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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Technical Specialist role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Technical Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

 Technical Specialist
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank406322415
Rank change year-on-year
Down-84Up+93
Matching contract IT job ads87119189
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.180 %0.302 %0.230 %
As % of the Job Titles category0.197 %0.329 %0.247 %
Daily rates quoted274557
Average daily rate£315£350£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.00 %-
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£247£238
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£430£550£589
UK excluding London average daily rate£315£325£375
% change year-on-year
-3.070 %-13.33 %
Hourly rates quoted3216
Average hourly rate£25.68£47.00£23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-45.37 %+104.34 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£23.14£28.60£19.75
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£29.14£65.40£45.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.68£24.00£20.50
% change year-on-year
+6.970 %+17.07 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
441973611776460
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK91.49 %91.56 %93.02 %
Daily rates quoted201431156723643
Average daily rate£400£375£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.660 %-6.250 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£213£238
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£550£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£338£350
% change year-on-year
-3.700 %-3.570 %
Hourly rates quoted252830286720
Average hourly rate£20.00£20.00£22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
--9.090 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.00£10.67£11.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£38.00£37.50£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£18.00£20.00£22.00
% change year-on-year
-10.00 %-9.090 %

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.

Technical Specialist
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Technical Specialist within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Technical Specialist Demand Trend

Technical Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

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

Technical Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Technical Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Technical Specialist within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Technical Specialist Daily Rate Histogram

Technical Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Technical Specialist Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Specialist
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 Technical Specialist within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-7876£300-25.00 %
LondonDown-8237£350-22.22 %
South EastUp+821£288-8.73 %
North WestDown-1210£233-46.85 %
ScotlandDown-79£338-0.73 %
City of LondonDown-709£225-25.00 %
SurreyDown-86--
HampshireUp+25--
CheshireDown-95£233-
BuckinghamshireNew entry-5£288-
West MidlandsUp+54£285-16.10 %
KnutsfordNew entry-4£233-
SolihullUp+53£285+25.66 %
EdinburghDown-163£325-
AldershotNew entry-3--
WalesUp+62--
GlasgowDown-72£315-7.35 %
ManchesterDown-172--
Milton KeynesNew entry-2£288-
SwanseaNew entry-2--
YorkshireNew entry-2--
West WalesNew entry-2--
North EastUp+81--
Tyne and WearUp+81--
BerkshireUp+71--
CroydonUp+31£600-
South WestDown-51£425-
West SussexDown-91--
BristolDown-111£425-
West LothianNew entry-1--

Technical Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Technical Specialist in their job title 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 with Technical Specialist in their job title.

160 (32.61 %)Windows
241 (22.28 %)UNIX
331 (16.85 %)Linux
424 (13.04 %)Oracle
424 (13.04 %)Migration
523 (12.50 %)Microsoft
622 (11.96 %)DNS
622 (11.96 %)Security Cleared
721 (11.41 %)Active Directory
721 (11.41 %)Firewall
819 (10.33 %)VMware
819 (10.33 %)Windows Server 2003
819 (10.33 %)SQL
819 (10.33 %)Solaris
917 (9.239 %)LDAP
917 (9.239 %)ITIL
917 (9.239 %)SAN
1016 (8.696 %)Finance
1016 (8.696 %)Cisco
1016 (8.696 %)IBM
1115 (8.152 %)HP
1115 (8.152 %)Government
1214 (7.609 %)AIX
1214 (7.609 %)Perl
1214 (7.609 %).NET
1313 (7.065 %)JavaScript
1313 (7.065 %)Shell Script
1412 (6.522 %)SQL Server
1511 (5.978 %)C
1511 (5.978 %)HTML

Technical Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Technical Specialist in their job title 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 with Technical Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
114 (7.609 %).NET
211 (5.978 %)HTML
211 (5.978 %)WebSphere
310 (5.435 %)CSS
310 (5.435 %)Flash
48 (4.348 %)XML
57 (3.804 %)J2EE
63 (1.630 %)STL
63 (1.630 %)Web Services
63 (1.630 %)Application Packaging
72 (1.087 %)Spring
72 (1.087 %)ASP
72 (1.087 %)Middleware
81 (0.543 %)WinForms
81 (0.543 %)XML Messaging
81 (0.543 %)XSD
81 (0.543 %)WSDL
81 (0.543 %)WCF
81 (0.543 %)Silverlight
81 (0.543 %)Murex MxML
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
111 (5.978 %)WebSphere MQ
111 (5.978 %)WebSphere Message Broker
27 (3.804 %)WebLogic
27 (3.804 %)MS Exchange
36 (3.261 %)SharePoint
45 (2.717 %)Apache
45 (2.717 %)Tomcat
45 (2.717 %)WebSphere Application Server
45 (2.717 %)Exchange Server 2003
54 (2.174 %)Oracle Application Server
54 (2.174 %)SharePoint Server 2007
54 (2.174 %)IIS
62 (1.087 %)Exchange Server 2007
62 (1.087 %)Tuxedo
71 (0.543 %)IBM HTTP Server
71 (0.543 %)LiveLink
71 (0.543 %)Content Management Server
71 (0.543 %)NetWeaver
71 (0.543 %)WebLogic Portal
71 (0.543 %)iPlanet
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
16 (3.261 %)MS Office
25 (2.717 %)MS Excel
31 (0.543 %)MS Visio
31 (0.543 %)Spreadsheet
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
14 (2.174 %)Maximo
23 (1.630 %)RMDS
32 (1.087 %)Retail-J
32 (1.087 %)Nortel Periphonics
32 (1.087 %)BASE24
41 (0.543 %)SoftGrid
41 (0.543 %)Staffware
41 (0.543 %)BusinessWorks
41 (0.543 %)Oracle 11i
41 (0.543 %)PeopleSoft HRMS
41 (0.543 %)ION MarketView
41 (0.543 %)AWD
41 (0.543 %)TIBCO iProcess
41 (0.543 %)Oracle BPM
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
122 (11.96 %)DNS
221 (11.41 %)Firewall
317 (9.239 %)LDAP
317 (9.239 %)SAN
411 (5.978 %)TCP/IP
510 (5.435 %)VPN
69 (4.891 %)DHCP
78 (4.348 %)LAN
87 (3.804 %)WAN
96 (3.261 %)VLAN
105 (2.717 %)SNMP
105 (2.717 %)VoIP
114 (2.174 %)SMTP
123 (1.630 %)Wireless
123 (1.630 %)Internet
123 (1.630 %)SSL
123 (1.630 %)HTTP
123 (1.630 %)PBX
123 (1.630 %)iSCSI
132 (1.087 %)Network Security
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
112 (6.522 %)SQL Server
29 (4.891 %)MySQL
35 (2.717 %)DB2
44 (2.174 %)TOAD
44 (2.174 %)RDBMS
53 (1.630 %)BusinessObjects
62 (1.087 %)SQL Server 2005
62 (1.087 %)Datawarehouse
71 (0.543 %)SQL Server 2000
71 (0.543 %)Oracle 8/8i
71 (0.543 %)Crystal Reports
71 (0.543 %)Oracle 10g
71 (0.543 %)ETL
71 (0.543 %)Oracle 11g
71 (0.543 %)Data Mart
71 (0.543 %)NonStop SQL
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
13 (1.630 %)InstallShield
13 (1.630 %)Atlassian Bamboo
21 (0.543 %)ClearCase
21 (0.543 %)Oracle Forms
21 (0.543 %)Visual Studio
21 (0.543 %)PVCS
21 (0.543 %)VSS/SourceSafe
21 (0.543 %)LoadRunner
21 (0.543 %)Subversion
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
116 (8.696 %)Finance
215 (8.152 %)Government
310 (5.435 %)Banking
48 (4.348 %)Retail
48 (4.348 %)Telecoms
48 (4.348 %)Health
55 (2.717 %)Front Office
64 (2.174 %)Financial Institution
72 (1.087 %)Investment Banking
72 (1.087 %)Retail Banking
72 (1.087 %)Back Office
72 (1.087 %)Legal
81 (0.543 %)Publishing
81 (0.543 %)Law
81 (0.543 %)Automotive
81 (0.543 %)Education
81 (0.543 %)Electric
81 (0.543 %)Local Government
81 (0.543 %)Auditing
81 (0.543 %)Multimedia
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
111 (5.978 %)Mainframe
28 (4.348 %)Clustering
28 (4.348 %)HACMP
35 (2.717 %)EPoS
35 (2.717 %)NHS
44 (2.174 %)Tandem
44 (2.174 %)Replication
44 (2.174 %)Fixed Income
53 (1.630 %)iSeries
53 (1.630 %)Computer Science
53 (1.630 %)Swaptions
53 (1.630 %)Derivative
62 (1.087 %)PKI
62 (1.087 %)Client/Server
62 (1.087 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
62 (1.087 %)Chip and PIN
62 (1.087 %)Equities
62 (1.087 %)IVR
71 (0.543 %)EMC Centera
71 (0.543 %)Grid Computing
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
160 (32.61 %)Windows
241 (22.28 %)UNIX
331 (16.85 %)Linux
419 (10.33 %)Windows Server 2003
419 (10.33 %)Solaris
514 (7.609 %)AIX
68 (4.348 %)Windows Server 2008
77 (3.804 %)Windows XP
85 (2.717 %)zOS
94 (2.174 %)Red Hat Linux
94 (2.174 %)Windows Vista
94 (2.174 %)Windows 2000
102 (1.087 %)Windows 2000 Server
102 (1.087 %)HPUX
111 (0.543 %)SUSE
111 (0.543 %)MVS
111 (0.543 %)Windows CE
111 (0.543 %)NetWare
111 (0.543 %)Windows 7
111 (0.543 %)Oracle Enterprise Linux
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
124 (13.04 %)Migration
217 (9.239 %)ITIL
311 (5.978 %)Agile Software Development
49 (4.891 %)Service Management
57 (3.804 %)Load Balancing
57 (3.804 %)Web Development
66 (3.261 %)Project Management
75 (2.717 %)BCP
75 (2.717 %)PRINCE
75 (2.717 %)Document Management
84 (2.174 %)User Acceptance Testing
84 (2.174 %)Data Migration
84 (2.174 %)Investment Management
84 (2.174 %)Disaster Recovery
93 (1.630 %)Service Delivery
93 (1.630 %)Change Management
93 (1.630 %)Identity Management
93 (1.630 %)PRINCE2
93 (1.630 %)Continuous Integration
93 (1.630 %)TDD
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
119 (10.33 %)SQL
214 (7.609 %)Perl
313 (7.065 %)JavaScript
313 (7.065 %)Shell Script
411 (5.978 %)C
510 (5.435 %)PHP
69 (4.891 %)Java
78 (4.348 %)ActionScript
87 (3.804 %)VB
87 (3.804 %)C#
87 (3.804 %)C++
95 (2.717 %)VBScript
103 (1.630 %)SQR
103 (1.630 %)Tcl
103 (1.630 %)Korn
112 (1.087 %)VBA
112 (1.087 %)PeopleCode
121 (0.543 %)Jython
121 (0.543 %)JCL
121 (0.543 %)Python
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
122 (11.96 %)Security Cleared
211 (5.978 %)Degree
310 (5.435 %)SC Cleared
46 (3.261 %)Microsoft Certification
55 (2.717 %)MCSE
55 (2.717 %)Cisco Certification
64 (2.174 %)DV Cleared
73 (1.630 %)IBM Certification
73 (1.630 %)CCNP
82 (1.087 %)CCNA
82 (1.087 %)MCP
91 (0.543 %)CCSA
91 (0.543 %)MCSA
91 (0.543 %)ISEB
91 (0.543 %)Citrix Certification
91 (0.543 %)CISSP
91 (0.543 %)CNE
91 (0.543 %)Novell Certification
91 (0.543 %)PRINCE2 Certification
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
15 (2.717 %)SLA
23 (1.630 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
23 (1.630 %)PCI DSS
31 (0.543 %)WCAG
31 (0.543 %)QA
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
121 (11.41 %)Active Directory
210 (5.435 %)VMware Infrastructure
38 (4.348 %)VMware ESX
46 (3.261 %)NFS
51 (0.543 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
51 (0.543 %)ISA Server
51 (0.543 %)NDS
51 (0.543 %)Hyper-V
51 (0.543 %)XenApp
51 (0.543 %)XenDesktop
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
16 (3.261 %)Tivoli
24 (2.174 %)SCCM
33 (1.630 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
33 (1.630 %)EMC NetWorker
42 (1.087 %)WSUS
42 (1.087 %)OpenView
42 (1.087 %)Tivoli Monitoring
42 (1.087 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
42 (1.087 %)NetBackup
42 (1.087 %)Cisco IPCC
51 (0.543 %)BMC PATROL
51 (0.543 %)CONTROL-M
51 (0.543 %)CA SiteMinder
51 (0.543 %)ARCserve
51 (0.543 %)Norton AntiVirus
51 (0.543 %)MIMEsweeper
51 (0.543 %)CiscoWorks
51 (0.543 %)SolarWinds Orion
51 (0.543 %)Sun Identity Manager
51 (0.543 %)SCOM
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
124 (13.04 %)Oracle
223 (12.50 %)Microsoft
319 (10.33 %)VMware
416 (8.696 %)Cisco
416 (8.696 %)IBM
515 (8.152 %)HP
611 (5.978 %)TIBCO
79 (4.891 %)EMC
79 (4.891 %)Sun
86 (3.261 %)Juniper
95 (2.717 %)CheckPoint
95 (2.717 %)NetApp
95 (2.717 %)Citrix
104 (2.174 %)Mitel
104 (2.174 %)PeopleSoft
113 (1.630 %)Red Hat
113 (1.630 %)Reuters
113 (1.630 %)Bloomberg
113 (1.630 %)Symantec
113 (1.630 %)Business Objects