Street Lotus Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Lotus products and/or services in IT contracts within the Street 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 9 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 Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenock Guernsey Halifax Hampshire Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Inverclyde 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 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 9 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	4	6
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	1	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	16.67 %	9.091 %
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	£238	£259
% change on same period last year	-7.85 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.00	-
Average hourly rate	£12.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.81	£18.19
% change on same period last year	-7.59 %
Vendors Street
Matching contract IT job ads	6	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.013 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£200
Average daily rate	-	£200
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£200
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.43	£26.40
Average hourly rate	£28.43	£28.40
% change on same period last year	+0.10 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.43	£30.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£23.22
% change on same period last year	+2.43 %
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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 Street region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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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 Street region.

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Top 5 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Street 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 1 (100.00 %) MS Project 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows 1 1 (100.00 %) Lotus Notes 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Excel 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Street 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 1 (100.00 %) Lotus Notes	Applications 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Project 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Excel
Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Coordinator 1 1 (100.00 %) Project Coordinator	Operating Systems 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows
Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft