The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Billing in IT contracts advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Billing over the 3 months to 17 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 terms in our General category for the Essex 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Billing
Rank - 33 48
Contract jobs citing Billing 0 11 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex - 2.683% 0.506%
As % of the General category - 8.148% 1.266%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Average daily rate - £170 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £425 £335
% change year-on-year
-17.64% +26.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Average hourly rate - £17.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £17.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-11.77% -2.85%
All of the General Category
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
132 135 158
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 32.43% 32.93% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 60 61
Average daily rate £375 £396 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.30% +21.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £244 £170 £174
10% offered a daily rate of more than £530 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 14 24
Average hourly rate £30.00 £17.00 £24.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+76.47% -30.61%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £17.00 £8.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.10 £30.00 £38.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Billing
East of England

Billing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Billing across the Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Essex Billing Jobs Demand Trend

Billing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Essex Billing Daily Rate Trend

Billing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Essex Billing Hourly Rate Trend

Billing
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing Billing 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 Billing.

1 2 (100.00%) MS Office
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
1 2 (100.00%) Document Management
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement

Billing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing Billing 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 Billing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MS Office
1 2 (100.00%) MS Excel
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Support Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Service Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Document Management
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory