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The table below looks at the demand for B2B (Business-to-Business) skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited B2B over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkB2B (Business-to-Business)
Location
3 months to
6 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank193190
Rank change on same period last yearDown-3
Matching contract IT job ads147
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.020 %0.007 %
As % of the category below0.314 %0.195 %
Daily rates quoted82
Average minimum daily rate£466£175
Average daily rate£480£175
% change on same period last year+174.46 %
Average maximum daily rate£494£175
UK excluding London average daily rate£317£375
% change on same period last year-15.48 %
Hourly rates quoted00
Average minimum hourly rate--
Average hourly rate--
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate--
UK excluding London average hourly rate£8.50£26.38
% change on same period last year-67.77 %
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
City of London
Matching contract IT job ads44583587
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled6.228 %3.604 %
Daily rates quoted25841524
Average minimum daily rate£419£439
Average daily rate£459£470
% change on same period last year-2.48 %
Average maximum daily rate£498£502
UK excluding London average daily rate£378£372
% change on same period last year+1.69 %
Hourly rates quoted8994
Average minimum hourly rate£25.22£23.18
Average hourly rate£26.93£25.09
% change on same period last year+7.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate£28.65£27.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£29.30£30.27
% change on same period last year-3.20 %
B2B LondonB2B
London

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

B2B
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing B2B across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

City of London B2B Demand Trend

B2B
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing B2B across the City of London region.

City of London B2B Daily Rate Trend

B2B
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing B2B across the City of London region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

City of London B2B Daily Rate Histogram

B2B
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing B2B across the City of London region.

City of London B2B Hourly Rate Trend

B2B
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing B2B 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 B2B.

18 (32.00 %)Finance
18 (32.00 %)Firewall
26 (24.00 %)Telecoms
26 (24.00 %)Cisco
35 (20.00 %)E-Commerce
35 (20.00 %)LoadRunner
35 (20.00 %)Internet
44 (16.00 %)OSPF
44 (16.00 %)BGP
44 (16.00 %)Project Management
44 (16.00 %)Nokia
44 (16.00 %)CheckPoint
44 (16.00 %)RIP
44 (16.00 %)B2C
44 (16.00 %)Java
44 (16.00 %)J2EE
44 (16.00 %)SOAP
44 (16.00 %)Banking
44 (16.00 %)Marketing
53 (12.00 %)PKI
53 (12.00 %)TestDirector
53 (12.00 %)QA
53 (12.00 %)SSL
53 (12.00 %)TCP/IP
53 (12.00 %)FTP
53 (12.00 %)HTTP
53 (12.00 %)DMZ
62 (8.000 %)Validation
62 (8.000 %)CRM
62 (8.000 %)Oracle 10g

B2B
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing B2B 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 B2B. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
14 (16.00 %)SOAP
14 (16.00 %)J2EE
21 (4.000 %)ASP.NET
21 (4.000 %)EJB
21 (4.000 %).NET
21 (4.000 %)Struts
21 (4.000 %)WebServices
21 (4.000 %)XML
21 (4.000 %)Middleware
21 (4.000 %)Hibernate
21 (4.000 %)WinForms
21 (4.000 %)Spring
21 (4.000 %)JSF
21 (4.000 %)Java EE
21 (4.000 %)JPA
21 (4.000 %)EJB 3.0
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
11 (4.000 %)WebLogic
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
12 (8.000 %)MS Excel
21 (4.000 %)MS Office
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
11 (4.000 %)WebTrends
11 (4.000 %)SalesLogix
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
18 (32.00 %)Firewall
25 (20.00 %)Internet
34 (16.00 %)OSPF
34 (16.00 %)BGP
34 (16.00 %)RIP
43 (12.00 %)TCP/IP
43 (12.00 %)SSL
43 (12.00 %)DMZ
43 (12.00 %)FTP
43 (12.00 %)HTTP
51 (4.000 %)SDH
51 (4.000 %)WAN
51 (4.000 %)Intranet
51 (4.000 %)DWDM
51 (4.000 %)Gigabit Ethernet
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
12 (8.000 %)Oracle 8/8i
12 (8.000 %)Oracle 10g
21 (4.000 %)SQL Server
21 (4.000 %)MS Access
21 (4.000 %)ETL
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
15 (20.00 %)LoadRunner
23 (12.00 %)TestDirector
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
18 (32.00 %)Finance
26 (24.00 %)Telecoms
34 (16.00 %)Banking
34 (16.00 %)Marketing
42 (8.000 %)Investment Banking
51 (4.000 %)Insurance
51 (4.000 %)Online Games
51 (4.000 %)Financial Institution
51 (4.000 %)Games
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
110 (40.00 %)Analyst
25 (20.00 %)Business Analyst
34 (16.00 %)Network Engineer
43 (12.00 %)Test Analyst
52 (8.000 %)Architect
52 (8.000 %)Project Manager
52 (8.000 %)Technical Test Analyst
52 (8.000 %)Technical Analyst
52 (8.000 %)Data Manager
61 (4.000 %)Network Architect
61 (4.000 %)Senior Test Analyst
61 (4.000 %)Project Analyst
61 (4.000 %)Technical Engineer
61 (4.000 %)Technical Manager
61 (4.000 %)Project Director
61 (4.000 %)CRM Business Analyst
61 (4.000 %)Web Analyst
61 (4.000 %)Provisioning Engineer
61 (4.000 %)Quality Analyst
61 (4.000 %)Data Quality Manager
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
13 (12.00 %)PKI
21 (4.000 %)Statistics
21 (4.000 %)Data Integration
21 (4.000 %)Clustering
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
15 (20.00 %)E-Commerce
24 (16.00 %)B2C
24 (16.00 %)Project Management
32 (8.000 %)PRINCE2
32 (8.000 %)Penetration Testing
32 (8.000 %)Business Analysis
32 (8.000 %)Workflow
32 (8.000 %)Validation
32 (8.000 %)Stress Testing
32 (8.000 %)CRM
32 (8.000 %)Product Marketing
41 (4.000 %)Security Testing
41 (4.000 %)Migration
41 (4.000 %)Stakeholder Management
41 (4.000 %)Scrum
41 (4.000 %)Data Management
41 (4.000 %)BPEL
41 (4.000 %)Strategic Planning
41 (4.000 %)Web Analytics
41 (4.000 %)Enterprise Architecture
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
14 (16.00 %)Java
22 (8.000 %)SQL
31 (4.000 %)VBA
31 (4.000 %)JavaScript
31 (4.000 %)C#
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
11 (4.000 %)CCNP
11 (4.000 %)Cisco Certification
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
13 (12.00 %)QA
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
11 (4.000 %)Active Directory
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
16 (24.00 %)Cisco
24 (16.00 %)Nokia
24 (16.00 %)CheckPoint
32 (8.000 %)BT
32 (8.000 %)Oracle
41 (4.000 %)BEA