Worcestershire Degree Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Degree in IT contracts within the Worcestershire 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 3 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Degree
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Airdrie Alcester Ballymena Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chertsey Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Coatbridge Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Fife Filton Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Isleworth Kent Kidlington Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rotherham Salisbury Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Surrey Swindon Teddington Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Wirral Witham Woking Worcester Worcestershire Wycombe York Yorkshire	3 months to 3 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	13	12
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	1	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	14.29 %	14.29 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£345	£333
% change on same period last year	+3.82 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£30.00
Average hourly rate	-	£31.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£32.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.85	£29.10
% change on same period last year	-0.86 %
Qualifications Worcestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	7	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.008 %
Daily rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum daily rate	£340	-
Average daily rate	£368	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£396	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£327
% change on same period last year	+1.02 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£26.00
Average hourly rate	-	£27.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£28.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.73	£25.15
% change on same period last year	+2.29 %
Degree West Midlands

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.

Degree
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Degree across the Worcestershire 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 Worcestershire region.

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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 Worcestershire region over the 3 months to 3 December 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
Worcester	-	1	-	-

Degree West Midlands

Degree
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Worcestershire 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 4 (50.00 %) Telecoms 2 3 (37.50 %) Cisco 3 2 (25.00 %) SLA 3 2 (25.00 %) Project Management 3 2 (25.00 %) Cisco Certification 3 2 (25.00 %) Network Design 4 1 (12.50 %) Software Engineering 4 1 (12.50 %) Knowledge Management 4 1 (12.50 %) Requirements Management 4 1 (12.50 %) Time Management 4 1 (12.50 %) Quality Management 4 1 (12.50 %) Firewall 4 1 (12.50 %) Risk Management 4 1 (12.50 %) Finance 4 1 (12.50 %) DWDM

4 1 (12.50 %) MPLS 4 1 (12.50 %) C# 4 1 (12.50 %) Java 4 1 (12.50 %) SQL 4 1 (12.50 %) .NET 4 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 4 1 (12.50 %) XML 4 1 (12.50 %) UML 4 1 (12.50 %) OO 4 1 (12.50 %) OOD 4 1 (12.50 %) LAN 4 1 (12.50 %) WAN 4 1 (12.50 %) Ethernet 4 1 (12.50 %) DNS

Degree
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Worcestershire 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 1 (12.50 %) .NET 1 1 (12.50 %) XML	Communications & Networking 1 1 (12.50 %) LAN 1 1 (12.50 %) WAN 1 1 (12.50 %) Ethernet 1 1 (12.50 %) DNS 1 1 (12.50 %) DWDM 1 1 (12.50 %) MPLS 1 1 (12.50 %) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server	General 1 4 (50.00 %) Telecoms 2 1 (12.50 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 3 (37.50 %) Architect 2 2 (25.00 %) Commercial Manager 2 2 (25.00 %) Network Architect 3 1 (12.50 %) Sales Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Project Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Software Engineer	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (25.00 %) Project Management 1 2 (25.00 %) Network Design 2 1 (12.50 %) Software Engineering 2 1 (12.50 %) Knowledge Management 2 1 (12.50 %) Requirements Management 2 1 (12.50 %) Time Management 2 1 (12.50 %) Quality Management 2 1 (12.50 %) Risk Management 2 1 (12.50 %) UML 2 1 (12.50 %) OO 2 1 (12.50 %) OOD
Programming Languages 1 1 (12.50 %) C# 1 1 (12.50 %) Java 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 2 (25.00 %) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (25.00 %) SLA	Vendors 1 3 (37.50 %) Cisco