Merseyside Local Government Contracts

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Local Government' in contract IT jobs within the Merseyside region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Local Government over the 3 months to 4 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Local Government
Location Bedford Bedfordshire Birmingham Bournemouth Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cardiff Carlisle Cheshire Chester City of London Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Dorchester Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Home Counties Hull Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leek Leicestershire London M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Melrose Merseyside Midlands Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Preston Rotherham Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Shropshire South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	38
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	5.202 %
Daily rates quoted	0	8
Average minimum daily rate	-	£395
Average daily rate	-	£398
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£401
UK excluding London average daily rate	£351	£344
% change on same period last year	+2.06 %
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	£23.82	£19.08
% change on same period last year	+24.82 %
General Merseyside
Matching contract IT job ads	134	173
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.181 %	0.173 %
Daily rates quoted	45	56
Average minimum daily rate	£360	£326
Average daily rate	£383	£346
% change on same period last year	+10.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£406	£367
UK excluding London average daily rate	£383	£381
% change on same period last year	+0.36 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.22	£23.37
Average hourly rate	£23.72	£26.53
% change on same period last year	-10.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.22	£29.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.19	£27.23
% change on same period last year	+3.53 %
Local Government 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Local Government across the Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the General 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 Local Government across the Merseyside 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 Local Government across the Merseyside region.

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Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside region citing Local Government 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 Local Government.

1 3 (100.00 %) Government 2 1 (33.33 %) CTC Cleared 2 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (33.33 %) Java 2 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 2 1 (33.33 %) ITIL 2 1 (33.33 %) PRINCE2 2 1 (33.33 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (33.33 %) Project Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Service Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Telecoms 2 1 (33.33 %) Education

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside region citing Local Government 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 Local Government. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

General 1 3 (100.00 %) Government 2 1 (33.33 %) Telecoms 2 1 (33.33 %) Education	Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Project Manager 1 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Support Analyst
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) ITIL 1 1 (33.33 %) PRINCE2 1 1 (33.33 %) Project Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Service Management 1 1 (33.33 %) CTC Cleared 1 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) Java
Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) PRINCE2 Certification	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle