The first table below looks at the demand for Workflow skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Workflow over the 3 months to 22 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 Cheshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Workflow
Rank 54 56 55
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -1
Contract jobs citing Workflow 9 9 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 1.224% 1.111% 1.667%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.636% 1.807% 2.413%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 12
Average daily rate £438 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+34.61% -7.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £381 £290 £206
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £325 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £328
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +14.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.50 £16.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year
+42.42% -8.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
550 498 663
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 74.83% 61.48% 69.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 254 367
Average daily rate £375 £351 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.99% +7.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £270 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 26
Average hourly rate £40.00 £22.41 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+78.49% +12.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.95 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.83 £31.10 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Workflow
North West

Workflow
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire Workflow Jobs Demand Trend

Workflow
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cheshire Workflow Daily Rate Trend

Workflow
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Workflow across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Cheshire Workflow Daily Rate Histogram

Workflow
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cheshire Workflow Hourly Rate Trend

Workflow
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Workflow within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Warrington -7 5 £450 +38.46%
Macclesfield - 1 £425 -
Workflow
North West

Workflow
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Workflow 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 Workflow.

1 11 (36.67%) SAP
1 11 (36.67%) Finance
2 7 (23.33%) Oracle Workflow
2 7 (23.33%) Oracle
3 6 (20.00%) XML
3 6 (20.00%) Siebel
3 6 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (20.00%) IBM
4 5 (16.67%) SNMP
4 5 (16.67%) Banking
4 5 (16.67%) Oracle BI EE
4 5 (16.67%) SAP Data Services
5 4 (13.33%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (13.33%) SQL Server 2008
5 4 (13.33%) QA
5 4 (13.33%) SQL Server
5 4 (13.33%) ABAP
5 4 (13.33%) .NET
5 4 (13.33%) C#
6 3 (10.00%) SQL
6 3 (10.00%) OO
6 3 (10.00%) SharePoint
6 3 (10.00%) UNIX
6 3 (10.00%) RUP
6 3 (10.00%) Change Management
6 3 (10.00%) Retail
6 3 (10.00%) Business Analysis
6 3 (10.00%) InfoPath
6 3 (10.00%) Resource Management
6 3 (10.00%) Continuous Integration

Workflow
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Workflow 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 Workflow. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (20.00%) XML
2 4 (13.33%) .NET
3 2 (6.667%) SAP Business Workflow
3 2 (6.667%) WebSphere
3 2 (6.667%) Middleware
4 1 (3.333%) ASP
4 1 (3.333%) Web Dynpro
4 1 (3.333%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.333%) NHibernate
4 1 (3.333%) LINQ
4 1 (3.333%) Unity DI Container
4 1 (3.333%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 1 (3.333%) LINQ to SQL
4 1 (3.333%) Ninject
Application Platforms
1 7 (23.33%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (10.00%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) InfoPath
2 2 (6.667%) MS Excel
2 2 (6.667%) MS Visio
3 1 (3.333%) MS Project
3 1 (3.333%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (6.667%) SAP GRC
1 2 (6.667%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (6.667%) SAP HR
2 1 (3.333%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (3.333%) SAP FI
2 1 (3.333%) SAP MM
2 1 (3.333%) SAP PS
2 1 (3.333%) SAP SD
2 1 (3.333%) SAP APO
2 1 (3.333%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (3.333%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (3.333%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (3.333%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.333%) SAP CO
2 1 (3.333%) SAP BPC
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) Oracle BI EE
1 5 (16.67%) SAP Data Services
2 4 (13.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (13.33%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.667%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (3.333%) Oracle Discoverer
4 1 (3.333%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.333%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (6.667%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (3.333%) Subversion
3 1 (3.333%) Git (software)
General
1 11 (36.67%) Finance
2 5 (16.67%) Banking
3 3 (10.00%) Retail
4 2 (6.667%) Back Office
5 1 (3.333%) Legal
5 1 (3.333%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.333%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (3.333%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) Developer
2 5 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 4 (13.33%) SAP Developer
3 4 (13.33%) Implementation Manager
4 3 (10.00%) ABAP Developer
5 2 (6.667%) OBIEE Developer
5 2 (6.667%) Security Manager
5 2 (6.667%) Security Project Manager
5 2 (6.667%) Excel Specialist
5 2 (6.667%) Analyst
6 1 (3.333%) Consultant
6 1 (3.333%) Technical Project Manager
6 1 (3.333%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (3.333%) Business Analyst
6 1 (3.333%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.333%) Data Analyst
6 1 (3.333%) .NET Developer
6 1 (3.333%) Implementation Project Manager
6 1 (3.333%) SAP Business Analyst
6 1 (3.333%) Information Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.667%) NHS
2 1 (3.333%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) UNIX
2 1 (3.333%) Windows
2 1 (3.333%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (10.00%) OO
2 3 (10.00%) RUP
2 3 (10.00%) Change Management
2 3 (10.00%) Business Analysis
2 3 (10.00%) Resource Management
2 3 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (6.667%) Software Engineering
3 2 (6.667%) Supplier Management
3 2 (6.667%) Incident Management
3 2 (6.667%) Business Continuity
3 2 (6.667%) Information Security
3 2 (6.667%) Risk Management
3 2 (6.667%) Migration
3 2 (6.667%) Project Management
3 2 (6.667%) PRINCE2
4 1 (3.333%) Data Modelling
4 1 (3.333%) ETL
4 1 (3.333%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.33%) ABAP
1 4 (13.33%) C#
2 3 (10.00%) SQL
2 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.667%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.333%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.333%) XPath
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) QA
Vendors
1 11 (36.67%) SAP
2 7 (23.33%) Oracle
3 6 (20.00%) Siebel
3 6 (20.00%) IBM
4 2 (6.667%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.333%) Adobe
5 1 (3.333%) Informatica
5 1 (3.333%) Open Text