The first table below looks at the demand for BPR skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BPR over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Berkshire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Process Reengineering (BPR)
Rank 118 133 122
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -11
Contract jobs citing BPR 1 4 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.041% 0.131% 0.205%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.062% 0.209% 0.326%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 5
Average daily rate £413 £370 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.48% +5.71%
UK excluding London average daily rate £394 £400 £400
% change year-on-year
-1.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £18.75 -
% change year-on-year
+17.33% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1603 1916 1838
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 65.89% 62.51% 62.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 648 728 728
Average daily rate £388 £365 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.16% +4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 65 74
Average hourly rate £17.00 £19.00 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.52% -39.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.75 £11.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £50.00 £47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
BPR
South East

BPR
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing BPR across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Berkshire BPR Jobs Demand Trend

BPR
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire BPR Daily Rate Trend

BPR
Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing BPR 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 BPR.

1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) Use Case
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) UML

BPR
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing BPR 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 BPR. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Business Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Consultant
2 1 (50.00%) Service Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Service Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Project Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) UML
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) Use Case
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA