West Sussex Degree Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Degree in IT contracts advertised for the West Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Degree over the 3 months to 16 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 Qualifications for the West Sussex region.

Degree
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorchester Dorset Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Inverness Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Salford Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stansted Stevenage Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swindon Tadworth Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	15	21	44
Rank change year-on-year	+6 +23
Matching contract IT job ads	16	5	5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex	5.993 %	2.660 %	0.839 %
As % of the Qualifications category	31.37 %	16.67 %	8.621 %
Daily rates quoted	7	2	2
Average daily rate	£300	£325	£310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	-7.690 % +4.830 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£270	£297	£302
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£400	£353	£318
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£340	£325
% change year-on-year	-4.410 % +4.610 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	2	1
Average hourly rate	£10.20	£39.00	£27.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	-73.84 % +44.44 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.50	£30.00	£27.50
% change year-on-year	-41.66 % +9.090 %
All Qualifications West Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Qualifications category	51	30	58
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex	19.10 %	15.96 %	9.732 %
Daily rates quoted	15	5	20
Average daily rate	£325	£325	£300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	- +8.330 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£140	£239	£220
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£400	£465	£425
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£350	£350
% change year-on-year	-7.140 % -
Hourly rates quoted	15	14	7
Average hourly rate	£10.50	£16.00	£17.85
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	-34.37 % -10.36 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.00	£27.25	£25.00
% change year-on-year	-26.60 % +9.000 %
Degree South East

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.

Degree
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Degree across the West Sussex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Degree
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Degree across the West Sussex region.

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Degree across the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 16 March 2010.

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Degree across the West Sussex region.

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Degree across the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 16 March 2010.

Degree
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 16 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.

Location	Rank 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
Gatwick	-	7	£300	-
Crawley	-6	2	-	-

Degree South East

Degree
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex region citing Degree 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 Degree.

1 12 (46.15 %) Windows 2 7 (26.92 %) Microsoft Certification 3 6 (23.08 %) MCP 3 6 (23.08 %) C++ 3 6 (23.08 %) SQL 3 6 (23.08 %) Oracle 3 6 (23.08 %) MCDST 4 5 (19.23 %) SQL Server 4 5 (19.23 %) Business Intelligence 5 4 (15.38 %) Microsoft 5 4 (15.38 %) XML 5 4 (15.38 %) C# 5 4 (15.38 %) OO 5 4 (15.38 %) MS Excel 5 4 (15.38 %) Windows XP

5 4 (15.38 %) OOD 5 4 (15.38 %) Manufacturing 6 3 (11.54 %) Windows Vista 6 3 (11.54 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 3 (11.54 %) OOP 6 3 (11.54 %) Citrix 6 3 (11.54 %) Cognos 6 3 (11.54 %) Hyperion 6 3 (11.54 %) BCP 6 3 (11.54 %) Service Delivery 6 3 (11.54 %) Data Security 7 2 (7.692 %) Identity Management 7 2 (7.692 %) Electronics 7 2 (7.692 %) Telecoms 7 2 (7.692 %) Workflow

Degree
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex region citing Degree 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 Degree. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 4 (15.38 %) XML 2 2 (7.692 %) HTML 2 2 (7.692 %) CSS 2 2 (7.692 %) LAMP 3 1 (3.846 %) Web Services 3 1 (3.846 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (3.846 %) COM 3 1 (3.846 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 2 (7.692 %) CMS 2 1 (3.846 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 1 (3.846 %) EPiServer 2 1 (3.846 %) Documentum
Applications 1 4 (15.38 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 2 (7.692 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (3.846 %) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (19.23 %) SQL Server 2 3 (11.54 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 2 (7.692 %) Datawarehouse 3 2 (7.692 %) MySQL 4 1 (3.846 %) MOLAP 4 1 (3.846 %) RDBMS 4 1 (3.846 %) ROLAP	Development Applications 1 1 (3.846 %) Visual Studio
General 1 4 (15.38 %) Manufacturing 2 2 (7.692 %) Electronics 2 2 (7.692 %) Telecoms 2 2 (7.692 %) Finance 3 1 (3.846 %) Retail 3 1 (3.846 %) Health	Job Titles 1 7 (26.92 %) Architect 1 7 (26.92 %) Software Engineer 2 6 (23.08 %) Helpdesk Engineer 3 3 (11.54 %) Enterprise Architect 3 3 (11.54 %) Business Intelligence (BI) Architect 3 3 (11.54 %) Data Architect 3 3 (11.54 %) Solutions Architect 4 2 (7.692 %) Web Developer 4 2 (7.692 %) Developer 4 2 (7.692 %) Graduate 4 2 (7.692 %) Graduate Software Engineer 4 2 (7.692 %) Trainee 4 2 (7.692 %) Test Engineer 4 2 (7.692 %) Software Test Engineer 5 1 (3.846 %) Service Manager 5 1 (3.846 %) Procurement Specialist 5 1 (3.846 %) Oracle DBA 5 1 (3.846 %) Helpdesk Trainee 5 1 (3.846 %) Infrastructure Architect 5 1 (3.846 %) Support Manager
Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.846 %) Replication 1 1 (3.846 %) SCADA 1 1 (3.846 %) Mathematics 1 1 (3.846 %) Computer Science 1 1 (3.846 %) Open Source 1 1 (3.846 %) Management Information System	Operating Systems 1 12 (46.15 %) Windows 2 4 (15.38 %) Windows XP 3 3 (11.54 %) Windows Vista 4 1 (3.846 %) Windows XP Embedded 4 1 (3.846 %) UNIX 4 1 (3.846 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (19.23 %) Business Intelligence 2 4 (15.38 %) OO 2 4 (15.38 %) OOD 3 3 (11.54 %) OOP 3 3 (11.54 %) BCP 3 3 (11.54 %) Service Delivery 3 3 (11.54 %) Data Security 4 2 (7.692 %) Identity Management 4 2 (7.692 %) Workflow 4 2 (7.692 %) E-Commerce 4 2 (7.692 %) Network Design 4 2 (7.692 %) Web Analytics 5 1 (3.846 %) Programme Management 5 1 (3.846 %) Content Management 5 1 (3.846 %) Yield Management 5 1 (3.846 %) Information Architecture 5 1 (3.846 %) ITIL 5 1 (3.846 %) UML 5 1 (3.846 %) OOA/OOD 5 1 (3.846 %) CRM	Programming Languages 1 6 (23.08 %) C++ 1 6 (23.08 %) SQL 2 4 (15.38 %) C# 3 2 (7.692 %) VB 3 2 (7.692 %) JavaScript 3 2 (7.692 %) PHP 4 1 (3.846 %) C 4 1 (3.846 %) Python
Qualifications 1 7 (26.92 %) Microsoft Certification 2 6 (23.08 %) MCP 2 6 (23.08 %) MCDST 3 1 (3.846 %) MCSE 3 1 (3.846 %) OCP 3 1 (3.846 %) Oracle Certification	Vendors 1 6 (23.08 %) Oracle 2 4 (15.38 %) Microsoft 3 3 (11.54 %) Citrix 3 3 (11.54 %) Cognos 3 3 (11.54 %) Hyperion