Milton Keynes Government Contracts

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Government' in contract IT jobs within the Milton Keynes 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 Government over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Amersham Andover Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Gateshead Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochdale Rotherham Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	6	9
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	171	99
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.243 %	0.100 %
As % of the category below	42.75 %	25.26 %
Daily rates quoted	81	36
Average minimum daily rate	£303	£342
Average daily rate	£334	£367
% change on same period last year	-9.22 %
Average maximum daily rate	£364	£393
UK excluding London average daily rate	£396	£382
% change on same period last year	+3.61 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.76	£25.66
Average hourly rate	£20.34	£26.53
% change on same period last year	-23.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.92	£27.41
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.58	£26.80
% change on same period last year	+2.89 %
General Milton Keynes
Matching contract IT job ads	400	392
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.568 %	0.396 %
Daily rates quoted	141	109
Average minimum daily rate	£297	£333
Average daily rate	£322	£344
% change on same period last year	-6.32 %
Average maximum daily rate	£348	£355
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£381
% change on same period last year	+0.86 %
Hourly rates quoted	27	43
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.89	£25.18
Average hourly rate	£20.52	£25.97
% change on same period last year	-21.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.14	£26.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.08	£26.75
% change on same period last year	+4.96 %
Government 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Government across the Milton Keynes 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 Government across the Milton Keynes region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Government across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Government across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing 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 Government.

1 276 (87.62 %) Security Cleared 2 226 (71.75 %) SC Cleared 3 107 (33.97 %) Windows 4 59 (18.73 %) ITIL 4 59 (18.73 %) Finance 5 51 (16.19 %) DV Cleared 6 50 (15.87 %) Microsoft 7 49 (15.56 %) HP 8 47 (14.92 %) Cisco 9 43 (13.65 %) Migration 10 41 (13.02 %) Microsoft Certification 11 38 (12.06 %) Windows Vista 12 37 (11.75 %) Windows XP 13 35 (11.11 %) MS Office 14 34 (10.79 %) PRINCE2

15 33 (10.48 %) Active Directory 16 32 (10.16 %) Windows Server 2003 17 31 (9.841 %) SQL Server 18 28 (8.889 %) WAN 18 28 (8.889 %) Project Management 19 26 (8.254 %) Cisco Certification 20 25 (7.937 %) LAN 20 25 (7.937 %) Oracle 20 25 (7.937 %) ITSM 21 24 (7.619 %) MS Excel 22 23 (7.302 %) MS Exchange 22 23 (7.302 %) CCNP 22 23 (7.302 %) MCSE 23 20 (6.349 %) SQL 23 20 (6.349 %) OpenView

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing 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 Government. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 7 (2.222 %) .NET 2 6 (1.905 %) HTML 3 5 (1.587 %) XML 4 4 (1.270 %) ASP 5 3 (0.952 %) J2EE 6 2 (0.635 %) ASP.NET 7 1 (0.317 %) WinForms 7 1 (0.317 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 23 (7.302 %) MS Exchange 2 12 (3.810 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 11 (3.492 %) Exchange Server 5.5 3 11 (3.492 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 5 (1.587 %) SharePoint 4 5 (1.587 %) IIS 5 2 (0.635 %) Apache 6 1 (0.317 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications 1 35 (11.11 %) MS Office 2 24 (7.619 %) MS Excel 3 9 (2.857 %) MS PowerPoint 3 9 (2.857 %) MS Project 4 3 (0.952 %) Spreadsheet 4 3 (0.952 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 11 (3.492 %) Oracle ERP 2 1 (0.317 %) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking 1 28 (8.889 %) WAN 2 25 (7.937 %) LAN 3 16 (5.079 %) Intranet 3 16 (5.079 %) Internet 4 15 (4.762 %) 3G 4 15 (4.762 %) Firewall 5 14 (4.444 %) SAN 6 10 (3.175 %) DNS 7 8 (2.540 %) DHCP 7 8 (2.540 %) Ethernet 7 8 (2.540 %) 2G 7 8 (2.540 %) Cisco PIX 8 6 (1.905 %) SSH 8 6 (1.905 %) SNMP 8 6 (1.905 %) VLAN 9 3 (0.952 %) HTTP 9 3 (0.952 %) Extranet 10 1 (0.317 %) Network Security 10 1 (0.317 %) Intrusion Detection	Database & Business Intelligence 1 31 (9.841 %) SQL Server 2 5 (1.587 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 4 (1.270 %) OLAP 3 4 (1.270 %) DTS 3 4 (1.270 %) SQL Server 2000 4 2 (0.635 %) MS Access 5 1 (0.317 %) SQL Server 2005 5 1 (0.317 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 1 (0.317 %) Eclipse	General 1 59 (18.73 %) Finance 2 20 (6.349 %) Legal 3 15 (4.762 %) Telecoms 4 8 (2.540 %) Auditing 5 4 (1.270 %) Health 6 2 (0.635 %) Back Office 6 2 (0.635 %) Military 7 1 (0.317 %) Insurance 7 1 (0.317 %) Front Office 7 1 (0.317 %) Electric 7 1 (0.317 %) Criminal Justice
Job Titles 1 39 (12.38 %) Consultant 2 35 (11.11 %) Analyst 3 28 (8.889 %) Project Manager 4 18 (5.714 %) Administrator 5 16 (5.079 %) Technical Consultant 6 14 (4.444 %) Developer 6 14 (4.444 %) Helpdesk Analyst 6 14 (4.444 %) Problem Manager 7 12 (3.810 %) SQL DBA 7 12 (3.810 %) Server Administrator 7 12 (3.810 %) DBA 7 12 (3.810 %) Architect 7 12 (3.810 %) SQL Server DBA 8 11 (3.492 %) Tester 8 11 (3.492 %) Project Support Officer 8 11 (3.492 %) Project Officer 9 9 (2.857 %) Trainer 9 9 (2.857 %) Network Engineer 9 9 (2.857 %) Support Analyst 10 8 (2.540 %) 1st Line Support	Miscellaneous 1 8 (2.540 %) Blackberry 2 7 (2.222 %) PDA 3 6 (1.905 %) Clustering 3 6 (1.905 %) CESG 4 4 (1.270 %) Thin Client 4 4 (1.270 %) Fat Client 5 3 (0.952 %) Replication 6 2 (0.635 %) CMDB 6 2 (0.635 %) Client/Server 7 1 (0.317 %) Firmware 7 1 (0.317 %) Biometrics 7 1 (0.317 %) CESG CLAS 7 1 (0.317 %) Smartphone 7 1 (0.317 %) CCTV 7 1 (0.317 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 107 (33.97 %) Windows 2 38 (12.06 %) Windows Vista 3 37 (11.75 %) Windows XP 4 32 (10.16 %) Windows Server 2003 5 19 (6.032 %) Windows Server 2008 6 17 (5.397 %) Windows 2000 7 5 (1.587 %) Windows NT 8 1 (0.317 %) HPUX 8 1 (0.317 %) Solaris 8 1 (0.317 %) Linux 8 1 (0.317 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 1 (0.317 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 276 (87.62 %) Security Cleared 2 226 (71.75 %) SC Cleared 3 59 (18.73 %) ITIL 4 51 (16.19 %) DV Cleared 5 43 (13.65 %) Migration 6 34 (10.79 %) PRINCE2 7 28 (8.889 %) Project Management 8 25 (7.937 %) ITSM 9 15 (4.762 %) Network Design 9 15 (4.762 %) Problem Management 10 11 (3.492 %) RUP 10 11 (3.492 %) ERP 10 11 (3.492 %) Test Scripting 11 9 (2.857 %) Service Delivery 12 8 (2.540 %) Operations Management 13 7 (2.222 %) Project Planning 13 7 (2.222 %) Risk Management 14 6 (1.905 %) Incident Management 15 5 (1.587 %) Business Intelligence 16 4 (1.270 %) SSADM
Programming Languages 1 20 (6.349 %) SQL 2 13 (4.127 %) Java 3 6 (1.905 %) C# 3 6 (1.905 %) VB 3 6 (1.905 %) VB.NET 4 5 (1.587 %) Transact-SQL 5 4 (1.270 %) VB6 5 4 (1.270 %) C++ 6 3 (0.952 %) C 7 1 (0.317 %) PL/SQL 7 1 (0.317 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 41 (13.02 %) Microsoft Certification 2 26 (8.254 %) Cisco Certification 3 23 (7.302 %) MCSE 3 23 (7.302 %) CCNP 4 16 (5.079 %) MCDBA 5 12 (3.810 %) CNE 5 12 (3.810 %) Novell Certification 6 7 (2.222 %) SCSP 7 5 (1.587 %) PRINCE2 Certification 8 4 (1.270 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 9 3 (0.952 %) ITIL Certification 9 3 (0.952 %) CCIE 9 3 (0.952 %) MCP 10 2 (0.635 %) CCNA 10 2 (0.635 %) ISEB 10 2 (0.635 %) MOS 11 1 (0.317 %) Degree 11 1 (0.317 %) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (1.270 %) SLA 2 3 (0.952 %) QA 3 1 (0.317 %) ISO27001	System Software 1 33 (10.48 %) Active Directory 2 3 (0.952 %) Terminal Server 3 2 (0.635 %) MailMarshal 3 2 (0.635 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 20 (6.349 %) OpenView 1 20 (6.349 %) OVOW 2 13 (4.127 %) OpenView Configuration Management 3 9 (2.857 %) OVSD 4 8 (2.540 %) Norton AntiVirus 5 3 (0.952 %) HP Data Protector 5 3 (0.952 %) OVIS 6 2 (0.635 %) OVPI 7 1 (0.317 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 50 (15.87 %) Microsoft 2 49 (15.56 %) HP 3 47 (14.92 %) Cisco 4 25 (7.937 %) Oracle 5 13 (4.127 %) Compaq 6 12 (3.810 %) Citrix 7 9 (2.857 %) Symantec 8 8 (2.540 %) McAfee Security 9 6 (1.905 %) Sun 10 2 (0.635 %) VMware 11 1 (0.317 %) Fujitsu 11 1 (0.317 %) StorageTek