South Yorkshire Internet Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Internet skills within the South Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Internet over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Aylesbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cwmbran Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Jersey Kegworth Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Moreton-in-Marsh Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rugby Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Wareham Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	31	27
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	12	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	13.19 %	16.18 %
Daily rates quoted	5	2
Average minimum daily rate	£372	£248
Average daily rate	£375	£262
% change on same period last year	+43.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£378	£276
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£336
% change on same period last year	+3.89 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£9.33
Average hourly rate	-	£10.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£10.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.91	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-10.81 %
Communications & Networking South Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	91	68
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.120 %	0.072 %
Daily rates quoted	23	16
Average minimum daily rate	£329	£286
Average daily rate	£336	£304
% change on same period last year	+10.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£343	£322
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£344
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	30	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.21	£21.48
Average hourly rate	£24.21	£21.62
% change on same period last year	+11.97 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.20	£21.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.58	£28.53
% change on same period last year	-10.35 %
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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 Internet across the South Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking 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 Internet 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 Internet 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 Internet 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 Internet 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	+2	10	£375	+68.53 %

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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 Internet 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 Internet.

1 16 (36.36 %) Java 1 16 (36.36 %) E-Learning 2 14 (31.82 %) J2EE 2 14 (31.82 %) UML 3 12 (27.27 %) Use Case 4 11 (25.00 %) SCORM 5 10 (22.73 %) JBoss 5 10 (22.73 %) HTML 6 8 (18.18 %) CSS 6 8 (18.18 %) XML 6 8 (18.18 %) Linux 6 8 (18.18 %) Content Management 7 7 (15.91 %) Load Balancing 7 7 (15.91 %) Multimedia 7 7 (15.91 %) Hibernate

7 7 (15.91 %) Education 8 6 (13.64 %) Apache 8 6 (13.64 %) Tomcat 8 6 (13.64 %) JSP 8 6 (13.64 %) JavaScript 8 6 (13.64 %) Spring 9 5 (11.36 %) Degree 9 5 (11.36 %) RIA 9 5 (11.36 %) Struts 9 5 (11.36 %) MySQL 9 5 (11.36 %) Oracle 9 5 (11.36 %) RUP 10 4 (9.091 %) RSS 10 4 (9.091 %) Solaris 10 4 (9.091 %) Unix

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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 Internet 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 Internet. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 14 (31.82 %) J2EE 2 10 (22.73 %) HTML 3 8 (18.18 %) CSS 3 8 (18.18 %) XML 4 7 (15.91 %) Hibernate 5 6 (13.64 %) Spring 5 6 (13.64 %) JSP 6 5 (11.36 %) Struts 7 4 (9.091 %) JSTL 7 4 (9.091 %) RSS 7 4 (9.091 %) Lucene 8 3 (6.818 %) LAMP 9 2 (4.545 %) SOAP 10 1 (2.273 %) .NET 10 1 (2.273 %) Servlets 10 1 (2.273 %) SiteMesh 10 1 (2.273 %) jQuery 10 1 (2.273 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 10 (22.73 %) JBoss 2 6 (13.64 %) Apache 2 6 (13.64 %) Tomcat 3 2 (4.545 %) Lotus Notes 3 2 (4.545 %) Lotus Domino 4 1 (2.273 %) IIS 4 1 (2.273 %) Oracle Application Server 4 1 (2.273 %) Joomla!
Applications 1 1 (2.273 %) Photoshop	Communications & Networking 1 4 (9.091 %) SAN 2 2 (4.545 %) Intranet 2 2 (4.545 %) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (11.36 %) MySQL 2 1 (2.273 %) InterSystems Cache	Development Applications 1 4 (9.091 %) JUnit 1 4 (9.091 %) HttpUnit 2 2 (4.545 %) Flash 3 1 (2.273 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 7 (15.91 %) Education 1 7 (15.91 %) Multimedia 2 3 (6.818 %) Government 3 2 (4.545 %) Publishing 3 2 (4.545 %) Finance 4 1 (2.273 %) Financial Institution 4 1 (2.273 %) Marketing	Job Titles 1 12 (27.27 %) Developer 2 9 (20.45 %) Architect 2 9 (20.45 %) Solutions Architect 3 7 (15.91 %) Software Designer 4 6 (13.64 %) Analyst 5 4 (9.091 %) Software Developer 5 4 (9.091 %) J2EE Developer 6 3 (6.818 %) Database Engineer 6 3 (6.818 %) Senior Database Engineer 6 3 (6.818 %) PHP Developer 6 3 (6.818 %) UNIX Specialist 6 3 (6.818 %) Administrator 7 2 (4.545 %) Java Developer 7 2 (4.545 %) Analyst Programmer 7 2 (4.545 %) Programmer 7 2 (4.545 %) Support Analyst 7 2 (4.545 %) Business Systems Analyst 7 2 (4.545 %) Systems Analyst 7 2 (4.545 %) Business Analyst 7 2 (4.545 %) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous 1 16 (36.36 %) E-Learning 2 11 (25.00 %) SCORM 3 5 (11.36 %) RIA 4 4 (9.091 %) Replication	Operating Systems 1 8 (18.18 %) Linux 2 4 (9.091 %) Unix 2 4 (9.091 %) Solaris 3 1 (2.273 %) Windows 3 1 (2.273 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (31.82 %) UML 2 12 (27.27 %) Use Case 3 8 (18.18 %) Content Management 4 7 (15.91 %) Load Balancing 5 5 (11.36 %) RUP 6 4 (9.091 %) Business Analysis 6 4 (9.091 %) Enterprise Architecture 7 3 (6.818 %) OO 8 1 (2.273 %) ERP 8 1 (2.273 %) Data Modelling 8 1 (2.273 %) SC Cleared 8 1 (2.273 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 16 (36.36 %) Java 2 6 (13.64 %) JavaScript 3 4 (9.091 %) SQL 4 3 (6.818 %) PHP 5 2 (4.545 %) DHTML 6 1 (2.273 %) PHP5 6 1 (2.273 %) PL/SQL
Qualifications 1 5 (11.36 %) Degree	Vendors 1 5 (11.36 %) Oracle 2 4 (9.091 %) Sun 2 4 (9.091 %) EMC 3 2 (4.545 %) Lotus