North West Great Plains Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Great Plains skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Business Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Great Plains over the 3 months to 8 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Great Plains
Location Berkshire Buckinghamshire City of London England London Midlands New Malden North East North West Reading South East Thames Valley UK	3 months to 8 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	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	£433	£375
% change on same period last year	+15.33 %
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	£60.00	£36.88
% change on same period last year	+62.71 %
Business Applications North West
Matching contract IT job ads	187	307
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.375 %	0.384 %
Daily rates quoted	40	64
Average minimum daily rate	£372	£409
Average daily rate	£400	£426
% change on same period last year	-6.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£427	£444
UK excluding London average daily rate	£436	£450
% change on same period last year	-3.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	19	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.56	£24.00
Average hourly rate	£22.95	£25.21
% change on same period last year	-8.98 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.33	£26.42
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.54	£26.24
% change on same period last year	+16.35 %
Great Plains 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.

Great Plains
Demand Trend

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

Great Plains
Daily Rate Trend

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

Great Plains
Top 3 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Great Plains 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 Great Plains.

1 2 (100.00 %) Microsoft 1 2 (100.00 %) Service Management 1 2 (100.00 %) Dynamics GP

Great Plains
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Great Plains 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 Great Plains. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Business Applications 1 2 (100.00 %) Dynamics GP	Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) Analyst 1 2 (100.00 %) Systems Analyst 1 2 (100.00 %) Technical Analyst
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (100.00 %) Service Management	Vendors 1 2 (100.00 %) Microsoft