The first table below looks at the demand for Migration skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Migration 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 Hertfordshire 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
Migration
Rank 39 32 25
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -7
Contract jobs citing Migration 24 39 44
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 3.768% 3.992% 5.023%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.252% 6.028% 8.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 19
Average daily rate £350 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £179 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £391 £443
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £365 £365
% change year-on-year
-4.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
Average hourly rate - £12.00 £10.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +20.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £22.25 £24.00
% change year-on-year
-21.34% -7.29%
All Processes & Methodologies
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
457 647 547
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 71.74% 66.22% 62.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 289 238
Average daily rate £400 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £262 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 55 78
Average hourly rate £21.50 £33.75 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-36.29% -3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.05 £11.75 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.60 £49.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Migration
East of England

Migration
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire 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
St Albans - 12 £260 -
Hemel Hempstead +5 1 - -
Watford 0 1 - -
Welwyn Garden City -3 1 - -
Stevenage - 1 £350 -
Migration
East of England

Migration
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 21 (36.21%) Microsoft
2 20 (34.48%) SQL
3 18 (31.03%) Windows
4 15 (25.86%) JavaScript
5 14 (24.14%) MS Excel
6 13 (22.41%) Remedy
6 13 (22.41%) Security Cleared
7 12 (20.69%) SC Cleared
7 12 (20.69%) SQL Server
8 11 (18.97%) .NET
8 11 (18.97%) PRINCE2
8 11 (18.97%) ISEB
8 11 (18.97%) Windows Server 2003
8 11 (18.97%) Data Migration
9 10 (17.24%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 10 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (17.24%) Ethernet
9 10 (17.24%) Service Management
9 10 (17.24%) Web Services
9 10 (17.24%) ITIL
9 10 (17.24%) VB.NET
9 10 (17.24%) Oracle
9 10 (17.24%) T-SQL
9 10 (17.24%) DHTML
10 9 (15.52%) Risk Management
10 9 (15.52%) Change Management
11 7 (12.07%) Workflow
11 7 (12.07%) HTML
11 7 (12.07%) MS Office
11 7 (12.07%) ASP.NET

Migration
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 11 (18.97%) .NET
2 10 (17.24%) Web Services
2 10 (17.24%) DHTML
3 7 (12.07%) HTML
3 7 (12.07%) ASP.NET
4 6 (10.34%) ADO.NET
4 6 (10.34%) WinForms
4 6 (10.34%) jQuery
4 6 (10.34%) Ajax
4 6 (10.34%) .NET Framework
5 5 (8.621%) XML
5 5 (8.621%) CSS
6 4 (6.897%) JSP
6 4 (6.897%) Struts
6 4 (6.897%) J2EE
6 4 (6.897%) Hibernate
6 4 (6.897%) XML Schema
6 4 (6.897%) Struts2
6 4 (6.897%) Spring
6 4 (6.897%) JSF
Application Platforms
1 5 (8.621%) Exchange Server 2010
1 5 (8.621%) SharePoint
1 5 (8.621%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 5 (8.621%) MS Exchange
1 5 (8.621%) Apache
2 4 (6.897%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (6.897%) Liferay
2 4 (6.897%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (1.724%) Oracle Spatial
3 1 (1.724%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (1.724%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 14 (24.14%) MS Excel
2 7 (12.07%) MS Office
3 1 (1.724%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 1 (1.724%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (1.724%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.724%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (1.724%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 10 (17.24%) Ethernet
2 6 (10.34%) FTP
3 3 (5.172%) Intranet
4 1 (1.724%) LTE
4 1 (1.724%) Network Security
4 1 (1.724%) Wireshark
4 1 (1.724%) GGSN
4 1 (1.724%) SGSN
4 1 (1.724%) Nokia NetAct
4 1 (1.724%) LAN
4 1 (1.724%) SMS
4 1 (1.724%) 3GPP
4 1 (1.724%) UMTS
4 1 (1.724%) WAN
4 1 (1.724%) SAN
4 1 (1.724%) IPv4
4 1 (1.724%) IPv6
4 1 (1.724%) Firewall
4 1 (1.724%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.724%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.69%) SQL Server
2 6 (10.34%) DTS
2 6 (10.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (8.621%) GIS
4 4 (6.897%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (6.897%) JasperReports
5 1 (1.724%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (1.724%) MySQL
5 1 (1.724%) DB2
5 1 (1.724%) MS Access
5 1 (1.724%) SAP BW
5 1 (1.724%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (1.724%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.724%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (6.897%) Maven
2 2 (3.448%) LSMW
3 1 (1.724%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.724%) Bugzilla
General
1 6 (10.34%) Telecoms
2 5 (8.621%) Finance
2 5 (8.621%) Publishing
3 3 (5.172%) Retail
4 1 (1.724%) Marketing
4 1 (1.724%) Billing
Job Titles
1 15 (25.86%) Project Manager
2 11 (18.97%) Developer
3 8 (13.79%) Analyst
4 6 (10.34%) Web Developer
5 4 (6.897%) Web Designer
5 4 (6.897%) Java Developer
5 4 (6.897%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (6.897%) Consultant
5 4 (6.897%) Senior Developer
5 4 (6.897%) Solutions Designer
5 4 (6.897%) Designer
5 4 (6.897%) Messaging Specialist
6 3 (5.172%) Information Manager
6 3 (5.172%) Senior Designer
6 3 (5.172%) Business Analyst
6 3 (5.172%) Senior Web Designer
7 2 (3.448%) Data Analyst
7 2 (3.448%) Test Analyst
7 2 (3.448%) Support Analyst
7 2 (3.448%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.621%) Blackberry
2 4 (6.897%) Open Source
3 3 (5.172%) Digital Media
4 1 (1.724%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.724%) Data Conversion
Operating Systems
1 18 (31.03%) Windows
2 11 (18.97%) Windows Server 2003
3 6 (10.34%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (6.897%) Linux
5 2 (3.448%) Solaris
5 2 (3.448%) UNIX
6 1 (1.724%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.724%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.724%) AIX
6 1 (1.724%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (18.97%) PRINCE2
1 11 (18.97%) Data Migration
2 10 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (17.24%) Service Management
2 10 (17.24%) ITIL
3 9 (15.52%) Risk Management
3 9 (15.52%) Change Management
4 7 (12.07%) Workflow
5 5 (8.621%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (8.621%) UML
6 4 (6.897%) RUP
6 4 (6.897%) SEO
6 4 (6.897%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (6.897%) Knowledge Management
6 4 (6.897%) Requirements Analysis
6 4 (6.897%) Unit Testing
7 3 (5.172%) Test Scripting
7 3 (5.172%) Time Management
7 3 (5.172%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (5.172%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (34.48%) SQL
2 15 (25.86%) JavaScript
3 10 (17.24%) VB.NET
3 10 (17.24%) T-SQL
4 6 (10.34%) VBScript
5 4 (6.897%) Java
6 2 (3.448%) Perl
7 1 (1.724%) PHP
7 1 (1.724%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (22.41%) Security Cleared
2 12 (20.69%) SC Cleared
3 11 (18.97%) ISEB
4 10 (17.24%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 4 (6.897%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.724%) BC Cleared
6 1 (1.724%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.724%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.724%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.724%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (1.724%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (8.621%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 2 (3.448%) SCCM
3 1 (1.724%) SCOM
3 1 (1.724%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 21 (36.21%) Microsoft
2 13 (22.41%) Remedy
3 10 (17.24%) Oracle
4 5 (8.621%) Symantec
5 4 (6.897%) SAP
6 2 (3.448%) Teradata
7 1 (1.724%) Agilent
7 1 (1.724%) Nokia Siemens Networks
7 1 (1.724%) Business Objects
7 1 (1.724%) Citrix
7 1 (1.724%) Nokia
7 1 (1.724%) Lotus
7 1 (1.724%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.724%) Sun
7 1 (1.724%) HP