Somerset Electronics Contracts

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Electronics' in contract IT jobs within the Somerset 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 Electronics over the 3 months to 7 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London Cleveland County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crowthorne Devon East Anglia East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Flintshire Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Midlands North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Queensferry Reading Salisbury Scotland Slough Somerset South East South West Southampton Stevenage Surrey Swindon Teesside Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	43	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	1.156 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£550	-
Average daily rate	£575	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£600	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£334	£352
% change on same period last year	-5.14 %
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	£29.71	£30.47
% change on same period last year	-2.48 %
General Somerset
Matching contract IT job ads	173	121
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.345 %	0.151 %
Daily rates quoted	30	28
Average minimum daily rate	£389	£360
Average daily rate	£438	£390
% change on same period last year	+12.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£487	£420
UK excluding London average daily rate	£375	£382
% change on same period last year	-1.85 %
Hourly rates quoted	79	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.26	£20.94
Average hourly rate	£32.77	£21.19
% change on same period last year	+54.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.28	£21.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.82	£26.53
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Electronics South West

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 Electronics across the Somerset 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 Electronics across the Somerset 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 Electronics across the Somerset 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 Electronics within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 7 January 2009. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Wells	-	2	£575	-

Electronics South West

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Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region citing Electronics 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 Electronics.

1 2 (28.57 %) JSP 1 2 (28.57 %) BS7799 1 2 (28.57 %) FrameMaker 1 2 (28.57 %) Telecoms 1 2 (28.57 %) Military 1 2 (28.57 %) Information Security 1 2 (28.57 %) ISO27001 1 2 (28.57 %) JSP 440 1 2 (28.57 %) RMADS 1 2 (28.57 %) Government 1 2 (28.57 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (14.29 %) Manufacturing 2 1 (14.29 %) Device Driver 2 1 (14.29 %) MS Office 2 1 (14.29 %) SC Cleared

2 1 (14.29 %) WiMAX 2 1 (14.29 %) Aerospace 2 1 (14.29 %) Windows 2 1 (14.29 %) GSM 2 1 (14.29 %) WCDMA

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region citing Electronics 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 Electronics. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (28.57 %) JSP	Applications 1 2 (28.57 %) FrameMaker 2 1 (14.29 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 1 (14.29 %) GSM 1 1 (14.29 %) WCDMA 1 1 (14.29 %) WiMAX	General 1 2 (28.57 %) Telecoms 1 2 (28.57 %) Government 1 2 (28.57 %) Military 2 1 (14.29 %) Manufacturing 2 1 (14.29 %) Aerospace
Job Titles 1 2 (28.57 %) Author 1 2 (28.57 %) Technical Author 1 2 (28.57 %) Consultant 1 2 (28.57 %) CLAS Consultant 2 1 (14.29 %) Test Engineer 2 1 (14.29 %) Integration Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (28.57 %) RMADS 2 1 (14.29 %) Device Driver
Operating Systems 1 1 (14.29 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (28.57 %) Information Security
Qualifications 1 2 (28.57 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (14.29 %) SC Cleared	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (28.57 %) BS7799 1 2 (28.57 %) ISO27001 1 2 (28.57 %) JSP 440