North West CA Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of CA products and/or services in IT contracts within the North West region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited CA over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Cheshire City of London Crawley Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Gatwick Halifax Hampshire Hayes Hertfordshire Ipswich Lancashire Leicester Leicestershire London Lytham St Annes Manchester Midlands North West Reading Slough South East South West Suffolk Surrey Thames Valley UK Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	136	127
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching contract IT job ads	12	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	0.661 %	0.532 %
Daily rates quoted	3	3
Average minimum daily rate	£356	£427
Average daily rate	£360	£477
% change on same period last year	-24.51 %
Average maximum daily rate	£364	£527
UK excluding London average daily rate	£397	£349
% change on same period last year	+13.57 %
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	£35.39	£41.31
% change on same period last year	-14.34 %
Vendors North West
Matching contract IT job ads	1815	1691
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.393 %	1.768 %
Daily rates quoted	397	363
Average minimum daily rate	£357	£332
Average daily rate	£377	£347
% change on same period last year	+8.58 %
Average maximum daily rate	£397	£362
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£357
% change on same period last year	+1.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	193	144
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.08	£21.52
Average hourly rate	£22.07	£23.17
% change on same period last year	-4.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.07	£24.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.01	£25.11
% change on same period last year	-8.37 %
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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 CA, Inc.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CA across the North West region over the 3 months to 8 July 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 CA across the North West region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing CA within the North West region over the 3 months to 8 July 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	-21	5	£389	+38.75 %
Manchester	-22	3	-	-
Lancashire	-	3	£303	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing CA 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 CA.

1 13 (54.17 %) Mainframe 2 10 (41.67 %) Finance 3 8 (33.33 %) Unix 3 8 (33.33 %) REXX 4 7 (29.17 %) Windows 5 5 (20.83 %) Middleware 5 5 (20.83 %) AutoSys 5 5 (20.83 %) Unicenter 6 4 (16.67 %) Informatica 6 4 (16.67 %) MVS 6 4 (16.67 %) Oracle 6 4 (16.67 %) Service Delivery 6 4 (16.67 %) Oracle EBS 6 4 (16.67 %) OMEGAMON 6 4 (16.67 %) Data Integration

7 3 (12.50 %) PrintSoft PReS 7 3 (12.50 %) Change Management 7 3 (12.50 %) JCL 8 2 (8.333 %) Government 8 2 (8.333 %) TCP/IP 8 2 (8.333 %) IBM 8 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft 8 2 (8.333 %) zOS 8 2 (8.333 %) WebSphere MQ 8 2 (8.333 %) CICS 8 2 (8.333 %) DB2 8 2 (8.333 %) HP 8 2 (8.333 %) ISPF 8 2 (8.333 %) WebSphere 9 1 (4.167 %) Technical Architecture

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing CA 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 CA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 5 (20.83 %) Middleware 2 2 (8.333 %) ISPF 2 2 (8.333 %) WebSphere 3 1 (4.167 %) ODBC	Application Platforms 1 2 (8.333 %) WebSphere MQ 1 2 (8.333 %) CICS
Applications 1 3 (12.50 %) PrintSoft PReS 2 1 (4.167 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 4 (16.67 %) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking 1 2 (8.333 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (4.167 %) WINS 2 1 (4.167 %) DNS 2 1 (4.167 %) SSL 2 1 (4.167 %) DHCP 2 1 (4.167 %) FTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (8.333 %) DB2 2 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server
General 1 10 (41.67 %) Finance 2 2 (8.333 %) Government 3 1 (4.167 %) Pensions 3 1 (4.167 %) Banking 3 1 (4.167 %) Insurance 3 1 (4.167 %) Back Office	Job Titles 1 12 (50.00 %) Analyst 2 6 (25.00 %) Business Analyst 3 3 (12.50 %) Administrator 3 3 (12.50 %) Senior Analyst 3 3 (12.50 %) Technical Analyst 3 3 (12.50 %) Technical Administrator 3 3 (12.50 %) Technical Business Analyst 4 2 (8.333 %) Consultant 4 2 (8.333 %) Server Support 4 2 (8.333 %) Support Analyst 4 2 (8.333 %) Senior Business Analyst 4 2 (8.333 %) Senior Technical Analyst 4 2 (8.333 %) Server Support Analyst 4 2 (8.333 %) Server Analyst 4 2 (8.333 %) IT Business Analyst 5 1 (4.167 %) Oracle Analyst 5 1 (4.167 %) Senior Server Analyst 5 1 (4.167 %) Oracle Consultant 5 1 (4.167 %) Senior Support Analyst 5 1 (4.167 %) Systems Manager
Miscellaneous 1 13 (54.17 %) Mainframe 2 4 (16.67 %) Data Integration 3 1 (4.167 %) IBM Mainframe 3 1 (4.167 %) VSAM	Operating Systems 1 8 (33.33 %) Unix 2 7 (29.17 %) Windows 3 4 (16.67 %) MVS 4 2 (8.333 %) zOS
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (16.67 %) Service Delivery 2 3 (12.50 %) Change Management 3 1 (4.167 %) Technical Architecture	Programming Languages 1 8 (33.33 %) REXX 2 3 (12.50 %) JCL 3 1 (4.167 %) Assembly Language 3 1 (4.167 %) COBOL 3 1 (4.167 %) SQL
System Software 1 1 (4.167 %) Active Directory 1 1 (4.167 %) Backup Exec 1 1 (4.167 %) VMware ESX	Systems Management 1 5 (20.83 %) AutoSys 1 5 (20.83 %) Unicenter 2 4 (16.67 %) OMEGAMON 3 1 (4.167 %) WSUS 3 1 (4.167 %) Tivoli 3 1 (4.167 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 3 1 (4.167 %) Legato
Vendors 1 4 (16.67 %) Informatica 1 4 (16.67 %) Oracle 2 2 (8.333 %) IBM 2 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft 2 2 (8.333 %) HP 3 1 (4.167 %) Intel 3 1 (4.167 %) Citrix 3 1 (4.167 %) TIBCO 3 1 (4.167 %) Compuware 3 1 (4.167 %) VMware