The first table below looks at the demand for Change Control skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Change Control over the 3 months to 21 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 Bristol 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Change Control
Rank 39 39 43
Rank change year-on-year
0 +4
Contract jobs citing Change Control 11 22 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 2.068% 2.632% 0.966%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.481% 3.922% 1.456%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 16 4
Average daily rate £325 £350 £356
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -1.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £256 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £414 £408 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £20.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.00 £25.00 £29.75
% change year-on-year
+16.00% -15.96%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
316 561 412
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 59.40% 67.11% 66.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 382 234
Average daily rate £325 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £236 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 21 22
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £34.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.40 £16.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £36.00 £44.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Change Control
South West

Change Control
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol Change Control Jobs Demand Trend

Change Control
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bristol Change Control Daily Rate Trend

Change Control
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Change Control across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Bristol Change Control Daily Rate Histogram

Change Control
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Change Control across the Bristol region.

Bristol Change Control Hourly Rate Trend

Change Control
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing Change Control 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 Change Control.

1 11 (39.29%) QA
2 8 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 8 (28.57%) SQL
2 8 (28.57%) Change Management
3 7 (25.00%) Finance
3 7 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 7 (25.00%) MS Excel
4 6 (21.43%) Configuration Management
4 6 (21.43%) Project Management
4 6 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (17.86%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (14.29%) Asset Management
6 4 (14.29%) Service Management
6 4 (14.29%) Incident Management
6 4 (14.29%) Information Assurance
6 4 (14.29%) Budget Control
6 4 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (14.29%) MS Project
6 4 (14.29%) SLA
7 3 (10.71%) Internet
7 3 (10.71%) Active Directory
7 3 (10.71%) LAN
7 3 (10.71%) WAN
7 3 (10.71%) DHCP
7 3 (10.71%) TCP/IP
7 3 (10.71%) DNS
7 3 (10.71%) MS Office
7 3 (10.71%) MySQL
7 3 (10.71%) Windows

Change Control
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing Change Control 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 Change Control. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (10.71%) HTML
2 1 (3.571%) COM
2 1 (3.571%) CSS
Applications
1 7 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 4 (14.29%) MS Project
3 3 (10.71%) MS Office
3 3 (10.71%) MS PowerPoint
3 3 (10.71%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) Internet
1 3 (10.71%) LAN
1 3 (10.71%) WAN
1 3 (10.71%) DHCP
1 3 (10.71%) TCP/IP
1 3 (10.71%) DNS
1 3 (10.71%) Firewall
1 3 (10.71%) Network Security
2 1 (3.571%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (10.71%) MySQL
3 2 (7.143%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.571%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 7 (25.00%) Finance
2 3 (10.71%) Banking
2 3 (10.71%) Retail
3 2 (7.143%) Local Government
4 1 (3.571%) Legal
4 1 (3.571%) Wholesale Banking
4 1 (3.571%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Project Manager
2 4 (14.29%) Data Manager
2 4 (14.29%) Developer
3 3 (10.71%) Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) Network Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Data Centre Manager
3 3 (10.71%) SQL Developer
3 3 (10.71%) Data Centre Project Manager
4 2 (7.143%) Business Manager
4 2 (7.143%) Business Project Manager
4 2 (7.143%) Business Analyst
4 2 (7.143%) Tester
5 1 (3.571%) Programme Manager
5 1 (3.571%) MySQL Developer
5 1 (3.571%) Senior Project Manager
5 1 (3.571%) Team Leader
5 1 (3.571%) Development Team Leader
5 1 (3.571%) Programme Planner
5 1 (3.571%) PHP Developer
5 1 (3.571%) Development Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.571%) PMI
1 1 (3.571%) Economics
1 1 (3.571%) PACS
1 1 (3.571%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) Change Management
2 7 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 6 (21.43%) Configuration Management
3 6 (21.43%) Project Management
3 6 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (17.86%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (14.29%) Asset Management
5 4 (14.29%) Service Management
5 4 (14.29%) Incident Management
5 4 (14.29%) Information Assurance
5 4 (14.29%) Budget Control
5 4 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (10.71%) Unit Testing
7 2 (7.143%) ITIL V3
7 2 (7.143%) Programme Management
7 2 (7.143%) ITIL
7 2 (7.143%) Business Intelligence
8 1 (3.571%) CRM
8 1 (3.571%) Document Management
8 1 (3.571%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 8 (28.57%) SQL
2 3 (10.71%) PHP
3 2 (7.143%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.143%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 2 (7.143%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.571%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.571%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (39.29%) QA
2 4 (14.29%) SLA
3 1 (3.571%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) VMware
3 1 (3.571%) Business Objects