North West Junior Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Junior role in IT contracts within the North West region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Junior in their job title over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh England Essex Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenford Hampshire Hastings Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Hull Ilford Ipswich Isleworth Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool Livingston London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Neath Port Talbot Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Port Talbot Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southsea St Albans Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallington Walsall Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Witney Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	101	104
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	26	43
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.037 %	0.043 %
As % of the category below	0.778 %	1.063 %
Daily rates quoted	2	13
Average minimum daily rate	£200	£193
Average daily rate	£208	£199
% change on same period last year	+4.45 %
Average maximum daily rate	£215	£204
UK excluding London average daily rate	£248	£244
% change on same period last year	+1.61 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.80	£17.17
Average hourly rate	£16.65	£17.17
% change on same period last year	-3.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.50	£17.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£13.52	£15.33
% change on same period last year	-11.79 %
Job Titles North West
Matching contract IT job ads	3344	4045
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.708 %	4.088 %
Daily rates quoted	783	827
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£320
Average daily rate	£341	£338
% change on same period last year	+0.96 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£356
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	467	456
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.62	£20.30
Average hourly rate	£23.40	£21.94
% change on same period last year	+6.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.19	£23.58
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.76	£25.22
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
Junior 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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Junior across the North West region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Junior within the North West region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
Manchester	+1	12	-	-
Cheshire	-7	5	-	-
Lancashire	+4	1	£165	-
Merseyside	-5	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Junior in their job title 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 with Junior in their job title.

1 16 (23.88 %) Windows 2 11 (16.42 %) PRINCE2 2 11 (16.42 %) Project Management 3 9 (13.43 %) NHS 4 8 (11.94 %) Microsoft 4 8 (11.94 %) MS Excel 4 8 (11.94 %) SQL 4 8 (11.94 %) Finance 5 7 (10.45 %) MS Office 6 6 (8.955 %) Windows XP 6 6 (8.955 %) Active Directory 6 6 (8.955 %) Government 6 6 (8.955 %) Law 7 5 (7.463 %) Banking 7 5 (7.463 %) Pharmaceutical

7 5 (7.463 %) PRINCE 7 5 (7.463 %) Windows 2000 8 4 (5.970 %) HTML 8 4 (5.970 %) Java 8 4 (5.970 %) JavaScript 8 4 (5.970 %) Windows Server 2003 8 4 (5.970 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 8 4 (5.970 %) Education 8 4 (5.970 %) Document Management 8 4 (5.970 %) Validation 8 4 (5.970 %) Life Science 9 3 (4.478 %) Degree 9 3 (4.478 %) Retail Banking 9 3 (4.478 %) Health 9 3 (4.478 %) Aerospace

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Junior in their job title 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 with Junior in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 4 (5.970 %) HTML 2 3 (4.478 %) .NET 2 3 (4.478 %) Struts 3 2 (2.985 %) ASP.NET 4 1 (1.493 %) CSS 4 1 (1.493 %) SOAP 4 1 (1.493 %) XML 4 1 (1.493 %) XHTML 4 1 (1.493 %) J2ME 4 1 (1.493 %) JavaBeans 4 1 (1.493 %) WebSphere 4 1 (1.493 %) .NET Framework 4 1 (1.493 %) J2EE 4 1 (1.493 %) ADO 4 1 (1.493 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 2 (2.985 %) MS Exchange 1 2 (2.985 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (1.493 %) WorkSite 2 1 (1.493 %) SAS 2 1 (1.493 %) IIS 2 1 (1.493 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 8 (11.94 %) MS Excel 2 7 (10.45 %) MS Office 3 3 (4.478 %) Photoshop 4 2 (2.985 %) MS Project 4 2 (2.985 %) FreeHand 4 2 (2.985 %) Fireworks 4 2 (2.985 %) Adobe Illustrator	Business Applications 1 1 (1.493 %) Oracle EBS 1 1 (1.493 %) MAXIMO
Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.493 %) Intranet 1 1 (1.493 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (2.985 %) SQL Server 2 1 (1.493 %) Oracle Reports 2 1 (1.493 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (1.493 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 3 (4.478 %) Dreamweaver 2 2 (2.985 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (2.985 %) Flash 3 1 (1.493 %) JUnit 3 1 (1.493 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 8 (11.94 %) Finance 2 6 (8.955 %) Government 2 6 (8.955 %) Law 3 5 (7.463 %) Pharmaceutical 3 5 (7.463 %) Banking 4 4 (5.970 %) Education 5 3 (4.478 %) Retail 5 3 (4.478 %) Retail Banking 5 3 (4.478 %) Aerospace 5 3 (4.478 %) Health 6 2 (2.985 %) Telecoms 6 2 (2.985 %) Marketing 7 1 (1.493 %) Pensions 7 1 (1.493 %) Advertising 7 1 (1.493 %) Games
Miscellaneous 1 9 (13.43 %) NHS 2 4 (5.970 %) Life Science 3 2 (2.985 %) VLE 4 1 (1.493 %) Statistics 4 1 (1.493 %) Blog 4 1 (1.493 %) N-Tier	Operating Systems 1 16 (23.88 %) Windows 2 6 (8.955 %) Windows XP 3 5 (7.463 %) Windows 2000 4 4 (5.970 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (1.493 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (16.42 %) PRINCE2 1 11 (16.42 %) Project Management 2 5 (7.463 %) PRINCE 3 4 (5.970 %) Validation 3 4 (5.970 %) Document Management 4 2 (2.985 %) Process Management 4 2 (2.985 %) Stakeholder Management 4 2 (2.985 %) Web Design 5 1 (1.493 %) Content Management 5 1 (1.493 %) EAM 5 1 (1.493 %) Risk Management 5 1 (1.493 %) Workflow 5 1 (1.493 %) UML 5 1 (1.493 %) CRM 5 1 (1.493 %) E-Commerce 5 1 (1.493 %) ERP 5 1 (1.493 %) Software Engineering 5 1 (1.493 %) Business Analysis 5 1 (1.493 %) Cluster Analysis 5 1 (1.493 %) Display Advertising	Programming Languages 1 8 (11.94 %) SQL 2 4 (5.970 %) Java 2 4 (5.970 %) JavaScript 3 2 (2.985 %) VBScript 4 1 (1.493 %) VB.NET 4 1 (1.493 %) VBA 4 1 (1.493 %) C# 4 1 (1.493 %) PHP 4 1 (1.493 %) Transact-SQL
Qualifications 1 3 (4.478 %) Degree 2 2 (2.985 %) MCP 2 2 (2.985 %) MCSE 2 2 (2.985 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (1.493 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (1.493 %) IBM Certification 3 1 (1.493 %) ISEB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.493 %) SLA
System Software 1 6 (8.955 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 4 (5.970 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 8 (11.94 %) Microsoft 2 3 (4.478 %) Oracle 2 3 (4.478 %) Cisco 3 1 (1.493 %) IBM 3 1 (1.493 %) Actuate 3 1 (1.493 %) LANDesk