North East ODBC Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) skills within the North East region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited ODBC over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)
Location Belfast Berkshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chorley City of London County Antrim Coventry Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Enfield England Essex Exeter Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Home Counties Lancashire London Manchester North East North West Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Slough South East South Wales South West Southend-on-Sea Stevenage Teesside UK Wales Wallingford West Midlands	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	51	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.625 %	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	£452	£349
% change on same period last year	+29.43 %
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	£29.75	£15.33
% change on same period last year	+94.12 %
Application Development North East
Matching contract IT job ads	160	205
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.224 %	0.206 %
Daily rates quoted	22	36
Average minimum daily rate	£310	£315
Average daily rate	£326	£327
% change on same period last year	-0.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£343	£339
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£333
% change on same period last year	-0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	26
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.65	£30.93
Average hourly rate	£31.73	£31.96
% change on same period last year	-0.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.81	£33.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.32	£32.24
% change on same period last year	-2.87 %
ODBC 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.

ODBC
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ODBC across the North East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

ODBC
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ODBC 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 ODBC 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 ODBC within the North East region over the 3 months to 6 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
Teesside	-	1	-	-

ODBC England

ODBC
Top 25 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (100.00 %) ASP 1 3 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2 2 (66.67 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (66.67 %) VBScript 2 2 (66.67 %) ETL 3 1 (33.33 %) FTP 3 1 (33.33 %) HTTP 3 1 (33.33 %) WSDL 3 1 (33.33 %) HTTPS 3 1 (33.33 %) TELNET 3 1 (33.33 %) .NET 3 1 (33.33 %) HTML 3 1 (33.33 %) Perl 3 1 (33.33 %) PHP

3 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (33.33 %) JSP 3 1 (33.33 %) SOAP 3 1 (33.33 %) WebServices 3 1 (33.33 %) XML 3 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 3 1 (33.33 %) Solaris 3 1 (33.33 %) Linux 3 1 (33.33 %) Apache 3 1 (33.33 %) Tomcat

ODBC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 3 (100.00 %) ASP 2 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (33.33 %) JSP 2 1 (33.33 %) SOAP 2 1 (33.33 %) WebServices 2 1 (33.33 %) XML 2 1 (33.33 %) WSDL 2 1 (33.33 %) HTML 2 1 (33.33 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) Apache 1 1 (33.33 %) Tomcat
Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) FTP 1 1 (33.33 %) HTTP 1 1 (33.33 %) HTTPS 1 1 (33.33 %) TELNET	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server 1 2 (66.67 %) ETL
Development Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) Visual Studio	Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Tester 1 2 (66.67 %) Developer 1 2 (66.67 %) Analyst 1 2 (66.67 %) Developer Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Programmer 2 1 (33.33 %) Perl Programmer
Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 1 1 (33.33 %) Solaris 1 1 (33.33 %) Linux	Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) VBScript 2 1 (33.33 %) Perl 2 1 (33.33 %) PHP
Vendors 1 3 (100.00 %) Oracle