South Yorkshire Lotus Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Lotus products and/or services in IT contracts within the South Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Lotus over the 3 months to 7 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Belfast Berkshire Beverley Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham City of London Cornwall County Antrim Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenock Guernsey Halifax Hampshire Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Inverclyde Jersey Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Milton Keynes Motherwell Neath Port Talbot Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Poole Port Talbot Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stockport Street Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	32	45
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	2	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	1.538 %	3.356 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£241	£258
% change on same period last year	-6.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.00	£23.93
Average hourly rate	£23.00	£25.35
% change on same period last year	-9.26 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.00	£26.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.79	£18.25
% change on same period last year	-8.03 %
Vendors South Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	130	298
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.260 %	0.373 %
Daily rates quoted	31	36
Average minimum daily rate	£322	£294
Average daily rate	£340	£305
% change on same period last year	+11.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£357	£315
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£353
% change on same period last year	+0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	43	93
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.61	£28.63
Average hourly rate	£29.04	£29.66
% change on same period last year	-2.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.47	£30.69
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.83	£23.31
% change on same period last year	+2.22 %
Lotus 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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within IBM Lotus Software.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Lotus across the South Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors 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 Lotus 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 Lotus across the South Yorkshire region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lotus within the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 7 January 2009. 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	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	+14	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing Lotus 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 Lotus.

1 7 (100.00 %) Lotus Notes 2 3 (42.86 %) Lotus Domino 2 3 (42.86 %) Informix 2 3 (42.86 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (42.86 %) Cisco 2 3 (42.86 %) Sun 2 3 (42.86 %) Oracle 2 3 (42.86 %) SQL Server 2 3 (42.86 %) Windows 2 3 (42.86 %) AIX 2 3 (42.86 %) HPUX 2 3 (42.86 %) Solaris 2 3 (42.86 %) Linux 2 3 (42.86 %) OpenView 2 3 (42.86 %) HP

2 3 (42.86 %) EMC 2 3 (42.86 %) SAN 2 3 (42.86 %) VERITAS 2 3 (42.86 %) Legato 2 3 (42.86 %) CLARiiON 2 3 (42.86 %) Symmetrix 2 3 (42.86 %) NetBackup 2 3 (42.86 %) Brocade 2 3 (42.86 %) OVPA 2 3 (42.86 %) HP Data Protector 3 2 (28.57 %) Windows XP 3 2 (28.57 %) SNIA Certification 3 2 (28.57 %) Service Management 3 2 (28.57 %) ITSM 3 2 (28.57 %) ITIL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing Lotus 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 Lotus. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 7 (100.00 %) Lotus Notes 2 3 (42.86 %) Lotus Domino 2 3 (42.86 %) MS Exchange	Communications & Networking 1 3 (42.86 %) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (42.86 %) SQL Server 1 3 (42.86 %) Informix	General 1 1 (14.29 %) Finance 1 1 (14.29 %) Electric
Job Titles 1 2 (28.57 %) 3rd Line Support 1 2 (28.57 %) Helpdesk Analyst 1 2 (28.57 %) Analyst 2 1 (14.29 %) Support Analyst 2 1 (14.29 %) 1st Line Support 2 1 (14.29 %) Support Engineer 2 1 (14.29 %) Support Specialist 2 1 (14.29 %) Helpdesk Support 2 1 (14.29 %) Technical Analyst 2 1 (14.29 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 2 1 (14.29 %) Desktop Engineer 2 1 (14.29 %) Storage Specialist 2 1 (14.29 %) Storage Engineer 2 1 (14.29 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 2 1 (14.29 %) 1st Line Support Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 3 (42.86 %) CLARiiON 1 3 (42.86 %) Symmetrix 2 1 (14.29 %) Computer Science 2 1 (14.29 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 3 (42.86 %) Windows 1 3 (42.86 %) AIX 1 3 (42.86 %) HPUX 1 3 (42.86 %) Solaris 1 3 (42.86 %) Linux 2 2 (28.57 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (28.57 %) ITIL 1 2 (28.57 %) Service Management 1 2 (28.57 %) ITSM 2 1 (14.29 %) Problem Management
Qualifications 1 2 (28.57 %) SNIA Certification 2 1 (14.29 %) Degree 2 1 (14.29 %) MCP 2 1 (14.29 %) MCSE 2 1 (14.29 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 3 (42.86 %) NetBackup 2 2 (28.57 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 3 (42.86 %) OpenView 1 3 (42.86 %) Legato 1 3 (42.86 %) OVPA 1 3 (42.86 %) HP Data Protector 2 1 (14.29 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 3 (42.86 %) Sun 1 3 (42.86 %) HP 1 3 (42.86 %) EMC 1 3 (42.86 %) Oracle 1 3 (42.86 %) Cisco 1 3 (42.86 %) VERITAS 1 3 (42.86 %) Brocade 2 1 (14.29 %) Microsoft 2 1 (14.29 %) NetApp