South East Migration Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Migration skills within the South East region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Migration over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Amersham Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnsley Barry Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chichester Cirencester City of London Clevedon County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Diss Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh Ely England Essex Exeter Farnborough Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Hull Inverurie Ipswich Jersey Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Rochester Rotherham Rugby Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidmouth Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Telford Thames Valley Thetford Trowbridge Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wetherby Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	25	22
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	598	897
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.842 %	0.906 %
As % of the category below	8.720 %	10.28 %
Daily rates quoted	203	309
Average minimum daily rate	£356	£362
Average daily rate	£378	£379
% change on same period last year	-0.27 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£396
UK excluding London average daily rate	£376	£371
% change on same period last year	+1.43 %
Hourly rates quoted	32	85
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.53	£24.77
Average hourly rate	£31.74	£26.51
% change on same period last year	+19.73 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.95	£28.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.47	£25.54
% change on same period last year	-4.18 %
Processes & Methodologies South East
Matching contract IT job ads	6858	8724
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	9.656 %	8.816 %
Daily rates quoted	1967	2590
Average minimum daily rate	£351	£353
Average daily rate	£373	£373
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£395	£394
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£370
% change on same period last year	+1.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	639	827
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.44	£28.58
Average hourly rate	£30.35	£30.33
% change on same period last year	+0.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.26	£32.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.44	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-1.89 %
Migration 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 Migration across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies 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 Migration 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 Migration across the South East region over the 3 months to 10 October 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 Migration 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 Migration across the South East region over the 3 months to 10 October 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 Migration within the South East region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
Berkshire	0	181	£408	+6.15 %
Surrey	+3	88	£382	+6.50 %
Hampshire	0	85	£364	-4.74 %
Buckinghamshire	-1	66	£330	-14.75 %
Middlesex	+10	38	£373	+25.86 %
Kent	+16	24	£311	-21.50 %
Thames Valley	+9	24	£366	-18.66 %
West Sussex	+10	19	£403	+19.47 %
Oxfordshire	-13	13	£325	+75.67 %
M4 Corridor	+5	13	£370	-17.31 %
East Sussex	+7	9	£363	-19.44 %
Home Counties	-	4	-	-
Sussex	-2	2	£300	-18.44 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Migration 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 Migration.

1 424 (33.18 %) Data Migration 2 240 (18.78 %) SQL 3 208 (16.28 %) Windows 4 190 (14.87 %) Finance 5 174 (13.62 %) Oracle 6 153 (11.97 %) Security Cleared 7 146 (11.42 %) Telecoms 8 137 (10.72 %) SAP 9 134 (10.49 %) UNIX 10 122 (9.546 %) Microsoft 11 109 (8.529 %) SQL Server 12 100 (7.825 %) SC Cleared 13 94 (7.355 %) Government 14 88 (6.886 %) Active Directory 15 87 (6.808 %) MS Exchange

16 83 (6.495 %) Project Management 17 73 (5.712 %) Windows Server 2003 18 69 (5.399 %) PL/SQL 19 67 (5.243 %) PRINCE2 20 55 (4.304 %) MS Office 20 55 (4.304 %) WAN 21 54 (4.225 %) LAN 21 54 (4.225 %) Linux 21 54 (4.225 %) Perl 22 52 (4.069 %) .NET 23 50 (3.912 %) Windows 2000 23 50 (3.912 %) MS Excel 24 48 (3.756 %) Microsoft Certification 24 48 (3.756 %) Pensions 25 47 (3.678 %) Insurance

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Migration 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 Migration. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 52 (4.069 %) .NET 2 34 (2.660 %) XML 3 33 (2.582 %) HTML 4 20 (1.565 %) ASP.NET 5 19 (1.487 %) XSLT 6 16 (1.252 %) CSS 6 16 (1.252 %) LAMP 6 16 (1.252 %) Drupal 7 14 (1.095 %) WebServices 7 14 (1.095 %) WebSphere 8 13 (1.017 %) XHTML 8 13 (1.017 %) J2EE 9 11 (0.861 %) .NET Framework 10 9 (0.704 %) Application Packaging 10 9 (0.704 %) ASP 11 7 (0.548 %) ODBC 12 6 (0.469 %) Spring 13 5 (0.391 %) SAP ALE 13 5 (0.391 %) Middleware 13 5 (0.391 %) ADO	Application Platforms 1 87 (6.808 %) MS Exchange 2 47 (3.678 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 44 (3.443 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 30 (2.347 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 29 (2.269 %) CMS 6 23 (1.800 %) SharePoint 7 15 (1.174 %) Apache 8 14 (1.095 %) Lotus Notes 9 11 (0.861 %) Tomcat 10 10 (0.782 %) IIS 11 9 (0.704 %) TPMS 12 8 (0.626 %) Exchange Server 2000 12 8 (0.626 %) SharePoint Server 2007 13 7 (0.548 %) Lotus Domino 13 7 (0.548 %) SAS 13 7 (0.548 %) NetWeaver 14 6 (0.469 %) WebSphere Application Server 15 4 (0.313 %) BizTalk Server 15 4 (0.313 %) WebSphere MQ 16 2 (0.156 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 55 (4.304 %) MS Office 2 50 (3.912 %) MS Excel 3 15 (1.174 %) Spreadsheet 4 14 (1.095 %) MS Visio 4 14 (1.095 %) MS Project 5 5 (0.391 %) CA Clarity 5 5 (0.391 %) MS PowerPoint 6 1 (0.078 %) Open Workbench 6 1 (0.078 %) Shockwave 6 1 (0.078 %) SPSS 6 1 (0.078 %) Casewise Corporate Modeler Suite	Business Applications 1 27 (2.113 %) SAP FI 2 21 (1.643 %) SAP FI/CO 2 21 (1.643 %) SAP CO 3 16 (1.252 %) SAP IS-U 3 16 (1.252 %) SAP HR 4 15 (1.174 %) Endur 5 10 (0.782 %) Oracle Financials 6 7 (0.548 %) ResourceLink 7 6 (0.469 %) SAP MM 8 5 (0.391 %) Microsoft CRM 8 5 (0.391 %) SAP R/3 8 5 (0.391 %) Oracle EBS 8 5 (0.391 %) Hyperion Planning 9 4 (0.313 %) SAP Oil and Gas 9 4 (0.313 %) Oracle Financial Analyzer 9 4 (0.313 %) Oracle ERP 9 4 (0.313 %) Oracle Applications 9 4 (0.313 %) SAP CRM 9 4 (0.313 %) SAP Payroll 10 3 (0.235 %) Singl.eView
Communications & Networking 1 55 (4.304 %) WAN 2 54 (4.225 %) LAN 3 44 (3.443 %) 2G 4 43 (3.365 %) DNS 5 39 (3.052 %) SAN 6 31 (2.426 %) Internet 6 31 (2.426 %) Firewall 7 28 (2.191 %) 3G 7 28 (2.191 %) MPLS 8 27 (2.113 %) Intranet 9 26 (2.034 %) TCP/IP 9 26 (2.034 %) DHCP 10 17 (1.330 %) 3GPP 10 17 (1.330 %) ATM 11 16 (1.252 %) RNC 11 16 (1.252 %) INAP 12 14 (1.095 %) VLAN 13 12 (0.939 %) Cisco PIX 13 12 (0.939 %) SNMP 14 11 (0.861 %) SDH	Database & Business Intelligence 1 109 (8.529 %) SQL Server 2 33 (2.582 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 30 (2.347 %) ETL 4 28 (2.191 %) Oracle 10g 5 24 (1.878 %) SQL Server 2005 6 20 (1.565 %) MySQL 6 20 (1.565 %) DB2 6 20 (1.565 %) Data Cleansing 7 17 (1.330 %) BusinessObjects 8 15 (1.174 %) SQLPlus 8 15 (1.174 %) Datawarehouse 9 14 (1.095 %) Crystal Reports 9 14 (1.095 %) Oracle 9i 10 13 (1.017 %) Oracle Reports 10 13 (1.017 %) SQL Server 2000 11 12 (0.939 %) Oracle 8/8i 12 10 (0.782 %) SAP BW 12 10 (0.782 %) IDMS 13 9 (0.704 %) RDBMS 14 8 (0.626 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 23 (1.800 %) TestDirector 2 20 (1.565 %) ProC 3 12 (0.939 %) Oracle Forms 4 11 (0.861 %) Subversion 5 10 (0.782 %) QuickTest Pro 6 9 (0.704 %) LSMW 7 7 (0.548 %) WinRunner 8 4 (0.313 %) Oracle APEX 9 3 (0.235 %) Eclipse 9 3 (0.235 %) LoadRunner 9 3 (0.235 %) Synon 9 3 (0.235 %) PowerBuilder 9 3 (0.235 %) ERwin 10 2 (0.156 %) Flash 10 2 (0.156 %) Visual Studio 10 2 (0.156 %) PVCS 10 2 (0.156 %) ClearQuest 11 1 (0.078 %) Bugzilla 11 1 (0.078 %) Ant 11 1 (0.078 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 190 (14.87 %) Finance 2 146 (11.42 %) Telecoms 3 94 (7.355 %) Government 4 48 (3.756 %) Pensions 5 47 (3.678 %) Insurance 6 35 (2.739 %) Banking 7 20 (1.565 %) Health 7 20 (1.565 %) Auditing 8 19 (1.487 %) Billing 9 17 (1.330 %) Retail 10 15 (1.174 %) Manufacturing 10 15 (1.174 %) Local Government 11 14 (1.095 %) Legal 12 13 (1.017 %) Publishing 13 12 (0.939 %) Education 14 10 (0.782 %) Financial Institution 15 9 (0.704 %) Marketing 16 8 (0.626 %) General Ledger 17 5 (0.391 %) Retail Banking 17 5 (0.391 %) Automotive
Job Titles 1 265 (20.74 %) Analyst 2 183 (14.32 %) Consultant 3 166 (12.99 %) Developer 4 142 (11.11 %) Project Manager 5 103 (8.059 %) Business Analyst 6 84 (6.573 %) Data Analyst 7 50 (3.912 %) Architect 8 46 (3.599 %) Migration Consultant 9 42 (3.286 %) DBA 10 34 (2.660 %) Administrator 10 34 (2.660 %) SAP Consultant 11 31 (2.426 %) Technical Consultant 12 25 (1.956 %) Test Engineer 13 24 (1.878 %) Data Migration Analyst 13 24 (1.878 %) Exchange Consultant 14 23 (1.800 %) Migration Engineer 14 23 (1.800 %) Test Manager 15 22 (1.721 %) Oracle Developer 16 21 (1.643 %) SQL Developer 16 21 (1.643 %) Network Planner	Miscellaneous 1 18 (1.408 %) NHS 1 18 (1.408 %) Clustering 1 18 (1.408 %) IVR 2 16 (1.252 %) Mainframe 3 14 (1.095 %) Replication 4 13 (1.017 %) Blackberry 5 11 (0.861 %) Data Conversion 6 9 (0.704 %) Data Extraction 7 6 (0.469 %) German Language 8 5 (0.391 %) Management Information System 9 4 (0.313 %) Client/Server 9 4 (0.313 %) PMI 9 4 (0.313 %) Italian Language 9 4 (0.313 %) Spanish Language 9 4 (0.313 %) CMDB 10 3 (0.235 %) EPoS 11 2 (0.156 %) EMV 11 2 (0.156 %) AS400 11 2 (0.156 %) APACS 11 2 (0.156 %) EFT
Operating Systems 1 208 (16.28 %) Windows 2 134 (10.49 %) UNIX 3 73 (5.712 %) Windows Server 2003 4 54 (4.225 %) Linux 5 50 (3.912 %) Windows 2000 6 38 (2.973 %) Windows Vista 7 33 (2.582 %) Windows XP 8 32 (2.504 %) Solaris 9 24 (1.878 %) HPUX 10 23 (1.800 %) AIX 11 16 (1.252 %) Windows Server 2008 11 16 (1.252 %) Red Hat Linux 12 14 (1.095 %) Windows 2000 Server 13 12 (0.939 %) VME 14 9 (0.704 %) Windows NT 15 5 (0.391 %) Debian 16 3 (0.235 %) VMS 17 2 (0.156 %) OpenVMS 17 2 (0.156 %) NetWare 18 1 (0.078 %) OS/2	Processes & Methodologies 1 424 (33.18 %) Data Migration 2 153 (11.97 %) Security Cleared 3 100 (7.825 %) SC Cleared 4 83 (6.495 %) Project Management 5 67 (5.243 %) PRINCE2 6 42 (3.286 %) Data Modelling 6 42 (3.286 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 36 (2.817 %) Integration Testing 7 36 (2.817 %) ITIL 8 34 (2.660 %) CRM 9 33 (2.582 %) Data Mapping 10 30 (2.347 %) Data Analysis 11 29 (2.269 %) Business Intelligence 11 29 (2.269 %) Test Scripting 12 28 (2.191 %) Stakeholder Management 13 26 (2.034 %) UML 14 24 (1.878 %) Network Design 15 23 (1.800 %) SAP Implementation 16 22 (1.721 %) Logistics 16 22 (1.721 %) Data Management
Programming Languages 1 240 (18.78 %) SQL 2 69 (5.399 %) PL/SQL 3 54 (4.225 %) Perl 4 45 (3.521 %) Java 5 40 (3.130 %) C 5 40 (3.130 %) C# 6 31 (2.426 %) Korn 7 29 (2.269 %) JavaScript 8 27 (2.113 %) VB 9 21 (1.643 %) Shell Script 10 20 (1.565 %) VB.NET 11 19 (1.487 %) C++ 12 18 (1.408 %) PHP 13 16 (1.252 %) VBScript 14 15 (1.174 %) ABAP 15 14 (1.095 %) Transact-SQL 16 13 (1.017 %) COBOL 16 13 (1.017 %) VBA 16 13 (1.017 %) AWK 17 11 (0.861 %) Python	Qualifications 1 48 (3.756 %) Microsoft Certification 2 40 (3.130 %) MCSE 3 32 (2.504 %) Cisco Certification 4 26 (2.034 %) CCNP 5 21 (1.643 %) ISEB 6 19 (1.487 %) Degree 7 18 (1.408 %) PRINCE2 Certification 8 11 (0.861 %) CCNA 9 10 (0.782 %) CNE 9 10 (0.782 %) Novell Certification 10 7 (0.548 %) MCP 10 7 (0.548 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 11 4 (0.313 %) PMP 11 4 (0.313 %) PMI Certification 11 4 (0.313 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 12 3 (0.235 %) MBA 12 3 (0.235 %) CCIE 12 3 (0.235 %) ITIL Certification 13 2 (0.156 %) CCDA 13 2 (0.156 %) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 22 (1.721 %) QA 2 3 (0.235 %) SLA 2 3 (0.235 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 2 (0.156 %) GCP 3 2 (0.156 %) GMP 4 1 (0.078 %) GxP 4 1 (0.078 %) PCI DSS 4 1 (0.078 %) BS15000 4 1 (0.078 %) ISO8583	System Software 1 88 (6.886 %) Active Directory 2 19 (1.487 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 8 (0.626 %) VMware ESX 4 7 (0.548 %) MailMarshal 5 6 (0.469 %) Oracle RAC 5 6 (0.469 %) NFS 6 4 (0.313 %) NDS 6 4 (0.313 %) ISA Server 6 4 (0.313 %) Citrix Presentation Server 7 3 (0.235 %) Oracle RMAN 7 3 (0.235 %) MetaFrame 8 2 (0.156 %) Backup Exec 9 1 (0.078 %) NetBackup
Systems Management 1 13 (1.017 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 7 (0.548 %) Tivoli 2 7 (0.548 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 3 6 (0.469 %) OpenView 4 4 (0.313 %) OVOW 4 4 (0.313 %) BMC Marimba 5 3 (0.235 %) CONTROL-M 5 3 (0.235 %) OpenView Configuration Management 6 2 (0.156 %) Netcool 6 2 (0.156 %) Netcool/OMNIbus 6 2 (0.156 %) Unicenter 6 2 (0.156 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 6 2 (0.156 %) SCCM 7 1 (0.078 %) SCOM 7 1 (0.078 %) Veritas Storage Foundation 7 1 (0.078 %) MOM 7 1 (0.078 %) BMC PATROL	Vendors 1 174 (13.62 %) Oracle 2 137 (10.72 %) SAP 3 122 (9.546 %) Microsoft 4 47 (3.678 %) Cisco 5 37 (2.895 %) HP 6 29 (2.269 %) VMware 7 27 (2.113 %) IBM 8 26 (2.034 %) Ericsson 9 21 (1.643 %) Citrix 10 18 (1.408 %) Cramer 10 18 (1.408 %) Novell 11 17 (1.330 %) Business Objects 12 16 (1.252 %) Red Hat 13 15 (1.174 %) OpenLink 13 15 (1.174 %) Sun 14 14 (1.095 %) ICL 14 14 (1.095 %) Lotus 15 11 (0.861 %) VERITAS 16 9 (0.704 %) CheckPoint 16 9 (0.704 %) PeopleSoft