The first table below looks at the demand for the Implementation Specialist role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Implementation Specialist in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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
Implementation Specialist
Rank 505 540 559
Rank change year-on-year
+35 +19
Contract jobs requiring an Implementation Specialist 8 19 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.019% 0.036% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.038% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 4
Average daily rate £325 £500 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-35.00% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £318 £414 £515
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £515 £568
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £506 £500
% change year-on-year
-35.80% +1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £25.00
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
38421 49352 52077
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.41% 92.53% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22588 27902 28893
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £246 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1983 2412 2765
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.21 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.86 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Implementation Specialist
UK

Implementation Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Implementation Specialist across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

England Implementation Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Implementation Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Implementation Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Implementation Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England Implementation Specialist Daily Rate Histogram

Implementation Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Implementation Specialist Hourly Rate Trend

Implementation Specialist
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Implementation Specialist 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
South East +14 3 £450 -5.26%
London +31 1 £325 -27.77%
West Midlands +7 1 £325 -
East Midlands - 1 £325 -
North West - 1 £325 -
South West - 1 £300 -
Implementation Specialist
UK

Implementation Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Implementation Specialist in their job title 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 with Implementation Specialist in their job title.

1 7 (30.43%) Cisco
2 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 6 (26.09%) Windows
3 5 (21.74%) Firewall
3 5 (21.74%) Change Control
4 4 (17.39%) SCCM
4 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (17.39%) Finance
4 4 (17.39%) SharePoint
4 4 (17.39%) SQL
4 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
5 3 (13.04%) HP
5 3 (13.04%) Dell
5 3 (13.04%) Citrix
5 3 (13.04%) MS Exchange
5 3 (13.04%) Oracle
5 3 (13.04%) SLA
5 3 (13.04%) Migration
5 3 (13.04%) VMware
5 3 (13.04%) Clustering
5 3 (13.04%) NetBackup
5 3 (13.04%) PACS
5 3 (13.04%) Blue Coat
5 3 (13.04%) Wireless
5 3 (13.04%) MSI
5 3 (13.04%) Juniper
5 3 (13.04%) SAN
5 3 (13.04%) NAS
5 3 (13.04%) SharePoint 2010
5 3 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure

Implementation Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Implementation Specialist in their job title 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 with Implementation Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (13.04%) Application Packaging
2 1 (4.348%) .NET
2 1 (4.348%) Web Services
2 1 (4.348%) XML
2 1 (4.348%) XSD
2 1 (4.348%) XSL
2 1 (4.348%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 4 (17.39%) SharePoint
2 3 (13.04%) MS Exchange
2 3 (13.04%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (8.696%) IIS
4 1 (4.348%) GroupWise
Applications
1 1 (4.348%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.348%) Agresso
1 1 (4.348%) SalesLogix
1 1 (4.348%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) Firewall
2 3 (13.04%) Wireless
2 3 (13.04%) SAN
2 3 (13.04%) NAS
3 2 (8.696%) Internet
4 1 (4.348%) HTTP
4 1 (4.348%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
2 3 (13.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (8.696%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (8.696%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (8.696%) DTS
4 1 (4.348%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) MSI
General
1 4 (17.39%) Finance
2 2 (8.696%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (4.348%) Banking
3 1 (4.348%) Billing
3 1 (4.348%) Front Office
3 1 (4.348%) General Ledger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Clustering
1 3 (13.04%) PACS
2 1 (4.348%) Client/Server
2 1 (4.348%) Blackberry
2 1 (4.348%) Firmware
2 1 (4.348%) SWIFT
2 1 (4.348%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.348%) Online Banking
2 1 (4.348%) Streaming Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) Windows
2 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (8.696%) Solaris
4 1 (4.348%) Linux
4 1 (4.348%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (21.74%) Change Control
2 3 (13.04%) Migration
3 2 (8.696%) Project Planning
3 2 (8.696%) Project Management
3 2 (8.696%) Workflow
3 2 (8.696%) ETL
4 1 (4.348%) CRM
4 1 (4.348%) ERP
4 1 (4.348%) Asset Management
4 1 (4.348%) E-Procurement
4 1 (4.348%) Load Balancing
4 1 (4.348%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 4 (17.39%) SQL
2 2 (8.696%) T-SQL
2 2 (8.696%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.348%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (8.696%) Security Cleared
1 2 (8.696%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (8.696%) MCP
2 1 (4.348%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.348%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.348%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) SLA
2 1 (4.348%) DICOM
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.348%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.348%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) SCCM
2 3 (13.04%) NetBackup
3 2 (8.696%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Cisco
2 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.04%) HP
3 3 (13.04%) Dell
3 3 (13.04%) Citrix
3 3 (13.04%) Oracle
3 3 (13.04%) VMware
3 3 (13.04%) Blue Coat
3 3 (13.04%) Juniper
4 2 (8.696%) Red Gate
4 2 (8.696%) NetApp
4 2 (8.696%) McAfee
4 2 (8.696%) Sun
5 1 (4.348%) Guidewire
5 1 (4.348%) thinkFolio