Manchester Lotus Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Lotus products and/or services in IT contracts within the Manchester region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Lotus over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Avon Aylesbury Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chichester City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorset Driffield Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Godalming Goole Guisborough Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Hartlepool Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knottingley Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northumberland Norwich Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Rochdale Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stafford Staffordshire Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weymouth Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	68	39
Rank change on same period last year	-29
Matching contract IT job ads	13	30
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.030 %
As % of the category below	2.439 %	6.122 %
Daily rates quoted	2	5
Average minimum daily rate	£165	£221
Average daily rate	£190	£221
% change on same period last year	-14.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£215	£221
UK excluding London average daily rate	£239	£238
% change on same period last year	+0.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.00	£16.40
Average hourly rate	£22.55	£17.20
% change on same period last year	+31.10 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.10	£18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.09	£17.24
% change on same period last year	+4.93 %
Vendors Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	533	490
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.710 %	0.496 %
Daily rates quoted	92	110
Average minimum daily rate	£342	£333
Average daily rate	£360	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£378	£370
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£359
% change on same period last year	-0.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	70	52
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.03	£20.07
Average hourly rate	£18.29	£21.50
% change on same period last year	-14.92 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.55	£22.92
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.25	£24.99
% change on same period last year	-6.94 %
Lotus North West

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 IBM Lotus Software.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Lotus across the Manchester 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 Lotus across the Manchester region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Lotus across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lotus within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 25 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
Oldham	-	1	-	-
Bury	-	1	-	-
Rochdale	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Lotus 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 Lotus.

1 23 (95.83 %) Lotus Notes 2 9 (37.50 %) SQL Server 3 8 (33.33 %) Windows 4 6 (25.00 %) MS Office 4 6 (25.00 %) Microsoft 5 5 (20.83 %) Active Directory 5 5 (20.83 %) SQL 5 5 (20.83 %) Finance 6 4 (16.67 %) Oracle 6 4 (16.67 %) Crystal Reports 6 4 (16.67 %) Oracle Reports 6 4 (16.67 %) MS Excel 6 4 (16.67 %) LAN 7 3 (12.50 %) WAN 7 3 (12.50 %) Windows NT

7 3 (12.50 %) Cognos 7 3 (12.50 %) Windows XP 7 3 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 7 3 (12.50 %) JD Edwards 7 3 (12.50 %) Agresso 7 3 (12.50 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 8 2 (8.333 %) MCSA 8 2 (8.333 %) Windows Server 2003 8 2 (8.333 %) Blackberry 8 2 (8.333 %) Project Management 8 2 (8.333 %) HP 8 2 (8.333 %) Citrix 8 2 (8.333 %) .NET 8 2 (8.333 %) ITIL 8 2 (8.333 %) PRINCE2

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Lotus 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 Lotus. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (8.333 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 23 (95.83 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (4.167 %) Lotus Domino 2 1 (4.167 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (4.167 %) GroupWise 2 1 (4.167 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 2 1 (4.167 %) IIS
Applications 1 6 (25.00 %) MS Office 2 4 (16.67 %) MS Excel 3 1 (4.167 %) SmartSuite 3 1 (4.167 %) AutoCAD 3 1 (4.167 %) InDesign 3 1 (4.167 %) MS PowerPoint 3 1 (4.167 %) Spreadsheet	Communications & Networking 1 4 (16.67 %) LAN 2 3 (12.50 %) WAN 3 1 (4.167 %) DHCP 3 1 (4.167 %) Ethernet 3 1 (4.167 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (4.167 %) DNS 3 1 (4.167 %) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (37.50 %) SQL Server 2 4 (16.67 %) Crystal Reports 2 4 (16.67 %) Oracle Reports 3 1 (4.167 %) GIS 3 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server Reporting Services	General 1 5 (20.83 %) Finance 2 1 (4.167 %) Construction 2 1 (4.167 %) Law 2 1 (4.167 %) Publishing 2 1 (4.167 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 4 (16.67 %) Applications Support 2 3 (12.50 %) 2nd Line Support 2 3 (12.50 %) Analyst 2 3 (12.50 %) Technical Engineer 3 2 (8.333 %) Support Engineer 3 2 (8.333 %) Project Coordinator 3 2 (8.333 %) Infrastructure Manager 3 2 (8.333 %) 3rd Line Support 3 2 (8.333 %) Coordinator 4 1 (4.167 %) Project Manager 4 1 (4.167 %) Tester 4 1 (4.167 %) Desktop Support 4 1 (4.167 %) Support Consultant 4 1 (4.167 %) Administrator 4 1 (4.167 %) Test Analyst 4 1 (4.167 %) IT Manager 4 1 (4.167 %) Consultant 4 1 (4.167 %) Technical Project Manager 4 1 (4.167 %) Support Analyst 4 1 (4.167 %) Technical Support	Miscellaneous 1 2 (8.333 %) Blackberry 2 1 (4.167 %) Clustering 2 1 (4.167 %) EPoS
Operating Systems 1 8 (33.33 %) Windows 2 3 (12.50 %) Windows NT 2 3 (12.50 %) Windows XP 3 2 (8.333 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (4.167 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (4.167 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (8.333 %) ITIL 1 2 (8.333 %) PRINCE2 1 2 (8.333 %) Project Management 1 2 (8.333 %) Migration 2 1 (4.167 %) Stakeholder Management 2 1 (4.167 %) Resource Management 2 1 (4.167 %) Disaster Recovery 2 1 (4.167 %) CAD
Programming Languages 1 5 (20.83 %) SQL 2 1 (4.167 %) C	Qualifications 1 3 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (8.333 %) MCSA 2 2 (8.333 %) Degree 3 1 (4.167 %) MCSE 3 1 (4.167 %) PRINCE2 Certification
System Software 1 5 (20.83 %) Active Directory 2 1 (4.167 %) MetaFrame 2 1 (4.167 %) ISA Server 2 1 (4.167 %) Backup Exec	Systems Management 1 3 (12.50 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 6 (25.00 %) Microsoft 2 4 (16.67 %) Oracle 3 3 (12.50 %) Cognos 3 3 (12.50 %) JD Edwards 3 3 (12.50 %) Agresso 4 2 (8.333 %) HP 4 2 (8.333 %) Citrix 5 1 (4.167 %) Novell 5 1 (4.167 %) Cisco 5 1 (4.167 %) Adobe