South West CA Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of CA 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 job ads that have cited CA over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Cheshire City of London Crawley Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Gatwick Halifax Hampshire Hayes Hertfordshire Ipswich Lancashire Leicestershire London Lytham St Annes Manchester Midlands Norfolk North West Norwich Reading Slough South East South West Suffolk Surrey Thames Valley UK Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	126	137
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	7	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.022 %
As % of the category below	0.422 %	1.065 %
Daily rates quoted	5	3
Average minimum daily rate	£401	£194
Average daily rate	£474	£194
% change on same period last year	+143.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£546	£194
UK excluding London average daily rate	£394	£343
% change on same period last year	+14.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£38.00
Average hourly rate	-	£39.67
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£41.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.20	£33.57
% change on same period last year	+13.78 %
Vendors South West
Matching contract IT job ads	1660	1971
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.189 %	2.091 %
Daily rates quoted	458	440
Average minimum daily rate	£346	£334
Average daily rate	£372	£357
% change on same period last year	+4.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£397	£379
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£356
% change on same period last year	+1.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	243	233
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.63	£21.88
Average hourly rate	£24.24	£23.29
% change on same period last year	+4.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.86	£24.71
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.91	£25.10
% change on same period last year	-8.72 %
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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 CA, Inc.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CA across the South West region over the 3 months to 4 July 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 CA across the South West 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 job ads citing CA within the South West region over the 3 months to 4 July 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
Dorset	+7	4	£389	-
Bristol	+4	2	£600	+84.61 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing CA 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 CA.

1 13 (38.24 %) Finance 2 12 (35.29 %) Unix 3 11 (32.35 %) SQL 4 10 (29.41 %) AutoSys 5 6 (17.65 %) HP 5 6 (17.65 %) Oracle 5 6 (17.65 %) Windows 5 6 (17.65 %) Insurance 6 5 (14.71 %) Pensions 6 5 (14.71 %) Solaris 6 5 (14.71 %) Unicenter 7 4 (11.76 %) NetApp 7 4 (11.76 %) Cisco 7 4 (11.76 %) Linux 7 4 (11.76 %) LDAP

7 4 (11.76 %) AIX 7 4 (11.76 %) Shell Script 7 4 (11.76 %) NetScreen 7 4 (11.76 %) Firewall 7 4 (11.76 %) SUSE 7 4 (11.76 %) Asset Management 7 4 (11.76 %) Load Balancing 7 4 (11.76 %) CA Clarity 7 4 (11.76 %) Performance Management 8 3 (8.824 %) iSCSI 8 3 (8.824 %) Change Management 8 3 (8.824 %) SharePoint Portal Server 8 3 (8.824 %) Korn 8 3 (8.824 %) Government 8 3 (8.824 %) Stakeholder Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing CA 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 CA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (2.941 %) .NET 1 1 (2.941 %) CGI	Application Platforms 1 3 (8.824 %) SharePoint 1 3 (8.824 %) SharePoint Portal Server 2 2 (5.882 %) CICS
Applications 1 4 (11.76 %) CA Clarity 2 1 (2.941 %) MS Project 2 1 (2.941 %) MS Office 2 1 (2.941 %) Open Workbench	Business Applications 1 3 (8.824 %) SAP FI 2 2 (5.882 %) SAP FI/CO 2 2 (5.882 %) SAP CO 2 2 (5.882 %) SAP FI-CA 3 1 (2.941 %) SAP IS-U
Communications & Networking 1 4 (11.76 %) LDAP 1 4 (11.76 %) NetScreen 1 4 (11.76 %) Firewall 2 3 (8.824 %) iSCSI	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (5.882 %) SQL Server 1 2 (5.882 %) DB2 2 1 (2.941 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (2.941 %) SQL Server 2005
General 1 13 (38.24 %) Finance 2 6 (17.65 %) Insurance 3 5 (14.71 %) Pensions 4 3 (8.824 %) Government	Job Titles 1 11 (32.35 %) Analyst 2 7 (20.59 %) Consultant 3 4 (11.76 %) Business Analyst 4 3 (8.824 %) Architect 4 3 (8.824 %) Project Planner 4 3 (8.824 %) Support Analyst 4 3 (8.824 %) Programme Planner 4 3 (8.824 %) Risk Manager 5 2 (5.882 %) Programmer 5 2 (5.882 %) Systems Programmer 5 2 (5.882 %) SAP Consultant 5 2 (5.882 %) IT Consultant 5 2 (5.882 %) Developer 6 1 (2.941 %) Project Manager 6 1 (2.941 %) Network Consultant 6 1 (2.941 %) Team Leader 6 1 (2.941 %) SQL Developer 6 1 (2.941 %) SQL DBA 6 1 (2.941 %) Business Architect 6 1 (2.941 %) SQL Server Developer
Miscellaneous 1 4 (11.76 %) Asset Management 2 1 (2.941 %) Mainframe 2 1 (2.941 %) Replication	Operating Systems 1 12 (35.29 %) Unix 2 6 (17.65 %) Windows 3 5 (14.71 %) Solaris 4 4 (11.76 %) Linux 4 4 (11.76 %) AIX 4 4 (11.76 %) SUSE 5 2 (5.882 %) zOS 5 2 (5.882 %) MVS
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (11.76 %) Load Balancing 1 4 (11.76 %) Performance Management 2 3 (8.824 %) Stakeholder Management 2 3 (8.824 %) PRINCE2 2 3 (8.824 %) Change Management 3 2 (5.882 %) Data Modelling 3 2 (5.882 %) Data Analysis 4 1 (2.941 %) Web Development 4 1 (2.941 %) Security Cleared 4 1 (2.941 %) Project Management 4 1 (2.941 %) Risk Management 4 1 (2.941 %) ITIL	Programming Languages 1 11 (32.35 %) SQL 2 4 (11.76 %) Shell Script 3 3 (8.824 %) Korn 4 1 (2.941 %) ABAP
Qualifications 1 2 (5.882 %) MIIA 2 1 (2.941 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 1 (2.941 %) ISEB 2 1 (2.941 %) Citrix Certification 2 1 (2.941 %) ITIL Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (8.824 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software 1 3 (8.824 %) NFS 2 2 (5.882 %) RACF	Systems Management 1 10 (29.41 %) AutoSys 2 5 (14.71 %) Unicenter 3 2 (5.882 %) CONTROL-M 4 1 (2.941 %) Tivoli 4 1 (2.941 %) MOM
Vendors 1 6 (17.65 %) Oracle 1 6 (17.65 %) HP 2 4 (11.76 %) NetApp 2 4 (11.76 %) Cisco 3 3 (8.824 %) SAP 4 2 (5.882 %) Sybase 5 1 (2.941 %) Microsoft 5 1 (2.941 %) BMC