East Midlands B2B Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for B2B (Business-to-Business) skills within the East Midlands 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

B2B (Business-to-Business)
Location Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cardiff Cheshire City of London East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leeds Leicestershire Lichfield Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North West Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Potters Bar Reading Scotland South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Staines Surrey Swindon Thames Valley UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	87	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	3	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.328 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£375	-
Average daily rate	£388	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£400	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£361
% change on same period last year	-10.23 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£8.00	-
Average hourly rate	£8.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£8.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£8.00	£26.38
% change on same period last year	-69.66 %
Processes & Methodologies East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	915	949
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.288 %	0.959 %
Daily rates quoted	301	194
Average minimum daily rate	£379	£351
Average daily rate	£402	£373
% change on same period last year	+7.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£424	£396
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£370
% change on same period last year	+1.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	70	120
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.70	£24.39
Average hourly rate	£31.21	£26.52
% change on same period last year	+17.68 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.72	£28.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.44	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-1.89 %
B2B England

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 East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

B2B
Daily Rate Trend

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

B2B
Hourly Rate Trend

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

B2B
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing B2B within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Nottinghamshire	-	2	£388	-
Leicestershire	-	1	-	-

B2B England

B2B
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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.

1 4 (50.00 %) Marketing 2 3 (37.50 %) Data Protection 2 3 (37.50 %) CRM 2 3 (37.50 %) Business Objects 2 3 (37.50 %) BusinessObjects 3 2 (25.00 %) B2C 3 2 (25.00 %) Data Analysis 3 2 (25.00 %) Finance 4 1 (12.50 %) Publishing 4 1 (12.50 %) Web Design 4 1 (12.50 %) Multimedia 4 1 (12.50 %) Data Management 4 1 (12.50 %) Content Management 4 1 (12.50 %) Pensions 4 1 (12.50 %) WebSphere

4 1 (12.50 %) .NET 4 1 (12.50 %) IBM 4 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft 4 1 (12.50 %) SAP 4 1 (12.50 %) E-Commerce 4 1 (12.50 %) ERP 4 1 (12.50 %) SAS 4 1 (12.50 %) SPSS 4 1 (12.50 %) BizTalk Server 4 1 (12.50 %) Commerce Server 4 1 (12.50 %) Regression Testing 4 1 (12.50 %) E-business 4 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms

B2B
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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.

Application Development 1 1 (12.50 %) .NET 1 1 (12.50 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 1 (12.50 %) SAS 1 1 (12.50 %) BizTalk Server 1 1 (12.50 %) Commerce Server
Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) SPSS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (37.50 %) BusinessObjects
General 1 4 (50.00 %) Marketing 2 2 (25.00 %) Finance 3 1 (12.50 %) Publishing 3 1 (12.50 %) Multimedia 3 1 (12.50 %) Pensions 3 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 3 (37.50 %) CRM Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) Programme Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) Analyst 2 1 (12.50 %) Test Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) Consultant 2 1 (12.50 %) Support Analyst 2 1 (12.50 %) Database Analyst 2 1 (12.50 %) Principal Consultant 2 1 (12.50 %) Data Analyst 2 1 (12.50 %) SAS Consultant
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) CRM 1 3 (37.50 %) Data Protection 2 2 (25.00 %) Data Analysis 2 2 (25.00 %) B2C 3 1 (12.50 %) Regression Testing 3 1 (12.50 %) E-business 3 1 (12.50 %) Web Design 3 1 (12.50 %) Data Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Content Management 3 1 (12.50 %) E-Commerce 3 1 (12.50 %) ERP	Vendors 1 3 (37.50 %) Business Objects 2 1 (12.50 %) SAP 2 1 (12.50 %) IBM 2 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft