The first table below looks at the demand for E-business skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited E-business 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 Cambridgeshire 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
Electronic Business (eBusiness)
Rank 52 62 -
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -
Contract jobs citing E-business 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 0.183% 0.147% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.329% 0.254% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £350 £275 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+27.27% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £383 £413 £470
% change year-on-year
-7.27% -12.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £55.00 £26.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year
+105.60% -37.05%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
304 394 330
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 55.78% 57.77% 64.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 194 167
Average daily rate £375 £395 £366
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.06% +8.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £550 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 32 39
Average hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £28.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +47.82%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.75 £12.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £56.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
E-business
East of England

E-business
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire E-business Jobs Demand Trend

E-business
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire E-business Daily Rate Trend

E-business
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing E-business across the Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire E-business Hourly Rate Trend

E-business
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing E-business within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 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
(Click each for more statistics)
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
Cambridge +11 1 £350 +27.27%
E-business
East of England

E-business
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing E-business 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 E-business.

1 8 (100.00%) Oracle
1 8 (100.00%) SAP
2 5 (62.50%) XML
2 5 (62.50%) SQL Server
2 5 (62.50%) Java
2 5 (62.50%) N-Tier
2 5 (62.50%) SOA
2 5 (62.50%) WSDL
2 5 (62.50%) XML Schema
2 5 (62.50%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (62.50%) VLDB
2 5 (62.50%) .NET
2 5 (62.50%) BizTalk Server
2 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 5 (62.50%) Validation
2 5 (62.50%) TDD
2 5 (62.50%) Systems Analysis
2 5 (62.50%) ESB
2 5 (62.50%) Contract for Difference
2 5 (62.50%) Multithreading
2 5 (62.50%) SAP PI
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Azure
3 3 (37.50%) vSphere
3 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (37.50%) EMC NetWorker
3 3 (37.50%) VMware
3 3 (37.50%) VMware ESX
3 3 (37.50%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (37.50%) Red Hat
3 3 (37.50%) EMC

E-business
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing E-business 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 E-business. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (62.50%) XML
1 5 (62.50%) WSDL
1 5 (62.50%) XML Schema
1 5 (62.50%) .NET
1 5 (62.50%) SAP PI
Application Platforms
1 5 (62.50%) BizTalk Server
1 5 (62.50%) ESB
1 5 (62.50%) Windows Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
1 3 (37.50%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) SQL Server
1 5 (62.50%) VLDB
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Architect
1 5 (62.50%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Linux Administrator
2 3 (37.50%) Administrator
3 2 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (25.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) N-Tier
1 5 (62.50%) Contract for Difference
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) HPUX
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) SOA
1 5 (62.50%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Validation
1 5 (62.50%) TDD
1 5 (62.50%) Systems Analysis
1 5 (62.50%) Multithreading
2 3 (37.50%) ITIL
2 3 (37.50%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) Perl
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) vSphere
1 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (37.50%) VMware ESX
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) EMC NetWorker
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle
1 8 (100.00%) SAP
2 3 (37.50%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) Red Hat
2 3 (37.50%) EMC
3 2 (25.00%) Citrix