The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Local Government in IT contracts advertised for the South Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Local Government over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our General category for the South Yorkshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Local Government
Rank 29 22 36
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +14
Contract jobs citing Local Government 3 9 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 1.136% 3.475% 1.075%
As % of the General category 5.882% 13.64% 3.846%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 2
Average daily rate £350 £488 £270
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-28.20% +80.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £478 £194
10% offered a daily rate of more than £370 £498 £346
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £339 £360
% change year-on-year
-4.05% -5.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.63 £21.33 £15.50
% change year-on-year
+6.05% +37.62%
All of the General Category
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
51 66 78
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 19.32% 25.48% 27.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 36 54
Average daily rate £350 £425 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.64% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £200 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
Average hourly rate £26.00 £22.86 £11.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.73% +103.20%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -5.66%
Local Government
Yorkshire

Local Government
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Local Government across the South Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

South Yorkshire Local Government Jobs Demand Trend

Local Government
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Local Government across the South Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire Local Government Daily Rate Trend

Local Government
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Local Government across the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

South Yorkshire Local Government Daily Rate Histogram

Local Government
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South Yorkshire Local Government Hourly Rate Trend

Local Government
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Local Government within the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Sheffield -7 3 £350 -28.20%
Local Government
Yorkshire

Local Government
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, 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 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) NetBackup
2 2 (50.00%) Backup Exec
2 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) MCSE
2 2 (50.00%) HP
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (25.00%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) CCA
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Apache
3 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (25.00%) XHTML
3 1 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) PHP
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server

Local Government
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, 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.

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
1 1 (25.00%) XML
1 1 (25.00%) XSL
1 1 (25.00%) XSLT
1 1 (25.00%) XHTML
1 1 (25.00%) Ajax
1 1 (25.00%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) BizTalk Server
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Programme Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Web Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Programme Office Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Systems Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Wintel Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Virtualisation Specialist
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) PHP
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
1 1 (25.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) MCSE
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) CCA
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix Certification
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) NetBackup
1 2 (50.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) HP
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Lagan
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle