The first table below looks at the demand for Continuous Improvement skills in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Continuous 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 Guildford 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
Continual Improvement
Rank 28 21 -
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 4 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 1.835% 0.826% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.703% 1.351% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £400 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £325 £388
% change year-on-year
+16.92% -16.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £53.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £24.00 £25.00 £31.15
% change year-on-year
-3.99% -19.74%
All Processes & Methodologies
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
148 74 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 67.89% 61.16% 54.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 37 36
Average daily rate £425 £375 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% +15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £281 £316 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £425 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 1
Average hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+36.36% -15.38%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Continuous Improvement
Surrey

Continuous Improvement
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford Continuous Improvement Jobs Demand Trend

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Trend

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

Guildford Continuous Improvement Daily Rate Trend

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Guildford Continuous Improvement Hourly Rate Trend

Continuous Improvement
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford region citing Continuous 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 Continuous Improvement.

1 7 (70.00%) ITIL
2 5 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 5 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (40.00%) Knowledge Management
3 4 (40.00%) MS Excel
3 4 (40.00%) ERP
3 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (20.00%) Automated Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Clustering
5 2 (20.00%) ISTQB
5 2 (20.00%) Degree
5 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (20.00%) WCF
5 2 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
5 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (20.00%) DFS Replication
5 2 (20.00%) Software Architecture
5 2 (20.00%) Process Architecture
5 2 (20.00%) Game Development
5 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
5 2 (20.00%) Games
5 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
5 2 (20.00%) Code Coverage
5 2 (20.00%) MS Visio
5 2 (20.00%) MS Exchange

Continuous Improvement
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (20.00%) WCF
1 2 (20.00%) Web Services
1 2 (20.00%) REST
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (20.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (20.00%) IIS
2 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (20.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DHCP
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) ATM
2 1 (10.00%) 3G
2 1 (10.00%) 2G
2 1 (10.00%) IPv4
2 1 (10.00%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (10.00%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Data Mining
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (20.00%) Games
2 1 (10.00%) Back Office
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Software Development Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Project Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Development Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Support Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Server Support
3 1 (10.00%) Senior IT Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Server Support
3 1 (10.00%) ScrumMaster
3 1 (10.00%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Network Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Server Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Server Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Clustering
1 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (20.00%) Kinect
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) ITIL
2 5 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 5 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (40.00%) Knowledge Management
3 4 (40.00%) ERP
4 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (20.00%) Automated Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (20.00%) Software Architecture
5 2 (20.00%) Process Architecture
5 2 (20.00%) Game Development
5 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
5 2 (20.00%) Code Coverage
5 2 (20.00%) Load Testing
6 1 (10.00%) Change Control
6 1 (10.00%) Project Management
6 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (10.00%) Scrum
6 1 (10.00%) Network Management
6 1 (10.00%) Fault Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) C
1 2 (20.00%) C#
1 2 (20.00%) C++
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) ISTQB
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (20.00%) DFS Replication
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Twitter