North West Local Government Contracts

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Local Government' in contract IT jobs within the North West region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Local Government over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Brentwood Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Cornwall Derbyshire Devon Dorchester Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire England Essex Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leek Leicestershire London M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Midlands Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Preston Rochdale Rotherham Scotland Shropshire South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	85	114
Rank change on same period last year	+29
Matching contract IT job ads	42	33
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.059 %	0.033 %
As % of the category below	2.881 %	2.129 %
Daily rates quoted	11	6
Average minimum daily rate	£323	£402
Average daily rate	£354	£406
% change on same period last year	-12.86 %
Average maximum daily rate	£385	£410
UK excluding London average daily rate	£367	£346
% change on same period last year	+5.96 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.72	£5.00
Average hourly rate	£24.50	£7.50
% change on same period last year	+226.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.28	£10.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.83	£17.54
% change on same period last year	+18.73 %
General North West
Matching contract IT job ads	1458	1550
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.053 %	1.566 %
Daily rates quoted	428	379
Average minimum daily rate	£367	£346
Average daily rate	£386	£364
% change on same period last year	+6.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£406	£382
UK excluding London average daily rate	£383	£381
% change on same period last year	+0.75 %
Hourly rates quoted	173	145
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.24	£21.68
Average hourly rate	£26.41	£23.62
% change on same period last year	+11.80 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.58	£25.57
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.08	£26.78
% change on same period last year	+4.82 %
Local Government 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 Local Government across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the General 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 Local Government 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 Local Government across the North West region over the 3 months to 10 October 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 Local Government 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 Local Government 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 Local Government 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
Lancashire	-	12	£347	-
Cheshire	+2	7	-	-
Manchester	+3	7	£358	-

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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 citing Local Government 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 Local Government.

1 84 (100.00 %) Government 2 19 (22.62 %) Finance 3 17 (20.24 %) SQL 4 15 (17.86 %) Oracle 5 14 (16.67 %) Business Analysis 6 13 (15.48 %) Microsoft 7 12 (14.29 %) PL/SQL 7 12 (14.29 %) Health 8 11 (13.10 %) Crystal Reports 8 11 (13.10 %) .NET 9 10 (11.90 %) PRINCE2 10 9 (10.71 %) JavaScript 10 9 (10.71 %) Project Management 11 8 (9.524 %) CSS 11 8 (9.524 %) Retail

12 7 (8.333 %) ASP 12 7 (8.333 %) ITIL 12 7 (8.333 %) VBScript 12 7 (8.333 %) BPR 13 6 (7.143 %) Education 13 6 (7.143 %) Oracle EBS 13 6 (7.143 %) LAN 13 6 (7.143 %) WAN 13 6 (7.143 %) SQL Server 14 5 (5.952 %) Visual Studio 14 5 (5.952 %) Oracle Reports 14 5 (5.952 %) UNIX 14 5 (5.952 %) e-GIF 14 5 (5.952 %) Active Directory 14 5 (5.952 %) TOAD

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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 citing Local Government 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 Local Government. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 11 (13.10 %) .NET 2 8 (9.524 %) CSS 3 7 (8.333 %) ASP 4 3 (3.571 %) ASP.NET 4 3 (3.571 %) WebServices 5 2 (2.381 %) XML 5 2 (2.381 %) .NET Framework 5 2 (2.381 %) WCF 5 2 (2.381 %) WF 5 2 (2.381 %) ASP.NET 2.0 5 2 (2.381 %) HTML 6 1 (1.190 %) XHTML 6 1 (1.190 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 3 (3.571 %) SharePoint 2 2 (2.381 %) Oracle Workflow 3 1 (1.190 %) ArcSDE 3 1 (1.190 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 1 (1.190 %) BizTalk Server 3 1 (1.190 %) ArcGIS 3 1 (1.190 %) ArcIMS 3 1 (1.190 %) CMS
Applications 1 2 (2.381 %) MS Project 1 2 (2.381 %) MS Office 1 2 (2.381 %) MS Excel 2 1 (1.190 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 6 (7.143 %) Oracle EBS 2 3 (3.571 %) Summit 3 2 (2.381 %) Dynamics CRM 3 2 (2.381 %) Oracle Financials 3 2 (2.381 %) Microsoft CRM
Communications & Networking 1 6 (7.143 %) LAN 1 6 (7.143 %) WAN 2 2 (2.381 %) SSL 2 2 (2.381 %) SAN 2 2 (2.381 %) EIGRP 2 2 (2.381 %) Firewall 2 2 (2.381 %) IP Telephony 2 2 (2.381 %) VLAN 2 2 (2.381 %) Broadband 3 1 (1.190 %) Intranet 3 1 (1.190 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (13.10 %) Crystal Reports 2 6 (7.143 %) SQL Server 3 5 (5.952 %) Oracle Reports 3 5 (5.952 %) TOAD 4 4 (4.762 %) BusinessObjects 4 4 (4.762 %) BusinessObjects XI 4 4 (4.762 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 5 3 (3.571 %) GIS 6 2 (2.381 %) SQL Server 2005 6 2 (2.381 %) Oracle Discoverer 7 1 (1.190 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 5 (5.952 %) Visual Studio 1 5 (5.952 %) InterDev 2 1 (1.190 %) Subversion	General 1 84 (100.00 %) Government 2 19 (22.62 %) Finance 3 12 (14.29 %) Health 4 8 (9.524 %) Retail 5 6 (7.143 %) Education 6 1 (1.190 %) Back Office 6 1 (1.190 %) Telecoms 6 1 (1.190 %) Publishing
Job Titles 1 28 (33.33 %) Analyst 2 20 (23.81 %) Project Manager 3 19 (22.62 %) Business Analyst 4 10 (11.90 %) Developer 5 7 (8.333 %) Web Developer 5 7 (8.333 %) Architect 6 6 (7.143 %) Process Analyst 6 6 (7.143 %) Business Process Analyst 7 5 (5.952 %) Solutions Architect 7 5 (5.952 %) Support Analyst 7 5 (5.952 %) Technical Project Manager 7 5 (5.952 %) Technical Manager 8 4 (4.762 %) Business Architect 8 4 (4.762 %) Oracle Analyst 8 4 (4.762 %) Oracle Support Analyst 8 4 (4.762 %) Solutions Designer 9 3 (3.571 %) Functional Consultant 9 3 (3.571 %) Programmer 9 3 (3.571 %) Process Consultant 9 3 (3.571 %) Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 5 (5.952 %) NHS 2 2 (2.381 %) NPfIT 3 1 (1.190 %) Management Information System 3 1 (1.190 %) Statistics
Operating Systems 1 5 (5.952 %) UNIX 2 3 (3.571 %) Windows 3 2 (2.381 %) AIX 3 2 (2.381 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (1.190 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (1.190 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (16.67 %) Business Analysis 2 10 (11.90 %) PRINCE2 3 9 (10.71 %) Project Management 4 7 (8.333 %) ITIL 4 7 (8.333 %) BPR 5 5 (5.952 %) e-GIF 5 5 (5.952 %) Migration 6 4 (4.762 %) Business Intelligence 6 4 (4.762 %) Data Migration 7 3 (3.571 %) Workflow 7 3 (3.571 %) PRINCE 7 3 (3.571 %) CRM 7 3 (3.571 %) Stakeholder Management 8 2 (2.381 %) Content Management 9 1 (1.190 %) CTC Cleared 9 1 (1.190 %) Security Cleared 9 1 (1.190 %) Matrix Management 9 1 (1.190 %) Time Management 9 1 (1.190 %) Performance Management 9 1 (1.190 %) ISMS
Programming Languages 1 17 (20.24 %) SQL 2 12 (14.29 %) PL/SQL 3 9 (10.71 %) JavaScript 4 7 (8.333 %) VBScript 5 3 (3.571 %) C# 6 2 (2.381 %) Java 6 2 (2.381 %) C 6 2 (2.381 %) VB	Qualifications 1 3 (3.571 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 2 (2.381 %) Cisco Certification 3 1 (1.190 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (1.190 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 1 (1.190 %) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.381 %) HL7 2 1 (1.190 %) BS25999 2 1 (1.190 %) WCAG 2 1 (1.190 %) WAI	System Software 1 5 (5.952 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (1.190 %) Tivoli 1 1 (1.190 %) MOM 1 1 (1.190 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 15 (17.86 %) Oracle 2 13 (15.48 %) Microsoft 3 4 (4.762 %) Business Objects 4 2 (2.381 %) SAP 4 2 (2.381 %) Cisco 4 2 (2.381 %) Avaya 4 2 (2.381 %) Remedy 4 2 (2.381 %) ESRI 5 1 (1.190 %) VMware 5 1 (1.190 %) HP 5 1 (1.190 %) Citrix