Local Government Contracts

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Local Government' in contract IT jobs across the UK together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Local Government over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Brentwood Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Cornwall Derbyshire Devon Dorchester Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire England Essex Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leek Leicestershire London M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Midlands Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Preston Rochdale Rotherham Scotland Shropshire South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	204	253
Rank change on same period last year	+49
Matching contract IT job ads	506	581
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.716 %	0.588 %
As % of the category below	1.539 %	1.249 %
Daily rates quoted	166	206
Average minimum daily rate	£334	£322
Average daily rate	£361	£339
% change on same period last year	+6.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£387	£357
UK excluding London average daily rate	£369	£346
% change on same period last year	+6.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	65	85
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.24	£17.65
Average hourly rate	£20.15	£19.24
% change on same period last year	+4.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.07	£20.84
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.83	£17.54
% change on same period last year	+18.73 %
General UK
Matching contract IT job ads	32886	46504
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	46.50 %	47.08 %
Daily rates quoted	12450	16639
Average minimum daily rate	£409	£417
Average daily rate	£438	£444
% change on same period last year	-1.46 %
Average maximum daily rate	£467	£472
UK excluding London average daily rate	£383	£381
% change on same period last year	+0.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	2177	2732
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.97	£24.66
Average hourly rate	£27.72	£26.54
% change on same period last year	+4.45 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.46	£28.41
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.07	£26.79
% change on same period last year	+4.77 %

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.

Local Government
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Local Government within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Local Government
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Local Government within the UK.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Local Government within the UK over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Local Government within the UK.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Local Government within the UK over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

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Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Local Government within the UK over the 3 months to 13 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
England	+55	492	£358	+5.59 %
London	+2	138	£341	+2.60 %
South East	+68	100	£349	-7.27 %
South West	+49	47	£362	+8.91 %
West Midlands	+31	45	£401	-11.00 %
North West	+25	42	£354	-12.86 %
Oxfordshire	+18	38	£278	-20.40 %
Yorkshire	+25	32	£323	-14.62 %
East Midlands	-22	31	£378	+48.55 %
Oxford	+9	31	£278	-20.35 %
East of England	+12	22	£365	+58.93 %
Midlands	+17	15	£455	+71.29 %
Birmingham	+34	15	£476	+14.94 %
Dorset	+17	13	£263	-52.27 %
Lancashire	-	12	£347	-
Thames Valley	+24	11	-	-
Wiltshire	+3	8	£430	+45.27 %
Kent	+10	8	£387	-16.21 %
Shropshire	+2	8	£331	+34.98 %
West Yorkshire	+3	8	£450	+19.00 %
Northamptonshire	-16	8	£375	+49.72 %
Nottinghamshire	-6	8	£444	-
Bournemouth	-	8	£175	-
Maidstone	-	7	£393	-
Preston	-	7	£360	-
Chester	-3	7	-	-
Nottingham	-11	7	£444	-
Telford	-	7	£325	-
North East	0	7	£348	-25.08 %
Cheshire	+6	7	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Local Government 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 Local Government.

1 915 (100.00 %) Government 2 154 (16.83 %) Project Management 3 151 (16.50 %) PRINCE2 4 129 (14.10 %) Finance 5 91 (9.945 %) SQL 6 89 (9.727 %) Microsoft 7 87 (9.508 %) Oracle 8 76 (8.306 %) Business Analysis 9 74 (8.087 %) Health 10 72 (7.869 %) SAP 11 71 (7.760 %) CRM 11 71 (7.760 %) BPR 12 65 (7.104 %) Change Management 13 60 (6.557 %) SQL Server 14 57 (6.230 %) Education

15 55 (6.011 %) .NET 16 52 (5.683 %) ITIL 17 46 (5.027 %) Windows 17 46 (5.027 %) NHS 18 41 (4.481 %) EDRMS 19 39 (4.262 %) Stakeholder Management 19 39 (4.262 %) Migration 20 36 (3.934 %) PRINCE2 Certification 21 34 (3.716 %) PL/SQL 21 34 (3.716 %) ASP.NET 22 33 (3.607 %) C# 23 31 (3.388 %) WAN 24 30 (3.279 %) MS Excel 24 30 (3.279 %) Management Information System 25 29 (3.169 %) JavaScript

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Local Government 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 Local Government. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 55 (6.011 %) .NET 2 34 (3.716 %) ASP.NET 3 25 (2.732 %) ASP 3 25 (2.732 %) XML 4 21 (2.295 %) HTML 5 11 (1.202 %) CSS 6 10 (1.093 %) WebServices 7 9 (0.984 %) J2EE 7 9 (0.984 %) XHTML 8 7 (0.765 %) .NET Framework 9 3 (0.328 %) AJAX 9 3 (0.328 %) Middleware 9 3 (0.328 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 2 (0.219 %) WCF 10 2 (0.219 %) WF 11 1 (0.109 %) SAP PI 11 1 (0.109 %) LAMP 11 1 (0.109 %) SAP XI 11 1 (0.109 %) WebSphere 11 1 (0.109 %) ArcObjects	Application Platforms 1 15 (1.639 %) MS Exchange 2 11 (1.202 %) SharePoint 2 11 (1.202 %) Oracle Workflow 3 9 (0.984 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 8 (0.874 %) CMS 5 5 (0.546 %) SharePoint Server 2007 6 4 (0.437 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 4 (0.437 %) BizTalk Server 6 4 (0.437 %) ColdFusion 7 3 (0.328 %) Apache 7 3 (0.328 %) IIS 7 3 (0.328 %) ArcIMS 8 2 (0.219 %) ArcSDE 8 2 (0.219 %) Exchange Server 5.5 9 1 (0.109 %) Exchange Server 2000 9 1 (0.109 %) WebSphere MQ 9 1 (0.109 %) ArcGIS 9 1 (0.109 %) LiveLink 9 1 (0.109 %) Lotus Notes 9 1 (0.109 %) NetWeaver
Applications 1 30 (3.279 %) MS Excel 2 28 (3.060 %) MS Visio 3 22 (2.404 %) MS Office 4 17 (1.858 %) MS Project 5 8 (0.874 %) Spreadsheet 6 5 (0.546 %) MS PowerPoint 6 5 (0.546 %) InfoPath 7 3 (0.328 %) AutoCAD 7 3 (0.328 %) SPSS 8 2 (0.219 %) QuarkXPress 9 1 (0.109 %) Photoshop 9 1 (0.109 %) Acrobat	Business Applications 1 27 (2.951 %) Oracle EBS 2 21 (2.295 %) Microsoft CRM 3 14 (1.530 %) Oracle Financials 4 12 (1.311 %) Oracle Applications 4 12 (1.311 %) SAP FI/CO 4 12 (1.311 %) SAP CO 4 12 (1.311 %) SAP FI 5 5 (0.546 %) Oracle HRMS 6 4 (0.437 %) SAP HR 6 4 (0.437 %) Summit 7 3 (0.328 %) SAP CRM 7 3 (0.328 %) Dynamics CRM 7 3 (0.328 %) ResourceLink 8 2 (0.219 %) SAP Payroll 8 2 (0.219 %) Oracle ERP 9 1 (0.109 %) SAP R/3 9 1 (0.109 %) JDE OneWorld 9 1 (0.109 %) Navision 9 1 (0.109 %) SAP ERP 9 1 (0.109 %) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking 1 31 (3.388 %) WAN 2 25 (2.732 %) LAN 2 25 (2.732 %) Internet 3 22 (2.404 %) Intranet 4 12 (1.311 %) SAN 4 12 (1.311 %) VPN 5 7 (0.765 %) Firewall 6 6 (0.656 %) VoIP 7 5 (0.546 %) Broadband 7 5 (0.546 %) NGN 8 4 (0.437 %) Network Security 8 4 (0.437 %) TCP/IP 9 3 (0.328 %) Wireless 9 3 (0.328 %) VLAN 9 3 (0.328 %) DHCP 9 3 (0.328 %) DNS 10 2 (0.219 %) SSL 10 2 (0.219 %) IP Telephony 10 2 (0.219 %) EIGRP 11 1 (0.109 %) SMTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 60 (6.557 %) SQL Server 2 41 (4.481 %) EDRMS 3 27 (2.951 %) BusinessObjects 4 21 (2.295 %) GIS 5 20 (2.186 %) Crystal Reports 6 17 (1.858 %) Oracle Reports 7 13 (1.421 %) Oracle Discoverer 7 13 (1.421 %) SQL Server 2005 7 13 (1.421 %) Data Cleansing 8 12 (1.311 %) SQL Server 2000 8 12 (1.311 %) MS Access 9 10 (1.093 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 10 7 (0.765 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 7 (0.765 %) DB2 11 6 (0.656 %) DB2 UDB 11 6 (0.656 %) BusinessObjects XI 12 5 (0.546 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 12 5 (0.546 %) Ingres 12 5 (0.546 %) TOAD 12 5 (0.546 %) Oracle 10g
Development Applications 1 15 (1.639 %) Oracle Forms 2 9 (0.984 %) Visual Studio 3 5 (0.546 %) InterDev 4 4 (0.437 %) Dreamweaver 5 2 (0.219 %) TestDirector 5 2 (0.219 %) FrontPage 6 1 (0.109 %) Subversion	General 1 915 (100.00 %) Government 2 129 (14.10 %) Finance 3 74 (8.087 %) Health 4 57 (6.230 %) Education 5 15 (1.639 %) Legal 6 14 (1.530 %) Telecoms 7 10 (1.093 %) Front Office 8 9 (0.984 %) Retail 9 7 (0.765 %) Back Office 9 7 (0.765 %) Construction 10 5 (0.546 %) Publishing 10 5 (0.546 %) Law 10 5 (0.546 %) General Ledger 10 5 (0.546 %) Marketing 11 4 (0.437 %) Auditing 12 3 (0.328 %) Pensions 13 2 (0.219 %) Manufacturing 13 2 (0.219 %) Criminal Justice 13 2 (0.219 %) Electric 14 1 (0.109 %) Aerospace
Job Titles 1 234 (25.57 %) Analyst 2 223 (24.37 %) Project Manager 3 142 (15.52 %) Business Analyst 4 86 (9.399 %) Consultant 5 51 (5.574 %) Developer 6 28 (3.060 %) Data Analyst 7 27 (2.951 %) Architect 8 24 (2.623 %) Systems Analyst 9 23 (2.514 %) Support Analyst 10 21 (2.295 %) Programme Manager 11 18 (1.967 %) SAP Consultant 11 18 (1.967 %) Business Manager 12 17 (1.858 %) Change Manager 13 16 (1.749 %) Web Developer 14 15 (1.639 %) Technical Consultant 14 15 (1.639 %) Programmer 15 13 (1.421 %) Applications Support 15 13 (1.421 %) Oracle Consultant 15 13 (1.421 %) ICT Project Manager 16 12 (1.311 %) Technical Manager	Miscellaneous 1 46 (5.027 %) NHS 2 30 (3.279 %) Management Information System 3 12 (1.311 %) Statistics 4 5 (0.546 %) Taxonomies 4 5 (0.546 %) Web 2.0 4 5 (0.546 %) Data Conversion 5 4 (0.437 %) E-Learning 6 3 (0.328 %) Freedom of Information 6 3 (0.328 %) Data Protection Act 6 3 (0.328 %) Mathematics 7 2 (0.219 %) Data Extraction 7 2 (0.219 %) NPfIT 7 2 (0.219 %) Freedom of Information Act 7 2 (0.219 %) IVR 7 2 (0.219 %) Client/Server 8 1 (0.109 %) PMI 8 1 (0.109 %) Thin Client 8 1 (0.109 %) Blackberry 8 1 (0.109 %) AS400 8 1 (0.109 %) CLARiiON
Operating Systems 1 46 (5.027 %) Windows 2 26 (2.842 %) UNIX 3 20 (2.186 %) Windows 2000 3 20 (2.186 %) Windows Server 2003 4 9 (0.984 %) Windows XP 5 8 (0.874 %) Linux 6 7 (0.765 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 5 (0.546 %) Solaris 8 3 (0.328 %) Windows NT 9 2 (0.219 %) NetWare 9 2 (0.219 %) AIX 10 1 (0.109 %) SUSE	Processes & Methodologies 1 154 (16.83 %) Project Management 2 151 (16.50 %) PRINCE2 3 76 (8.306 %) Business Analysis 4 71 (7.760 %) CRM 4 71 (7.760 %) BPR 5 65 (7.104 %) Change Management 6 52 (5.683 %) ITIL 7 39 (4.262 %) Migration 7 39 (4.262 %) Stakeholder Management 8 27 (2.951 %) Workflow 8 27 (2.951 %) Service Delivery 8 27 (2.951 %) Performance Management 9 26 (2.842 %) Service Management 10 24 (2.623 %) Data Migration 10 24 (2.623 %) Security Cleared 11 23 (2.514 %) Test Scripting 12 17 (1.858 %) Programme Management 12 17 (1.858 %) Data Analysis 13 16 (1.749 %) Content Management 14 15 (1.639 %) e-GIF
Programming Languages 1 91 (9.945 %) SQL 2 34 (3.716 %) PL/SQL 3 33 (3.607 %) C# 4 29 (3.169 %) JavaScript 5 23 (2.514 %) C 6 13 (1.421 %) VB 7 11 (1.202 %) Java 7 11 (1.202 %) VBScript 8 4 (0.437 %) VB.NET 8 4 (0.437 %) VBA 9 3 (0.328 %) COBOL 10 2 (0.219 %) C++ 10 2 (0.219 %) Transact-SQL 10 2 (0.219 %) Shell Script 11 1 (0.109 %) VB6 11 1 (0.109 %) VC++ 11 1 (0.109 %) XQuery 11 1 (0.109 %) Uniface 11 1 (0.109 %) PHP	Qualifications 1 36 (3.934 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 23 (2.514 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 17 (1.858 %) Degree 4 13 (1.421 %) ISEB 5 8 (0.874 %) Cisco Certification 5 8 (0.874 %) Microsoft Certification 6 7 (0.765 %) MCSE 7 4 (0.437 %) CCNA 7 4 (0.437 %) Citrix Certification 7 4 (0.437 %) CCAB 8 3 (0.328 %) ITIL Certification 8 3 (0.328 %) Oracle Certification 9 2 (0.219 %) CCA 9 2 (0.219 %) ECDL 9 2 (0.219 %) MCP 10 1 (0.109 %) MBA 10 1 (0.109 %) CIPD 10 1 (0.109 %) CIPFA 10 1 (0.109 %) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 19 (2.077 %) QA 2 14 (1.530 %) SLA 3 2 (0.219 %) HL7 4 1 (0.109 %) BS25999 4 1 (0.109 %) PCI DSS 4 1 (0.109 %) ISO27001 4 1 (0.109 %) WCAG 4 1 (0.109 %) WAI	System Software 1 24 (2.623 %) Active Directory 2 5 (0.546 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 3 (0.328 %) Terminal Services 4 2 (0.219 %) MetaFrame 4 2 (0.219 %) VMware ESX 5 1 (0.109 %) Backup Exec 5 1 (0.109 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 5 1 (0.109 %) Novell eDirectory 5 1 (0.109 %) ISA Server 5 1 (0.109 %) BorderManager
Systems Management 1 3 (0.328 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 2 (0.219 %) DameWare 3 1 (0.109 %) MIMEsweeper 3 1 (0.109 %) Tivoli 3 1 (0.109 %) MOM 3 1 (0.109 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 1 (0.109 %) ZENworks	Vendors 1 89 (9.727 %) Microsoft 2 87 (9.508 %) Oracle 3 72 (7.869 %) SAP 4 27 (2.951 %) Business Objects 5 20 (2.186 %) Lagan 6 18 (1.967 %) Cisco 7 13 (1.421 %) Citrix 8 12 (1.311 %) Anite 9 11 (1.202 %) IBM 10 8 (0.874 %) Northgate 11 7 (0.765 %) VMware 12 6 (0.656 %) ESRI 12 6 (0.656 %) BT 13 5 (0.546 %) Agresso 13 5 (0.546 %) Civica 14 4 (0.437 %) Intel 14 4 (0.437 %) Symantec 14 4 (0.437 %) Hummingbird 14 4 (0.437 %) Cognos 14 4 (0.437 %) HP