South Coast Construction Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Construction' in contract IT jobs within the South Coast 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 Construction over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Amersham Avon Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheadle City of London County Antrim Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Gatwick Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Hounslow Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London M4 Corridor Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport North West Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Rugby Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southwark Stevenage Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swadlincote Telford Thames Valley UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	18	-
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	1.923 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£400	-
Average daily rate	£425	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£450	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£371	£352
% change on same period last year	+5.53 %
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	£37.81	£26.31
% change on same period last year	+43.71 %
General South Coast
Matching contract IT job ads	52	78
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.069 %	0.078 %
Daily rates quoted	20	44
Average minimum daily rate	£391	£441
Average daily rate	£415	£457
% change on same period last year	-9.13 %
Average maximum daily rate	£439	£472
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£381
% change on same period last year	+0.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.00	£23.00
Average hourly rate	£16.00	£26.67
% change on same period last year	-39.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.00	£30.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.94	£27.04
% change on same period last year	+3.32 %
Construction 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Construction across the South Coast 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 Construction across the South Coast region.

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Top 4 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Coast region citing Construction 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 Construction.

1 8 (88.89 %) Service Delivery 1 8 (88.89 %) Finance 1 8 (88.89 %) Pensions 2 1 (11.11 %) Change Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Coast region citing Construction 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 Construction. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

General 1 8 (88.89 %) Finance 1 8 (88.89 %) Pensions	Job Titles 1 8 (88.89 %) Business Analyst 1 8 (88.89 %) Analyst 2 1 (11.11 %) Systems Engineer
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (88.89 %) Service Delivery 2 1 (11.11 %) Change Management