North West Technical Specialist Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Technical Specialist 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 Technical Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Technical Specialist
Location Aberdeen Basildon Belfast Berkshire Bracknell Brentwood Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London County Antrim County Londonderry Cwmbran Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Horsham Kent Leeds London Maidstone Manchester Newbury Norfolk North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Potters Bar Reading Scotland South East South Wales South West Southampton Surrey Swansea Torfaen UK Wales Warminster Warrington West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	103	129
Rank change on same period last year	+26
Matching contract IT job ads	28	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.040 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	0.839 %	0.419 %
Daily rates quoted	8	11
Average minimum daily rate	£373	£334
Average daily rate	£379	£342
% change on same period last year	+10.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£385	£351
UK excluding London average daily rate	£426	£384
% change on same period last year	+10.86 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	-
Average hourly rate	£30.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.32	£25.42
% change on same period last year	+46.83 %
Job Titles North West
Matching contract IT job ads	3337	4053
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.719 %	4.103 %
Daily rates quoted	775	824
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£320
Average daily rate	£341	£338
% change on same period last year	+0.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£356
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	472	453
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.58	£20.29
Average hourly rate	£23.36	£21.91
% change on same period last year	+6.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.14	£23.52
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.71	£25.14
% change on same period last year	-5.69 %
Technical Specialist 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.

Technical Specialist
Demand Trend

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

Technical Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

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

Technical Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Technical Specialist across the North West region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

Technical Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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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 Technical Specialist within the North West region over the 3 months to 13 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	+20	22	£383	+34.33 %
Cheshire	+9	6	£350	+31.57 %

Technical Specialist England

Technical Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Technical Specialist 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 Technical Specialist in their job title.

1 41 (64.06 %) UNIX 2 40 (62.50 %) AIX 3 33 (51.56 %) HACMP 4 24 (37.50 %) SAN 5 22 (34.38 %) Shell Script 6 21 (32.81 %) Migration 7 20 (31.25 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 8 19 (29.69 %) Finance 9 17 (26.56 %) Tivoli 10 16 (25.00 %) Perl 11 10 (15.63 %) TCP/IP 11 10 (15.63 %) Middleware 12 9 (14.06 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 13 8 (12.50 %) Banking 13 8 (12.50 %) Windows

13 8 (12.50 %) QA 14 6 (9.375 %) Problem Management 14 6 (9.375 %) Oracle 14 6 (9.375 %) Oracle 10g 15 5 (7.813 %) SLA 15 5 (7.813 %) Kerberos 15 5 (7.813 %) LDAP 15 5 (7.813 %) PeopleSoft 15 5 (7.813 %) Tivoli Monitoring 15 5 (7.813 %) Internet 15 5 (7.813 %) PeopleTools 15 5 (7.813 %) PeopleCode 15 5 (7.813 %) SQR 15 5 (7.813 %) SSH 16 4 (6.250 %) Project Management

Technical Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Technical Specialist 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 Technical Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 10 (15.63 %) Middleware 2 1 (1.563 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 1 (1.563 %) WebLogic 1 1 (1.563 %) Apache 1 1 (1.563 %) Tomcat 1 1 (1.563 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (1.563 %) Exchange Server 2003 1 1 (1.563 %) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking 1 24 (37.50 %) SAN 2 10 (15.63 %) TCP/IP 3 5 (7.813 %) LDAP 3 5 (7.813 %) Internet 3 5 (7.813 %) SSH 3 5 (7.813 %) Kerberos 4 3 (4.688 %) SNA 5 1 (1.563 %) FTP 5 1 (1.563 %) HTTP 5 1 (1.563 %) Network Security 5 1 (1.563 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (9.375 %) Oracle 10g 2 1 (1.563 %) DB2
Development Applications 1 5 (7.813 %) PeopleTools 2 1 (1.563 %) yacc	General 1 19 (29.69 %) Finance 2 8 (12.50 %) Banking 3 3 (4.688 %) Retail 4 1 (1.563 %) Retail Banking 4 1 (1.563 %) Government 4 1 (1.563 %) Manufacturing 4 1 (1.563 %) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous 1 33 (51.56 %) HACMP 2 1 (1.563 %) Mainframe 2 1 (1.563 %) Replication 2 1 (1.563 %) Clustering 2 1 (1.563 %) Mathematics 2 1 (1.563 %) Physics	Operating Systems 1 41 (64.06 %) UNIX 2 40 (62.50 %) AIX 3 8 (12.50 %) Windows 4 3 (4.688 %) HPUX 4 3 (4.688 %) Windows Server 2003 5 2 (3.125 %) Tru64 5 2 (3.125 %) Solaris 5 2 (3.125 %) Windows NT 6 1 (1.563 %) zOS 6 1 (1.563 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 21 (32.81 %) Migration 2 6 (9.375 %) Problem Management 3 4 (6.250 %) Project Management 4 1 (1.563 %) Change Management 4 1 (1.563 %) Bioinformatics 4 1 (1.563 %) Systems Analysis 4 1 (1.563 %) Integration Testing 4 1 (1.563 %) Security Cleared 4 1 (1.563 %) ITIL	Programming Languages 1 22 (34.38 %) Shell Script 2 16 (25.00 %) Perl 3 5 (7.813 %) PeopleCode 3 5 (7.813 %) SQR 4 2 (3.125 %) Korn 4 2 (3.125 %) Java 5 1 (1.563 %) C 5 1 (1.563 %) C++ 5 1 (1.563 %) SQL 5 1 (1.563 %) VB 5 1 (1.563 %) REXX
Qualifications 1 1 (1.563 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 8 (12.50 %) QA 2 5 (7.813 %) SLA
System Software 1 9 (14.06 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 2 1 (1.563 %) RACF	Systems Management 1 20 (31.25 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 17 (26.56 %) Tivoli 3 5 (7.813 %) Tivoli Monitoring 4 1 (1.563 %) Norton AntiVirus 4 1 (1.563 %) AllFusion Endevor
Vendors 1 6 (9.375 %) Oracle 2 5 (7.813 %) PeopleSoft 3 3 (4.688 %) IBM 4 2 (3.125 %) Citrix 4 2 (3.125 %) VERITAS 5 1 (1.563 %) Symantec 5 1 (1.563 %) VMware 5 1 (1.563 %) Brocade 5 1 (1.563 %) Hitachi 5 1 (1.563 %) Microsoft 5 1 (1.563 %) SAP 5 1 (1.563 %) Cognos