North West UGS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of UGS products and/or services in IT contracts within the North West region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited UGS over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

UGS
Location Berkshire England North West Reading South East UK	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	134	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.065 %	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	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
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	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Vendors North West
Matching contract IT job ads	1550	1935
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.045 %	1.927 %
Daily rates quoted	320	418
Average minimum daily rate	£343	£331
Average daily rate	£360	£348
% change on same period last year	+3.57 %
Average maximum daily rate	£378	£365
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£358
% change on same period last year	+0.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	191	183
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.43	£20.61
Average hourly rate	£22.76	£22.25
% change on same period last year	+2.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.08	£23.89
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£24.82
% change on same period last year	-4.13 %
UGS 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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within the UGS Corporation.

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Demand Trend

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

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Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing UGS 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 UGS.

1 4 (100.00 %) Java 1 4 (100.00 %) Military 1 4 (100.00 %) PLM 1 4 (100.00 %) PDM 1 4 (100.00 %) Teamcenter 2 3 (75.00 %) Data Migration 2 3 (75.00 %) C++ 2 3 (75.00 %) Migration 3 2 (50.00 %) Adabas 4 1 (25.00 %) Process Management 4 1 (25.00 %) Manufacturing 4 1 (25.00 %) VB

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Business Applications 1 4 (100.00 %) Teamcenter	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (50.00 %) Adabas
General 1 4 (100.00 %) Military 2 1 (25.00 %) Manufacturing	Job Titles 1 1 (25.00 %) Developer 1 1 (25.00 %) Java Developer 1 1 (25.00 %) C++ Developer 1 1 (25.00 %) C++/Java Developer
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (100.00 %) PLM 1 4 (100.00 %) PDM 2 3 (75.00 %) Data Migration 2 3 (75.00 %) Migration 3 1 (25.00 %) Process Management	Programming Languages 1 4 (100.00 %) Java 2 3 (75.00 %) C++ 3 1 (25.00 %) VB