South Yorkshire Local Government Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Local 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 Local Government over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Local Government
Location Barnsley Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridgeshire Cardiff Carlisle Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Cumbria Devon Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Hove Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Melrose Merseyside Midlands Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Rochdale Romford Rotherham Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southport Suffolk Surrey Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walsall West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	38	36
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	5	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	3.546 %	2.151 %
Daily rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum daily rate	£317	-
Average daily rate	£339	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£362	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£376	£335
% change on same period last year	+12.30 %
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	£20.18	£17.69
% change on same period last year	+14.03 %
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 %
Local 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.

Local Government
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Local 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 Local Government across the South Yorkshire region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Local Government across the South Yorkshire region.

Local Government
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Local 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
Barnsley	-	2	-	-
Rotherham	-	1	£268	-
Sheffield	-2	1	£350	-

Local Government Yorkshire

Local Government
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing Local 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 Local Government.

1 6 (100.00 %) Government 2 2 (33.33 %) NHS 2 2 (33.33 %) Project Management 3 1 (16.67 %) CheckPoint 3 1 (16.67 %) SQL 3 1 (16.67 %) ITIL 3 1 (16.67 %) Citrix 3 1 (16.67 %) Service Management 3 1 (16.67 %) Firewall 3 1 (16.67 %) Telecoms 3 1 (16.67 %) Education 3 1 (16.67 %) Health 3 1 (16.67 %) Insurance 3 1 (16.67 %) assyst 3 1 (16.67 %) Incident Management

3 1 (16.67 %) QA 3 1 (16.67 %) Problem Management

Local Government
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing Local 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 Local Government. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Business Applications 1 1 (16.67 %) assyst	Communications & Networking 1 1 (16.67 %) Firewall
General 1 6 (100.00 %) Government 2 1 (16.67 %) Health 2 1 (16.67 %) Insurance 2 1 (16.67 %) Telecoms 2 1 (16.67 %) Education	Job Titles 1 3 (50.00 %) Project Manager 2 2 (33.33 %) Consultant 3 1 (16.67 %) Applications Support 3 1 (16.67 %) Applications Consultant 3 1 (16.67 %) Technical Consultant 3 1 (16.67 %) Support Consultant 3 1 (16.67 %) Applications Support Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 2 (33.33 %) NHS	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (33.33 %) Project Management 2 1 (16.67 %) Service Management 2 1 (16.67 %) Incident Management 2 1 (16.67 %) Problem Management 2 1 (16.67 %) ITIL
Programming Languages 1 1 (16.67 %) SQL	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (16.67 %) QA
Vendors 1 1 (16.67 %) Citrix 1 1 (16.67 %) CheckPoint