South Yorkshire Government Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Government' in contract IT jobs within the South Yorkshire region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Government over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Avon Barnet Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bootle Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hove Huddersfield Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidstone Malvern Manchester Mansfield Melrose Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northumbria Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochdale 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 Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Torpoint Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	16	28
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	27	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	19.15 %	10.75 %
Daily rates quoted	10	2
Average minimum daily rate	£313	£330
Average daily rate	£338	£345
% change on same period last year	-2.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£364	£360
UK excluding London average daily rate	£391	£366
% change on same period last year	+6.86 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.68	£29.21
% change on same period last year	-5.25 %
General South Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	141	93
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.186 %	0.099 %
Daily rates quoted	34	16
Average minimum daily rate	£297	£297
Average daily rate	£321	£312
% change on same period last year	+2.76 %
Average maximum daily rate	£345	£328
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£372
% change on same period last year	+3.96 %
Hourly rates quoted	32	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.28	£16.60
Average hourly rate	£26.78	£16.83
% change on same period last year	+59.11 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.27	£17.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.47	£27.20
% change on same period last year	-2.68 %
Government Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 4 July 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 Yorkshire region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Government within the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 4 July 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
Sheffield	+11	20	£339	-1.72 %
Barnsley	-	3	-	-
Rotherham	-	1	£268	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 8 (17.78 %) Oracle 1 8 (17.78 %) Security Cleared 2 7 (15.56 %) Unix 3 6 (13.33 %) Local Government 4 5 (11.11 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 5 (11.11 %) MS Project 5 4 (8.889 %) Java 5 4 (8.889 %) Siebel 5 4 (8.889 %) Business Intelligence 5 4 (8.889 %) Test Scripting 5 4 (8.889 %) Data Integration 6 3 (6.667 %) Workflow 6 3 (6.667 %) Finance 6 3 (6.667 %) Health 6 3 (6.667 %) Stakeholder Management

6 3 (6.667 %) SC Cleared 6 3 (6.667 %) MS PowerPoint 6 3 (6.667 %) Project Management 6 3 (6.667 %) Intel 6 3 (6.667 %) Internet 6 3 (6.667 %) Sun 6 3 (6.667 %) NHS 6 3 (6.667 %) Oracle Discoverer 6 3 (6.667 %) SLA 6 3 (6.667 %) IBM 6 3 (6.667 %) AIX 6 3 (6.667 %) HPUX 6 3 (6.667 %) Solaris 6 3 (6.667 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 3 (6.667 %) SQL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 2 (4.444 %) J2EE 2 1 (2.222 %) CSS 2 1 (2.222 %) JSP 2 1 (2.222 %) Struts 2 1 (2.222 %) XML 2 1 (2.222 %) RSS 2 1 (2.222 %) Middleware 2 1 (2.222 %) Hibernate 2 1 (2.222 %) Lucene 2 1 (2.222 %) Spring 2 1 (2.222 %) AJAX 2 1 (2.222 %) JSTL 2 1 (2.222 %) HTML 2 1 (2.222 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 2 (4.444 %) Oracle Workflow 1 2 (4.444 %) TIBCO EMS 2 1 (2.222 %) Oracle Application Server 2 1 (2.222 %) Tuxedo 2 1 (2.222 %) OpenROAD
Applications 1 5 (11.11 %) MS Project 2 3 (6.667 %) MS PowerPoint 3 2 (4.444 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 2 (4.444 %) BusinessWorks 2 1 (2.222 %) Oracle Applications 2 1 (2.222 %) assyst
Communications & Networking 1 3 (6.667 %) Internet 2 2 (4.444 %) LDAP 3 1 (2.222 %) Intranet 3 1 (2.222 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (6.667 %) Oracle 8/8i 1 3 (6.667 %) Oracle Discoverer 2 1 (2.222 %) InterSystems Cache 2 1 (2.222 %) Ingres
Development Applications 1 1 (2.222 %) JUnit 1 1 (2.222 %) Eclipse 1 1 (2.222 %) HttpUnit	General 1 6 (13.33 %) Local Government 2 3 (6.667 %) Health 2 3 (6.667 %) Finance 3 2 (4.444 %) Education 3 2 (4.444 %) Multimedia 4 1 (2.222 %) Insurance 4 1 (2.222 %) Telecoms 4 1 (2.222 %) Construction
Job Titles 1 6 (13.33 %) Developer 2 5 (11.11 %) Project Planner 2 5 (11.11 %) Architect 2 5 (11.11 %) Solutions Architect 3 4 (8.889 %) Siebel Architect 3 4 (8.889 %) Project Manager 3 4 (8.889 %) Coordinator 4 3 (6.667 %) Analyst 4 3 (6.667 %) Consultant 5 2 (4.444 %) Commercial Manager 5 2 (4.444 %) Project Coordinator 5 2 (4.444 %) Data Centre Manager 5 2 (4.444 %) Test Analyst 5 2 (4.444 %) Administrator 5 2 (4.444 %) Operations Manager 5 2 (4.444 %) Test Coordinator 5 2 (4.444 %) Data Manager 6 1 (2.222 %) Procurement Manager 6 1 (2.222 %) Procurement Consultant 6 1 (2.222 %) Procurement Specialist	Miscellaneous 1 4 (8.889 %) Data Integration 2 3 (6.667 %) NHS 3 2 (4.444 %) E-Learning 4 1 (2.222 %) Freedom of Information 4 1 (2.222 %) Statistics 4 1 (2.222 %) Data Protection Act 4 1 (2.222 %) Smartcard 4 1 (2.222 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 7 (15.56 %) Unix 2 3 (6.667 %) AIX 2 3 (6.667 %) HPUX 2 3 (6.667 %) Solaris 3 1 (2.222 %) Linux 3 1 (2.222 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (17.78 %) Security Cleared 2 5 (11.11 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 4 (8.889 %) Test Scripting 3 4 (8.889 %) Business Intelligence 4 3 (6.667 %) Project Management 4 3 (6.667 %) ITIL 4 3 (6.667 %) Workflow 4 3 (6.667 %) Stakeholder Management 4 3 (6.667 %) SC Cleared 5 2 (4.444 %) Financial Modelling 5 2 (4.444 %) Content Management 5 2 (4.444 %) Project Planning 5 2 (4.444 %) UML 5 2 (4.444 %) EAI 5 2 (4.444 %) Service Delivery 6 1 (2.222 %) Service Management 6 1 (2.222 %) CRM 6 1 (2.222 %) ERP 6 1 (2.222 %) PRINCE2 6 1 (2.222 %) Problem Management
Programming Languages 1 4 (8.889 %) Java 2 3 (6.667 %) SQL 3 1 (2.222 %) VB 3 1 (2.222 %) PL/SQL 3 1 (2.222 %) C	Qualifications 1 2 (4.444 %) ISEB 1 2 (4.444 %) Degree 2 1 (2.222 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 1 (2.222 %) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (6.667 %) SLA 2 2 (4.444 %) QA	Vendors 1 8 (17.78 %) Oracle 2 4 (8.889 %) Siebel 3 3 (6.667 %) IBM 3 3 (6.667 %) Sun 3 3 (6.667 %) Intel 4 2 (4.444 %) Compuware 4 2 (4.444 %) HP 4 2 (4.444 %) TIBCO 5 1 (2.222 %) Citrix 5 1 (2.222 %) CheckPoint 5 1 (2.222 %) Microsoft