Swindon Lotus Notes Contracts

This section looks at the demand for IBM Lotus Notes skills within the Swindon region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Lotus Notes over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM Lotus Notes
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Rank	36	43
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	17	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.022 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	28.33 %	10.99 %
Daily rates quoted	1	7
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£142
Average daily rate	£350	£146
% change on same period last year	+140.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£149
UK excluding London average daily rate	£275	£230
% change on same period last year	+19.69 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£12.00
Average hourly rate	£21.00	£12.00
% change on same period last year	+75.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.00	£12.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.58	£17.27
% change on same period last year	+1.81 %
Application Platforms Swindon
Matching contract IT job ads	60	91
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.079 %	0.097 %
Daily rates quoted	16	28
Average minimum daily rate	£339	£289
Average daily rate	£363	£310
% change on same period last year	+17.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£387	£331
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£347
% change on same period last year	+3.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.75	£22.34
Average hourly rate	£32.56	£24.56
% change on same period last year	+32.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.38	£26.78
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.43	£24.21
% change on same period last year	-3.23 %
Lotus Notes Wiltshire

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.

Lotus Notes
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Lotus Notes across the Swindon region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Lotus Notes
Daily Rate Trend

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

Lotus Notes
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Lotus Notes
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon region citing Lotus Notes 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 Notes.

1 24 (100.00 %) Lotus 2 15 (62.50 %) MS Office 3 12 (50.00 %) Windows 4 8 (33.33 %) Citrix 4 8 (33.33 %) Finance 5 7 (29.17 %) InterBase 5 7 (29.17 %) LAN 5 7 (29.17 %) WAN 5 7 (29.17 %) TCP/IP 5 7 (29.17 %) Cognos Impromptu 5 7 (29.17 %) Oracle 6 6 (25.00 %) Project Management 7 5 (20.83 %) Insurance 8 4 (16.67 %) MS Excel 9 3 (12.50 %) Active Directory

9 3 (12.50 %) HTML 9 3 (12.50 %) Java 9 3 (12.50 %) JavaScript 9 3 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 10 2 (8.333 %) WebSphere 10 2 (8.333 %) JSF 10 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft Certification 10 2 (8.333 %) AS400 10 2 (8.333 %) Lotus Domino 10 2 (8.333 %) MCSE 10 2 (8.333 %) CSS 10 2 (8.333 %) JSP 10 2 (8.333 %) Servlets 10 2 (8.333 %) SQL Server 10 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft

Lotus Notes
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon region citing Lotus Notes 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 Notes. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (12.50 %) HTML 2 2 (8.333 %) J2EE 2 2 (8.333 %) CSS 2 2 (8.333 %) JSP 2 2 (8.333 %) Servlets 2 2 (8.333 %) JSF 2 2 (8.333 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 2 (8.333 %) Lotus Domino 2 1 (4.167 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (4.167 %) WebSphere Application Server
Applications 1 15 (62.50 %) MS Office 2 4 (16.67 %) MS Excel 3 1 (4.167 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 7 (29.17 %) LAN 1 7 (29.17 %) WAN 1 7 (29.17 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (8.333 %) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (29.17 %) Cognos Impromptu 1 7 (29.17 %) InterBase 2 2 (8.333 %) SQL Server 3 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server 7 3 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server 2000	General 1 8 (33.33 %) Finance 2 5 (20.83 %) Insurance 3 1 (4.167 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 8 (33.33 %) Consultant 1 8 (33.33 %) PMO Consultant 2 7 (29.17 %) Analyst 3 4 (16.67 %) Support Engineer 4 3 (12.50 %) Management Consultant 4 3 (12.50 %) Developer 4 3 (12.50 %) Service Analyst 4 3 (12.50 %) Service Desk Analyst 4 3 (12.50 %) Project Consultant 4 3 (12.50 %) Project Management Consultant 5 2 (8.333 %) Support Analyst 5 2 (8.333 %) Helpdesk Analyst 5 2 (8.333 %) 1st Line Support 6 1 (4.167 %) 3rd Line Support 6 1 (4.167 %) Applications Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) Server Support 6 1 (4.167 %) Team Leader 6 1 (4.167 %) Server Support Analyst 6 1 (4.167 %) Java Team Leader 6 1 (4.167 %) Domino Developer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (8.333 %) AS400 2 1 (4.167 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 12 (50.00 %) Windows 2 3 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 3 2 (8.333 %) Windows NT 4 1 (4.167 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (25.00 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 3 (12.50 %) Java 1 3 (12.50 %) JavaScript 2 1 (4.167 %) SQL 2 1 (4.167 %) LotusScript 2 1 (4.167 %) C 2 1 (4.167 %) C++	Qualifications 1 2 (8.333 %) MCSE 1 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (4.167 %) MCP 2 1 (4.167 %) MCSA 2 1 (4.167 %) Citrix Certification
System Software 1 3 (12.50 %) Active Directory 2 1 (4.167 %) MetaFrame	Vendors 1 24 (100.00 %) Lotus 2 8 (33.33 %) Citrix 3 7 (29.17 %) Oracle 4 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft 5 1 (4.167 %) VMware 5 1 (4.167 %) IBM 5 1 (4.167 %) Novell