South West Technical Author Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Technical Author 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 Technical Author in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Avon Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Bath Berkshire Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London Croydon Cumbria Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England England Essex Filton Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire London M4 Corridor Manchester Marlow Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Shropshire Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stratford-upon-Avon Surrey Swindon Telford UK Uxbridge Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	121	132
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	21	37
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.028 %	0.037 %
As % of the category below	0.481 %	0.643 %
Daily rates quoted	5	8
Average minimum daily rate	£271	£324
Average daily rate	£326	£348
% change on same period last year	-6.49 %
Average maximum daily rate	£380	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£291	£342
% change on same period last year	-14.90 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.20	£19.50
Average hourly rate	£34.90	£19.75
% change on same period last year	+76.70 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.60	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.91	£24.43
% change on same period last year	+26.51 %
Job Titles South West
Matching contract IT job ads	4362	5750
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	5.756 %	5.727 %
Daily rates quoted	1402	1536
Average minimum daily rate	£348	£341
Average daily rate	£370	£360
% change on same period last year	+2.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£393	£379
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	578	696
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.34	£24.90
Average hourly rate	£27.23	£26.57
% change on same period last year	+2.47 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.11	£28.24
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.68	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.85 %
Technical Author 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 Technical Author across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles 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 Technical Author 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 Technical Author 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 Technical Author 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 Technical Author 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 Technical Author 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
Somerset	+7	5	-	-
Wiltshire	-7	4	£371	+4.09 %
Bristol	+6	4	£258	-24.26 %
Dorset	+2	2	-	-
Gloucestershire	-4	2	-	-
Avon	+2	1	-	-

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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 that cited Technical Author 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 Technical Author in their job title.

1 28 (45.90 %) Security Cleared 2 12 (19.67 %) SC Cleared 3 10 (16.39 %) MS Visio 3 10 (16.39 %) Adobe 4 9 (14.75 %) HTML 4 9 (14.75 %) Microsoft 4 9 (14.75 %) FrameMaker 4 9 (14.75 %) Government 4 9 (14.75 %) MS PowerPoint 4 9 (14.75 %) JSP 440 5 8 (13.11 %) Finance 5 8 (13.11 %) ITIL 5 8 (13.11 %) SAN 6 7 (11.48 %) RoboHelp 6 7 (11.48 %) Dreamweaver

6 7 (11.48 %) FrontPage 6 7 (11.48 %) GoLive 7 6 (9.836 %) Pensions 7 6 (9.836 %) Telecoms 7 6 (9.836 %) MS Project 7 6 (9.836 %) PRINCE2 7 6 (9.836 %) QA 7 6 (9.836 %) DV Cleared 8 5 (8.197 %) Linux 8 5 (8.197 %) OVSD 8 5 (8.197 %) Migration 9 4 (6.557 %) Wireless 9 4 (6.557 %) Marketing 10 3 (4.918 %) Degree 10 3 (4.918 %) Education

Technical Author
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region that cited Technical Author 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 Technical Author in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 9 (14.75 %) HTML 2 1 (1.639 %) JSP 2 1 (1.639 %) SGML	Application Platforms 1 2 (3.279 %) Documentum 1 2 (3.279 %) CMS 2 1 (1.639 %) Plone
Applications 1 10 (16.39 %) MS Visio 2 9 (14.75 %) FrameMaker 2 9 (14.75 %) MS PowerPoint 3 7 (11.48 %) RoboHelp 4 6 (9.836 %) MS Project 5 3 (4.918 %) MS Office 5 3 (4.918 %) Acrobat 6 1 (1.639 %) Windchill 6 1 (1.639 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 8 (13.11 %) SAN 2 4 (6.557 %) Wireless 3 3 (4.918 %) WCDMA 3 3 (4.918 %) GSM 3 3 (4.918 %) Internet 4 1 (1.639 %) 3G 4 1 (1.639 %) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (1.639 %) GIS	Development Applications 1 7 (11.48 %) Dreamweaver 1 7 (11.48 %) FrontPage 1 7 (11.48 %) GoLive 2 3 (4.918 %) PVCS
General 1 9 (14.75 %) Government 2 8 (13.11 %) Finance 3 6 (9.836 %) Pensions 3 6 (9.836 %) Telecoms 4 4 (6.557 %) Marketing 5 3 (4.918 %) Education 6 1 (1.639 %) Insurance 6 1 (1.639 %) Retail 6 1 (1.639 %) Music 6 1 (1.639 %) Home Office 6 1 (1.639 %) Electric 6 1 (1.639 %) Aerospace 6 1 (1.639 %) Electronics	Miscellaneous 1 1 (1.639 %) AS400
Operating Systems 1 5 (8.197 %) Linux 2 2 (3.279 %) Solaris 3 1 (1.639 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 28 (45.90 %) Security Cleared 2 12 (19.67 %) SC Cleared 3 8 (13.11 %) ITIL 4 6 (9.836 %) PRINCE2 4 6 (9.836 %) DV Cleared 5 5 (8.197 %) Migration 6 2 (3.279 %) Content Management 6 2 (3.279 %) Product Marketing 7 1 (1.639 %) V-Model 7 1 (1.639 %) Incident Management 7 1 (1.639 %) Service Delivery 7 1 (1.639 %) Change Management 7 1 (1.639 %) E-Commerce 7 1 (1.639 %) PRINCE
Programming Languages 1 2 (3.279 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 3 (4.918 %) Degree 2 2 (3.279 %) HND 3 1 (1.639 %) ISTQB 3 1 (1.639 %) HNC 3 1 (1.639 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 9 (14.75 %) JSP 440 2 6 (9.836 %) QA	Systems Management 1 5 (8.197 %) OVSD 2 1 (1.639 %) OpenView
Vendors 1 10 (16.39 %) Adobe 2 9 (14.75 %) Microsoft 3 2 (3.279 %) Oracle 4 1 (1.639 %) HP