %) Degree 2 7 (3.415 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 6 (2.927 %) Cisco Certification 4 3 (1.463 %) PhD 5 2 (0.976 %) CCNA 5 2 (0.976 %) Server+ Certification 6 1 (0.488 %) MBA 6 1 (0.488 %) CCNP 6 1 (0.488 %) A+ Certification 6 1 (0.488 %) ITIL Certification 6 1 (0.488 %) JNCIA 6 1 (0.488 %) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 7 (3.415 %) SLA 2 3 (1.463 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 1 (0.488 %) Basel II 3 1 (0.488 %) QA	System Software 1 5 (2.439 %) Active Directory 2 4 (1.951 %) NetBackup 3 1 (0.488 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 4 (1.951 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 4 (1.951 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 2 (0.976 %) AutoSys 3 1 (0.488 %) MIMEsweeper 3 1 (0.488 %) Tivoli	Vendors 1 17 (8.293 %) Oracle 1 17 (8.293 %) Microsoft 2 9 (4.390 %) SAP 3 6 (2.927 %) Cisco 4 5 (2.439 %) HP 5 4 (1.951 %) Sun 5 4 (1.951 %) Symantec 5 4 (1.951 %) McAfee Security 5 4 (1.951 %) Sophos 5 4 (1.951 %) VERITAS 6 3 (1.463 %) Remedy 6 3 (1.463 %) Adobe 6 3 (1.463 %) Macromedia 6 3 (1.463 %) Business Objects 6 3 (1.463 %) Sybase 6 3 (1.463 %) Cognos 7 2 (0.976 %) Omniture 7 2 (0.976 %) Google 7 2 (0.976 %) IBM 7 2 (0.976 %) Sage