North West LiveLink Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Open Text LiveLink skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited LiveLink over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Beaconsfield Berkshire Bracknell Buckinghamshire City of London Devon East Midlands Edinburgh England Exeter Glasgow Hampshire London Manchester North West Nottinghamshire Scotland South East South West Southampton Surrey UK Walton-on-Thames West Midlands	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	139	132
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	5	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.743 %	0.175 %
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	£343	£334
% change on same period last year	+2.54 %
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	£19.25	£32.50
% change on same period last year	-40.76 %
Application Platforms North West
Matching contract IT job ads	673	571
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.887 %	0.606 %
Daily rates quoted	161	99
Average minimum daily rate	£345	£284
Average daily rate	£367	£295
% change on same period last year	+24.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£388	£306
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£347
% change on same period last year	+3.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	76	68
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.33	£21.89
Average hourly rate	£24.34	£24.13
% change on same period last year	+0.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.36	£26.37
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.43	£24.21
% change on same period last year	-3.23 %
LiveLink 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 LiveLink across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms 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 LiveLink 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 LiveLink 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 LiveLink within the North West region over the 3 months to 4 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
Manchester	-19	3	-	-

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Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing LiveLink 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 LiveLink.

1 4 (57.14 %) SQL 1 4 (57.14 %) SharePoint 1 4 (57.14 %) Content Management 2 3 (42.86 %) Incident Management 2 3 (42.86 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 3 (42.86 %) Dutch Language 2 3 (42.86 %) French Language 2 3 (42.86 %) German Language 2 3 (42.86 %) SLA 3 2 (28.57 %) Microsoft 3 2 (28.57 %) W3C 3 2 (28.57 %) Documentum 3 2 (28.57 %) RDBMS 3 2 (28.57 %) VBScript 3 2 (28.57 %) .NET

3 2 (28.57 %) Photoshop 3 2 (28.57 %) ASP 3 2 (28.57 %) ASP.NET 3 2 (28.57 %) XHTML 3 2 (28.57 %) C# 3 2 (28.57 %) HTML 3 2 (28.57 %) JavaScript 3 2 (28.57 %) PL/SQL 3 2 (28.57 %) Publishing 3 2 (28.57 %) SharePoint Server 2007

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing LiveLink 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 LiveLink. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (28.57 %) HTML 1 2 (28.57 %) .NET 1 2 (28.57 %) ASP 1 2 (28.57 %) ASP.NET 1 2 (28.57 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 4 (57.14 %) SharePoint 2 2 (28.57 %) Documentum 2 2 (28.57 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 2 (28.57 %) Photoshop	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (28.57 %) RDBMS
General 1 2 (28.57 %) Publishing	Job Titles 1 2 (28.57 %) Web Developer 1 2 (28.57 %) Consultant 1 2 (28.57 %) Developer 2 1 (14.29 %) Analyst 2 1 (14.29 %) Support Analyst 2 1 (14.29 %) Applications Support
Miscellaneous 1 3 (42.86 %) Dutch Language 1 3 (42.86 %) French Language 1 3 (42.86 %) German Language 2 2 (28.57 %) W3C	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (57.14 %) Content Management 2 3 (42.86 %) Incident Management
Programming Languages 1 4 (57.14 %) SQL 2 2 (28.57 %) VBScript 2 2 (28.57 %) C# 2 2 (28.57 %) JavaScript 2 2 (28.57 %) PL/SQL	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (42.86 %) SLA 1 3 (42.86 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors 1 2 (28.57 %) Microsoft