Merseyside VHDL Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL) skills within the Merseyside region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VHDL over the 3 months to 5 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL)
Location Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London Devon East Anglia East Midlands East of England England Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe London Merseyside South East South West Stevenage Surrey Thames Valley UK Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
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	£36.95	£40.18
% change on same period last year	-8.04 %
Miscellaneous Merseyside
Matching contract IT job ads	76	80
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.124 %	0.088 %
Daily rates quoted	20	11
Average minimum daily rate	£275	£199
Average daily rate	£304	£207
% change on same period last year	+47.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£333	£215
UK excluding London average daily rate	£343	£345
% change on same period last year	-0.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	28	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.42	£12.27
Average hourly rate	£12.93	£13.19
% change on same period last year	-1.95 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£13.44	£14.11
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.75	£25.49
% change on same period last year	+1.03 %
VHDL 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.

VHDL
Demand Trend

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