East of England Epicor Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Epicor products and/or services in IT contracts within the East of England region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Epicor over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Buckinghamshire East of England England Midlands Oxford Oxfordshire Scotland South East Thames Valley UK West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
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Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
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Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
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UK excluding London average daily rate	£442	£325
% change on same period last year	+35.89 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
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UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	£31.67
% change on same period last year	-
Vendors East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	1688	1988
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.250 %	2.011 %
Daily rates quoted	476	590
Average minimum daily rate	£343	£338
Average daily rate	£362	£359
% change on same period last year	+0.97 %
Average maximum daily rate	£381	£379
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£359
% change on same period last year	-0.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	223	303
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.30	£23.76
Average hourly rate	£23.44	£25.18
% change on same period last year	-6.89 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.58	£26.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.25	£24.99
% change on same period last year	-6.94 %
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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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within the Epicor Software Corporation.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Epicor across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors 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 Epicor across the East of England region.

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Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Epicor 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 Epicor.

1 3 (100.00 %) Finance 2 2 (66.67 %) Retail 2 2 (66.67 %) Lawson 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (33.33 %) CAD 3 1 (33.33 %) Project Management 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (33.33 %) C 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL 3 1 (33.33 %) VB.NET 3 1 (33.33 %) .NET 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Office 3 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET

3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows XP 3 1 (33.33 %) VPN 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 3 1 (33.33 %) Mac OS X

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Epicor 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 Epicor. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (33.33 %) .NET 1 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET	Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) VPN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2000 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005
General 1 3 (100.00 %) Finance 2 2 (66.67 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Project Manager 1 2 (66.67 %) Implementation Manager 1 2 (66.67 %) Implementation Project Manager
Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows XP 1 1 (33.33 %) Mac OS X 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) CAD 1 1 (33.33 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) C 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL 1 1 (33.33 %) VB.NET	Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) Lawson 2 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft