Staffordshire CAD Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Computer-Aided Design (CAD) skills within the Staffordshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited CAD over the 3 months to 7 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
Location Berkshire Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Derby Derbyshire Dorking Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England England Essex Filton Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Liverpool London Luton Manchester Merseyside Midlands Newport North West Northern Ireland Oxfordshire Scotland South East South Wales South West Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Swindon Thames Valley UK Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	32	20
Rank change on same period last year	-12
Matching contract IT job ads	2	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	1.460 %	1.724 %
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	£315	£301
% change on same period last year	+4.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.90	£15.00
Average hourly rate	£21.40	£17.50
% change on same period last year	+22.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.90	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.58	£24.77
% change on same period last year	+11.37 %
Processes & Methodologies Staffordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	137	58
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.273 %	0.073 %
Daily rates quoted	53	16
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£403
Average daily rate	£376	£417
% change on same period last year	-9.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£415	£430
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.11	£29.07
Average hourly rate	£24.80	£31.47
% change on same period last year	-21.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.50	£33.87
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.73	£28.90
% change on same period last year	-4.04 %
CAD 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.

CAD
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing CAD across the Staffordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

CAD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

CAD
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CAD within the Staffordshire 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
Stoke-on-Trent	-	1	-	-

CAD West Midlands

CAD
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire region citing CAD 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 CAD.

1 2 (66.67 %) MS Office 1 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft 1 2 (66.67 %) AutoCAD 1 2 (66.67 %) Education 1 2 (66.67 %) Health 2 1 (33.33 %) ENOVIA 2 1 (33.33 %) Manufacturing 2 1 (33.33 %) CATIA 2 1 (33.33 %) Teamcenter 2 1 (33.33 %) Siemens 2 1 (33.33 %) HNC

CAD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) MS Office 1 2 (66.67 %) AutoCAD 2 1 (33.33 %) CATIA	Business Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) Teamcenter 1 1 (33.33 %) ENOVIA
General 1 2 (66.67 %) Education 1 2 (66.67 %) Health 2 1 (33.33 %) Manufacturing	Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Installations Engineer
Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) HNC	Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft 2 1 (33.33 %) Siemens