South West Government Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Government' in contract IT jobs within the South West 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 Government over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Amersham Andover Avon Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cardigan Carlisle Ceredigion Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Gateshead Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hove Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Melrose Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northumbria Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	9	23
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching contract IT job ads	430	302
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.567 %	0.301 %
As % of the category below	18.31 %	11.23 %
Daily rates quoted	148	102
Average minimum daily rate	£366	£340
Average daily rate	£392	£368
% change on same period last year	+6.42 %
Average maximum daily rate	£419	£397
UK excluding London average daily rate	£389	£381
% change on same period last year	+2.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	48	29
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.71	£27.76
Average hourly rate	£32.37	£29.45
% change on same period last year	+9.93 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.04	£31.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.38	£29.85
% change on same period last year	-1.56 %
General South West
Matching contract IT job ads	2349	2689
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.100 %	2.678 %
Daily rates quoted	939	934
Average minimum daily rate	£385	£370
Average daily rate	£409	£390
% change on same period last year	+4.83 %
Average maximum daily rate	£432	£410
UK excluding London average daily rate	£382	£381
% change on same period last year	+0.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	262	229
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£28.19
Average hourly rate	£31.94	£29.87
% change on same period last year	+6.91 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.88	£31.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.85	£27.05
% change on same period last year	+2.97 %
Government 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Government across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the General 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 Government 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 Government across the South West region over the 3 months to 20 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 Government across the South West region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Government across the South West region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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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 Government within the South West region over the 3 months to 20 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
Wiltshire	+16	101	£384	+0.68 %
Gloucestershire	+10	92	£410	+3.74 %
Bristol	+18	49	£379	+4.59 %
Somerset	-3	30	£468	+40.54 %
Dorset	+18	29	£385	+15.82 %
Devon	+7	26	£346	+6.07 %
Avon	+8	2	-	-

Government England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Government 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 Government.

1 481 (68.52 %) Security Cleared 2 269 (38.32 %) SC Cleared 3 141 (20.09 %) DV Cleared 4 106 (15.10 %) Oracle 5 105 (14.96 %) PRINCE2 6 95 (13.53 %) Windows 7 80 (11.40 %) Project Management 8 62 (8.832 %) Local Government 9 58 (8.262 %) Finance 10 51 (7.265 %) Cisco 10 51 (7.265 %) Microsoft 11 43 (6.125 %) SQL 11 43 (6.125 %) Telecoms 12 42 (5.983 %) Migration 13 39 (5.556 %) ITIL

13 39 (5.556 %) Windows Server 2003 14 38 (5.413 %) C 15 37 (5.271 %) UNIX 16 36 (5.128 %) Health 17 35 (4.986 %) HP 18 34 (4.843 %) SAN 19 33 (4.701 %) Linux 19 33 (4.701 %) Change Management 20 31 (4.416 %) Windows 2000 21 30 (4.274 %) XML 22 29 (4.131 %) Active Directory 22 29 (4.131 %) Aerospace 23 28 (3.989 %) VMware 24 27 (3.846 %) Solaris 25 26 (3.704 %) MS Office

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 30 (4.274 %) XML 2 19 (2.707 %) .NET 3 13 (1.852 %) WebServices 4 12 (1.709 %) J2EE 5 10 (1.425 %) JSP 5 10 (1.425 %) HTML 5 10 (1.425 %) ASP.NET 6 8 (1.140 %) ADO.NET 7 7 (0.997 %) .NET Framework 7 7 (0.997 %) XSLT 8 6 (0.855 %) JNI 8 6 (0.855 %) EJB 9 4 (0.570 %) Application Packaging 10 2 (0.285 %) Spring 10 2 (0.285 %) WinForms 10 2 (0.285 %) Struts 10 2 (0.285 %) ADO 10 2 (0.285 %) JMS 10 2 (0.285 %) XML Schema 11 1 (0.142 %) Adobe Flex	Application Platforms 1 21 (2.991 %) MS Exchange 2 18 (2.564 %) SharePoint 3 15 (2.137 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 13 (1.852 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 11 (1.567 %) Oracle 10gAS 6 7 (0.997 %) Exchange Server 2000 7 6 (0.855 %) WebLogic 8 5 (0.712 %) Apache 8 5 (0.712 %) Oracle Workflow 9 4 (0.570 %) Exchange Server 2007 10 3 (0.427 %) Exchange Server 5.5 10 3 (0.427 %) JBoss 11 2 (0.285 %) Oracle Application Server 11 2 (0.285 %) CMS 11 2 (0.285 %) IIS 12 1 (0.142 %) SharePoint Portal Server 12 1 (0.142 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 12 1 (0.142 %) Content Management Server 12 1 (0.142 %) Oracle 9iAS 12 1 (0.142 %) SAS
Applications 1 26 (3.704 %) MS Office 2 23 (3.276 %) MS Excel 3 7 (0.997 %) MS Project 4 6 (0.855 %) MS PowerPoint 4 6 (0.855 %) Spreadsheet 5 5 (0.712 %) MS Visio 6 4 (0.570 %) AutoCAD 7 1 (0.142 %) Windchill	Business Applications 1 11 (1.567 %) Oracle Financials 2 8 (1.140 %) Oracle EBS 3 6 (0.855 %) assyst 3 6 (0.855 %) Siebel Analytics 4 4 (0.570 %) SAP CRM 4 4 (0.570 %) SAP HR 5 3 (0.427 %) Oracle Applications 6 2 (0.285 %) Oracle Payroll 6 2 (0.285 %) Oracle HRMS 7 1 (0.142 %) SAP PLM 7 1 (0.142 %) SAP FI 7 1 (0.142 %) PeopleSoft HRMS 7 1 (0.142 %) Oracle ERP 7 1 (0.142 %) Oracle CRM 7 1 (0.142 %) SoftGrid 7 1 (0.142 %) SAP FI/CO 7 1 (0.142 %) Pivotal CRM 7 1 (0.142 %) SAP CO
Communications & Networking 1 34 (4.843 %) SAN 2 24 (3.419 %) Firewall 3 21 (2.991 %) LAN 4 17 (2.422 %) VPN 5 16 (2.279 %) DNS 6 15 (2.137 %) WAN 7 10 (1.425 %) TCP/IP 7 10 (1.425 %) DHCP 7 10 (1.425 %) Cisco PIX 8 9 (1.282 %) VLAN 8 9 (1.282 %) FTP 9 8 (1.140 %) MPLS 10 6 (0.855 %) SSH 11 5 (0.712 %) Extranet 12 4 (0.570 %) SMTP 12 4 (0.570 %) Internet 12 4 (0.570 %) X.400 12 4 (0.570 %) Network Security 13 3 (0.427 %) Cisco ASA 13 3 (0.427 %) Nortel Meridian	Database & Business Intelligence 1 25 (3.561 %) Oracle 10g 2 21 (2.991 %) Datawarehouse 3 20 (2.849 %) SQL Server 4 17 (2.422 %) Oracle Reports 5 15 (2.137 %) Oracle Discoverer 6 13 (1.852 %) Oracle BI EE 7 12 (1.709 %) ETL 8 11 (1.567 %) OLAP 8 11 (1.567 %) Oracle OWB 9 10 (1.425 %) GIS 9 10 (1.425 %) Oracle OLAP 10 7 (0.997 %) SQL Server 2005 10 7 (0.997 %) Oracle 9i 11 5 (0.712 %) SQL Server 2000 12 4 (0.570 %) Oracle 8/8i 12 4 (0.570 %) MS Access 12 4 (0.570 %) RDBMS 13 3 (0.427 %) Data Cleansing 14 2 (0.285 %) TOAD 14 2 (0.285 %) BusinessObjects
Development Applications 1 10 (1.425 %) TestDirector 2 7 (0.997 %) ClearCase 3 6 (0.855 %) Oracle APEX 4 5 (0.712 %) Rational Rose 4 5 (0.712 %) Eclipse 5 4 (0.570 %) ARTiSAN 6 3 (0.427 %) NUnit 7 2 (0.285 %) Oracle Forms 7 2 (0.285 %) Ant 7 2 (0.285 %) Visual Studio 7 2 (0.285 %) VSS/SourceSafe 7 2 (0.285 %) WinRunner 7 2 (0.285 %) ClearQuest 7 2 (0.285 %) MSI 7 2 (0.285 %) StarTeam 7 2 (0.285 %) CaliberRM 8 1 (0.142 %) LoadRunner 8 1 (0.142 %) JDeveloper 8 1 (0.142 %) PVCS 8 1 (0.142 %) Telelogic DOORS	General 1 62 (8.832 %) Local Government 2 58 (8.262 %) Finance 3 43 (6.125 %) Telecoms 4 36 (5.128 %) Health 5 29 (4.131 %) Aerospace 6 22 (3.134 %) Military 7 12 (1.709 %) Avionics 8 11 (1.567 %) Electric 9 8 (1.140 %) Automotive 10 7 (0.997 %) Marketing 10 7 (0.997 %) Electronics 10 7 (0.997 %) Legal 11 6 (0.855 %) Auditing 12 5 (0.712 %) Publishing 13 4 (0.570 %) Banking 13 4 (0.570 %) Back Office 14 3 (0.427 %) Advertising 14 3 (0.427 %) Construction 14 3 (0.427 %) Multimedia 15 2 (0.285 %) Education
Job Titles 1 101 (14.39 %) Project Manager 2 97 (13.82 %) Consultant 3 74 (10.54 %) Analyst 4 46 (6.553 %) Developer 5 43 (6.125 %) Architect 6 33 (4.701 %) Business Analyst 7 30 (4.274 %) Programme Manager 8 26 (3.704 %) Administrator 9 24 (3.419 %) Systems Engineer 10 20 (2.849 %) DBA 11 19 (2.707 %) Network Engineer 12 17 (2.422 %) Oracle DBA 13 14 (1.994 %) Project Support Officer 13 14 (1.994 %) Security Consultant 13 14 (1.994 %) Technical Consultant 13 14 (1.994 %) Project Officer 14 13 (1.852 %) Oracle Consultant 15 12 (1.709 %) Systems Administrator 15 12 (1.709 %) Test Manager 16 11 (1.567 %) Solutions Architect	Miscellaneous 1 14 (1.994 %) NHS 2 11 (1.567 %) Clustering 3 9 (1.282 %) Fat Client 3 9 (1.282 %) Thin Client 4 8 (1.140 %) CESG 4 8 (1.140 %) Client/Server 4 8 (1.140 %) SecurID 5 6 (0.855 %) CESG CLAS 5 6 (0.855 %) Management Information System 6 5 (0.712 %) PKI 7 4 (0.570 %) Replication 7 4 (0.570 %) RMADS 8 3 (0.427 %) Video Conferencing 8 3 (0.427 %) Smartcard 8 3 (0.427 %) PMI 9 2 (0.285 %) N-Tier 9 2 (0.285 %) Mainframe 9 2 (0.285 %) Blackberry 9 2 (0.285 %) Computer Science 9 2 (0.285 %) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 95 (13.53 %) Windows 2 39 (5.556 %) Windows Server 2003 3 37 (5.271 %) UNIX 4 33 (4.701 %) Linux 5 31 (4.416 %) Windows 2000 6 27 (3.846 %) Solaris 7 13 (1.852 %) Red Hat Linux 8 12 (1.709 %) Windows XP 9 10 (1.425 %) HPUX 10 9 (1.282 %) Windows Vista 10 9 (1.282 %) Windows Server 2008 11 7 (0.997 %) Windows NT 12 5 (0.712 %) Mac OS X 13 4 (0.570 %) Tru64 14 3 (0.427 %) Windows 2000 Server 14 3 (0.427 %) SUSE	Processes & Methodologies 1 481 (68.52 %) Security Cleared 2 269 (38.32 %) SC Cleared 3 141 (20.09 %) DV Cleared 4 105 (14.96 %) PRINCE2 5 80 (11.40 %) Project Management 6 42 (5.983 %) Migration 7 39 (5.556 %) ITIL 8 33 (4.701 %) Change Management 9 26 (3.704 %) Service Management 10 25 (3.561 %) Service Delivery 11 24 (3.419 %) UML 11 24 (3.419 %) Requirements Management 12 22 (3.134 %) Programme Management 13 21 (2.991 %) Business Intelligence 14 19 (2.707 %) Business Analysis 14 19 (2.707 %) Stakeholder Management 15 18 (2.564 %) CRM 15 18 (2.564 %) Configuration Management 16 15 (2.137 %) Test Scripting 17 14 (1.994 %) Data Migration
Programming Languages 1 43 (6.125 %) SQL 2 38 (5.413 %) C 3 21 (2.991 %) Java 4 16 (2.279 %) PL/SQL 5 14 (1.994 %) C++ 6 12 (1.709 %) Shell Script 7 11 (1.567 %) C# 8 9 (1.282 %) VB 9 8 (1.140 %) VB.NET 10 7 (0.997 %) Perl 11 6 (0.855 %) JavaScript 12 4 (0.570 %) Delphi 12 4 (0.570 %) VBScript 13 3 (0.427 %) Ada 14 2 (0.285 %) Embedded C 15 1 (0.142 %) Korn 15 1 (0.142 %) Embedded C++ 15 1 (0.142 %) XQuery 15 1 (0.142 %) Fortran 15 1 (0.142 %) ABAP	Qualifications 1 23 (3.276 %) Cisco Certification 2 20 (2.849 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 18 (2.564 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 4 17 (2.422 %) Microsoft Certification 5 14 (1.994 %) MCSE 5 14 (1.994 %) CCNA 6 11 (1.567 %) CCNP 7 9 (1.282 %) Degree 7 9 (1.282 %) ISEB 8 8 (1.140 %) MCP 9 7 (0.997 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 10 6 (0.855 %) ITIL Certification 11 4 (0.570 %) ACSA 11 4 (0.570 %) CCIE 11 4 (0.570 %) Sun Certification 11 4 (0.570 %) CCDP 12 3 (0.427 %) CIPD 12 3 (0.427 %) RHCE 13 2 (0.285 %) ISEB Practitioner 13 2 (0.285 %) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 16 (2.279 %) JSP 440 2 6 (0.855 %) SLA 3 4 (0.570 %) ISO27001 4 1 (0.142 %) CESG Infosec 4 1 (0.142 %) BS7666 4 1 (0.142 %) QA 4 1 (0.142 %) GMP 4 1 (0.142 %) ISO9000 4 1 (0.142 %) ISO12207	System Software 1 29 (4.131 %) Active Directory 2 20 (2.849 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 15 (2.137 %) Oracle RAC 4 10 (1.425 %) NetBackup 4 10 (1.425 %) ISA Server 5 8 (1.140 %) NFS 6 5 (0.712 %) VMware ESX 7 3 (0.427 %) Terminal Services 7 3 (0.427 %) Oracle RMAN 8 2 (0.285 %) Backup Exec 8 2 (0.285 %) Xen 8 2 (0.285 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 9 1 (0.142 %) Citrix Presentation Server 9 1 (0.142 %) MailMarshal 9 1 (0.142 %) MetaFrame
Systems Management 1 6 (0.855 %) CiscoWorks 2 5 (0.712 %) OpenView 3 4 (0.570 %) MOM 4 2 (0.285 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 4 2 (0.285 %) BMC PATROL 4 2 (0.285 %) Norton AntiVirus 5 1 (0.142 %) AssetCenter 5 1 (0.142 %) BMC Performance Manager 5 1 (0.142 %) SCOM 5 1 (0.142 %) WSUS 5 1 (0.142 %) Netcool 5 1 (0.142 %) Unicenter 5 1 (0.142 %) NNM	Vendors 1 106 (15.10 %) Oracle 2 51 (7.265 %) Cisco 2 51 (7.265 %) Microsoft 3 35 (4.986 %) HP 4 28 (3.989 %) VMware 5 19 (2.707 %) Sun 6 15 (2.137 %) SAP 7 13 (1.852 %) Red Hat 8 12 (1.709 %) Citrix 9 10 (1.425 %) Lagan 10 9 (1.282 %) CheckPoint 10 9 (1.282 %) IBM 11 7 (0.997 %) Remedy 11 7 (0.997 %) Symantec 11 7 (0.997 %) VERITAS 11 7 (0.997 %) PeopleSoft 11 7 (0.997 %) Altiris 12 6 (0.855 %) Siebel 12 6 (0.855 %) EMC 12 6 (0.855 %) Apple