South Wales Lotus Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Lotus products and/or services in IT contracts within the South Wales region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Lotus over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Avon Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chertsey Cheshire Chichester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorchester Dorking Dorset Driffield Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Falkirk Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Godalming Goole Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Hartlepool Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Rochdale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weymouth Wiltshire Windlesham Windsor Wolverhampton Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	49	50
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	6	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	2.091 %	0.669 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£300	-
Average daily rate	£319	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£338	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£238	£231
% change on same period last year	+3.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£12.00
Average hourly rate	-	£13.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£14.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.32	£17.60
% change on same period last year	+4.08 %
Vendors South Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	287	299
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.379 %	0.298 %
Daily rates quoted	86	73
Average minimum daily rate	£322	£369
Average daily rate	£344	£393
% change on same period last year	-12.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£418
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£358
% change on same period last year	+0.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	34	38
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.83	£18.02
Average hourly rate	£31.87	£19.16
% change on same period last year	+66.38 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.92	£20.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.70	£24.82
% change on same period last year	-4.50 %
Lotus 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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within IBM Lotus Software.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Lotus across the South Wales 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 Lotus across the South Wales region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Lotus across the South Wales region over the 3 months to 21 August 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 Lotus across the South Wales region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lotus within the South Wales region over the 3 months to 21 August 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
Newport	-11	3	£325	-
Cardiff	-	1	£313	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales region citing Lotus 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 Lotus.

1 9 (100.00 %) Lotus Notes 2 3 (33.33 %) Datawarehouse 2 3 (33.33 %) .NET 2 3 (33.33 %) Crystal Reports 2 3 (33.33 %) Business Objects 2 3 (33.33 %) C 2 3 (33.33 %) VB 2 3 (33.33 %) BusinessObjects 3 2 (22.22 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 2 (22.22 %) PRINCE2 3 2 (22.22 %) Project Management 4 1 (11.11 %) Windows 4 1 (11.11 %) VB.NET 4 1 (11.11 %) MS Office 4 1 (11.11 %) MCP

4 1 (11.11 %) Windows XP 4 1 (11.11 %) B2B 4 1 (11.11 %) IBM 4 1 (11.11 %) Microsoft 4 1 (11.11 %) Lotus Domino 4 1 (11.11 %) MCSE 4 1 (11.11 %) MCSA 4 1 (11.11 %) MS Excel 4 1 (11.11 %) MCDST 4 1 (11.11 %) Degree 4 1 (11.11 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 1 (11.11 %) Microsoft Certification 4 1 (11.11 %) Intranet 4 1 (11.11 %) Internet 4 1 (11.11 %) Extranet

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales region citing Lotus 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 Lotus. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (33.33 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 9 (100.00 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (11.11 %) Lotus Domino
Applications 1 1 (11.11 %) MS Office 1 1 (11.11 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 1 (11.11 %) Intranet 1 1 (11.11 %) Internet 1 1 (11.11 %) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (33.33 %) Datawarehouse 1 3 (33.33 %) Crystal Reports 1 3 (33.33 %) BusinessObjects	Job Titles 1 3 (33.33 %) Consultant 1 3 (33.33 %) Lotus Notes Consultant 1 3 (33.33 %) Project Manager 2 2 (22.22 %) Desktop Manager 3 1 (11.11 %) Developer 3 1 (11.11 %) 2nd Line Support 3 1 (11.11 %) Administrator 3 1 (11.11 %) Lotus Notes Developer 3 1 (11.11 %) Domino Developer
Operating Systems 1 1 (11.11 %) Windows 1 1 (11.11 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (22.22 %) PRINCE2 1 2 (22.22 %) Project Management 2 1 (11.11 %) B2B 2 1 (11.11 %) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages 1 3 (33.33 %) C 1 3 (33.33 %) VB 2 1 (11.11 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 2 (22.22 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 1 (11.11 %) MCP 2 1 (11.11 %) MCSE 2 1 (11.11 %) MCSA 2 1 (11.11 %) MCDST 2 1 (11.11 %) Degree 2 1 (11.11 %) Microsoft Certification
Vendors 1 3 (33.33 %) Business Objects 2 1 (11.11 %) IBM 2 1 (11.11 %) Microsoft