North West Application Packaging Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Application Packaging skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Application Packaging over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Application Packaging
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Bracknell Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Cheshire City of London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Farnborough Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hendon London Marlow North West Runcorn Scotland Shropshire Slough South East South West South Yorkshire Surrey Telford UK Warrington West Midlands Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	125	140
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	2	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.252 %	0.316 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£240	£285
Average daily rate	£248	£285
% change on same period last year	-13.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£255	£285
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£299
% change on same period last year	+9.46 %
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	£34.00	£17.75
% change on same period last year	+91.54 %
Application Development North West
Matching contract IT job ads	794	950
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.276 %	1.020 %
Daily rates quoted	124	129
Average minimum daily rate	£284	£306
Average daily rate	£303	£322
% change on same period last year	-5.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£323	£337
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£334
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	100	83
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.29	£24.58
Average hourly rate	£24.89	£27.20
% change on same period last year	-8.47 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.49	£29.82
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.57	£31.61
% change on same period last year	-9.61 %
Application Packaging 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.

Application Packaging
Demand Trend

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

Application Packaging
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Application Packaging across the North West region.

Application Packaging
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Application Packaging across the North West region.

Application Packaging
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Application Packaging within the North West region over the 3 months to 2 December 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
Cheshire	0	2	£248	-

Application Packaging England

Application Packaging
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Application Packaging 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 Application Packaging.

1 3 (100.00 %) Windows 1 3 (100.00 %) MSI 2 2 (66.67 %) Citrix 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003 2 2 (66.67 %) VBScript 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows XP 2 2 (66.67 %) VMware 2 2 (66.67 %) SoftGrid 2 2 (66.67 %) SCCM 2 2 (66.67 %) OpenView Configuration Management 3 1 (33.33 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (33.33 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (33.33 %) PowerShell 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 Server

3 1 (33.33 %) Windows Vista 3 1 (33.33 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 1 (33.33 %) VMware Workstation 3 1 (33.33 %) SMS 3 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 3 1 (33.33 %) VB 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (33.33 %) MCSE 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows NT 3 1 (33.33 %) Tivoli 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (33.33 %) CA 3 1 (33.33 %) InstallShield 3 1 (33.33 %) Validation

Application Packaging
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Business Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) SoftGrid	Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) SMS
Development Applications 1 3 (100.00 %) MSI 2 1 (33.33 %) InstallShield	Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Test Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Applications Specialist 1 1 (33.33 %) Applications Packager
Operating Systems 1 3 (100.00 %) Windows 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows XP 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows Vista 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Validation 1 1 (33.33 %) User Acceptance Testing 1 1 (33.33 %) SC Cleared 1 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) VBScript 2 1 (33.33 %) VB 2 1 (33.33 %) PowerShell	Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) MCSE 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification
System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 1 1 (33.33 %) VMware Workstation 1 1 (33.33 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 2 (66.67 %) OpenView Configuration Management 1 2 (66.67 %) SCCM 2 1 (33.33 %) Tivoli
Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) Citrix 1 2 (66.67 %) VMware 2 1 (33.33 %) CA