South East Degree Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Degree in IT contracts within the South East region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Degree over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aylesbury Barking Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bletchley Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Conwy County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Douglas Dundee Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Lewisham Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Perth and Kinross Peterborough Plymouth Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Romford Rugby Runcorn Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Tamworth Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wiltshire Witham Wokingham Worcestershire Wymondham York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	45	47
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	383	510
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.505 %	0.541 %
As % of the category below	24.65 %	28.07 %
Daily rates quoted	65	71
Average minimum daily rate	£311	£311
Average daily rate	£327	£325
% change on same period last year	+0.73 %
Average maximum daily rate	£343	£338
UK excluding London average daily rate	£344	£312
% change on same period last year	+10.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	106	111
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.85	£32.69
Average hourly rate	£24.26	£34.53
% change on same period last year	-29.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.66	£36.37
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.11	£31.58
% change on same period last year	-14.15 %
Qualifications South East
Matching contract IT job ads	1554	1817
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.049 %	1.927 %
Daily rates quoted	403	392
Average minimum daily rate	£332	£323
Average daily rate	£352	£339
% change on same period last year	+3.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£371	£356
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£339
% change on same period last year	-2.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	263	279
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.30	£24.23
Average hourly rate	£24.72	£25.63
% change on same period last year	-3.52 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.14	£27.02
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.13	£25.68
% change on same period last year	-2.15 %
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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 Degree across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications 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 Degree across the South East region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Degree across the South East region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Degree across the South East region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Degree across the South East region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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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 Degree within the South East 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
Hampshire	-2	83	£377	+10.19 %
Surrey	+9	71	£386	+21.34 %
Berkshire	-9	63	£380	+20.18 %
Buckinghamshire	+3	40	£346	+31.54 %
Kent	+10	27	-	-
Middlesex	-13	19	£443	+18.73 %
Oxfordshire	-5	18	£320	+190.90 %
West Sussex	+9	13	£120	-70.90 %
Home Counties	+11	13	£150	-66.66 %
Thames Valley	+25	3	-	-
East Sussex	-7	2	-	-
Sussex	+12	1	-	-
M4 Corridor	+7	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Degree 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 Degree.

1 170 (19.68 %) Windows 2 121 (14.00 %) Computer Science 3 104 (12.04 %) Finance 4 99 (11.46 %) Microsoft 5 86 (9.954 %) SQL 6 85 (9.838 %) Java 7 83 (9.606 %) MS Excel 8 79 (9.144 %) MS Office 9 78 (9.028 %) C++ 10 74 (8.565 %) Oracle 11 71 (8.218 %) C 12 68 (7.870 %) Telecoms 13 67 (7.755 %) Security Cleared 14 65 (7.523 %) Unix 15 64 (7.407 %) .NET

15 64 (7.407 %) Electronics 16 62 (7.176 %) Education 17 57 (6.597 %) Pharmaceutical 18 54 (6.250 %) J2EE 19 51 (5.903 %) Linux 19 51 (5.903 %) SC Cleared 19 51 (5.903 %) Mathematics 20 50 (5.787 %) Project Management 21 49 (5.671 %) Windows 2000 21 49 (5.671 %) UML 22 47 (5.440 %) XML 23 45 (5.208 %) ITIL 23 45 (5.208 %) OO 24 41 (4.745 %) Government 25 39 (4.514 %) Marketing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Degree 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 Degree. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 64 (7.407 %) .NET 2 54 (6.250 %) J2EE 3 47 (5.440 %) XML 4 31 (3.588 %) Struts 5 24 (2.778 %) HTML 6 22 (2.546 %) ASP.NET 7 21 (2.431 %) WebSphere 8 20 (2.315 %) ASP 9 19 (2.199 %) Middleware 10 18 (2.083 %) AJAX 10 18 (2.083 %) Hibernate 11 17 (1.968 %) JSP 12 16 (1.852 %) EJB 12 16 (1.852 %) JRules 13 15 (1.736 %) CSS 14 12 (1.389 %) Spring 15 10 (1.157 %) Servlets 15 10 (1.157 %) XHTML 16 9 (1.042 %) JMS 17 8 (0.926 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 30 (3.472 %) WebLogic 2 20 (2.315 %) SAS 3 12 (1.389 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 11 (1.273 %) IIS 4 11 (1.273 %) Apache 5 10 (1.157 %) Tomcat 5 10 (1.157 %) ArcSDE 6 8 (0.926 %) MS Exchange 6 8 (0.926 %) ArcIMS 7 5 (0.579 %) CICS 7 5 (0.579 %) SharePoint 8 4 (0.463 %) Lotus Notes 8 4 (0.463 %) BizTalk Server 8 4 (0.463 %) WebSphere MQ 8 4 (0.463 %) Exchange Server 2003 9 3 (0.347 %) ESB 9 3 (0.347 %) WPS 9 3 (0.347 %) Exchange Server 2000 9 3 (0.347 %) Exchange Server 2007 9 3 (0.347 %) ArcGIS
Applications 1 83 (9.606 %) MS Excel 2 79 (9.144 %) MS Office 3 22 (2.546 %) MS PowerPoint 3 22 (2.546 %) MS Project 4 6 (0.694 %) MATLAB 4 6 (0.694 %) Simulink 5 5 (0.579 %) Quicktime 5 5 (0.579 %) SPSS 6 4 (0.463 %) MS Visio 7 3 (0.347 %) Photoshop 8 2 (0.231 %) Stateflow 8 2 (0.231 %) FrameMaker 8 2 (0.231 %) Adobe Illustrator 9 1 (0.116 %) Adobe Premiere 9 1 (0.116 %) Pro/ENGINEER 9 1 (0.116 %) 3ds Max 9 1 (0.116 %) CorelDRAW 9 1 (0.116 %) ArcInfo 9 1 (0.116 %) FreeHand 9 1 (0.116 %) AutoCAD	Business Applications 1 3 (0.347 %) Oracle Applications 1 3 (0.347 %) SoftGrid 2 2 (0.231 %) Remedy ITSM 2 2 (0.231 %) Oracle EBS 2 2 (0.231 %) Oracle CRM 2 2 (0.231 %) Oracle Financials 2 2 (0.231 %) Oracle 11i 3 1 (0.116 %) Microsoft CRM 3 1 (0.116 %) Great Plains 3 1 (0.116 %) SAP FI 3 1 (0.116 %) SAP MM 3 1 (0.116 %) Oracle Payroll 3 1 (0.116 %) SAP FI/CO 3 1 (0.116 %) SAP CO 3 1 (0.116 %) HFM
Communications & Networking 1 29 (3.356 %) GSM 2 23 (2.662 %) TCP/IP 3 19 (2.199 %) VPN 3 19 (2.199 %) Firewall 4 18 (2.083 %) DVB 5 15 (1.736 %) Internet 5 15 (1.736 %) UMTS 6 13 (1.505 %) GPRS 6 13 (1.505 %) Network Security 7 10 (1.157 %) Intranet 7 10 (1.157 %) CDMA 7 10 (1.157 %) WCDMA 7 10 (1.157 %) WLAN 7 10 (1.157 %) 3G 8 8 (0.926 %) DNS 8 8 (0.926 %) WAN 8 8 (0.926 %) VoIP 8 8 (0.926 %) Wireless 9 7 (0.810 %) LAN 9 7 (0.810 %) WINS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 33 (3.819 %) SQL Server 2 19 (2.199 %) GIS 3 18 (2.083 %) Crystal Reports 4 17 (1.968 %) MySQL 5 16 (1.852 %) DB2 5 16 (1.852 %) BusinessObjects 6 14 (1.620 %) RDBMS 7 9 (1.042 %) MS Access 8 7 (0.810 %) SQL Server 2005 9 6 (0.694 %) Datawarehouse 9 6 (0.694 %) Oracle Reports 10 5 (0.579 %) BusinessObjects XI 11 4 (0.463 %) SQL Server 2000 11 4 (0.463 %) Informix 12 3 (0.347 %) Oracle 8/8i 12 3 (0.347 %) Oracle 10g 12 3 (0.347 %) Base SAS 12 3 (0.347 %) Data Cleansing 13 2 (0.231 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 14 1 (0.116 %) Database Marketing
Development Applications 1 26 (3.009 %) Eclipse 2 21 (2.431 %) Flash 3 19 (2.199 %) ClearCase 4 11 (1.273 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 9 (1.042 %) Rational Rose 6 8 (0.926 %) Visual Studio 6 8 (0.926 %) LabVIEW 7 7 (0.810 %) Ant 7 7 (0.810 %) TestDirector 8 6 (0.694 %) CruiseControl 8 6 (0.694 %) Subversion 9 4 (0.463 %) JUnit 10 3 (0.347 %) ClearQuest 10 3 (0.347 %) StarTeam 11 2 (0.231 %) Dreamweaver 11 2 (0.231 %) WinRunner 11 2 (0.231 %) QuickTest Pro 11 2 (0.231 %) LoadRunner 11 2 (0.231 %) PVCS 11 2 (0.231 %) Oracle Forms	General 1 104 (12.04 %) Finance 2 68 (7.870 %) Telecoms 3 64 (7.407 %) Electronics 4 62 (7.176 %) Education 5 57 (6.597 %) Pharmaceutical 6 41 (4.745 %) Government 7 39 (4.514 %) Marketing 8 23 (2.662 %) Health 8 23 (2.662 %) Electric 9 22 (2.546 %) Retail 10 18 (2.083 %) Manufacturing 10 18 (2.083 %) Aerospace 11 13 (1.505 %) Automotive 11 13 (1.505 %) Legal 12 12 (1.389 %) Military 13 11 (1.273 %) Games 14 9 (1.042 %) Banking 14 9 (1.042 %) Multimedia 14 9 (1.042 %) Insurance 15 8 (0.926 %) Construction
Job Titles 1 151 (17.48 %) Analyst 2 108 (12.50 %) Developer 3 79 (9.144 %) Software Engineer 4 46 (5.324 %) Project Manager 5 41 (4.745 %) Consultant 6 33 (3.819 %) Junior 7 29 (3.356 %) Systems Engineer 8 28 (3.241 %) J2EE Developer 9 25 (2.894 %) Java Developer 10 24 (2.778 %) Business Analyst 11 23 (2.662 %) Support Analyst 12 22 (2.546 %) Programmer 12 22 (2.546 %) Test Engineer 13 21 (2.431 %) Helpdesk Analyst 14 20 (2.315 %) Architect 15 19 (2.199 %) Senior Developer 16 18 (2.083 %) Support Engineer 17 17 (1.968 %) Tester 18 16 (1.852 %) Graduate 18 16 (1.852 %) Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 121 (14.00 %) Computer Science 2 51 (5.903 %) Mathematics 3 26 (3.009 %) Handset 4 23 (2.662 %) STB 5 21 (2.431 %) Statistics 6 18 (2.083 %) Physics 7 17 (1.968 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 8 15 (1.736 %) iDTV 9 14 (1.620 %) ASIC 9 14 (1.620 %) Management Information System 10 13 (1.505 %) VHDL 11 11 (1.273 %) Device Driver 11 11 (1.273 %) Life Science 12 10 (1.157 %) NHS 13 9 (1.042 %) Client/Server 14 8 (0.926 %) MPEG 14 8 (0.926 %) Mainframe 15 7 (0.810 %) Blackberry 15 7 (0.810 %) Verilog 15 7 (0.810 %) French Language
Operating Systems 1 170 (19.68 %) Windows 2 65 (7.523 %) Unix 3 51 (5.903 %) Linux 4 49 (5.671 %) Windows 2000 5 25 (2.894 %) Windows XP 6 23 (2.662 %) Windows NT 7 20 (2.315 %) VMS 8 11 (1.273 %) Solaris 9 9 (1.042 %) Windows Mobile 10 7 (0.810 %) Windows Server 2003 11 6 (0.694 %) Mac OS X 12 3 (0.347 %) AIX 13 2 (0.231 %) HPUX 13 2 (0.231 %) Windows CE 13 2 (0.231 %) Embedded Linux 14 1 (0.116 %) Windows Vista 14 1 (0.116 %) SUSE	Processes & Methodologies 1 67 (7.755 %) Security Cleared 2 51 (5.903 %) SC Cleared 3 50 (5.787 %) Project Management 4 49 (5.671 %) UML 5 45 (5.208 %) ITIL 5 45 (5.208 %) OO 6 32 (3.704 %) Configuration Management 7 27 (3.125 %) PRINCE2 8 25 (2.894 %) Validation 9 24 (2.778 %) Time Management 10 20 (2.315 %) Migration 10 20 (2.315 %) Change Management 11 18 (2.083 %) Business Analysis 12 17 (1.968 %) Project Planning 12 17 (1.968 %) Systems Analysis 13 16 (1.852 %) RUP 14 14 (1.620 %) Service Delivery 14 14 (1.620 %) Data Management 15 13 (1.505 %) Six Sigma 15 13 (1.505 %) Software Engineering
Programming Languages 1 86 (9.954 %) SQL 2 85 (9.838 %) Java 3 78 (9.028 %) C++ 4 71 (8.218 %) C 5 35 (4.051 %) C# 6 21 (2.431 %) VB.NET 7 19 (2.199 %) Embedded C 7 19 (2.199 %) VB 8 18 (2.083 %) VC++ 9 16 (1.852 %) Embedded C++ 10 12 (1.389 %) JavaScript 11 11 (1.273 %) Perl 12 10 (1.157 %) PHP 12 10 (1.157 %) PL/SQL 13 7 (0.810 %) Python 13 7 (0.810 %) VBA 14 6 (0.694 %) Transact-SQL 14 6 (0.694 %) VBScript 15 5 (0.579 %) COBOL 15 5 (0.579 %) Assembly Language	Qualifications 1 30 (3.472 %) HND 2 23 (2.662 %) HNC 2 23 (2.662 %) Microsoft Certification 3 17 (1.968 %) MCSE 4 15 (1.736 %) ISEB 4 15 (1.736 %) ITIL Certification 5 8 (0.926 %) Cisco Certification 5 8 (0.926 %) PhD 5 8 (0.926 %) MCP 6 7 (0.810 %) CCNA 7 6 (0.694 %) MBA 7 6 (0.694 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 8 4 (0.463 %) PRINCE2 Certification 8 4 (0.463 %) CCA 8 4 (0.463 %) Citrix Certification 8 4 (0.463 %) CISSP 9 3 (0.347 %) ACCA 9 3 (0.347 %) CISA 9 3 (0.347 %) CISM 9 3 (0.347 %) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 37 (4.282 %) QA 2 14 (1.620 %) ISO9001 3 12 (1.389 %) SLA 4 9 (1.042 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 5 6 (0.694 %) GCP 5 6 (0.694 %) ISO9000 6 3 (0.347 %) GxP 6 3 (0.347 %) ISO27001 7 1 (0.116 %) COBIT 7 1 (0.116 %) Basel II	System Software 1 24 (2.778 %) Active Directory 2 8 (0.926 %) Backup Exec 3 4 (0.463 %) Terminal Server 4 3 (0.347 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 2 (0.231 %) Samba 5 2 (0.231 %) NetBackup 6 1 (0.116 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 6 1 (0.116 %) RACF
Systems Management 1 9 (1.042 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 5 (0.579 %) MOM 3 3 (0.347 %) OpenView Configuration Management 4 2 (0.231 %) Tivoli NetView 4 2 (0.231 %) OpenView 4 2 (0.231 %) Netcool 5 1 (0.116 %) Tivoli 5 1 (0.116 %) Norton AntiVirus 5 1 (0.116 %) EMC Navisphere 5 1 (0.116 %) OVSD 5 1 (0.116 %) WSUS	Vendors 1 99 (11.46 %) Microsoft 2 74 (8.565 %) Oracle 3 29 (3.356 %) SAP 4 24 (2.778 %) IBM 5 17 (1.968 %) Intel 6 16 (1.852 %) Business Objects 7 15 (1.736 %) Citrix 7 15 (1.736 %) VMware 8 14 (1.620 %) EMC 8 14 (1.620 %) Cisco 9 12 (1.389 %) Red Hat 10 11 (1.273 %) HP 11 10 (1.157 %) BEA 11 10 (1.157 %) CheckPoint 12 9 (1.042 %) NEC 13 8 (0.926 %) ILOG 14 7 (0.810 %) ESRI 14 7 (0.810 %) Agilent 15 5 (0.579 %) Lotus 15 5 (0.579 %) Remedy