Peterborough C Contracts

This section looks at the demand for C skills within the Peterborough region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited C over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Amersham Avon Banbury Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexley Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Channel Islands Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Darlington Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Guernsey Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huntingdon Ipswich Jersey Kent Kidderminster Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Louth Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Tyneside North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Perth and Kinross Peterborough Plymouth Pontypool Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Rochester Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wells Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	26	27
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	1	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	1.818 %	1.695 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£300	-
Average daily rate	£300	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£300	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£344	£353
% change on same period last year	-2.44 %
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	£34.54	£34.77
% change on same period last year	-0.66 %
Programming Languages Peterborough
Matching contract IT job ads	55	59
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.073 %	0.059 %
Daily rates quoted	12	2
Average minimum daily rate	£332	£338
Average daily rate	£341	£356
% change on same period last year	-4.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£375
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£335
% change on same period last year	-1.24 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	6
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£27.78
Average hourly rate	-	£29.39
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£31.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.47	£33.03
% change on same period last year	+1.31 %
C Cambridgeshire

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 C across the Peterborough region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages 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 C across the Peterborough 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 C across the Peterborough region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough region citing C 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 C.

1 2 (66.67 %) SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) VB 2 1 (33.33 %) VB.NET 2 1 (33.33 %) .NET 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2 1 (33.33 %) IIS 2 1 (33.33 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (33.33 %) CSS 2 1 (33.33 %) JSP 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2 1 (33.33 %) Solaris 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 2 1 (33.33 %) Apache 2 1 (33.33 %) MS Excel

2 1 (33.33 %) DTS 2 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (33.33 %) LAN 2 1 (33.33 %) WLAN 2 1 (33.33 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (33.33 %) VPN 2 1 (33.33 %) DNS 2 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 2 1 (33.33 %) Dell 2 1 (33.33 %) Commerce Server 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (33.33 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 1 (33.33 %) Blackberry 2 1 (33.33 %) AJAX 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 1 (33.33 %) .NET 1 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (33.33 %) CSS 1 1 (33.33 %) JSP 1 1 (33.33 %) AJAX 1 1 (33.33 %) WebSphere 1 1 (33.33 %) Silverlight 1 1 (33.33 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) IIS 1 1 (33.33 %) Apache 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (33.33 %) Commerce Server
Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) LAN 1 1 (33.33 %) WLAN 1 1 (33.33 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (33.33 %) VPN 1 1 (33.33 %) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 1 1 (33.33 %) DTS 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2000 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) Visual Studio
Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Desktop Support 1 1 (33.33 %) Developer 1 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Support Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Applications Support 1 1 (33.33 %) Desktop Support Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Desktop Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) Blackberry 1 1 (33.33 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 1 1 (33.33 %) Solaris 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000	Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) VB 2 1 (33.33 %) VB.NET 2 1 (33.33 %) C++ 2 1 (33.33 %) Java 2 1 (33.33 %) Perl 2 1 (33.33 %) PHP
Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) Degree	System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Dell