South East Government Contracts

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Government' in contract IT jobs within the South East 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 Government over the 3 months to 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Government
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Andover Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cumbria Dagenham Darlington Devon Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Ilford Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochdale Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	18	30
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	585	721
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.949 %	0.787 %
As % of the category below	13.61 %	11.34 %
Daily rates quoted	235	214
Average minimum daily rate	£351	£355
Average daily rate	£372	£376
% change on same period last year	-0.95 %
Average maximum daily rate	£393	£396
UK excluding London average daily rate	£399	£405
% change on same period last year	-1.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	44	75
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.16	£24.30
Average hourly rate	£22.99	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-10.53 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.82	£27.09
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.79	£25.73
% change on same period last year	-3.65 %
General South East
Matching contract IT job ads	4297	6359
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	6.973 %	6.941 %
Daily rates quoted	1131	1765
Average minimum daily rate	£346	£348
Average daily rate	£369	£368
% change on same period last year	+0.22 %
Average maximum daily rate	£392	£389
UK excluding London average daily rate	£379	£378
% change on same period last year	+0.29 %
Hourly rates quoted	429	711
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.72	£24.89
Average hourly rate	£27.38	£26.53
% change on same period last year	+3.22 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.04	£28.16
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.32	£26.63
% change on same period last year	+2.58 %
Government 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.

Government
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Government across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Government
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Government 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 Government across the South East region over the 3 months to 4 December 2008.

Government
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Government
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

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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 Government within the South East region over the 3 months to 4 December 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
Buckinghamshire	+7	178	£323	+11.32 %
Berkshire	-4	142	£432	+8.86 %
Hampshire	+2	80	£413	+5.69 %
Surrey	+25	32	£349	+10.91 %
Oxfordshire	-2	26	£333	+18.31 %
Kent	+4	17	£305	-36.66 %
East Sussex	+27	16	£388	-
Isle of Wight	-	13	£435	-
West Sussex	+7	12	£337	-17.55 %
Thames Valley	+13	11	£350	-12.50 %
Middlesex	-6	7	£415	+3.75 %
Sussex	+18	5	£375	-
Home Counties	+7	3	-	-
M4 Corridor	+8	3	-	-

Government England

Government
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 852 (58.00 %) Security Cleared 2 646 (43.98 %) SC Cleared 3 283 (19.26 %) Windows 4 185 (12.59 %) Finance 5 184 (12.53 %) Local Government 6 180 (12.25 %) Microsoft 7 172 (11.71 %) PRINCE2 7 172 (11.71 %) Oracle 8 144 (9.803 %) SQL 9 131 (8.918 %) ITIL 10 129 (8.781 %) Project Management 11 123 (8.373 %) Windows Server 2003 12 116 (7.897 %) DV Cleared 13 94 (6.399 %) Cisco 14 93 (6.331 %) SQL Server

15 89 (6.059 %) UNIX 16 88 (5.990 %) Active Directory 17 84 (5.718 %) MS Office 18 82 (5.582 %) MS Excel 19 80 (5.446 %) Java 19 80 (5.446 %) Migration 20 76 (5.174 %) HP 21 71 (4.833 %) Firewall 22 65 (4.425 %) Windows XP 23 59 (4.016 %) LAN 23 59 (4.016 %) Service Management 24 56 (3.812 %) WAN 25 53 (3.608 %) Linux 26 51 (3.472 %) MS Project 27 50 (3.404 %) MS Exchange

Government
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 48 (3.268 %) .NET 2 47 (3.199 %) XML 3 41 (2.791 %) J2EE 4 25 (1.702 %) WebServices 5 22 (1.498 %) ASP.NET 6 21 (1.430 %) HTML 7 11 (0.749 %) WebSphere 8 10 (0.681 %) CSS 9 9 (0.613 %) Software Packaging 10 8 (0.545 %) Oracle Fusion 10 8 (0.545 %) SOAP 10 8 (0.545 %) Middleware 10 8 (0.545 %) Hibernate 11 7 (0.477 %) .NET Framework 12 6 (0.408 %) Spring 12 6 (0.408 %) XSLT 12 6 (0.408 %) Struts 12 6 (0.408 %) JSP 12 6 (0.408 %) ASP 13 5 (0.340 %) XSL	Application Platforms 1 50 (3.404 %) MS Exchange 2 31 (2.110 %) CMS 3 30 (2.042 %) IIS 4 27 (1.838 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 26 (1.770 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 21 (1.430 %) SharePoint 7 13 (0.885 %) WebLogic 8 8 (0.545 %) ArcGIS 9 7 (0.477 %) ESB 9 7 (0.477 %) SharePoint Server 2007 10 6 (0.408 %) Exchange Server 2000 11 5 (0.340 %) Content Management Server 11 5 (0.340 %) Apache 12 4 (0.272 %) Lotus Notes 12 4 (0.272 %) Oracle Workflow 12 4 (0.272 %) Oracle Application Server 12 4 (0.272 %) Exchange Server 5.5 12 4 (0.272 %) SharePoint Portal Server 12 4 (0.272 %) Oracle Spatial 13 3 (0.204 %) Lotus Domino
Applications 1 84 (5.718 %) MS Office 2 82 (5.582 %) MS Excel 3 51 (3.472 %) MS Project 4 30 (2.042 %) MS Visio 5 25 (1.702 %) MS PowerPoint 6 5 (0.340 %) Spreadsheet 7 3 (0.204 %) CA Clarity 7 3 (0.204 %) Acrobat 8 2 (0.136 %) MATLAB 8 2 (0.136 %) XMetaL 8 2 (0.136 %) Photoshop 8 2 (0.136 %) Quicktime 9 1 (0.068 %) SPSS 9 1 (0.068 %) Shockwave 9 1 (0.068 %) Pro/ENGINEER 9 1 (0.068 %) Paint Shop Pro 9 1 (0.068 %) QuarkXPress	Business Applications 1 16 (1.089 %) Oracle ERP 2 14 (0.953 %) Oracle Applications 3 10 (0.681 %) Oracle EBS 4 5 (0.340 %) Oracle EBS R12 5 3 (0.204 %) Oracle Financials 6 2 (0.136 %) Oracle 11i 6 2 (0.136 %) BusinessWorks 6 2 (0.136 %) SAP FI 6 2 (0.136 %) SAP FI/CO 6 2 (0.136 %) SAP CO 7 1 (0.068 %) Dynamics CRM 7 1 (0.068 %) SAP SRM 7 1 (0.068 %) SAP ERP 7 1 (0.068 %) Oracle HRMS 7 1 (0.068 %) Teamcenter 7 1 (0.068 %) Summit 7 1 (0.068 %) SAP PS 7 1 (0.068 %) Microsoft CRM
Communications & Networking 1 71 (4.833 %) Firewall 2 59 (4.016 %) LAN 3 56 (3.812 %) WAN 4 39 (2.655 %) DNS 5 38 (2.587 %) TCP/IP 6 36 (2.451 %) SAN 7 31 (2.110 %) Intranet 8 30 (2.042 %) Internet 9 25 (1.702 %) HTTP 10 23 (1.566 %) VPN 11 18 (1.225 %) Cisco PIX 12 13 (0.885 %) HTTPS 12 13 (0.885 %) Ethernet 12 13 (0.885 %) MPLS 13 12 (0.817 %) Intrusion Detection 13 12 (0.817 %) Cisco ASA 14 10 (0.681 %) Network Security 15 9 (0.613 %) BIG-IP 15 9 (0.613 %) Wireless 15 9 (0.613 %) Extranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 93 (6.331 %) SQL Server 2 28 (1.906 %) SQL Server 2005 3 24 (1.634 %) MS Access 4 21 (1.430 %) BusinessObjects 4 21 (1.430 %) GIS 5 20 (1.361 %) Oracle 10g 6 18 (1.225 %) SQL Server 2000 7 15 (1.021 %) Oracle Reports 8 12 (0.817 %) DTS 9 11 (0.749 %) Oracle 9i 9 11 (0.749 %) Crystal Reports 10 10 (0.681 %) Datawarehouse 11 9 (0.613 %) Oracle 8/8i 11 9 (0.613 %) ETL 12 8 (0.545 %) Data Mining 12 8 (0.545 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 13 7 (0.477 %) SQL Server Integration Services 13 7 (0.477 %) DB2 UDB 13 7 (0.477 %) RDBMS 13 7 (0.477 %) DB2
Development Applications 1 19 (1.293 %) StarTeam 2 13 (0.885 %) TestDirector 2 13 (0.885 %) ClearCase 3 12 (0.817 %) Visual Studio 4 11 (0.749 %) QuickTest Pro 5 10 (0.681 %) Rational Rose 5 10 (0.681 %) Eclipse 5 10 (0.681 %) ClearQuest 6 7 (0.477 %) Oracle Forms 7 6 (0.408 %) JDeveloper 8 4 (0.272 %) MSI 8 4 (0.272 %) JUnit 9 3 (0.204 %) Flash 10 2 (0.136 %) RequisitePro 10 2 (0.136 %) ARTiSAN 10 2 (0.136 %) Subversion 11 1 (0.068 %) LoadRunner 11 1 (0.068 %) ERwin 11 1 (0.068 %) ProC 11 1 (0.068 %) InstallShield	General 1 185 (12.59 %) Finance 2 184 (12.53 %) Local Government 3 48 (3.268 %) Legal 4 33 (2.246 %) Telecoms 5 25 (1.702 %) Education 6 24 (1.634 %) Health 7 20 (1.361 %) Auditing 7 20 (1.361 %) Military 8 17 (1.157 %) Construction 9 16 (1.089 %) Financial Institution 10 9 (0.613 %) Aerospace 11 8 (0.545 %) Electronics 11 8 (0.545 %) Publishing 12 7 (0.477 %) Back Office 13 6 (0.408 %) Manufacturing 13 6 (0.408 %) Billing 14 5 (0.340 %) General Ledger 14 5 (0.340 %) Insurance 14 5 (0.340 %) Electric 14 5 (0.340 %) Front Office
Job Titles 1 226 (15.38 %) Analyst 2 158 (10.76 %) Project Manager 3 134 (9.122 %) Consultant 4 124 (8.441 %) Developer 5 98 (6.671 %) Architect 6 79 (5.378 %) Business Analyst 7 49 (3.336 %) Administrator 8 37 (2.519 %) Network Engineer 9 34 (2.314 %) Tester 10 33 (2.246 %) Test Analyst 10 33 (2.246 %) Support Analyst 11 32 (2.178 %) Technical Architect 12 30 (2.042 %) DBA 13 24 (1.634 %) Coordinator 14 23 (1.566 %) Trainer 14 23 (1.566 %) Technical Consultant 15 21 (1.430 %) Security Architect 16 20 (1.361 %) Service Analyst 16 20 (1.361 %) Support Engineer 17 19 (1.293 %) Systems Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 40 (2.723 %) Management Information System 2 30 (2.042 %) PKI 3 26 (1.770 %) CESG 4 25 (1.702 %) NHS 5 22 (1.498 %) Replication 5 22 (1.498 %) Clustering 6 13 (0.885 %) Thin Client 6 13 (0.885 %) Fat Client 7 10 (0.681 %) N-Tier 7 10 (0.681 %) CESG CLAS 8 9 (0.613 %) Client/Server 9 8 (0.545 %) E-Learning 10 7 (0.477 %) Biometrics 10 7 (0.477 %) Computer Science 11 6 (0.408 %) Smartcard 12 5 (0.340 %) PMI 12 5 (0.340 %) Taxonomies 12 5 (0.340 %) Data Extraction 12 5 (0.340 %) RMADS 13 4 (0.272 %) Web 2.0
Operating Systems 1 283 (19.26 %) Windows 2 123 (8.373 %) Windows Server 2003 3 89 (6.059 %) UNIX 4 65 (4.425 %) Windows XP 5 53 (3.608 %) Linux 6 49 (3.336 %) Windows Vista 7 39 (2.655 %) Solaris 8 35 (2.383 %) Windows 2000 9 23 (1.566 %) Windows Server 2008 10 20 (1.361 %) AIX 11 13 (0.885 %) Red Hat Linux 12 9 (0.613 %) Windows NT 13 6 (0.408 %) HPUX 14 5 (0.340 %) Windows 2000 Server 15 3 (0.204 %) Tru64 16 2 (0.136 %) SUSE 16 2 (0.136 %) NetWare 17 1 (0.068 %) Windows CE 17 1 (0.068 %) Windows Mobile 17 1 (0.068 %) VxWorks	Processes & Methodologies 1 852 (58.00 %) Security Cleared 2 646 (43.98 %) SC Cleared 3 172 (11.71 %) PRINCE2 4 131 (8.918 %) ITIL 5 129 (8.781 %) Project Management 6 116 (7.897 %) DV Cleared 7 80 (5.446 %) Migration 8 59 (4.016 %) Service Management 9 41 (2.791 %) Service Delivery 10 40 (2.723 %) ITSM 11 39 (2.655 %) Configuration Management 11 39 (2.655 %) UML 12 35 (2.383 %) PRINCE 13 32 (2.178 %) Change Management 14 30 (2.042 %) BC Cleared 15 29 (1.974 %) Project Planning 15 29 (1.974 %) CRM 15 29 (1.974 %) ERP 16 23 (1.566 %) Information Security 17 22 (1.498 %) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages 1 144 (9.803 %) SQL 2 80 (5.446 %) Java 3 35 (2.383 %) C 4 34 (2.314 %) C++ 4 34 (2.314 %) VB 5 32 (2.178 %) C# 6 26 (1.770 %) PL/SQL 6 26 (1.770 %) VBScript 7 24 (1.634 %) Transact-SQL 8 21 (1.430 %) JavaScript 9 13 (0.885 %) VBA 10 11 (0.749 %) Ada 11 10 (0.681 %) REXX 11 10 (0.681 %) Tcl 12 9 (0.613 %) VB.NET 13 6 (0.408 %) Perl 14 3 (0.204 %) VC++ 14 3 (0.204 %) VB6 15 2 (0.136 %) Korn 15 2 (0.136 %) XPath	Qualifications 1 44 (2.995 %) Microsoft Certification 2 42 (2.859 %) Cisco Certification 3 41 (2.791 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 28 (1.906 %) CCNP 5 27 (1.838 %) Degree 6 26 (1.770 %) MCSE 7 23 (1.566 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 8 15 (1.021 %) ISEB 9 14 (0.953 %) CCNA 9 14 (0.953 %) ITIL Certification 10 12 (0.817 %) CNE 10 12 (0.817 %) Novell Certification 10 12 (0.817 %) MCDBA 10 12 (0.817 %) SCSP 11 11 (0.749 %) MCP 12 4 (0.272 %) MOS 13 3 (0.204 %) CCDP 13 3 (0.204 %) CCIE 13 3 (0.204 %) CISSP 13 3 (0.204 %) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 34 (2.314 %) QA 2 31 (2.110 %) ISO27001 3 27 (1.838 %) SLA 4 6 (0.408 %) COBIT 4 6 (0.408 %) JSP 440 5 5 (0.340 %) ISO17799 6 3 (0.204 %) BS7799 6 3 (0.204 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 6 3 (0.204 %) HMG Infosec 6 3 (0.204 %) PCI DSS 7 2 (0.136 %) EFQM 7 2 (0.136 %) CESG Infosec 8 1 (0.068 %) BS25999 8 1 (0.068 %) TickIT 8 1 (0.068 %) ISO14001 8 1 (0.068 %) GMP	System Software 1 88 (5.990 %) Active Directory 2 18 (1.225 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 17 (1.157 %) NetBackup 4 10 (0.681 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 9 (0.613 %) ISA Server 6 6 (0.408 %) VMware ESX 7 5 (0.340 %) AquaLogic 8 4 (0.272 %) Terminal Server 9 1 (0.068 %) Terminal Services 9 1 (0.068 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 9 1 (0.068 %) VMware Workstation 9 1 (0.068 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 44 (2.995 %) OpenView Configuration Management 2 31 (2.110 %) OpenView 3 23 (1.566 %) OVOW 4 14 (0.953 %) OVSD 5 13 (0.885 %) Norton AntiVirus 6 8 (0.545 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 6 8 (0.545 %) Netcool 7 7 (0.477 %) Unicenter 8 6 (0.408 %) Tivoli 8 6 (0.408 %) Netcool/OMNIbus 8 6 (0.408 %) MIIS 8 6 (0.408 %) OVIS 9 4 (0.272 %) MOM 10 3 (0.204 %) OVPI 10 3 (0.204 %) CiscoWorks 11 2 (0.136 %) SCCM 11 2 (0.136 %) NNM 11 2 (0.136 %) Netcool/Webtop 12 1 (0.068 %) EMC NetWorker 12 1 (0.068 %) Tivoli Monitoring	Vendors 1 180 (12.25 %) Microsoft 2 172 (11.71 %) Oracle 3 94 (6.399 %) Cisco 4 76 (5.174 %) HP 5 34 (2.314 %) Citrix 6 30 (2.042 %) VMware 7 26 (1.770 %) SAP 8 24 (1.634 %) Symantec 9 21 (1.430 %) Business Objects 9 21 (1.430 %) IBM 10 20 (1.361 %) CheckPoint 11 18 (1.225 %) Borland 11 18 (1.225 %) Sun 12 16 (1.089 %) Altiris 13 14 (0.953 %) McAfee Security 14 13 (0.885 %) Red Hat 15 12 (0.817 %) CA 16 8 (0.545 %) Nortel 16 8 (0.545 %) BMC 16 8 (0.545 %) Adobe