South West Infrastructure Specialist Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Specialist role in IT contracts within the South West region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Infrastructure Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Infrastructure Specialist
Location Berkshire Bicester Buckinghamshire Canterbury Cardiff Cheadle Cheshire Chester City of London Devon East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Exeter Glasgow Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hertfordshire Kent Leeds London Manchester Milton Keynes Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Plymouth Reading Scotland Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West Staines Stevenage Surrey Swindon UK Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	140	165
Rank change on same period last year	+25
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	0.140 %	0.034 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£433	£389
% change on same period last year	+11.42 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£25.50
Average hourly rate	-	£25.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£25.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.10	£30.68
% change on same period last year	+17.68 %
Job Titles South West
Matching contract IT job ads	4272	5821
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	6.041 %	5.893 %
Daily rates quoted	1213	1482
Average minimum daily rate	£346	£337
Average daily rate	£366	£356
% change on same period last year	+2.92 %
Average maximum daily rate	£386	£374
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	599	689
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.43	£25.09
Average hourly rate	£27.18	£26.76
% change on same period last year	+1.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.94	£28.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.71	£25.14
% change on same period last year	-5.69 %
Infrastructure Specialist 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.

Infrastructure Specialist
Demand Trend

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

Infrastructure Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

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

Infrastructure Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Specialist within the South West region over the 3 months to 13 October 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
Devon	-	3	-	-
Wiltshire	-	2	-	-
Somerset	-	1	-	-

Infrastructure Specialist England

Infrastructure Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region that cited Infrastructure Specialist in their job title 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 with Infrastructure Specialist in their job title.

1 5 (62.50 %) VMware 2 3 (37.50 %) Windows 2 3 (37.50 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (37.50 %) Citrix 2 3 (37.50 %) Migration 2 3 (37.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 3 (37.50 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 2 (25.00 %) PlateSpin 3 2 (25.00 %) UNIX 3 2 (25.00 %) Cisco 3 2 (25.00 %) Microsoft 3 2 (25.00 %) NetBackup 3 2 (25.00 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (25.00 %) Websense 4 1 (12.50 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)

4 1 (12.50 %) Project Management 4 1 (12.50 %) Network Design 4 1 (12.50 %) BIG-IP 4 1 (12.50 %) InfoPath 4 1 (12.50 %) Active Directory 4 1 (12.50 %) HP 4 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 4 1 (12.50 %) SAN 4 1 (12.50 %) BizTalk Server 4 1 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (12.50 %) DNS 4 1 (12.50 %) SQL 4 1 (12.50 %) IIS 4 1 (12.50 %) WebServices 4 1 (12.50 %) MCSE

Infrastructure Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region that cited Infrastructure Specialist in their job title 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 with Infrastructure Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (12.50 %) WebServices 1 1 (12.50 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 3 (37.50 %) MS Exchange 1 3 (37.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2007 2 1 (12.50 %) BizTalk Server 2 1 (12.50 %) IIS 2 1 (12.50 %) Apache 2 1 (12.50 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) InfoPath	Communications & Networking 1 1 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (12.50 %) DNS 1 1 (12.50 %) SAN 1 1 (12.50 %) BIG-IP
General 1 1 (12.50 %) Government	Operating Systems 1 3 (37.50 %) Windows 2 2 (25.00 %) Windows Server 2003 2 2 (25.00 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) Migration 2 1 (12.50 %) Network Design 2 1 (12.50 %) Load Balancing 2 1 (12.50 %) Project Management	Programming Languages 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 1 (12.50 %) MCSE 1 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 3 (37.50 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 2 (25.00 %) NetBackup 3 1 (12.50 %) Xen 3 1 (12.50 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (12.50 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 5 (62.50 %) VMware 2 3 (37.50 %) Citrix 3 2 (25.00 %) Websense 3 2 (25.00 %) Cisco 3 2 (25.00 %) Microsoft 3 2 (25.00 %) PlateSpin 4 1 (12.50 %) HP