West Yorkshire Local Government Contracts

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Local Government' in contract IT jobs within the West Yorkshire region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Local Government over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Bedford Bedfordshire Birmingham Bournemouth Brentwood Bristol Cardiff Carlisle Cheshire Chester City of London Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Dorchester Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Home Counties Hull Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leek Leicestershire London M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Melrose Midlands Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Preston Rotherham Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Shropshire South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	90	85
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	3	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	0.369 %	1.825 %
Daily rates quoted	2	9
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£339
Average daily rate	£363	£370
% change on same period last year	-2.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£401
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£344
% change on same period last year	+2.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.62	£19.08
% change on same period last year	+23.76 %
General West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	813	767
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.099 %	0.756 %
Daily rates quoted	250	158
Average minimum daily rate	£337	£363
Average daily rate	£359	£391
% change on same period last year	-7.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£382	£418
UK excluding London average daily rate	£382	£381
% change on same period last year	+0.34 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	41
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.14	£27.35
Average hourly rate	£20.82	£29.06
% change on same period last year	-28.37 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.49	£30.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.14	£27.27
% change on same period last year	+3.16 %
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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 Local Government across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the General 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 Local Government across the West Yorkshire region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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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 Local Government 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
Leeds	-10	2	£275	-20.52 %

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Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Local Government 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 Local Government.

1 3 (100.00 %) Government 2 2 (66.67 %) NHS 3 1 (33.33 %) Business Analysis 3 1 (33.33 %) Statistics 3 1 (33.33 %) Business Objects 3 1 (33.33 %) Business Intelligence 3 1 (33.33 %) BusinessObjects

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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 citing Local Government 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 Local Government. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) BusinessObjects	General 1 3 (100.00 %) Government
Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Project Manager 1 1 (33.33 %) Developer 1 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Business Developer 1 1 (33.33 %) Data Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Business Objects Developer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (66.67 %) NHS 2 1 (33.33 %) Statistics
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) Business Analysis	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Business Objects