The first table below looks at the demand for Business Process Improvement skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Business Process 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 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
Business Process Improvement (BPI)
Rank 474 466 488
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +22
Contract jobs citing Business Process Improvement 39 93 83
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.094% 0.174% 0.148%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.131% 0.255% 0.217%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 59 59
Average daily rate £423 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.58% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £333 £372 £320
10% offered a daily rate of more than £518 £630 £610
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £420 £360
% change year-on-year
-4.76% +16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £26.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £26.50
All Processes & Methodologies
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
29704 36492 38199
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 71.44% 68.42% 67.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 18148 21397 22087
Average daily rate £420 £413 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.81% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £588 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 918 1197 1399
Average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £28.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.00% -12.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.55 £13.21 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Business Process Improvement
UK

Business Process Improvement
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Business Process Improvement Jobs Demand Trend

Business Process Improvement
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Business Process Improvement Daily Rate Trend

Business Process Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England Business Process Improvement Daily Rate Histogram

Business Process Improvement
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Business Process Improvement Hourly Rate Trend

Business Process Improvement
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Process Improvement within the 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
London +20 22 £450 -
West Midlands +10 5 £325 -
East Midlands -5 5 £400 -4.76%
South East -13 3 £425 +2.10%
South West +23 2 £500 +19.76%
North West - 2 £340 -
Business Process Improvement
UK

Business Process Improvement
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Business Process 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 Business Process Improvement.

1 32 (37.21%) Finance
2 29 (33.72%) Business Analysis
3 25 (29.07%) Stakeholder Management
4 23 (26.74%) Change Management
5 22 (25.58%) Process Improvement
6 15 (17.44%) Six Sigma
6 15 (17.44%) Project Management
6 15 (17.44%) Migration
7 13 (15.12%) Requirements Analysis
8 12 (13.95%) GAP Analysis
8 12 (13.95%) Lean Six Sigma
9 10 (11.63%) Business Transformation
9 10 (11.63%) Banking
10 9 (10.47%) BPR
11 8 (9.302%) CRM
11 8 (9.302%) Analytics
12 7 (8.140%) ITIL
12 7 (8.140%) Enterprise Architecture
13 6 (6.977%) Retail Banking
13 6 (6.977%) Data Analysis
13 6 (6.977%) Retail
13 6 (6.977%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (6.977%) Business Intelligence
13 6 (6.977%) User Acceptance Testing
14 5 (5.814%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 5 (5.814%) ETL
14 5 (5.814%) MS Exchange
14 5 (5.814%) Data Modelling
14 5 (5.814%) OLAP
14 5 (5.814%) Business Objects

Business Process Improvement
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (2.326%) SOAP
2 1 (1.163%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 5 (5.814%) MS Exchange
2 4 (4.651%) CMS
2 4 (4.651%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.488%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.163%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (1.163%) Lotus Domino
4 1 (1.163%) ESB
Applications
1 4 (4.651%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.326%) MS PowerPoint
2 2 (2.326%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (4.651%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (1.163%) VisionPLUS
2 1 (1.163%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 1 (1.163%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.326%) VLAN
1 2 (2.326%) Wireless
1 2 (2.326%) Broadband
1 2 (2.326%) Ethernet
1 2 (2.326%) HTTP
1 2 (2.326%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.163%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.977%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (5.814%) OLAP
3 4 (4.651%) SAP BW
3 4 (4.651%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (4.651%) SAP HANA
3 4 (4.651%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 2 (2.326%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.163%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (1.163%) SQL Server 2012
5 1 (1.163%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (1.163%) DecisionStream
5 1 (1.163%) SQL Server 2000
5 1 (1.163%) SAP BI
Development Applications
1 1 (1.163%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 32 (37.21%) Finance
2 10 (11.63%) Banking
3 6 (6.977%) Retail Banking
3 6 (6.977%) Retail
4 5 (5.814%) Legal
5 4 (4.651%) Marketing
5 4 (4.651%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.488%) Back Office
7 2 (2.326%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.326%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.326%) Front Office
8 1 (1.163%) Law
Job Titles
1 51 (59.30%) Analyst
2 46 (53.49%) Business Analyst
3 9 (10.47%) Process Analyst
4 8 (9.302%) Programme Manager
5 7 (8.140%) Consultant
6 6 (6.977%) Business Process Analyst
6 6 (6.977%) Project Manager
7 5 (5.814%) Business Manager
8 4 (4.651%) Senior Business Analyst
8 4 (4.651%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (3.488%) Process Improvement Analyst
9 3 (3.488%) Change Manager
9 3 (3.488%) SAP Business Analyst
9 3 (3.488%) Technical Analyst
9 3 (3.488%) Technical Business Analyst
9 3 (3.488%) Process Engineer
10 2 (2.326%) SAP Consultant
10 2 (2.326%) Business Change Manager
10 2 (2.326%) Process Consultant
10 2 (2.326%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.814%) NHS
1 5 (5.814%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.326%) Credit Risk
3 1 (1.163%) iPad
3 1 (1.163%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.488%) Windows
2 2 (2.326%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (2.326%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (1.163%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.163%) Windows 7
3 1 (1.163%) Solaris
3 1 (1.163%) Linux
3 1 (1.163%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (33.72%) Business Analysis
2 25 (29.07%) Stakeholder Management
3 23 (26.74%) Change Management
4 22 (25.58%) Process Improvement
5 15 (17.44%) Six Sigma
5 15 (17.44%) Project Management
5 15 (17.44%) Migration
6 13 (15.12%) Requirements Analysis
7 12 (13.95%) GAP Analysis
7 12 (13.95%) Lean Six Sigma
8 10 (11.63%) Business Transformation
9 9 (10.47%) BPR
10 8 (9.302%) CRM
10 8 (9.302%) Analytics
11 7 (8.140%) ITIL
11 7 (8.140%) Enterprise Architecture
12 6 (6.977%) Data Analysis
12 6 (6.977%) Business Intelligence
12 6 (6.977%) User Acceptance Testing
13 5 (5.814%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.651%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (4.651%) Degree
2 3 (3.488%) ISEB
2 3 (3.488%) MOS
3 2 (2.326%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.163%) Six Sigma Black Belt
4 1 (1.163%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (1.163%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.163%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.163%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 1 (1.163%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.326%) QA
2 1 (1.163%) Basel III
2 1 (1.163%) SLA
2 1 (1.163%) Basel II
Systems Management
1 2 (2.326%) HP SiteScope
2 1 (1.163%) Control-M
Vendors
1 5 (5.814%) Business Objects
1 5 (5.814%) SAP
2 4 (4.651%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.488%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.326%) BT
4 2 (2.326%) HP
4 2 (2.326%) Citrix
5 1 (1.163%) Murex
5 1 (1.163%) Oracle
5 1 (1.163%) Cognos
5 1 (1.163%) Informatica
5 1 (1.163%) Lotus
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