West Yorkshire Degree Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Degree in IT contracts within the West Yorkshire region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Degree over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Aylesbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Conwy County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Douglas Dundee Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Folkestone Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Romford Rugby Runcorn Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Tamworth Teddington Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Witham Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	49	71
Rank change on same period last year	+22
Matching contract IT job ads	48	25
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.064 %	0.025 %
As % of the category below	19.75 %	9.843 %
Daily rates quoted	6	2
Average minimum daily rate	£289	£225
Average daily rate	£310	£238
% change on same period last year	+30.70 %
Average maximum daily rate	£332	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£305
% change on same period last year	+16.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.67	£7.51
Average hourly rate	£16.00	£9.26
% change on same period last year	+72.78 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.33	£11.01
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.89	£31.66
% change on same period last year	-15.07 %
Qualifications West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	243	254
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.324 %	0.257 %
Daily rates quoted	53	52
Average minimum daily rate	£282	£337
Average daily rate	£301	£348
% change on same period last year	-13.55 %
Average maximum daily rate	£319	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£338
% change on same period last year	-2.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.08	£22.45
Average hourly rate	£18.33	£25.13
% change on same period last year	-27.04 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.58	£27.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.98	£25.56
% change on same period last year	-2.29 %
Degree Yorkshire

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 Degree across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications 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 Degree across the West Yorkshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Degree across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Degree across the West Yorkshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Degree across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Leeds	-3	25	£334	+66.75 %
Bradford	+9	7	-	-
Halifax	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 29 (33.72 %) Oracle 2 26 (30.23 %) Computer Science 3 25 (29.07 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 24 (27.91 %) Java 5 23 (26.74 %) Agile Software Development 6 15 (17.44 %) J2EE 6 15 (17.44 %) PRINCE2 7 14 (16.28 %) Health 7 14 (16.28 %) Hibernate 7 14 (16.28 %) Spring 8 13 (15.12 %) Finance 8 13 (15.12 %) Project Management 8 13 (15.12 %) .NET 9 12 (13.95 %) SQL Server 10 10 (11.63 %) NHS

11 9 (10.47 %) SQL 11 9 (10.47 %) Windows 11 9 (10.47 %) JSP 11 9 (10.47 %) WebSphere 12 8 (9.302 %) MS Excel 13 7 (8.140 %) MS Office 13 7 (8.140 %) C# 13 7 (8.140 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 14 5 (5.814 %) PKI 14 5 (5.814 %) Linux 14 5 (5.814 %) DNS 14 5 (5.814 %) Smartcard 14 5 (5.814 %) Firewall 15 4 (4.651 %) Wireless 15 4 (4.651 %) DOCSIS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 15 (17.44 %) J2EE 2 14 (16.28 %) Hibernate 2 14 (16.28 %) Spring 3 13 (15.12 %) .NET 4 9 (10.47 %) WebSphere 4 9 (10.47 %) JSP 5 4 (4.651 %) ASP 6 2 (2.326 %) WebServices 6 2 (2.326 %) XML 6 2 (2.326 %) WCF 6 2 (2.326 %) WPF 6 2 (2.326 %) HTML 7 1 (1.163 %) XHTML 7 1 (1.163 %) Middleware 7 1 (1.163 %) ASP.NET 7 1 (1.163 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 3 (3.488 %) WebLogic 1 3 (3.488 %) IIS 2 2 (2.326 %) ColdFusion 2 2 (2.326 %) ArcGIS 2 2 (2.326 %) Oracle Spatial 3 1 (1.163 %) CMS 3 1 (1.163 %) SAS
Applications 1 8 (9.302 %) MS Excel 2 7 (8.140 %) MS Office 3 4 (4.651 %) MS Project 4 3 (3.488 %) Spreadsheet 5 2 (2.326 %) MS PowerPoint 6 1 (1.163 %) Photoshop 6 1 (1.163 %) Acrobat 6 1 (1.163 %) Fireworks	Communications & Networking 1 5 (5.814 %) DNS 1 5 (5.814 %) Firewall 2 4 (4.651 %) Wireless 2 4 (4.651 %) DOCSIS 2 4 (4.651 %) DVB 2 4 (4.651 %) Broadband 3 1 (1.163 %) LAN 3 1 (1.163 %) VoIP 3 1 (1.163 %) WAN 3 1 (1.163 %) VPN 3 1 (1.163 %) 802.11 3 1 (1.163 %) OSPF 3 1 (1.163 %) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 25 (29.07 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 12 (13.95 %) SQL Server 3 2 (2.326 %) BusinessObjects 3 2 (2.326 %) GIS 4 1 (1.163 %) Crystal Reports 4 1 (1.163 %) Oracle Reports 4 1 (1.163 %) Oracle 9i 4 1 (1.163 %) MS Access 4 1 (1.163 %) Datawarehouse	Development Applications 1 2 (2.326 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (1.163 %) Rational Rose 2 1 (1.163 %) Dreamweaver 2 1 (1.163 %) JUnit
General 1 14 (16.28 %) Health 2 13 (15.12 %) Finance 3 4 (4.651 %) Electric 3 4 (4.651 %) Marketing 4 3 (3.488 %) Government 4 3 (3.488 %) Insurance 4 3 (3.488 %) Manufacturing 5 2 (2.326 %) Publishing 6 1 (1.163 %) Retail 6 1 (1.163 %) Aerospace 6 1 (1.163 %) Chemicals 6 1 (1.163 %) Education 6 1 (1.163 %) Telecoms 6 1 (1.163 %) Graphic Design	Job Titles 1 34 (39.53 %) Developer 2 24 (27.91 %) Java Developer 3 15 (17.44 %) Analyst 3 15 (17.44 %) J2EE Developer 3 15 (17.44 %) Java/J2EE Developer 4 11 (12.79 %) Project Manager 5 4 (4.651 %) Deployment Analyst 5 4 (4.651 %) C# Developer 5 4 (4.651 %) RF Engineer 5 4 (4.651 %) Senior RF Engineer 6 3 (3.488 %) Junior Analyst 6 3 (3.488 %) Business Analyst 6 3 (3.488 %) Graduate 6 3 (3.488 %) Junior 6 3 (3.488 %) Support Analyst 7 2 (2.326 %) Technical Support 7 2 (2.326 %) Helpdesk Analyst 7 2 (2.326 %) Programme Manager 7 2 (2.326 %) Data Analyst 7 2 (2.326 %) Technical Support Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 26 (30.23 %) Computer Science 2 10 (11.63 %) NHS 3 5 (5.814 %) PKI 3 5 (5.814 %) Smartcard 4 4 (4.651 %) DTV 4 4 (4.651 %) STB 5 3 (3.488 %) Mathematics 5 3 (3.488 %) Statistics 6 2 (2.326 %) Informatics 7 1 (1.163 %) W3C 7 1 (1.163 %) Clustering 7 1 (1.163 %) E-Learning 7 1 (1.163 %) Copywriting	Operating Systems 1 9 (10.47 %) Windows 2 5 (5.814 %) Linux 3 3 (3.488 %) Windows XP 4 2 (2.326 %) Ubuntu 4 2 (2.326 %) UNIX 4 2 (2.326 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (1.163 %) Windows NT 5 1 (1.163 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 23 (26.74 %) Agile Software Development 2 15 (17.44 %) PRINCE2 3 13 (15.12 %) Project Management 4 4 (4.651 %) UML 4 4 (4.651 %) Stakeholder Management 5 3 (3.488 %) OO 5 3 (3.488 %) Matrix Management 5 3 (3.488 %) ITIL 6 2 (2.326 %) Time Management 6 2 (2.326 %) Software Engineering 6 2 (2.326 %) Enterprise Architecture 6 2 (2.326 %) Service Management 6 2 (2.326 %) Quality Management 6 2 (2.326 %) Risk Management 7 1 (1.163 %) Migration 7 1 (1.163 %) Programme Management 7 1 (1.163 %) Content Management 7 1 (1.163 %) Information Management 7 1 (1.163 %) Data Analysis 7 1 (1.163 %) Change Management	Programming Languages 1 24 (27.91 %) Java 2 9 (10.47 %) SQL 3 7 (8.140 %) C# 4 4 (4.651 %) C++ 4 4 (4.651 %) C 5 2 (2.326 %) VB 5 2 (2.326 %) JavaScript 6 1 (1.163 %) PHP 6 1 (1.163 %) PL/SQL 6 1 (1.163 %) VB.NET 6 1 (1.163 %) VB6
Qualifications 1 7 (8.140 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 3 (3.488 %) PMP 2 3 (3.488 %) PMI Certification 3 2 (2.326 %) MCP 3 2 (2.326 %) HND 3 2 (2.326 %) Microsoft Certification 4 1 (1.163 %) Oracle Certification 4 1 (1.163 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 1 (1.163 %) ITIL Certification 4 1 (1.163 %) CCNA 4 1 (1.163 %) Cisco Certification 4 1 (1.163 %) CCAB 4 1 (1.163 %) Chartered Engineer	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.326 %) Basel II
System Software 1 3 (3.488 %) Active Directory 2 2 (2.326 %) Terminal Services 3 1 (1.163 %) MetaFrame	Vendors 1 29 (33.72 %) Oracle 2 4 (4.651 %) Microsoft 2 4 (4.651 %) EMC 3 3 (3.488 %) Adobe 4 2 (2.326 %) Business Objects 4 2 (2.326 %) Autodesk 4 2 (2.326 %) ESRI 5 1 (1.163 %) Stellent 5 1 (1.163 %) VMware 5 1 (1.163 %) SAP 5 1 (1.163 %) Cisco 5 1 (1.163 %) Compuware 5 1 (1.163 %) Citrix