North East ISA Server Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server skills within the North East region with a comparison to our System Software category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited ISA Server over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server
Location Berkshire Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire Chesterfield City of London Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Hove Kent Leeds Liverpool London Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Redhill Scotland Sheffield Shropshire South East South West South Yorkshire Stevenage Surrey Telford Tyne and Wear UK West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wolverhampton Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	51	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	3	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	4.225 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£250	-
Average daily rate	£265	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£280	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£370	£237
% change on same period last year	+56.16 %
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	£21.49	£22.69
% change on same period last year	-5.31 %
System Software North East
Matching contract IT job ads	71	43
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.100 %	0.044 %
Daily rates quoted	7	11
Average minimum daily rate	£313	£357
Average daily rate	£319	£358
% change on same period last year	-11.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£324	£360
UK excluding London average daily rate	£319	£323
% change on same period last year	-1.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	26	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.55	£12.51
Average hourly rate	£21.28	£13.28
% change on same period last year	+60.22 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.01	£14.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.22	£21.42
% change on same period last year	-0.93 %
ISA Server 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ISA Server across the North East region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software 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 ISA Server across the North East 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 ISA Server across the North East 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 ISA Server within the North East region over the 3 months to 13 October 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
Tyne and Wear	-	3	£265	-

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Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East region citing ISA Server 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 ISA Server.

1 6 (75.00 %) Active Directory 2 5 (62.50 %) Microsoft 3 3 (37.50 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 3 3 (37.50 %) Manufacturing 3 3 (37.50 %) AS400 3 3 (37.50 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (37.50 %) Client/Server 3 3 (37.50 %) MS Exchange 3 3 (37.50 %) TCP/IP 3 3 (37.50 %) VPN 3 3 (37.50 %) Windows 3 3 (37.50 %) IIS 3 3 (37.50 %) Cognos 4 2 (25.00 %) SharePoint 4 2 (25.00 %) Network Design

4 2 (25.00 %) InfoPath 4 2 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2005 4 2 (25.00 %) Windows SharePoint Services 4 2 (25.00 %) SQL Server 5 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms 5 1 (12.50 %) UNIX 5 1 (12.50 %) Solaris 5 1 (12.50 %) Linux 5 1 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (12.50 %) Intranet 5 1 (12.50 %) Internet 5 1 (12.50 %) Extranet

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East region citing ISA Server 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 ISA Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (25.00 %) Windows SharePoint Services	Application Platforms 1 3 (37.50 %) IIS 1 3 (37.50 %) MS Exchange 1 3 (37.50 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 2 2 (25.00 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 2 (25.00 %) InfoPath	Communications & Networking 1 3 (37.50 %) TCP/IP 1 3 (37.50 %) VPN 2 1 (12.50 %) Intranet 2 1 (12.50 %) Internet 2 1 (12.50 %) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (25.00 %) SQL Server 1 2 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2005	General 1 3 (37.50 %) Manufacturing 2 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 3 (37.50 %) Administrator 1 3 (37.50 %) Network Administrator 2 2 (25.00 %) SharePoint Developer 2 2 (25.00 %) Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) Network Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (37.50 %) Client/Server 1 3 (37.50 %) AS400
Operating Systems 1 3 (37.50 %) Windows 1 3 (37.50 %) Windows Server 2003 2 1 (12.50 %) UNIX 2 1 (12.50 %) Solaris 2 1 (12.50 %) Linux 2 1 (12.50 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (25.00 %) Network Design
System Software 1 6 (75.00 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 5 (62.50 %) Microsoft 2 3 (37.50 %) Cognos