M4 Corridor 3G Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for 3G skills in IT contracts advertised for the M4 Corridor region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 3G over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the M4 Corridor region.

3G
Location Amersham Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire City of London Coventry Dartford East of England East Sussex England Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Northern Ireland Reading Scotland Slough South East South Wales South West Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 19 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	-	-	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0	0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the M4 Corridor	-	-	-
As % of the Communications & Networking category	-	-	-
Daily rates quoted	0	0	0
Average daily rate	-	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£280	£301	£275
% change year-on-year	-6.820 % +9.270 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0	0
Average hourly rate	-	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.50	£32.50	£40.00
% change year-on-year	+12.30 % -18.75 %
All Communications & Networking M4 Corridor
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Communications & Networking category	1	8	16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the M4 Corridor	2.174 %	13.11 %	15.09 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2	4
Average daily rate	-	£400	£500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	- -20.00 %
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£338	£325
% change year-on-year	-3.700 % +3.840 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1	0
Average hourly rate	-	£35.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.00	£24.00	£27.50
% change year-on-year	+4.160 % -12.72 %
3G South East

Daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

3G
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing 3G across the M4 Corridor region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

3G
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing 3G across the M4 Corridor region.

3G
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing 3G across the M4 Corridor region.