North East Symbian Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Symbian products and/or services in IT contracts within the North East region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Symbian over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Berkshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London East Anglia East of England England Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire London Midlands North East Scotland South East South West Staines Surrey UK	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	47	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.422 %	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	£431	£303
% change on same period last year	+42.56 %
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	£42.75	£38.25
% change on same period last year	+11.76 %
Vendors North East
Matching contract IT job ads	237	411
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.381 %	0.441 %
Daily rates quoted	38	129
Average minimum daily rate	£293	£331
Average daily rate	£320	£342
% change on same period last year	-6.56 %
Average maximum daily rate	£346	£353
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£349
% change on same period last year	+2.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	45	41
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.65	£21.76
Average hourly rate	£18.49	£23.88
% change on same period last year	-22.55 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.34	£26.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.78	£24.08
% change on same period last year	-1.22 %
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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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Symbian Ltd.

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Demand Trend

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

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Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East region citing Symbian 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 Symbian.

1 1 (100.00 %) C++ 1 1 (100.00 %) STL 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows 1 1 (100.00 %) OO 1 1 (100.00 %) Finance 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows Mobile

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East region citing Symbian 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 Symbian. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (100.00 %) STL	General 1 1 (100.00 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Developer 1 1 (100.00 %) C++ Developer	Operating Systems 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (100.00 %) OO	Programming Languages 1 1 (100.00 %) C++