South East Quark Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Quark products and/or services in IT contracts within the South East region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Quark over the 3 months to 5 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Blackpool Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Devon England Exeter Lancashire London Midlands North West Oxford Oxfordshire South East South West UK	3 months to 5 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	230	283
Rank change on same period last year	+53
Matching contract IT job ads	2	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	0.041 %	0.070 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
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	-	£8.75
% change on same period last year	-
Vendors South East
Matching contract IT job ads	4847	7123
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	7.909 %	7.804 %
Daily rates quoted	1137	1651
Average minimum daily rate	£339	£337
Average daily rate	£360	£354
% change on same period last year	+1.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£381	£371
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£348
% change on same period last year	+2.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	550	901
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.05	£22.77
Average hourly rate	£24.46	£24.34
% change on same period last year	+0.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.87	£25.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.95	£23.82
% change on same period last year	+0.54 %
Quark 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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Quark, Inc.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Quark across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors 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 Quark across the South East 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 Quark across the South East 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 Quark within the South East region over the 3 months to 5 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	-	1	-	-
Oxfordshire	-	1	-	-

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Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Quark 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 Quark.

1 2 (66.67 %) Photoshop 1 2 (66.67 %) QuarkXPress 2 1 (33.33 %) Symantec 2 1 (33.33 %) McAfee Security 2 1 (33.33 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 1 (33.33 %) Configuration Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Hummingbird 2 1 (33.33 %) Adobe Illustrator 2 1 (33.33 %) Backup Exec 2 1 (33.33 %) Marketing 2 1 (33.33 %) Auditing 2 1 (33.33 %) Graphic Design 2 1 (33.33 %) Animation 2 1 (33.33 %) MS Project 2 1 (33.33 %) MS Office

2 1 (33.33 %) SAP 2 1 (33.33 %) ASP 2 1 (33.33 %) CSS 2 1 (33.33 %) Flash 2 1 (33.33 %) XHTML 2 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (33.33 %) VPN 2 1 (33.33 %) Adobe 2 1 (33.33 %) VERITAS 2 1 (33.33 %) HTML 2 1 (33.33 %) JavaScript 2 1 (33.33 %) PHP 2 1 (33.33 %) ActionScript

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Quark 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 Quark. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (33.33 %) HTML 1 1 (33.33 %) ASP 1 1 (33.33 %) CSS 1 1 (33.33 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) Photoshop 1 2 (66.67 %) QuarkXPress 2 1 (33.33 %) Adobe Illustrator 2 1 (33.33 %) MS Project 2 1 (33.33 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) VPN
Development Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) Flash	General 1 1 (33.33 %) Marketing 1 1 (33.33 %) Auditing 1 1 (33.33 %) Graphic Design 1 1 (33.33 %) Animation
Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Developer 1 1 (33.33 %) Web Developer 1 1 (33.33 %) Integration Engineer	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Configuration Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) JavaScript 1 1 (33.33 %) PHP 1 1 (33.33 %) ActionScript	System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Norton AntiVirus	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) SAP 1 1 (33.33 %) Adobe 1 1 (33.33 %) VERITAS 1 1 (33.33 %) Symantec 1 1 (33.33 %) McAfee Security 1 1 (33.33 %) Hummingbird