Staffordshire C Contracts

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

C
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Amersham Avon Banbury Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Crawley Crewe Crowthorne Croydon Cumbria Darlington Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Huntingdon Ilford Jersey Kent Kidderminster Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Tyneside North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Perth and Kinross Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Ripon Runcorn Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Woking Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	17	21
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	18	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.026 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	15.65 %	3.846 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£313	-
Average daily rate	£325	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£338	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£347
% change on same period last year	+0.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.70	-
Average hourly rate	£13.70	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£13.70	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.07	£34.60
% change on same period last year	-1.53 %
Programming Languages Staffordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	115	52
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.164 %	0.054 %
Daily rates quoted	33	13
Average minimum daily rate	£301	£316
Average daily rate	£312	£330
% change on same period last year	-5.55 %
Average maximum daily rate	£322	£345
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£334
% change on same period last year	-2.81 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.34	£24.69
Average hourly rate	£19.16	£27.09
% change on same period last year	-29.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.98	£29.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.07	£32.81
% change on same period last year	-2.25 %
C West Midlands

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.

C
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing C across the Staffordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

C
Daily Rate Trend

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

C
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing C across the Staffordshire 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 C within the Staffordshire 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
Stoke-on-Trent	-	15	£350	-
Leek	-	1	£350	-
Stafford	-	1	£350	-

C West Midlands

C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire region citing C 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 C.

1 4 (16.00 %) SQL Server 2 3 (12.00 %) OLAP 2 3 (12.00 %) Datawarehouse 2 3 (12.00 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 2 3 (12.00 %) SQL Server 2005 2 3 (12.00 %) SQL Server Integration Services 2 3 (12.00 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 3 2 (8.000 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 2 (8.000 %) Business Intelligence 4 1 (4.000 %) SLA 4 1 (4.000 %) Cisco 4 1 (4.000 %) Microsoft 4 1 (4.000 %) CCNA 4 1 (4.000 %) Active Directory 4 1 (4.000 %) Cisco Certification

4 1 (4.000 %) ITIL Certification 4 1 (4.000 %) NHS 4 1 (4.000 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (4.000 %) Intranet 4 1 (4.000 %) BGP 4 1 (4.000 %) EIGRP 4 1 (4.000 %) TELNET 4 1 (4.000 %) SSH 4 1 (4.000 %) VLAN 4 1 (4.000 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 1 (4.000 %) MS Exchange 4 1 (4.000 %) LAN 4 1 (4.000 %) WAN 4 1 (4.000 %) SNMP 4 1 (4.000 %) TCP/IP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms 1 2 (8.000 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 1 (4.000 %) Exchange Server 2007 2 1 (4.000 %) IIS 2 1 (4.000 %) MS Exchange	Communications & Networking 1 1 (4.000 %) LAN 1 1 (4.000 %) WAN 1 1 (4.000 %) SNMP 1 1 (4.000 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (4.000 %) VPN 1 1 (4.000 %) Intranet 1 1 (4.000 %) BGP 1 1 (4.000 %) EIGRP 1 1 (4.000 %) TELNET 1 1 (4.000 %) SSH 1 1 (4.000 %) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (16.00 %) SQL Server 2 3 (12.00 %) OLAP 2 3 (12.00 %) Datawarehouse 2 3 (12.00 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 2 3 (12.00 %) SQL Server 2005 2 3 (12.00 %) SQL Server Integration Services 2 3 (12.00 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 3 1 (4.000 %) SQL Server 2008 3 1 (4.000 %) SQL Server Reporting Services	Job Titles 1 3 (12.00 %) Consultant 2 2 (8.000 %) Business Intelligence Consultant 2 2 (8.000 %) SQL Server Consultant 3 1 (4.000 %) Project Manager 3 1 (4.000 %) Developer 3 1 (4.000 %) Technical Consultant 3 1 (4.000 %) VB Developer 3 1 (4.000 %) Systems Developer 3 1 (4.000 %) Communications Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.000 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 1 (4.000 %) Windows 1 1 (4.000 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (8.000 %) Business Intelligence 2 1 (4.000 %) ITIL	Programming Languages 1 1 (4.000 %) VB
Qualifications 1 1 (4.000 %) CCNA 1 1 (4.000 %) Cisco Certification 1 1 (4.000 %) ITIL Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (4.000 %) SLA
System Software 1 1 (4.000 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 1 (4.000 %) Cisco 1 1 (4.000 %) Microsoft