Thames Valley Education Contracts

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Education' in contract IT jobs within the Thames Valley region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Education over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chertsey Cheshire City of London Clapham Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dundee East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hayes Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Huntingdon Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Reading Salford Sandwich Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Teddington Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	38	49
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	2	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	1.942 %	0.552 %
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	£362	£338
% change on same period last year	+7.10 %
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	£18.71	£23.24
% change on same period last year	-19.48 %
General Thames Valley
Matching contract IT job ads	103	181
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.145 %	0.183 %
Daily rates quoted	13	27
Average minimum daily rate	£299	£362
Average daily rate	£332	£387
% change on same period last year	-14.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£412
UK excluding London average daily rate	£383	£381
% change on same period last year	+0.75 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.00	£37.87
Average hourly rate	£38.00	£39.93
% change on same period last year	-4.84 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.08	£26.78
% change on same period last year	+4.82 %
Education South East

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Education across the Thames Valley region as a proportion of the total demand within the General 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 Education across the Thames Valley 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 Education across the Thames Valley region.

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Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Thames Valley region citing Education 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 Education.

1 2 (25.00 %) Business Objects 1 2 (25.00 %) BusinessObjects 2 1 (12.50 %) MS Office 2 1 (12.50 %) C++ 2 1 (12.50 %) SQL 2 1 (12.50 %) Crystal Reports 2 1 (12.50 %) SAS 2 1 (12.50 %) Adobe 2 1 (12.50 %) Finance 2 1 (12.50 %) Migration 2 1 (12.50 %) Marketing 2 1 (12.50 %) Degree 2 1 (12.50 %) Mathematics 2 1 (12.50 %) Multithreading 2 1 (12.50 %) Data Migration

2 1 (12.50 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array

Education
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Thames Valley region citing Education 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 Education. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (12.50 %) SAS	Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (25.00 %) BusinessObjects 2 1 (12.50 %) Crystal Reports	General 1 1 (12.50 %) Finance 1 1 (12.50 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 4 (50.00 %) Administrator 1 4 (50.00 %) Web Administrator 2 3 (37.50 %) Web Editor 2 3 (37.50 %) Web Content Editor 2 3 (37.50 %) Content Editor 3 2 (25.00 %) Analyst 3 2 (25.00 %) Graduate 4 1 (12.50 %) Business Analyst 4 1 (12.50 %) Junior 4 1 (12.50 %) Software Engineer 4 1 (12.50 %) Programmer 4 1 (12.50 %) Data Analyst 4 1 (12.50 %) Data Migration Analyst 4 1 (12.50 %) Software Programmer 4 1 (12.50 %) Graduate Programmer 4 1 (12.50 %) Junior Software Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 1 1 (12.50 %) Mathematics 1 1 (12.50 %) Multithreading
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (12.50 %) Migration 1 1 (12.50 %) Data Migration	Programming Languages 1 1 (12.50 %) C++ 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 1 (12.50 %) Degree	Vendors 1 2 (25.00 %) Business Objects 2 1 (12.50 %) Adobe