South Wales Electric Contracts

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Electric' in contract IT jobs within the South Wales 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 Electric over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Barnsley Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bracknell Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Coventry Devon Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Harlow Havant Hertfordshire Hinckley Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Scotland Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Surrey Swindon UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wiltshire Windsor Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	52	45
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	1	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.463 %	0.803 %
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	£344	£330
% change on same period last year	+4.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	-
Average hourly rate	£40.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.92	£23.15
% change on same period last year	+33.52 %
General South Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	216	249
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.304 %	0.252 %
Daily rates quoted	77	42
Average minimum daily rate	£309	£387
Average daily rate	£338	£421
% change on same period last year	-19.55 %
Average maximum daily rate	£368	£455
UK excluding London average daily rate	£383	£381
% change on same period last year	+0.75 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	46
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.86	£22.86
Average hourly rate	£29.71	£25.18
% change on same period last year	+17.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.57	£27.51
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.08	£26.78
% change on same period last year	+4.82 %
Electric Wales

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 Electric across the South Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 16 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (50.00 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (33.33 %) Windows 2 2 (33.33 %) Citrix 2 2 (33.33 %) MetaFrame 2 2 (33.33 %) Terminal Services 2 2 (33.33 %) Intranet 2 2 (33.33 %) Internet 2 2 (33.33 %) Symantec 2 2 (33.33 %) McAfee Security 2 2 (33.33 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 2 (33.33 %) Sophos 2 2 (33.33 %) Electronics 2 2 (33.33 %) Government 2 2 (33.33 %) Local Government 3 1 (16.67 %) Military

3 1 (16.67 %) CAD

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking 1 2 (33.33 %) Intranet 1 2 (33.33 %) Internet	General 1 2 (33.33 %) Electronics 1 2 (33.33 %) Government 1 2 (33.33 %) Local Government 2 1 (16.67 %) Military
Job Titles 1 2 (33.33 %) Server Support 1 2 (33.33 %) Support Engineer 1 2 (33.33 %) Server Engineer 1 2 (33.33 %) Server Support Engineer 1 2 (33.33 %) Electronics Technician 2 1 (16.67 %) Draughtsman	Operating Systems 1 2 (33.33 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (50.00 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (16.67 %) CAD	System Software 1 2 (33.33 %) MetaFrame 1 2 (33.33 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 2 (33.33 %) Norton AntiVirus	Vendors 1 2 (33.33 %) Citrix 1 2 (33.33 %) Symantec 1 2 (33.33 %) McAfee Security 1 2 (33.33 %) Sophos