East of England BPR Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Business Process Reengineering (BPR) skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited BPR over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Process Reengineering (BPR)
Location Andover Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Croydon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Feltham Glasgow Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swindon Thames Valley UK Wales Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	137	121
Rank change on same period last year	-16
Matching contract IT job ads	14	23
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.024 %
As % of the category below	0.629 %	1.062 %
Daily rates quoted	10	16
Average minimum daily rate	£425	£349
Average daily rate	£447	£388
% change on same period last year	+15.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£470	£428
UK excluding London average daily rate	£396	£414
% change on same period last year	-4.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.00	£20.00
% change on same period last year	+50.00 %
Processes & Methodologies East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	2224	2166
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.933 %	2.298 %
Daily rates quoted	857	749
Average minimum daily rate	£375	£360
Average daily rate	£399	£381
% change on same period last year	+4.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£424	£403
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	189	213
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.65	£27.80
Average hourly rate	£31.80	£29.25
% change on same period last year	+8.73 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.95	£30.69
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.40	£30.19
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
BPR 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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing BPR across the East of England region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing BPR within the East of England region over the 3 months to 4 July 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
Norfolk	+9	9	£462	+23.11 %
East Anglia	-5	2	£450	-
Hertfordshire	-9	2	£400	-8.57 %
Essex	-10	1	£400	+15.31 %

BPR England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing BPR 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 BPR.

1 12 (38.71 %) Finance 1 12 (38.71 %) Pensions 2 11 (35.48 %) Insurance 3 8 (25.81 %) Stakeholder Management 4 4 (12.90 %) GAP Analysis 4 4 (12.90 %) Business Analysis 5 3 (9.677 %) Migration 6 2 (6.452 %) Automotive 6 2 (6.452 %) Manufacturing 6 2 (6.452 %) Back Office 6 2 (6.452 %) .NET 6 2 (6.452 %) MS Project 6 2 (6.452 %) PRINCE2 6 2 (6.452 %) E-Commerce 6 2 (6.452 %) PRINCE2 Certification

6 2 (6.452 %) PMI 6 2 (6.452 %) Data Cleansing 6 2 (6.452 %) Retail 7 1 (3.226 %) Agile Software Development 7 1 (3.226 %) Banking 7 1 (3.226 %) Asset Management 7 1 (3.226 %) SQL Server 2005 7 1 (3.226 %) Private Banking 7 1 (3.226 %) Lean Six Sigma 7 1 (3.226 %) Use Case 7 1 (3.226 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 1 (3.226 %) ERD 7 1 (3.226 %) Internet 7 1 (3.226 %) Six Sigma 7 1 (3.226 %) Project Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing BPR 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 BPR. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (6.452 %) .NET 2 1 (3.226 %) ADO.NET 2 1 (3.226 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 1 (3.226 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 2 (6.452 %) MS Project 2 1 (3.226 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (3.226 %) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.226 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (6.452 %) Data Cleansing 2 1 (3.226 %) SQL Server 2 1 (3.226 %) Datawarehouse 2 1 (3.226 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 1 (3.226 %) Visual Studio	General 1 12 (38.71 %) Finance 1 12 (38.71 %) Pensions 2 11 (35.48 %) Insurance 3 2 (6.452 %) Back Office 3 2 (6.452 %) Retail 3 2 (6.452 %) Automotive 3 2 (6.452 %) Manufacturing 4 1 (3.226 %) Banking 4 1 (3.226 %) Private Banking
Job Titles 1 24 (77.42 %) Analyst 2 23 (74.19 %) Business Analyst 3 7 (22.58 %) Insurance Business Analyst 4 5 (16.13 %) Project Manager 5 4 (12.90 %) Process Analyst 6 2 (6.452 %) Business Process Analyst 6 2 (6.452 %) Senior Manager 6 2 (6.452 %) Payroll Manager 6 2 (6.452 %) Senior Project Manager 7 1 (3.226 %) Change Analyst 7 1 (3.226 %) SAP Business Analyst 7 1 (3.226 %) Business Manager 7 1 (3.226 %) CRM Business Analyst 7 1 (3.226 %) Developer 7 1 (3.226 %) Senior Analyst 7 1 (3.226 %) Change Manager 7 1 (3.226 %) Business Change Manager	Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.452 %) PMI 2 1 (3.226 %) Equities 2 1 (3.226 %) Asset Management
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (25.81 %) Stakeholder Management 2 4 (12.90 %) Business Analysis 2 4 (12.90 %) GAP Analysis 3 3 (9.677 %) Migration 4 2 (6.452 %) PRINCE2 4 2 (6.452 %) E-Commerce 5 1 (3.226 %) Six Sigma 5 1 (3.226 %) Project Management 5 1 (3.226 %) Change Management 5 1 (3.226 %) UML 5 1 (3.226 %) CRM 5 1 (3.226 %) Workflow 5 1 (3.226 %) Agile Software Development 5 1 (3.226 %) Lean Six Sigma 5 1 (3.226 %) Use Case 5 1 (3.226 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 1 (3.226 %) ERD	Programming Languages 1 1 (3.226 %) C# 1 1 (3.226 %) SQL 1 1 (3.226 %) Transact-SQL
Qualifications 1 2 (6.452 %) PRINCE2 Certification	Vendors 1 1 (3.226 %) Oracle 1 1 (3.226 %) SAP