OVPI Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for OVPI skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OVPI over the 3 months to 16 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Systems Management category.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

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Location UK	3 months to 16 May 2012	Same period 2011	Same period 2010
Rank	-	579	531
Matching contract IT job ads	0	2	5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK	-	0.003 %	0.009 %
As % of the Systems Management category	-	0.056 %	0.179 %
Number of daily rates quoted	0	1	2
Average daily rate	-	£325	£175
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	- +85.71 %
UK excluding London average daily rate	-	-	£175
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	0	0
Average hourly rate	-	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	-	-
All Systems Management UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Systems Management category	3639	3603	2795
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK	6.148 %	5.872 %	5.076 %
Number of daily rates quoted	1850	1694	1236
Average daily rate	£350	£360	£338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	-2.77 % +6.66 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£225	£210	£200
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£500	£500	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£300	£314
% change year-on-year	+8.33 % -4.38 %
Number of hourly rates quoted	173	219	234
Average hourly rate	£19.00	£23.44	£21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	-18.93 % +9.01 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.50	£15.00	£14.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£45.00	£38.75	£38.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.50	£24.40	£20.50
% change year-on-year	-28.27 % +19.02 %

OVPI
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing OVPI within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

OVPI
Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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