Essex E-business Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for E-business skills in IT contracts advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited E-business over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Essex region.

Electronic Business (eBusiness)
Location Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Buckinghamshire Channel Islands Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Derby Derbyshire East Midlands Edinburgh England Essex Guildford Home Counties Horsham Jersey Knutsford Leeds Liverpool London Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes North West Northern Ireland Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Solihull South East South West Surrey Sussex UK Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 19 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	-	30	60
Matching contract IT job ads	0	14	2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex	-	3.084 %	0.259 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	-	5.469 %	0.457 %
Daily rates quoted	0	8	2
Average daily rate	-	£445	£470
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	- -5.310 %
UK excluding London average daily rate	£320	£410	£400
% change year-on-year	-21.95 % +2.500 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0	0
Average hourly rate	-	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£40.00	£30.00	£12.50
% change year-on-year	+33.33 % +140.00 %
All Processes & Methodologies Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Processes & Methodologies category	181	256	438
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex	55.86 %	56.39 %	56.66 %
Daily rates quoted	76	121	193
Average daily rate	£325	£420	£330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	-22.61 % +27.27 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£98	£150	£215
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£435	£525	£480
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£360	£375
% change year-on-year	-2.770 % -4.000 %
Hourly rates quoted	56	19	54
Average hourly rate	£24.00	£25.00	£35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	-4.000 % -28.57 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£17.25	£15.00	£22.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£32.59	£35.00	£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.50	£27.50	£30.00
% change year-on-year	-10.90 % -8.330 %
E-business East of England

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.

E-business
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing E-business across the Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

E-business
Daily Rate Trend

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

E-business
Hourly Rate Trend

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