North West DAO Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Data Access Object (DAO) 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 DAO over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Data Access Object (DAO)
Location Birmingham England Hampshire Havant London North West Portsmouth South East UK Uxbridge West Midlands	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	144
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.099 %
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	£200	£363
% change on same period last year	-44.82 %
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	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Application Development North West
Matching contract IT job ads	877	1008
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.225 %	1.013 %
Daily rates quoted	158	151
Average minimum daily rate	£291	£309
Average daily rate	£308	£332
% change on same period last year	-7.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£325	£355
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£333
% change on same period last year	-0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	83	86
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.23	£25.80
Average hourly rate	£28.10	£28.15
% change on same period last year	-0.16 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.97	£30.49
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.32	£32.24
% change on same period last year	-2.87 %
DAO 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.

DAO
Demand Trend

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

DAO
Daily Rate Trend

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