Merseyside Lotus Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Lotus products and/or services in IT contracts within the Merseyside 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 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London County Antrim Coventry Deeside Devon Docklands, London Dorchester Dorking Dorset Driffield Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Falkirk Farnborough Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Goole Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Hartlepool Havant Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Rochdale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weymouth Wiltshire Windlesham Windsor Wolverhampton Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	36	33
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	3	16
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	2.098 %	6.107 %
Daily rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum daily rate	£183	£117
Average daily rate	£188	£122
% change on same period last year	+53.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£193	£127
UK excluding London average daily rate	£223	£223
% change on same period last year	+0.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	8
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£17.32
Average hourly rate	-	£18.09
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£18.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.17	£18.15
% change on same period last year	+5.60 %
Vendors Merseyside
Matching contract IT job ads	143	262
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.193 %	0.258 %
Daily rates quoted	38	87
Average minimum daily rate	£334	£283
Average daily rate	£354	£301
% change on same period last year	+17.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£374	£318
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£358
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	18	43
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.61	£18.54
Average hourly rate	£17.43	£20.95
% change on same period last year	-16.79 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.25	£23.36
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.29	£24.78
% change on same period last year	-1.97 %
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 Merseyside 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 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 Lotus across the Merseyside region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lotus within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
Liverpool	-7	2	£188	+53.26 %

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Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 10 (90.91 %) Lotus Notes 2 6 (54.55 %) MS Office 3 5 (45.45 %) Windows 4 4 (36.36 %) TCP/IP 4 4 (36.36 %) MS Excel 5 3 (27.27 %) Windows NT 5 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft 5 3 (27.27 %) Windows 2000 6 2 (18.18 %) MS Project 6 2 (18.18 %) Blackberry 6 2 (18.18 %) Lotus Domino 6 2 (18.18 %) Billing 6 2 (18.18 %) Law 7 1 (9.091 %) Legal 7 1 (9.091 %) Document Management

7 1 (9.091 %) Systems Analysis 7 1 (9.091 %) Web Development 7 1 (9.091 %) IBM Certification 7 1 (9.091 %) NHS 7 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2000 7 1 (9.091 %) ASP.NET 7 1 (9.091 %) C++ 7 1 (9.091 %) HTML 7 1 (9.091 %) VB.NET 7 1 (9.091 %) .NET 7 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 7 1 (9.091 %) DeltaView 7 1 (9.091 %) Health 7 1 (9.091 %) IBM

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 1 (9.091 %) HTML 1 1 (9.091 %) .NET 1 1 (9.091 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 10 (90.91 %) Lotus Notes 2 2 (18.18 %) Lotus Domino
Applications 1 6 (54.55 %) MS Office 2 4 (36.36 %) MS Excel 3 2 (18.18 %) MS Project 4 1 (9.091 %) DeltaView	Communications & Networking 1 4 (36.36 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 1 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2000	General 1 2 (18.18 %) Law 1 2 (18.18 %) Billing 2 1 (9.091 %) Health 2 1 (9.091 %) Legal
Job Titles 1 5 (45.45 %) Analyst 2 4 (36.36 %) Helpdesk Analyst 3 3 (27.27 %) Developer 4 2 (18.18 %) Coordinator 4 2 (18.18 %) Project Coordinator 4 2 (18.18 %) Lotus Notes Developer 5 1 (9.091 %) SQL Developer 5 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server Developer 5 1 (9.091 %) Desktop Analyst 5 1 (9.091 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 5 1 (9.091 %) 1st Line Support Analyst 5 1 (9.091 %) Helpdesk Support 5 1 (9.091 %) VB.NET Developer 5 1 (9.091 %) Service Desk Analyst 5 1 (9.091 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 5 1 (9.091 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 1 (9.091 %) Support Analyst 5 1 (9.091 %) 1st Line Support 5 1 (9.091 %) Service Analyst 5 1 (9.091 %) .NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (18.18 %) Blackberry 2 1 (9.091 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 5 (45.45 %) Windows 2 3 (27.27 %) Windows 2000 2 3 (27.27 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (9.091 %) Document Management 1 1 (9.091 %) Systems Analysis 1 1 (9.091 %) Web Development
Programming Languages 1 1 (9.091 %) C++ 1 1 (9.091 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 1 (9.091 %) IBM Certification
Vendors 1 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft 2 1 (9.091 %) IBM