The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Local Government in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Local Government over the 3 months to 17 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our General category for the Yorkshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Local Government
Rank 111 103 94
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -9
Contract jobs citing Local Government 5 18 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.255% 0.755% 0.270%
As % of the General category 0.778% 2.095% 0.739%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 2
Average daily rate £363 £475 £270
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.68% +75.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £353 £351 £194
10% offered a daily rate of more than £373 £550 £346
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £23.31
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £18.48 £16.00
% change year-on-year
+12.31% +15.46%
All of the General Category
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
643 859 677
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 32.81% 36.02% 36.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 392 541 359
Average daily rate £364 £378 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.64% +0.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £265 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 13 21
Average hourly rate £18.00 £16.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -5.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.80 £9.90 £11.08
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.38 £50.00 £28.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
Local Government
England

Local Government
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Local Government across the Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Yorkshire Local Government Jobs Demand Trend

Local Government
Daily Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire Local Government Daily Rate Trend

Local Government
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire Local Government Hourly Rate Trend

Local Government
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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
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Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Vacancies
West Yorkshire -1 3 - -
Local Government
England

Local Government
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 6 (50.00%) Project Management
2 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (25.00%) Windows
3 3 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 3 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (16.67%) NetBackup
4 2 (16.67%) Backup Exec
4 2 (16.67%) Programme Management
4 2 (16.67%) Change Management
4 2 (16.67%) Finance
4 2 (16.67%) Migration
4 2 (16.67%) Scrum
4 2 (16.67%) VMware
4 2 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (16.67%) Data Management
4 2 (16.67%) MCSE
4 2 (16.67%) MS Office
4 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
4 2 (16.67%) HP
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
5 1 (8.333%) MS Exchange
5 1 (8.333%) C#
5 1 (8.333%) Java
5 1 (8.333%) PHP
5 1 (8.333%) T-SQL

Local Government
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

Application Development
1 1 (8.333%) .NET
1 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET
1 1 (8.333%) CSS
1 1 (8.333%) SOAP
1 1 (8.333%) Web Services
1 1 (8.333%) XML
1 1 (8.333%) XSL
1 1 (8.333%) XSLT
1 1 (8.333%) XHTML
1 1 (8.333%) Ajax
1 1 (8.333%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (8.333%) MS Exchange
2 1 (8.333%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (8.333%) Apache
2 1 (8.333%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.333%) Intranet
1 1 (8.333%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (8.333%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (8.333%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (8.333%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (8.333%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Programme Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Developer
3 1 (8.333%) Web Developer
3 1 (8.333%) Project Leader
3 1 (8.333%) Programme Office Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Systems Developer
3 1 (8.333%) Technical Leader
3 1 (8.333%) ScrumMaster
3 1 (8.333%) Wintel Specialist
3 1 (8.333%) Virtualisation Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.333%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (8.333%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Project Management
2 4 (33.33%) PRINCE2
3 3 (25.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (16.67%) Change Management
4 2 (16.67%) Migration
4 2 (16.67%) Scrum
4 2 (16.67%) Programme Management
4 2 (16.67%) Data Management
5 1 (8.333%) CRM
5 1 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (8.333%) T-SQL
2 1 (8.333%) VB.NET
2 1 (8.333%) XPath
2 1 (8.333%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.333%) C#
2 1 (8.333%) Java
2 1 (8.333%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) MCSE
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (8.333%) CCA
2 1 (8.333%) Citrix Certification
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) NetBackup
1 2 (16.67%) Backup Exec
2 1 (8.333%) SCCM
2 1 (8.333%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) HP
2 2 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (8.333%) Lagan
3 1 (8.333%) Citrix
3 1 (8.333%) Oracle
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