Milton Keynes Degree Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Degree in IT contracts within the Milton Keynes region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Degree over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Degree
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aylesbury Barking Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bletchley Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Conwy County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Douglas Dundee Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Perth and Kinross Peterborough Plymouth Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Romford Rugby Runcorn Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Tamworth Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wiltshire Witham Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	47	47
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	22	23
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.029 %	0.024 %
As % of the category below	13.41 %	21.10 %
Daily rates quoted	9	3
Average minimum daily rate	£301	£263
Average daily rate	£305	£263
% change on same period last year	+15.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£310	£263
UK excluding London average daily rate	£347	£306
% change on same period last year	+13.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£21.73
Average hourly rate	-	£21.73
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£21.73
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.22	£31.42
% change on same period last year	-13.35 %
Qualifications Milton Keynes
Matching contract IT job ads	164	109
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.216 %	0.114 %
Daily rates quoted	62	13
Average minimum daily rate	£340	£292
Average daily rate	£349	£308
% change on same period last year	+13.42 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£323
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£339
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	31	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.48	£18.39
Average hourly rate	£32.10	£19.29
% change on same period last year	+66.38 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.71	£20.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.13	£25.71
% change on same period last year	-2.24 %
Degree Buckinghamshire

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.

Degree
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Degree across the Milton Keynes region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Degree
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Degree across the Milton Keynes region.

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Degree across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Degree
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing Degree 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 Degree.

1 11 (22.92 %) Java 1 11 (22.92 %) Finance 2 9 (18.75 %) Computer Science 2 9 (18.75 %) Linux 3 8 (16.67 %) Tomcat 3 8 (16.67 %) Apache 3 8 (16.67 %) MySQL 3 8 (16.67 %) Games 3 8 (16.67 %) VMware 4 7 (14.58 %) Automotive 4 7 (14.58 %) Unit Testing 4 7 (14.58 %) Intel 4 7 (14.58 %) Red Hat 4 7 (14.58 %) Security Cleared 5 6 (12.50 %) SC Cleared

5 6 (12.50 %) J2EE 5 6 (12.50 %) PHP 5 6 (12.50 %) ITIL 5 6 (12.50 %) Service Delivery 6 5 (10.42 %) Financial Institution 6 5 (10.42 %) IBM Mainframe 6 5 (10.42 %) Time Management 6 5 (10.42 %) Windows 6 5 (10.42 %) COBOL 6 5 (10.42 %) DB2 6 5 (10.42 %) Mainframe 6 5 (10.42 %) CICS 6 5 (10.42 %) ITIL Certification 6 5 (10.42 %) IBM 7 4 (8.333 %) UML

Degree
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing Degree 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 Degree. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 6 (12.50 %) J2EE 2 3 (6.250 %) Hibernate 2 3 (6.250 %) MVC 2 3 (6.250 %) JRules 2 3 (6.250 %) Spring 2 3 (6.250 %) Struts 2 3 (6.250 %) EJB 2 3 (6.250 %) JSP 2 3 (6.250 %) HTML 3 2 (4.167 %) .NET 3 2 (4.167 %) Servlets 3 2 (4.167 %) .NET Framework 3 2 (4.167 %) Adobe Flex 3 2 (4.167 %) WPF 3 2 (4.167 %) WinForms 4 1 (2.083 %) WebSphere 4 1 (2.083 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 8 (16.67 %) Tomcat 1 8 (16.67 %) Apache 2 5 (10.42 %) CICS 3 3 (6.250 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 1 (2.083 %) MS PowerPoint 1 1 (2.083 %) MS Excel 1 1 (2.083 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (2.083 %) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.083 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (16.67 %) MySQL 2 5 (10.42 %) DB2 3 3 (6.250 %) Data Cleansing
Development Applications 1 4 (8.333 %) Eclipse 2 2 (4.167 %) Flash 3 1 (2.083 %) JMeter 3 1 (2.083 %) ClearCase 3 1 (2.083 %) Ant 3 1 (2.083 %) ClearQuest 3 1 (2.083 %) TestDirector	General 1 11 (22.92 %) Finance 2 8 (16.67 %) Games 3 7 (14.58 %) Automotive 4 5 (10.42 %) Financial Institution 5 4 (8.333 %) Education 5 4 (8.333 %) Government 6 3 (6.250 %) Electric 6 3 (6.250 %) Insurance 7 2 (4.167 %) Online Games 8 1 (2.083 %) Telecoms 8 1 (2.083 %) Banking 8 1 (2.083 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 15 (31.25 %) Developer 2 8 (16.67 %) Systems Administrator 2 8 (16.67 %) Administrator 3 6 (12.50 %) Analyst 3 6 (12.50 %) Linux Systems Administrator 3 6 (12.50 %) Linux Administrator 3 6 (12.50 %) Software Engineer 4 5 (10.42 %) Service Manager 4 5 (10.42 %) Test Engineer 4 5 (10.42 %) Services Delivery Manager 4 5 (10.42 %) Software Test Engineer 4 5 (10.42 %) Delivery Manager 5 4 (8.333 %) Infrastructure Manager 5 4 (8.333 %) Analyst Developer 5 4 (8.333 %) J2EE Developer 6 3 (6.250 %) Infrastructure Programme Manager 6 3 (6.250 %) Tester 6 3 (6.250 %) Programme Manager 7 2 (4.167 %) Architect 7 2 (4.167 %) Web Developer	Miscellaneous 1 9 (18.75 %) Computer Science 2 5 (10.42 %) IBM Mainframe 2 5 (10.42 %) Mainframe 3 1 (2.083 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 9 (18.75 %) Linux 2 5 (10.42 %) Windows 3 1 (2.083 %) Solaris 3 1 (2.083 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (14.58 %) Unit Testing 1 7 (14.58 %) Security Cleared 2 6 (12.50 %) SC Cleared 2 6 (12.50 %) ITIL 2 6 (12.50 %) Service Delivery 3 5 (10.42 %) Time Management 4 4 (8.333 %) UML 5 3 (6.250 %) Programme Management 5 3 (6.250 %) Migration 5 3 (6.250 %) DV Cleared 6 2 (4.167 %) Project Management 6 2 (4.167 %) OO 6 2 (4.167 %) Agile Software Development 7 1 (2.083 %) Change Management 7 1 (2.083 %) Test Scripting 7 1 (2.083 %) System Testing 7 1 (2.083 %) RUP 7 1 (2.083 %) Service Management 7 1 (2.083 %) Process Management 7 1 (2.083 %) CMMI
Programming Languages 1 11 (22.92 %) Java 2 6 (12.50 %) PHP 3 5 (10.42 %) COBOL 4 3 (6.250 %) C++ 5 2 (4.167 %) C# 5 2 (4.167 %) VB 5 2 (4.167 %) ActionScript 5 2 (4.167 %) VC++ 5 2 (4.167 %) XAML 6 1 (2.083 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 5 (10.42 %) ITIL Certification 2 1 (2.083 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (8.333 %) SLA 2 1 (2.083 %) QA	System Software 1 2 (4.167 %) Active Directory 2 1 (2.083 %) RACF
Systems Management 1 2 (4.167 %) OpenView Configuration Management	Vendors 1 8 (16.67 %) VMware 2 7 (14.58 %) Intel 2 7 (14.58 %) Red Hat 3 5 (10.42 %) IBM 4 3 (6.250 %) BEA 5 2 (4.167 %) Microsoft 5 2 (4.167 %) Adobe 5 2 (4.167 %) Oracle