M4 Corridor Novell Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Novell products and/or services in IT contracts within the M4 Corridor region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Novell over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Barking Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canterbury Chertsey Cheshire Chichester City of London Coventry Devon Dewsbury Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glamorgan Glasgow Hammersmith Hampshire Hartlepool Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Inverness Kent Leatherhead Leeds Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Renfrewshire Rotherham Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wirral Woking Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	27
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	1.449 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£400
Average daily rate	-	£400
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£261	£260
% change on same period last year	+0.31 %
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	£17.02	£17.60
% change on same period last year	-3.29 %
Vendors M4 Corridor
Matching contract IT job ads	91	69
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.120 %	0.069 %
Daily rates quoted	13	7
Average minimum daily rate	£410	£439
Average daily rate	£419	£439
% change on same period last year	-4.54 %
Average maximum daily rate	£429	£439
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£358
% change on same period last year	+0.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£33.33
Average hourly rate	-	£34.58
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£35.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£24.82
% change on same period last year	-4.13 %
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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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Novell, Inc.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Novell across the M4 Corridor region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors 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 Novell across the M4 Corridor region.

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Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the M4 Corridor region citing Novell 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 Novell.

1 2 (100.00 %) Windows 1 2 (100.00 %) Windows 2000 1 2 (100.00 %) MS Excel 1 2 (100.00 %) Windows NT 1 2 (100.00 %) DNS 1 2 (100.00 %) Active Directory 1 2 (100.00 %) OpenView 1 2 (100.00 %) SAN 1 2 (100.00 %) Windows Server 2003 1 2 (100.00 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the M4 Corridor region citing Novell 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 Novell. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 2 (100.00 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 2 (100.00 %) DNS 1 2 (100.00 %) SAN
Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) Analyst	Operating Systems 1 2 (100.00 %) Windows 1 2 (100.00 %) Windows 2000 1 2 (100.00 %) Windows NT 1 2 (100.00 %) Windows Server 2003
System Software 1 2 (100.00 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 2 (100.00 %) OpenView 1 2 (100.00 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)