Suffolk IBM Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services in IT contracts within the Suffolk region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited IBM over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Ashby-de-la-Zouch Avon Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Blackburn Borehamwood Bracknell Brentford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chorley Cirencester City of London Cornwall Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rotherham Sale Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Ives Staffordshire Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	26
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	6.400 %
Daily rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum daily rate	-	£500
Average daily rate	-	£500
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£368	£366
% change on same period last year	+0.80 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.62	£23.09
% change on same period last year	+23.97 %
Vendors Suffolk
Matching contract IT job ads	68	125
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.095 %	0.126 %
Daily rates quoted	12	23
Average minimum daily rate	£246	£321
Average daily rate	£263	£332
% change on same period last year	-20.79 %
Average maximum daily rate	£279	£342
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£354
% change on same period last year	+1.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	24	43
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.67	£21.86
Average hourly rate	£25.93	£23.01
% change on same period last year	+12.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.18	£24.16
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.36	£24.43
% change on same period last year	-0.31 %
IBM East of England

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 the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing IBM across the Suffolk 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 IBM across the Suffolk 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 IBM across the Suffolk region.

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Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk region citing IBM 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 IBM.

1 3 (100.00 %) Windows 2 2 (66.67 %) HP 2 2 (66.67 %) Dell 2 2 (66.67 %) SAN 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003 2 2 (66.67 %) VMware 2 2 (66.67 %) VMware ESX 2 2 (66.67 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows XP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking 1 2 (66.67 %) SAN	Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Administrator 1 2 (66.67 %) Server Administrator 2 1 (33.33 %) Field Service Engineer 2 1 (33.33 %) Field Engineer
Operating Systems 1 3 (100.00 %) Windows 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows XP	System Software 1 2 (66.67 %) VMware ESX 1 2 (66.67 %) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) HP 1 2 (66.67 %) Dell 1 2 (66.67 %) VMware