Midlands LiveLink Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Open Text LiveLink skills within the Midlands region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited LiveLink over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Open Text LiveLink
Location City of London Devon England Exeter London Manchester Midlands North West Salford South West UK Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands	3 months to 5 Sep 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	£303	£277
% change on same period last year	+9.56 %
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	-	£32.50
% change on same period last year	-
Application Platforms Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	132	292
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.178 %	0.288 %
Daily rates quoted	29	36
Average minimum daily rate	£379	£348
Average daily rate	£410	£370
% change on same period last year	+10.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£441	£391
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£344
% change on same period last year	+2.86 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.00	£24.90
Average hourly rate	£30.00	£25.70
% change on same period last year	+16.73 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.00	£26.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.63	£24.38
% change on same period last year	+5.11 %
LiveLink England

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.

LiveLink
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing LiveLink across the Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.