South West CGI Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Common Gateway Interface (CGI) skills within the South West region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited CGI over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
Location Berkshire Camberley Canary Wharf Cirencester City of London Devon Docklands, London England Gloucestershire Hampshire London South East South West Surrey UK	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	129	152
Rank change on same period last year	+23
Matching contract IT job ads	6	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	0.701 %	0.908 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£300	-
Average daily rate	£325	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£350	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£359
% change on same period last year	-3.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£23.29
Average hourly rate	-	£23.96
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£24.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.67	£24.24
% change on same period last year	+47.15 %
Application Development South West
Matching contract IT job ads	856	1211
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.348 %	1.298 %
Daily rates quoted	208	284
Average minimum daily rate	£296	£326
Average daily rate	£322	£344
% change on same period last year	-6.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£348	£361
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£334
% change on same period last year	-2.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	135	178
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.22	£30.62
Average hourly rate	£27.44	£33.38
% change on same period last year	-17.79 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.66	£36.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.92	£31.53
% change on same period last year	-8.25 %
CGI 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.

CGI
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing CGI across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

CGI
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CGI across the South West region.

CGI
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CGI across the South West region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

CGI
Hourly Rate Trend

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

CGI
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CGI within the South West region over the 3 months to 21 November 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
Gloucestershire	+1	1	£325	-
Devon	-	1	£325	-

CGI England

CGI
Top 21 Related IT Skills

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

1 5 (71.43 %) Linux 2 3 (42.86 %) HPUX 2 3 (42.86 %) Red Hat Linux 2 3 (42.86 %) C 2 3 (42.86 %) Perl 2 3 (42.86 %) Oracle 2 3 (42.86 %) UNIX 2 3 (42.86 %) HP 2 3 (42.86 %) SAN 2 3 (42.86 %) Red Hat 3 2 (28.57 %) CTI 3 2 (28.57 %) Windows 3 2 (28.57 %) PHP 3 2 (28.57 %) SQL 3 2 (28.57 %) Security Cleared

3 2 (28.57 %) QA 3 2 (28.57 %) E-Commerce 3 2 (28.57 %) Replication 4 1 (14.29 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (14.29 %) ITIL 4 1 (14.29 %) Management Information System

CGI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking 1 3 (42.86 %) SAN 2 2 (28.57 %) CTI	Job Titles 1 2 (28.57 %) Web Developer 1 2 (28.57 %) PHP Developer 1 2 (28.57 %) Developer 1 2 (28.57 %) PHP Web Developer 2 1 (14.29 %) UNIX Support 2 1 (14.29 %) Linux Support 2 1 (14.29 %) Analyst 2 1 (14.29 %) QA Engineer 2 1 (14.29 %) Linux Systems Administrator 2 1 (14.29 %) Linux Administrator 2 1 (14.29 %) Systems Administrator 2 1 (14.29 %) Support Technician 2 1 (14.29 %) Administrator 2 1 (14.29 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 2 1 (14.29 %) UNIX Administrator
Miscellaneous 1 2 (28.57 %) Replication 2 1 (14.29 %) Management Information System	Operating Systems 1 5 (71.43 %) Linux 2 3 (42.86 %) Red Hat Linux 2 3 (42.86 %) UNIX 2 3 (42.86 %) HPUX 3 2 (28.57 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (28.57 %) E-Commerce 1 2 (28.57 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (14.29 %) ITIL 2 1 (14.29 %) SC Cleared	Programming Languages 1 3 (42.86 %) C 1 3 (42.86 %) Perl 2 2 (28.57 %) PHP 2 2 (28.57 %) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (28.57 %) QA	Vendors 1 3 (42.86 %) Oracle 1 3 (42.86 %) HP 1 3 (42.86 %) Red Hat