Lancashire BPR Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Business Process Reengineering (BPR) skills within the Lancashire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited BPR over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Process Reengineering (BPR)
Location Barnsley Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Harlow Hertfordshire Isle of Wight Lancashire Leeds Leek London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Preston Reading Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Shropshire South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Staines Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley UK Wales West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	34	48
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching contract IT job ads	4	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	2.286 %	0.294 %
Daily rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum daily rate	£325	-
Average daily rate	£333	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£341	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£390	£409
% change on same period last year	-4.73 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£20.00
Average hourly rate	-	£20.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.13	£30.50
% change on same period last year	+25.00 %
Processes & Methodologies Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	175	340
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.233 %	0.339 %
Daily rates quoted	37	81
Average minimum daily rate	£365	£348
Average daily rate	£384	£359
% change on same period last year	+7.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£404	£369
UK excluding London average daily rate	£379	£376
% change on same period last year	+0.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	37	34
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.86	£25.40
Average hourly rate	£25.20	£27.39
% change on same period last year	-8.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.53	£29.37
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.35	£30.32
% change on same period last year	+0.10 %
BPR North West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing BPR across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BPR within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Preston	+6	1	£360	-

BPR North West

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Top 4 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region citing BPR 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 BPR.

1 5 (100.00 %) Business Analysis 2 3 (60.00 %) Finance 2 3 (60.00 %) Government 3 2 (40.00 %) Local Government

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region citing BPR 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 BPR. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

General 1 3 (60.00 %) Finance 1 3 (60.00 %) Government 2 2 (40.00 %) Local Government	Job Titles 1 5 (100.00 %) Business Analyst 1 5 (100.00 %) Analyst
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (100.00 %) Business Analysis