Worcestershire Government Contracts

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Government' in contract IT jobs within the Worcestershire 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 Government over the 3 months to 3 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Government
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Andover Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cumbria Dagenham Darlington Devon Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochdale Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 3 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	6	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	8	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	33.33 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum daily rate	£400	-
Average daily rate	£481	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£563	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£399	£405
% change on same period last year	-1.29 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£9.00	-
Average hourly rate	£10.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.31	£25.73
% change on same period last year	-1.62 %
General Worcestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	24	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.039 %	0.019 %
Daily rates quoted	6	1
Average minimum daily rate	£371	£160
Average daily rate	£439	£160
% change on same period last year	+174.55 %
Average maximum daily rate	£507	£160
UK excluding London average daily rate	£379	£378
% change on same period last year	+0.29 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.22	£10.50
Average hourly rate	£16.06	£12.38
% change on same period last year	+29.74 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.89	£14.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.35	£26.63
% change on same period last year	+2.70 %
Government 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.

Government
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Government across the Worcestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Government
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Government across the Worcestershire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Government across the Worcestershire region over the 3 months to 3 December 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 Government across the Worcestershire region.

Government
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Government across the Worcestershire region over the 3 months to 3 December 2008.

Government
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Government 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	-	2	-	-

Government West Midlands

Government
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Worcestershire region citing 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 Government.

1 3 (18.75 %) Windows 1 3 (18.75 %) Windows 2000 1 3 (18.75 %) HP 1 3 (18.75 %) Wyse 1 3 (18.75 %) Local Government 1 3 (18.75 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (12.50 %) CTC Cleared 2 2 (12.50 %) Civica 2 2 (12.50 %) QA 2 2 (12.50 %) Workflow 2 2 (12.50 %) Finance 2 2 (12.50 %) Anite 2 2 (12.50 %) BusinessObjects 2 2 (12.50 %) EDRMS 2 2 (12.50 %) Windows XP

2 2 (12.50 %) SOA 2 2 (12.50 %) Business Objects 3 1 (6.250 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (6.250 %) SQL 3 1 (6.250 %) Oracle 3 1 (6.250 %) IBM 3 1 (6.250 %) Microsoft 3 1 (6.250 %) Project Management 3 1 (6.250 %) Siemens 3 1 (6.250 %) Service Management 3 1 (6.250 %) Change Management 3 1 (6.250 %) Risk Management 3 1 (6.250 %) Risk Assessment 3 1 (6.250 %) Information Security 3 1 (6.250 %) Matrix Management

Government
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Worcestershire region citing 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 Government. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (12.50 %) BusinessObjects 1 2 (12.50 %) EDRMS 2 1 (6.250 %) BusinessObjects XI	General 1 3 (18.75 %) Local Government 2 2 (12.50 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 3 (18.75 %) Desktop Support 1 3 (18.75 %) Coordinator 2 2 (12.50 %) Architect 2 2 (12.50 %) Business Developer 2 2 (12.50 %) Developer 2 2 (12.50 %) Analyst 2 2 (12.50 %) Support Analyst 2 2 (12.50 %) Support Engineer 2 2 (12.50 %) 2nd Line Support 2 2 (12.50 %) Desktop Support Engineer 2 2 (12.50 %) Business Objects Developer 2 2 (12.50 %) Desktop Engineer 2 2 (12.50 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 3 1 (6.250 %) Change Consultant 3 1 (6.250 %) Information Security Officer 3 1 (6.250 %) Programme Coordinator 3 1 (6.250 %) Security Officer 3 1 (6.250 %) Service Manager 3 1 (6.250 %) Technical Architect 3 1 (6.250 %) Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 1 (6.250 %) Data Integration
Operating Systems 1 3 (18.75 %) Windows 1 3 (18.75 %) Windows 2000 2 2 (12.50 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (18.75 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (12.50 %) CTC Cleared 2 2 (12.50 %) SOA 2 2 (12.50 %) Workflow 3 1 (6.250 %) Risk Assessment 3 1 (6.250 %) Information Security 3 1 (6.250 %) Technical Architecture 3 1 (6.250 %) Matrix Management 3 1 (6.250 %) BC Cleared 3 1 (6.250 %) Project Management 3 1 (6.250 %) Service Management 3 1 (6.250 %) Change Management 3 1 (6.250 %) Risk Management 3 1 (6.250 %) PRINCE2
Programming Languages 1 1 (6.250 %) SQL	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (12.50 %) QA 2 1 (6.250 %) ISO27001
Vendors 1 3 (18.75 %) HP 1 3 (18.75 %) Wyse 2 2 (12.50 %) Anite 2 2 (12.50 %) Civica 2 2 (12.50 %) Business Objects 3 1 (6.250 %) IBM 3 1 (6.250 %) Microsoft 3 1 (6.250 %) Siemens 3 1 (6.250 %) Oracle