The first table below looks at the demand for Migration 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 Migration over the 3 months to 22 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 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Migration
Rank 27 27 48
Rank change year-on-year
0 +21
Contract jobs citing Migration 20 21 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 4.843% 5.085% 0.759%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.897% 8.333% 1.230%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 1
Average daily rate £245 £438 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-44.00% +16.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £363 £369
% change year-on-year
-3.44% -1.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £15.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £22.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
-22.22% -6.25%
All Processes & Methodologies
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
290 252 244
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 70.22% 61.02% 61.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 122 110
Average daily rate £325 £350 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £125 £194
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 37 41
Average hourly rate £32.75 £27.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.29% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.87 £17.00 £23.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £46.00 £38.98 £39.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Migration
East of England

Migration
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex Migration Jobs Demand Trend

Migration
Daily Rate Trend

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

Essex Migration Daily Rate Trend

Migration
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Migration across the Essex region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Essex Migration Daily Rate Histogram

Migration
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Essex Migration Hourly Rate Trend

Migration
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Migration within the Essex region over the 3 months to 22 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
Brentwood - 3 - -
Witham +2 2 £225 +125.00%
Colchester - 1 £413 -
Migration
East of England

Migration
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing Migration 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 Migration.

1 12 (34.29%) Windows
1 12 (34.29%) Active Directory
2 11 (31.43%) Microsoft
3 10 (28.57%) MS Exchange
4 9 (25.71%) Windows Server 2003
4 9 (25.71%) PowerShell
5 8 (22.86%) Exchange Server 2010
5 8 (22.86%) XML
6 7 (20.00%) NHS
6 7 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
7 6 (17.14%) User Acceptance Testing
7 6 (17.14%) Windows 7
7 6 (17.14%) VMware
7 6 (17.14%) SQL Server
8 5 (14.29%) .NET
8 5 (14.29%) SQL
8 5 (14.29%) Blackberry
8 5 (14.29%) Configuration Management
8 5 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
8 5 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2003
8 5 (14.29%) Integration Testing
8 5 (14.29%) Release Management
8 5 (14.29%) Data Migration
9 4 (11.43%) Hyper-V
9 4 (11.43%) MCITP
9 4 (11.43%) Backup Exec
9 4 (11.43%) Cisco
9 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (11.43%) SharePoint

Migration
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing Migration 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 Migration. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (22.86%) XML
2 5 (14.29%) .NET
3 2 (5.714%) Windows SharePoint Services
4 1 (2.857%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.857%) Web Services
4 1 (2.857%) XSLT
4 1 (2.857%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 10 (28.57%) MS Exchange
2 8 (22.86%) Exchange Server 2010
3 7 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
4 5 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2003
5 4 (11.43%) SharePoint
6 2 (5.714%) Office Communications Server
6 2 (5.714%) SharePoint 2010
6 2 (5.714%) Lync
6 2 (5.714%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (5.714%) IIS
7 1 (2.857%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (2.857%) MS Project Server
7 1 (2.857%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (2.857%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (5.714%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.857%) PowerPivot
Business Applications
1 1 (2.857%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.857%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.857%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (2.857%) VisionPLUS
1 1 (2.857%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) WAN
1 4 (11.43%) iSCSI
2 2 (5.714%) Unified Communications
3 1 (2.857%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) SQL Server
2 5 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (8.571%) Oracle 9i
3 3 (8.571%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (2.857%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (2.857%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.857%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (2.857%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (2.857%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.857%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 2 (5.714%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (2.857%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 2 (5.714%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (20.00%) Developer
2 5 (14.29%) Analyst
3 4 (11.43%) Environment Analyst
3 4 (11.43%) Implementation Analyst
3 4 (11.43%) Migration Engineer
4 3 (8.571%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.714%) Communications Engineer
5 2 (5.714%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (5.714%) Integration Specialist
5 2 (5.714%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.714%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 2 (5.714%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (5.714%) Exchange Engineer
5 2 (5.714%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 2 (5.714%) Senior Developer
5 2 (5.714%) Support Engineer
5 2 (5.714%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (2.857%) Administrator
6 1 (2.857%) DBA
6 1 (2.857%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) NHS
2 5 (14.29%) Blackberry
3 2 (5.714%) Data Extraction
3 2 (5.714%) SWIFT
4 1 (2.857%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (34.29%) Windows
2 9 (25.71%) Windows Server 2003
3 7 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (17.14%) Windows 7
5 4 (11.43%) UNIX
6 3 (8.571%) Windows 8
6 3 (8.571%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (8.571%) Solaris
6 3 (8.571%) Linux
7 2 (5.714%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (17.14%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (14.29%) Configuration Management
2 5 (14.29%) Integration Testing
2 5 (14.29%) Release Management
2 5 (14.29%) Data Migration
3 3 (8.571%) ITIL
3 3 (8.571%) PRINCE2
3 3 (8.571%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (8.571%) Multithreading
4 2 (5.714%) Data Cleansing
4 2 (5.714%) High Availability
4 2 (5.714%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (5.714%) ETL
5 1 (2.857%) Analytics
5 1 (2.857%) RUP
5 1 (2.857%) CRM
5 1 (2.857%) DSDM
5 1 (2.857%) UML
5 1 (2.857%) GAP Analysis
5 1 (2.857%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.71%) PowerShell
2 5 (14.29%) SQL
3 4 (11.43%) VBScript
3 4 (11.43%) C
3 4 (11.43%) PL/SQL
4 2 (5.714%) Java
5 1 (2.857%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.857%) C#
5 1 (2.857%) Delphi
5 1 (2.857%) VB
5 1 (2.857%) VB.NET
5 1 (2.857%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) MCITP
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (11.43%) MCSE
2 2 (5.714%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.857%) Degree
System Software
1 12 (34.29%) Active Directory
2 4 (11.43%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.857%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Backup Exec
2 3 (8.571%) SCCM
3 2 (5.714%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 1 (2.857%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 11 (31.43%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.14%) VMware
3 4 (11.43%) Cisco
3 4 (11.43%) Oracle
4 2 (5.714%) Symantec
4 2 (5.714%) Citrix
5 1 (2.857%) McAfee
5 1 (2.857%) Civica
5 1 (2.857%) Talend
Essex, South East
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