South Yorkshire Statistics Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Statistics skills within the South Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Statistics over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Statistics
Location Alderley Edge Altrincham Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hove Kent Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes North West Oxfordshire Poole Reading Sale Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southend-on-Sea Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swansea Thames Valley UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	42	55
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	2	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	2.469 %	0.901 %
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	£335	£296
% change on same period last year	+13.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£9.00
Average hourly rate	£22.00	£9.69
% change on same period last year	+127.15 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.00	£10.37
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.47	£24.19
% change on same period last year	-23.64 %
Miscellaneous South Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	81	111
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.115 %	0.115 %
Daily rates quoted	14	12
Average minimum daily rate	£244	£271
Average daily rate	£264	£275
% change on same period last year	-4.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£284	£279
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£341
% change on same period last year	+2.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	34
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.16	£17.30
Average hourly rate	£21.35	£19.15
% change on same period last year	+11.48 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.55	£21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.03	£26.04
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %
Statistics 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.

Statistics
Demand Trend

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

Statistics
Daily Rate Trend

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

Statistics
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Statistics
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Statistics within the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 15 October 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	-	1	-	-
Sheffield	+6	1	-	-

Statistics Yorkshire

Statistics
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing Statistics 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 Statistics.

1 1 (33.33 %) SQL 1 1 (33.33 %) SLA 1 1 (33.33 %) Hyperwave 1 1 (33.33 %) Telecoms 1 1 (33.33 %) Workflow 1 1 (33.33 %) Billing 1 1 (33.33 %) Degree 1 1 (33.33 %) Mathematics

Statistics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing Statistics 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 Statistics. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

General 1 1 (33.33 %) Telecoms 1 1 (33.33 %) Billing	Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Systems Support 1 1 (33.33 %) Support Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) 1st Line Support 1 1 (33.33 %) Administrator 1 1 (33.33 %) Telecoms Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) 1st Line Support Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) Mathematics	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Workflow
Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (33.33 %) SLA	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Hyperwave