South West Lotus Notes Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for IBM Lotus Notes skills within the South West region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Lotus Notes over the 3 months to 8 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM Lotus Notes
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London County Antrim Coventry Deeside Docklands, London Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Falkirk Farnborough Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Hartlepool Havant Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Rochdale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weymouth Wiltshire Windlesham Windsor Wolverhampton Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	102	135
Rank change on same period last year	+33
Matching contract IT job ads	44	40
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.060 %	0.040 %
As % of the category below	7.815 %	7.246 %
Daily rates quoted	4	8
Average minimum daily rate	£145	£147
Average daily rate	£152	£158
% change on same period last year	-3.95 %
Average maximum daily rate	£159	£169
UK excluding London average daily rate	£223	£201
% change on same period last year	+11.24 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.85	£16.73
Average hourly rate	£17.35	£17.45
% change on same period last year	-0.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.85	£18.18
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.98	£18.18
% change on same period last year	+4.36 %
Application Platforms South West
Matching contract IT job ads	563	552
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.763 %	0.547 %
Daily rates quoted	155	114
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£287
Average daily rate	£344	£308
% change on same period last year	+11.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£364	£328
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£345
% change on same period last year	+2.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	43	75
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.01	£23.65
Average hourly rate	£26.66	£25.71
% change on same period last year	+3.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.32	£27.76
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.53	£24.35
% change on same period last year	+4.85 %
Lotus Notes 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.

Lotus Notes
Demand Trend

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

Lotus Notes
Daily Rate Trend

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

Lotus Notes
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Lotus Notes across the South West region over the 3 months to 8 September 2008.

Lotus Notes
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Lotus Notes
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Lotus Notes across the South West region over the 3 months to 8 September 2008.

Lotus Notes
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lotus Notes within the South West region over the 3 months to 8 September 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	+14	19	£350	-
Dorset	+5	10	£86	-36.41 %
Bristol	-2	7	-	-
Somerset	+8	5	-	-

Lotus Notes England

Lotus Notes
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Lotus Notes 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 Lotus Notes.

1 100 (100.00 %) Lotus 2 59 (59.00 %) MS Office 3 42 (42.00 %) Windows 4 29 (29.00 %) LAN 4 29 (29.00 %) WAN 5 28 (28.00 %) TCP/IP 5 28 (28.00 %) Citrix 6 27 (27.00 %) Oracle 7 26 (26.00 %) Cognos Impromptu 7 26 (26.00 %) InterBase 8 23 (23.00 %) Microsoft 9 20 (20.00 %) MS Excel 10 15 (15.00 %) Lotus Domino 10 15 (15.00 %) Finance 11 12 (12.00 %) Active Directory

12 10 (10.00 %) JavaScript 12 10 (10.00 %) Insurance 13 9 (9.000 %) HTML 13 9 (9.000 %) Project Management 14 8 (8.000 %) LotusScript 15 7 (7.000 %) Windows Server 2003 16 6 (6.000 %) Microsoft Certification 16 6 (6.000 %) Education 16 6 (6.000 %) ITIL 16 6 (6.000 %) MCSE 16 6 (6.000 %) Windows XP 16 6 (6.000 %) Pensions 17 5 (5.000 %) Banking 17 5 (5.000 %) MCP 17 5 (5.000 %) CSS

Lotus Notes
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Lotus Notes 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 Lotus Notes. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 9 (9.000 %) HTML 2 5 (5.000 %) CSS 3 3 (3.000 %) XML 3 3 (3.000 %) ODBC 3 3 (3.000 %) AJAX 4 2 (2.000 %) WebSphere 4 2 (2.000 %) JSF 4 2 (2.000 %) JSP 4 2 (2.000 %) Servlets 4 2 (2.000 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 15 (15.00 %) Lotus Domino 2 3 (3.000 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (3.000 %) QuickPlace 3 1 (1.000 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 1 (1.000 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications 1 59 (59.00 %) MS Office 2 20 (20.00 %) MS Excel 3 3 (3.000 %) MS Project 4 1 (1.000 %) DeltaView	Communications & Networking 1 29 (29.00 %) LAN 1 29 (29.00 %) WAN 2 28 (28.00 %) TCP/IP 3 3 (3.000 %) VoIP 4 2 (2.000 %) LDAP 5 1 (1.000 %) DHCP 5 1 (1.000 %) VPN 5 1 (1.000 %) DNS 5 1 (1.000 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 26 (26.00 %) Cognos Impromptu 1 26 (26.00 %) InterBase 2 3 (3.000 %) RDBMS 2 3 (3.000 %) SQL Server 3 2 (2.000 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (1.000 %) Oracle 9i 4 1 (1.000 %) SQL Server 2005	General 1 15 (15.00 %) Finance 2 10 (10.00 %) Insurance 3 6 (6.000 %) Pensions 3 6 (6.000 %) Education 4 5 (5.000 %) Banking 5 4 (4.000 %) Investment Banking 6 2 (2.000 %) Law 7 1 (1.000 %) Legal 7 1 (1.000 %) Billing 7 1 (1.000 %) Electronics 7 1 (1.000 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 35 (35.00 %) Analyst 2 19 (19.00 %) Consultant 3 17 (17.00 %) PMO Consultant 4 14 (14.00 %) Helpdesk Analyst 5 10 (10.00 %) 1st Line Support 5 10 (10.00 %) Developer 5 10 (10.00 %) 2nd Line Support 6 9 (9.000 %) Service Analyst 6 9 (9.000 %) Service Desk Analyst 6 9 (9.000 %) Support Analyst 6 9 (9.000 %) Support Engineer 7 7 (7.000 %) Lotus Notes Developer 7 7 (7.000 %) 1st Line Support Analyst 8 5 (5.000 %) Administrator 9 3 (3.000 %) Network Support Engineer 9 3 (3.000 %) Helpdesk Support 9 3 (3.000 %) Network Support 9 3 (3.000 %) Technical Support 9 3 (3.000 %) Network Engineer 9 3 (3.000 %) Management Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 4 (4.000 %) AS400 2 3 (3.000 %) Blackberry 3 2 (2.000 %) Mainframe 4 1 (1.000 %) Replication 4 1 (1.000 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 42 (42.00 %) Windows 2 7 (7.000 %) Windows Server 2003 3 6 (6.000 %) Windows XP 4 3 (3.000 %) Windows 2000 4 3 (3.000 %) Windows NT 5 2 (2.000 %) UNIX 6 1 (1.000 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (9.000 %) Project Management 2 6 (6.000 %) ITIL 3 4 (4.000 %) Workflow 4 1 (1.000 %) Migration 4 1 (1.000 %) Document Management
Programming Languages 1 10 (10.00 %) JavaScript 2 8 (8.000 %) LotusScript 3 5 (5.000 %) SQL 4 4 (4.000 %) Java 5 1 (1.000 %) C 5 1 (1.000 %) C++	Qualifications 1 6 (6.000 %) MCSE 1 6 (6.000 %) Microsoft Certification 2 5 (5.000 %) MCP 3 4 (4.000 %) MCDST 3 4 (4.000 %) MCSA 4 3 (3.000 %) CCNA 4 3 (3.000 %) Cisco Certification 5 1 (1.000 %) Citrix Certification
System Software 1 12 (12.00 %) Active Directory 2 1 (1.000 %) MetaFrame	Systems Management 1 1 (1.000 %) DameWare
Vendors 1 100 (100.00 %) Lotus 2 28 (28.00 %) Citrix 3 27 (27.00 %) Oracle 4 23 (23.00 %) Microsoft 5 3 (3.000 %) SAP 5 3 (3.000 %) Cisco 6 2 (2.000 %) Novell 6 2 (2.000 %) VMware 7 1 (1.000 %) IBM