South West BT Contracts

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

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Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Camberley City of London East Midlands England Hampshire Kingston Upon Thames Leeds Liverpool London Luton Merseyside North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Scotland Slough South East South West Surrey Thames Valley UK West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	131	155
Rank change on same period last year	+24
Matching contract IT job ads	4	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	0.238 %	0.378 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£350	-
Average daily rate	£350	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£350	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£335
% change on same period last year	+3.21 %
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	£19.09	£25.94
% change on same period last year	-26.39 %
Vendors South West
Matching contract IT job ads	1678	2115
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.643 %	2.266 %
Daily rates quoted	444	477
Average minimum daily rate	£342	£314
Average daily rate	£364	£330
% change on same period last year	+10.39 %
Average maximum daily rate	£387	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£348
% change on same period last year	+2.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	193	256
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.28	£23.11
Average hourly rate	£24.68	£24.78
% change on same period last year	-0.39 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.09	£26.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.26	£24.41
% change on same period last year	-0.60 %
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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 BT Group plc.

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Demand Trend

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

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Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing BT 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 BT.

1 4 (57.14 %) NHS 1 4 (57.14 %) Health 1 4 (57.14 %) Migration 1 4 (57.14 %) Data Migration 2 3 (42.86 %) IVR 2 3 (42.86 %) Banking 2 3 (42.86 %) Retail 2 3 (42.86 %) Insurance 2 3 (42.86 %) Retail Banking 2 3 (42.86 %) MPLS 2 3 (42.86 %) PRINCE2 2 3 (42.86 %) ATM 2 3 (42.86 %) Sun 2 3 (42.86 %) EPoS 2 3 (42.86 %) EFT

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing BT 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 BT. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 3 (42.86 %) ATM 1 3 (42.86 %) MPLS	General 1 4 (57.14 %) Health 2 3 (42.86 %) Banking 2 3 (42.86 %) Retail 2 3 (42.86 %) Insurance 2 3 (42.86 %) Retail Banking
Job Titles 1 6 (85.71 %) Project Manager 2 3 (42.86 %) Technical Project Manager 2 3 (42.86 %) Technical Manager 3 2 (28.57 %) NHS Project Manager 4 1 (14.29 %) Programme Manager	Miscellaneous 1 4 (57.14 %) NHS 2 3 (42.86 %) IVR 2 3 (42.86 %) EPoS 2 3 (42.86 %) EFT
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (57.14 %) Migration 1 4 (57.14 %) Data Migration 2 3 (42.86 %) PRINCE2	Vendors 1 3 (42.86 %) Sun