West Yorkshire Migration Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Migration skills within the West Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Migration over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Addlestone Amersham Argyll and Bute Atherstone Avon Aylesbury Barking Barnsley Barry Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Chalfont St Giles Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Clevedon Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dover Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Grays Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Helensburgh Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Rochester Rotherham Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stirling Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wolverhampton Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	30	35
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	75	74
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.100 %	0.074 %
As % of the category below	6.996 %	7.460 %
Daily rates quoted	28	16
Average minimum daily rate	£343	£433
Average daily rate	£362	£463
% change on same period last year	-21.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£382	£494
UK excluding London average daily rate	£390	£383
% change on same period last year	+1.75 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£17.96
Average hourly rate	£18.25	£18.47
% change on same period last year	-1.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.50	£18.99
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.83	£23.29
% change on same period last year	+10.90 %
Processes & Methodologies West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1072	992
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.429 %	0.990 %
Daily rates quoted	315	191
Average minimum daily rate	£337	£346
Average daily rate	£361	£370
% change on same period last year	-2.59 %
Average maximum daily rate	£385	£395
UK excluding London average daily rate	£379	£376
% change on same period last year	+0.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	35	57
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.40	£24.67
Average hourly rate	£25.15	£25.83
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.89	£26.99
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.35	£30.32
% change on same period last year	+0.10 %
Migration 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 Migration across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies 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 Migration 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 Migration across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 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 Migration 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 Migration across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 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 Migration within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 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	0	45	£388	-15.67 %
Bradford	+6	8	£185	-
Wetherby	-	2	£350	-
Halifax	-10	1	£250	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Migration 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 Migration.

1 61 (45.52 %) Data Migration 2 40 (29.85 %) SQL 3 32 (23.88 %) Oracle 4 29 (21.64 %) Finance 5 23 (17.16 %) SQL Server 6 20 (14.93 %) Microsoft 7 18 (13.43 %) NHS 8 17 (12.69 %) .NET 9 14 (10.45 %) PL/SQL 10 13 (9.701 %) PRINCE2 10 13 (9.701 %) SharePoint 11 12 (8.955 %) Health 11 12 (8.955 %) SQL Server Integration Services 12 11 (8.209 %) Active Directory 12 11 (8.209 %) Datawarehouse

12 11 (8.209 %) Solaris 12 11 (8.209 %) Windows 12 11 (8.209 %) MS Excel 13 10 (7.463 %) SQL Server 2005 14 9 (6.716 %) Business Analysis 14 9 (6.716 %) Linux 14 9 (6.716 %) Data Modelling 14 9 (6.716 %) ASP.NET 15 8 (5.970 %) MS Office 15 8 (5.970 %) Project Management 16 7 (5.224 %) Oracle RAC 16 7 (5.224 %) Oracle 10g 16 7 (5.224 %) IBM 17 6 (4.478 %) EDRMS 17 6 (4.478 %) UNIX

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Migration 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 Migration. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 17 (12.69 %) .NET 2 9 (6.716 %) ASP.NET 3 5 (3.731 %) XML 3 5 (3.731 %) Oracle Streams 4 4 (2.985 %) ASP.NET 2.0 4 4 (2.985 %) CSS 5 3 (2.239 %) WebServices 5 3 (2.239 %) XHTML 5 3 (2.239 %) Silverlight 6 2 (1.493 %) ebXML 6 2 (1.493 %) HTML 6 2 (1.493 %) XSLT 6 2 (1.493 %) SOAP 7 1 (0.746 %) COM 7 1 (0.746 %) J2EE 7 1 (0.746 %) ADO.NET 7 1 (0.746 %) ASP 7 1 (0.746 %) WinForms 7 1 (0.746 %) .NET Framework 7 1 (0.746 %) WF	Application Platforms 1 13 (9.701 %) SharePoint 2 5 (3.731 %) MS Exchange 3 4 (2.985 %) Lotus Notes 3 4 (2.985 %) Lotus Domino 4 3 (2.239 %) CICS 5 1 (0.746 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 1 (0.746 %) IIS 5 1 (0.746 %) Apache 5 1 (0.746 %) SAS
Applications 1 11 (8.209 %) MS Excel 2 8 (5.970 %) MS Office 3 4 (2.985 %) MS Project 4 3 (2.239 %) MS Visio 5 1 (0.746 %) MS PowerPoint 5 1 (0.746 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 6 (4.478 %) Oracle Financial Analyzer 2 2 (1.493 %) Oracle 11i 2 2 (1.493 %) Microsoft CRM 3 1 (0.746 %) SAP WM 3 1 (0.746 %) Oracle ERP 3 1 (0.746 %) PeopleSoft HRMS
Communications & Networking 1 2 (1.493 %) HTTP 1 2 (1.493 %) SAN 2 1 (0.746 %) DMZ 2 1 (0.746 %) Intranet 2 1 (0.746 %) Firewall 2 1 (0.746 %) Network Security 2 1 (0.746 %) Cisco ASA 2 1 (0.746 %) SMS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 23 (17.16 %) SQL Server 2 12 (8.955 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 11 (8.209 %) Datawarehouse 4 10 (7.463 %) SQL Server 2005 5 7 (5.224 %) Oracle 10g 6 6 (4.478 %) Data Cleansing 6 6 (4.478 %) EDRMS 7 5 (3.731 %) BusinessObjects 7 5 (3.731 %) Oracle 9i 8 4 (2.985 %) OLAP 9 3 (2.239 %) MS Access 9 3 (2.239 %) DB2 9 3 (2.239 %) OLTP 9 3 (2.239 %) DTS 9 3 (2.239 %) Oracle OWB 9 3 (2.239 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 10 2 (1.493 %) SQL Server 2000 10 2 (1.493 %) Oracle 11g 10 2 (1.493 %) TOAD 11 1 (0.746 %) SQL Navigator
Development Applications 1 6 (4.478 %) Oracle APEX 2 3 (2.239 %) ProC 3 2 (1.493 %) LSMW 3 2 (1.493 %) TestDirector 4 1 (0.746 %) PeopleTools 4 1 (0.746 %) Oracle Forms	General 1 29 (21.64 %) Finance 2 12 (8.955 %) Health 3 6 (4.478 %) Retail 4 4 (2.985 %) Government 5 2 (1.493 %) Pensions 5 2 (1.493 %) Legal 5 2 (1.493 %) Banking 5 2 (1.493 %) Financial Institution 6 1 (0.746 %) Back Office 6 1 (0.746 %) Telecoms 6 1 (0.746 %) Construction 6 1 (0.746 %) Insurance 6 1 (0.746 %) Retail Banking
Job Titles 1 44 (32.84 %) Analyst 2 32 (23.88 %) Developer 3 18 (13.43 %) Project Manager 4 16 (11.94 %) Business Analyst 5 12 (8.955 %) DBA 6 10 (7.463 %) Senior Analyst 6 10 (7.463 %) Oracle DBA 7 8 (5.970 %) Data Analyst 7 8 (5.970 %) Consultant 8 6 (4.478 %) SQL Developer 9 5 (3.731 %) Programmer 9 5 (3.731 %) Applications Developer 9 5 (3.731 %) Data Consultant 10 4 (2.985 %) Analyst Programmer 10 4 (2.985 %) .NET Developer 10 4 (2.985 %) SQL Server Developer 11 3 (2.239 %) Access Developer 11 3 (2.239 %) Oracle Developer 11 3 (2.239 %) Data Manager 11 3 (2.239 %) Senior Systems Developer	Miscellaneous 1 18 (13.43 %) NHS 2 5 (3.731 %) Mainframe 2 5 (3.731 %) Freedom of Information 2 5 (3.731 %) Data Protection Act 3 4 (2.985 %) Freedom of Information Act 3 4 (2.985 %) Data Conversion 3 4 (2.985 %) Data Integration 4 3 (2.239 %) Clustering 4 3 (2.239 %) IBM Mainframe 5 2 (1.493 %) Management Information System 5 2 (1.493 %) AS400 5 2 (1.493 %) Blackberry 6 1 (0.746 %) N-Tier 6 1 (0.746 %) Data Extraction
Operating Systems 1 11 (8.209 %) Solaris 1 11 (8.209 %) Windows 2 9 (6.716 %) Linux 3 6 (4.478 %) UNIX 4 4 (2.985 %) Windows Vista 4 4 (2.985 %) Windows 2000 5 3 (2.239 %) zOS 6 1 (0.746 %) Windows Server 2003 6 1 (0.746 %) AIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 61 (45.52 %) Data Migration 2 13 (9.701 %) PRINCE2 3 9 (6.716 %) Data Modelling 3 9 (6.716 %) Business Analysis 4 8 (5.970 %) Project Management 5 6 (4.478 %) Data Analysis 6 5 (3.731 %) Software Testing 6 5 (3.731 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 5 (3.731 %) Test Management 6 5 (3.731 %) GAP Analysis 6 5 (3.731 %) Workflow 6 5 (3.731 %) ERP 6 5 (3.731 %) Data Protection 6 5 (3.731 %) Performance Management 7 4 (2.985 %) System Testing 7 4 (2.985 %) PRINCE 7 4 (2.985 %) Use Case 8 3 (2.239 %) UML 8 3 (2.239 %) Continuous Integration 8 3 (2.239 %) Data Mapping
Programming Languages 1 40 (29.85 %) SQL 2 14 (10.45 %) PL/SQL 3 6 (4.478 %) Transact-SQL 3 6 (4.478 %) C# 4 5 (3.731 %) Shell Script 5 3 (2.239 %) COBOL 5 3 (2.239 %) Perl 5 3 (2.239 %) VB 6 2 (1.493 %) VB.NET 6 2 (1.493 %) ABAP 6 2 (1.493 %) VB6 7 1 (0.746 %) VBA 7 1 (0.746 %) SQR 7 1 (0.746 %) C 7 1 (0.746 %) Java	Qualifications 1 5 (3.731 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 4 (2.985 %) Degree 3 1 (0.746 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 1 (0.746 %) PMP 3 1 (0.746 %) PMI Certification 3 1 (0.746 %) MCSE 3 1 (0.746 %) CCNP 3 1 (0.746 %) Cisco Certification 3 1 (0.746 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.493 %) HL7 2 1 (0.746 %) QA	System Software 1 11 (8.209 %) Active Directory 2 7 (5.224 %) Oracle RAC 3 2 (1.493 %) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors 1 32 (23.88 %) Oracle 2 20 (14.93 %) Microsoft 3 7 (5.224 %) IBM 4 5 (3.731 %) Business Objects 5 4 (2.985 %) PeopleSoft 5 4 (2.985 %) Novell 5 4 (2.985 %) Lotus 6 3 (2.239 %) Remedy 6 3 (2.239 %) BT 6 3 (2.239 %) VMware 6 3 (2.239 %) Cognos 7 2 (1.493 %) Siebel 7 2 (1.493 %) Cisco 7 2 (1.493 %) SAP 8 1 (0.746 %) HP 8 1 (0.746 %) Dell 8 1 (0.746 %) PlateSpin 8 1 (0.746 %) McAfee Security 8 1 (0.746 %) Sony 8 1 (0.746 %) Apple