West Yorkshire Junior Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Junior role in IT contracts within the West Yorkshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Junior in their job title over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastbourne Edinburgh England Essex Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Hampshire Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hove Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool Livingston London Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallington Walsall Ware Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Witney Wokingham Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	74	86
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	19	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.026 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	1.089 %	0.676 %
Daily rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum daily rate	£245	£193
Average daily rate	£266	£194
% change on same period last year	+37.20 %
Average maximum daily rate	£287	£195
UK excluding London average daily rate	£252	£241
% change on same period last year	+4.42 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£8.21	£9.25
Average hourly rate	£9.02	£11.50
% change on same period last year	-21.54 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£9.83	£13.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£14.09	£13.76
% change on same period last year	+2.40 %
Job Titles West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1745	1922
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.359 %	1.895 %
Daily rates quoted	417	328
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£335
Average daily rate	£345	£356
% change on same period last year	-3.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£378
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	125	178
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.78	£23.40
Average hourly rate	£23.01	£24.77
% change on same period last year	-7.12 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.24	£26.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.85	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.14 %
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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 Junior across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles 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 Junior 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 Junior across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 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 Junior 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 Junior across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Junior within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
Bradford	+9	7	£260	+48.57 %
Leeds	-5	5	£269	+19.44 %
Wakefield	-	4	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region that cited Junior 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 Junior in their job title.

1 7 (26.92 %) Windows 2 6 (23.08 %) Active Directory 3 5 (19.23 %) MS Excel 3 5 (19.23 %) MS Office 3 5 (19.23 %) .NET 4 4 (15.38 %) SQL Server 5 3 (11.54 %) Lotus Domino 5 3 (11.54 %) MS Project 5 3 (11.54 %) ASP.NET 5 3 (11.54 %) VB.NET 5 3 (11.54 %) C# 5 3 (11.54 %) Project Management 5 3 (11.54 %) MS Access 5 3 (11.54 %) MS Exchange 5 3 (11.54 %) Microsoft

5 3 (11.54 %) BT 5 3 (11.54 %) Finance 5 3 (11.54 %) Migration 5 3 (11.54 %) Degree 6 2 (7.692 %) Spreadsheet 6 2 (7.692 %) SQL Server 2005 6 2 (7.692 %) Advertising 6 2 (7.692 %) Retail 6 2 (7.692 %) Windows XP 6 2 (7.692 %) Microsoft Certification 6 2 (7.692 %) Terminal Services 6 2 (7.692 %) PRINCE 6 2 (7.692 %) Windows Server 2003 6 2 (7.692 %) MCP 6 2 (7.692 %) PRINCE2

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region that cited Junior 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 Junior in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 5 (19.23 %) .NET 2 3 (11.54 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (3.846 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 3 (11.54 %) Lotus Domino 1 3 (11.54 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 5 (19.23 %) MS Office 1 5 (19.23 %) MS Excel 2 3 (11.54 %) MS Project 3 2 (7.692 %) Spreadsheet	Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.846 %) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (15.38 %) SQL Server 2 3 (11.54 %) MS Access 3 2 (7.692 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (3.846 %) MySQL 4 1 (3.846 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 1 (3.846 %) Flash 1 1 (3.846 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 3 (11.54 %) Finance 2 2 (7.692 %) Advertising 2 2 (7.692 %) Retail 3 1 (3.846 %) Marketing 3 1 (3.846 %) Auditing	Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.846 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 7 (26.92 %) Windows 2 2 (7.692 %) Windows XP 2 2 (7.692 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (3.846 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (11.54 %) Project Management 1 3 (11.54 %) Migration 2 2 (7.692 %) PRINCE2 2 2 (7.692 %) PRINCE 3 1 (3.846 %) Business Analysis 3 1 (3.846 %) Incident Management
Programming Languages 1 3 (11.54 %) C# 1 3 (11.54 %) VB.NET 2 1 (3.846 %) VBA 2 1 (3.846 %) PHP 2 1 (3.846 %) SQL 2 1 (3.846 %) VB	Qualifications 1 3 (11.54 %) Degree 2 2 (7.692 %) MCP 2 2 (7.692 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (3.846 %) PRINCE2 Certification
System Software 1 6 (23.08 %) Active Directory 2 2 (7.692 %) Terminal Services	Vendors 1 3 (11.54 %) Microsoft 1 3 (11.54 %) BT 2 1 (3.846 %) HP 2 1 (3.846 %) Oracle 2 1 (3.846 %) Cisco