The first table below looks at the demand for Continuous Improvement skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Continuous Improvement over the 3 months to 24 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 East of England 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Continual Improvement
Rank 93 94 109
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +15
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 21 38 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.982% 1.286% 0.681%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.472% 1.997% 1.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 8
Average daily rate £400 £200 £233
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+100.00% -13.97%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £291 £170 £148
10% offered a daily rate of more than £415 £478 £365
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £325 £388
% change year-on-year
+16.92% -16.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 1
Average hourly rate £30.13 £17.00 £7.84
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+77.20% +116.83%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £24.00 £25.00 £31.15
% change year-on-year
-3.99% -19.74%
All Processes & Methodologies
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1427 1903 1718
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 66.71% 64.40% 64.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 813 915 776
Average daily rate £375 £363 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 154 186
Average hourly rate £35.22 £31.00 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.61% -3.12%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.08 £12.28 £13.88
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.00 £49.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England Continuous Improvement Jobs Demand Trend

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England Continuous Improvement Daily Rate Trend

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement across the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

East of England Continuous Improvement Daily Rate Histogram

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England Continuous Improvement Hourly Rate Trend

Continuous Improvement
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement within the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 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
Hertfordshire +5 13 £400 +33.33%
Essex -15 4 - -
Cambridgeshire +11 3 - -
East Anglia - 1 £213 -
Continuous Improvement
England

Continuous Improvement
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Continuous Improvement 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 Continuous Improvement.

1 31 (55.36%) Finance
2 26 (46.43%) Project Management
3 22 (39.29%) Retail
4 16 (28.57%) Waterfall
5 15 (26.79%) Java
5 15 (26.79%) SQL
6 14 (25.00%) Time Management
7 13 (23.21%) Change Control
7 13 (23.21%) WebSphere
7 13 (23.21%) .NET
7 13 (23.21%) J2EE
7 13 (23.21%) E-Commerce
7 13 (23.21%) IBM
8 12 (21.43%) T-SQL
9 11 (19.64%) Games
9 11 (19.64%) Systems Analysis
10 10 (17.86%) Migration
10 10 (17.86%) JavaScript
10 10 (17.86%) MS Office
10 10 (17.86%) Microsoft
10 10 (17.86%) VB.NET
10 10 (17.86%) Ethernet
10 10 (17.86%) Windows
11 7 (12.50%) Six Sigma
11 7 (12.50%) Service Delivery
11 7 (12.50%) SQL Server
11 7 (12.50%) Lean Six Sigma
11 7 (12.50%) Six Sigma Black Belt
11 7 (12.50%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 6 (10.71%) .NET Framework

Continuous Improvement
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Continuous Improvement 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 Continuous Improvement. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (23.21%) WebSphere
1 13 (23.21%) .NET
1 13 (23.21%) J2EE
2 6 (10.71%) .NET Framework
2 6 (10.71%) jQuery
2 6 (10.71%) Ajax
2 6 (10.71%) WinForms
2 6 (10.71%) ADO.NET
2 6 (10.71%) ASP.NET
2 6 (10.71%) Web Services
2 6 (10.71%) DHTML
2 6 (10.71%) HTML
3 2 (3.571%) Hibernate
3 2 (3.571%) Spring
3 2 (3.571%) GWT
3 2 (3.571%) Apache Flex
Application Platforms
1 2 (3.571%) Confluence
2 1 (1.786%) ArchestrA
2 1 (1.786%) Lync
2 1 (1.786%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (17.86%) MS Office
2 4 (7.143%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.786%) Office 365
3 1 (1.786%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 10 (17.86%) Ethernet
2 6 (10.71%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 6 (10.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 6 (10.71%) DTS
3 2 (3.571%) DB2
3 2 (3.571%) MS Access
3 2 (3.571%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (3.571%) Oracle OWB
3 2 (3.571%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (3.571%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (3.571%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 2 (3.571%) Subversion
1 2 (3.571%) JIRA
1 2 (3.571%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (3.571%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 31 (55.36%) Finance
2 22 (39.29%) Retail
3 11 (19.64%) Games
4 6 (10.71%) Marketing
4 6 (10.71%) Telecoms
5 3 (5.357%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.571%) Legal
6 2 (3.571%) Billing
7 1 (1.786%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 17 (30.36%) Project Manager
2 14 (25.00%) Analyst
3 13 (23.21%) E-Commerce Manager
3 13 (23.21%) E-Commerce Project Manager
4 10 (17.86%) Business Analyst
5 8 (14.29%) Systems Analyst
6 7 (12.50%) Business Systems Analyst
7 6 (10.71%) Developer
7 6 (10.71%) Web Developer
8 4 (7.143%) Solutions Designer
8 4 (7.143%) Web Designer
8 4 (7.143%) Designer
9 3 (5.357%) Senior Designer
9 3 (5.357%) Senior Web Designer
9 3 (5.357%) Service Analyst
10 2 (3.571%) QA Manager
10 2 (3.571%) Test Manager
10 2 (3.571%) DBA
10 2 (3.571%) Development Manager
10 2 (3.571%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.143%) Mainframe
2 2 (3.571%) Client/Server
2 2 (3.571%) Blackberry
3 1 (1.786%) FMCG
3 1 (1.786%) SCADA
3 1 (1.786%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 10 (17.86%) Windows
2 6 (10.71%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (3.571%) UNIX
3 2 (3.571%) Windows XP
3 2 (3.571%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (46.43%) Project Management
2 16 (28.57%) Waterfall
3 14 (25.00%) Time Management
4 13 (23.21%) Change Control
4 13 (23.21%) E-Commerce
5 11 (19.64%) Systems Analysis
6 10 (17.86%) Migration
7 7 (12.50%) Six Sigma
7 7 (12.50%) Service Delivery
7 7 (12.50%) Lean Six Sigma
8 5 (8.929%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (8.929%) ITIL
9 4 (7.143%) Scrum
9 4 (7.143%) Business Analysis
10 3 (5.357%) Release Management
10 3 (5.357%) PRINCE2
11 2 (3.571%) UML
11 2 (3.571%) Data Modelling
11 2 (3.571%) Business Continuity
11 2 (3.571%) CMMI
Programming Languages
1 15 (26.79%) Java
1 15 (26.79%) SQL
2 12 (21.43%) T-SQL
3 10 (17.86%) JavaScript
3 10 (17.86%) VB.NET
4 6 (10.71%) VBScript
5 2 (3.571%) C
5 2 (3.571%) C#
5 2 (3.571%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (12.50%) Six Sigma Black Belt
1 7 (12.50%) Six Sigma Green Belt
2 2 (3.571%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.786%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.786%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.571%) SLA
1 2 (3.571%) COBIT
1 2 (3.571%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.571%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 13 (23.21%) IBM
2 10 (17.86%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.571%) Oracle
4 1 (1.786%) Wonderware
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