Scotland Local Government Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Local Government' in contract IT jobs within the Scotland region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Local Government over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Barnsley Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridgeshire Cardiff Carlisle Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Cumbria Devon Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Hove Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Melrose Merseyside Midlands Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Rochdale Romford Rotherham Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southport Suffolk Surrey Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walsall West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	96	124
Rank change on same period last year	+28
Matching contract IT job ads	7	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	0.573 %	0.534 %
Daily rates quoted	3	3
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£203
Average daily rate	£350	£212
% change on same period last year	+65.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£380	£220
UK excluding London average daily rate	£376	£335
% change on same period last year	+12.30 %
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	£20.18	£17.69
% change on same period last year	+14.03 %
General Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	1222	1497
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.611 %	1.588 %
Daily rates quoted	332	367
Average minimum daily rate	£327	£309
Average daily rate	£349	£325
% change on same period last year	+7.32 %
Average maximum daily rate	£371	£341
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£372
% change on same period last year	+3.96 %
Hourly rates quoted	43	43
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.48	£26.82
Average hourly rate	£21.15	£28.27
% change on same period last year	-25.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.81	£29.73
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.47	£27.20
% change on same period last year	-2.68 %
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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 Scotland 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 Scotland 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 Local Government across the Scotland 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 Local Government within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh	+12	3	£284	+38.41 %
Highlands	-	2	-	-
Scottish Borders	-	1	-	-
Glasgow	-	1	£483	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 11 (100.00 %) Government 2 4 (36.36 %) VB 2 4 (36.36 %) Unix 3 3 (27.27 %) BusinessObjects 3 3 (27.27 %) Content Management Server 3 3 (27.27 %) .NET 3 3 (27.27 %) Oracle 3 3 (27.27 %) SQL Server 3 3 (27.27 %) Business Objects 3 3 (27.27 %) JavaScript 3 3 (27.27 %) SQL 3 3 (27.27 %) WebServices 3 3 (27.27 %) XML 3 3 (27.27 %) Oracle Reports 3 3 (27.27 %) CRM

3 3 (27.27 %) CMS 4 2 (18.18 %) Telecoms 4 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft 5 1 (9.091 %) GIS 5 1 (9.091 %) ArcGIS 5 1 (9.091 %) Service Delivery 5 1 (9.091 %) Internet 5 1 (9.091 %) Shell Script 5 1 (9.091 %) MIMEsweeper 5 1 (9.091 %) Apple 5 1 (9.091 %) BizTalk Server 5 1 (9.091 %) Windows 5 1 (9.091 %) N-Tier 5 1 (9.091 %) MS Exchange 5 1 (9.091 %) OpenEdge

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 3 (27.27 %) .NET 1 3 (27.27 %) WebServices 1 3 (27.27 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 3 (27.27 %) Content Management Server 1 3 (27.27 %) CMS 2 1 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2007 2 1 (9.091 %) ArcGIS 2 1 (9.091 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (9.091 %) OpenEdge 2 1 (9.091 %) BizTalk Server
Communications & Networking 1 1 (9.091 %) DHCP 1 1 (9.091 %) DNS 1 1 (9.091 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (27.27 %) SQL Server 1 3 (27.27 %) Oracle Reports 1 3 (27.27 %) BusinessObjects 2 1 (9.091 %) GIS
General 1 11 (100.00 %) Government 2 2 (18.18 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 3 (27.27 %) Developer 2 2 (18.18 %) Analyst 2 2 (18.18 %) Consultant 2 2 (18.18 %) Applications Support 3 1 (9.091 %) 3rd Line Support 3 1 (9.091 %) .NET Developer 3 1 (9.091 %) SAP Consultant 3 1 (9.091 %) GIS Technician 3 1 (9.091 %) Applications Developer 3 1 (9.091 %) Support Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) IT Consultant 3 1 (9.091 %) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 1 (9.091 %) N-Tier	Operating Systems 1 4 (36.36 %) Unix 2 1 (9.091 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (27.27 %) CRM 2 1 (9.091 %) Service Delivery 2 1 (9.091 %) ITIL	Programming Languages 1 4 (36.36 %) VB 2 3 (27.27 %) JavaScript 2 3 (27.27 %) SQL 3 1 (9.091 %) VBScript 3 1 (9.091 %) Shell Script
Systems Management 1 1 (9.091 %) MIMEsweeper	Vendors 1 3 (27.27 %) Oracle 1 3 (27.27 %) Business Objects 2 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft 3 1 (9.091 %) Apple 3 1 (9.091 %) Metastorm 3 1 (9.091 %) SAP 3 1 (9.091 %) Progress